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I have an old Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 graphic card using the 173.14.39 nvidia-driver, and I plan to use it for rendering with blender 2.72b on my Gentoo system (3.12.30-gentoo kernel)

I am uncertain how to install cuda for a legacy card and get it work with blender.

Do you have some hints?

atevm
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  • Have you tried [this](http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/ucacbbl/gentoo-cuda/), please google before posting question here. – Arnab Nandy Nov 15 '14 at 12:41
  • Gentoo linux isn't an [officially supported Linux distro](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads) for CUDA. You can try following the [linux getting started guide](http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/index.html#getting-started-guides). Your GPU probably won't be supported by CUDA toolkits after CUDA 6.5. – Robert Crovella Nov 15 '14 at 21:57

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The three components of CUDA can be installed using this command.

emerge nvidia-cuda-sdk

For more information check here.

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