title: What can I do against 'CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version'?
body: <p>When I go to <code>/usr/local/cuda/samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery</code> and execute</p>
  
  <pre><code>moose@pc09 /usr/local/cuda/samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery $ sudo make clean
  rm -f deviceQuery deviceQuery.o
  rm -rf ../../bin/x86_64/linux/release/deviceQuery
  
  moose@pc09 /usr/local/cuda/samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery $ sudo make
  "/usr/local/cuda-7.0"/bin/nvcc -ccbin g++ -I../../common/inc  -m64    -gencode arch=compute_20,code=sm_20 -gencode arch=compute_30,code=sm_30 -gencode arch=compute_35,code=sm_35 -gencode arch=compute_37,code=sm_37 -gencode arch=compute_50,code=sm_50 -gencode arch=compute_52,code=sm_52 -gencode arch=compute_52,code=compute_52 -o deviceQuery.o -c deviceQuery.cpp
  "/usr/local/cuda-7.0"/bin/nvcc -ccbin g++   -m64      -gencode arch=compute_20,code=sm_20 -gencode arch=compute_30,code=sm_30 -gencode arch=compute_35,code=sm_35 -gencode arch=compute_37,code=sm_37 -gencode arch=compute_50,code=sm_50 -gencode arch=compute_52,code=sm_52 -gencode arch=compute_52,code=compute_52 -o deviceQuery deviceQuery.o 
  mkdir -p ../../bin/x86_64/linux/release
  cp deviceQuery ../../bin/x86_64/linux/release
  
  moose@pc09 /usr/local/cuda/samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery $ ./deviceQuery
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I keep getting</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>./deviceQuery Starting...</p>
    
    <p>CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)</p>
    
    <p>cudaGetDeviceCount returned 35
    -> CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version Result = FAIL</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have no idea how to fix it.</p>
  
  <h2>My System</h2>
  
  <pre><code>moose@pc09 ~ $ cat /etc/issue
  Linux Mint 17 Qiana \n \l
  
  moose@pc09 ~ $ uname -a
  Linux pc09 3.13.0-36-generic #63-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 3 21:30:07 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  
  moose@pc09 ~ $ lspci -v | grep -i nvidia
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK110B [GeForce GTX Titan Black] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
      Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1066
      Kernel driver in use: nvidia
  01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK110 HDMI Audio (rev a1)
      Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1066
  
  moose@pc09 ~ $ sudo lshw -c video
    *-display               
         description: VGA compatible controller
         product: GK110B [GeForce GTX Titan Black]
         vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
         physical id: 0
         bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
         version: a1
         width: 64 bits
         clock: 33MHz
         capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
         configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
         resources: irq:96 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-d7ffffff memory:d8000000-d9ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:fb000000-fb07ffff
  
  
  
  moose@pc09 ~ $ nvidia-settings -q NvidiaDriverVersion
  
    Attribute 'NvidiaDriverVersion' (pc09:0.0): 331.79
  
  moose@pc09 ~ $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version 
  NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  331.79  Sun May 18 03:55:59 PDT 2014
  GCC version:  gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04) 
  moose@pc09 ~ $ lsmod | grep -i nvidia
  nvidia_uvm             34855  0 
  nvidia              10703828  40 nvidia_uvm
  drm                   303102  5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nvidia,nouveau
  
  moose@pc09 ~ $ nvcc -V
  nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
  Copyright (c) 2005-2015 NVIDIA Corporation
  Built on Mon_Feb_16_22:59:02_CST_2015
  Cuda compilation tools, release 7.0, V7.0.27
  
  moose@pc09 ~ $ nvidia-smi
  Thu Nov 12 11:23:24 2015       
  +------------------------------------------------------+                       
  | NVIDIA-SMI 331.79     Driver Version: 331.79         |                       
  |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
  | GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
  | Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
  |===============================+======================+======================|
  |   0  GeForce GTX TIT...  Off  | 0000:01:00.0     N/A |                  N/A |
  | 26%   35C  N/A     N/A /  N/A |    132MiB /  6143MiB |     N/A      Default |
  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
  
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | Compute processes:                                               GPU Memory |
  |  GPU       PID  Process name                                     Usage      |
  |=============================================================================|
  |    0            Not Supported                                               |
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  </code></pre>