Ollama GPU access and drivers are painful
MLOps2 posts from 2 people2d active+00 posts in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (fading)Unverified
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2, newest firstollama multi gpu installer bugsI've been struggling with the ollama update process. I have both nvidia and amd GPUs in my system. I have two instances of ollama running on different ports for this to work around issues. . AMD 7800xt is using rocm. nvidia 4060ti is using their cuda stack. . The Ollama install...r/ollama · u/laffer1Open ↗...create a mess that's hard to keep track of. For reasons my machine with a beefy GPU is stuck on an older set of Nvidia drivers. I've got them pinned with apt. The ollama installer fucked everything up by updating stuff that apparently wasn't pinned. After I had fun cleaning up...Hacker News comments · giantrobotOpen ↗
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2 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 2 a week over 3 days. Mostly on Hacker News comments, r/ollama. Tools named alongside: NVIDIA.
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Posts that state a pain and match the "gpu-access" rule about Ollama. First post Sep 28, 2026, latest Sep 30, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method
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Ollama GPU access and drivers are painful (2 posts)