fair point. I didn’t make that clear as I got the answer from the Cuda.jl docs
The Julia CUDA stack only requires a working NVIDIA driver;
I put this up just in case someone else meets the same issue with another old GPU card. They might consider using them given the costs of new ones and hit the same issue. It’s not obvious that A solution is to put a DP active adapter into the cabling some time can be wasted messing with the linux config files. Sorry for the confusion.