Nvidia GeForce 210 compute issue on Ubuntu 18.04 - gpu

Question

I am using ubuntu 18.04 (I have dual booted windows with ubuntu 18.04).
nvidia-smi
This is the output I got when I ran the above command on my ubuntu(18.04) terminal:
Fri Oct 9 09:33:56 2020
+------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 340.108 Driver Version: 340.108 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 210 Off | 0000:01:00.0 N/A | N/A |
| 35% 52C P8 N/A / N/A | 368MiB / 1023MiB | N/A Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Compute processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 Not Supported |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Before that, I followed these steps to install required driver on my system:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt autoremove
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
sudo shutdown -r now
When I tried to run Geekbench5 compute benchmark test, the output stopped when it was running Histogram Equalization. This is the output when I ran this ./geekbench5 --compute OpenCL in the folder where I extracted geekbench5:
[1009/092949:FATAL:src/halogen/cuda/cuda_library.cpp(1481)] Failed to load
cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcuda.so.1: undefined symbol: cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain
[1009/092949:FATAL:src/halogen/cuda/cuda_library.cpp(1481)] Failed to load cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcuda.so.1: undefined symbol: cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain
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Running Gathering system information
System Information
Operating System Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS 4.15.0-118-generic x86_64
Model To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M.
Motherboard O.E.M Intel H81
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. 4.6.5
Processor Information
Name Intel Core i5-4460
Topology 1 Processor, 4 Cores
Identifier GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3
Base Frequency 3.20 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 2
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6.00 MB
Memory Information
Size 7.75 GB
OpenCL Information
Platform Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Platform Name NVIDIA CUDA
Device Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Device Name GeForce 210
Device Driver Version 340.108
Maximum Frequency 1.23 GHz
Compute Units 2
Device Memory 1024 MB
OpenCL
Running Sobel
Running Canny
Running Stereo Matching
Running Histogram Equalization
[1009/093329:ERROR:src/interface/console/consolemain.cpp(808)] Geekbench encountered an internal error and cannot continue. Please contact support#primatelabs.com for assistance.
Internal error message: clCreateImage returned -40.
Also, when I tried running the geekbench5 compute benchmark test on windows 10(same machine, on GUI), it paused running at Histogram equalization.
I am not getting any idea why this is happening.Is anything really wrong with my GPU or driver or anything else? I tried to search online, installed the driver again,rebooted the system, but the results are same. Can someone please help?

Answer 1

Your driver installation is fine, but your GPU is 11 years old and does not support some of the more recent features of the OpenCL standard. The geekbench error message -40 means that the image size geekbench uses for one of its benchmarks is not supported by your GPU. This causes the benchmark to crash. Maybe an older version of geekbench still works.