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How do I find out the model of my graphics card?

I would like to know the model of my graphics card. I think it may be an ATI, but I want to be sure! I have Ubuntu 11.10 (32 bit) and an Asus A6 VA laptop.
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How to measure GPU usage?

Using the top command in the terminal lists processes, sorted by their CPU usage (and you can change it to sort by another parameter) Is there an equivalent for the GPU? This fellow is asking about ...
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How to get the GPU info?

I'm looking for a command that would give me the same info as: cat /proc/cpuinfo Except for the GPU (type of the chip and memory, frequency).
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How can I install CuDNN on Ubuntu 16.04?

For TensorFlow I would like to install cuda and CuDNN. How do I do that on Ubuntu 16.04?
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How can I overclock a graphics card from within Ubuntu?

I would like to boost the Core frequency, shader clock, and memory clock on an eVGA GTX 480 I have in my development box running 10.04. Is it possible to overclock a recent graphics card from within ...
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The easy way: Install Nvidia drivers, CUDA, CUDNN and Tensorflow GPU on Ubuntu 18.04

How can I easily get tensorflow gpu running?
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Ubuntu 14.04: nvidia drivers for GeForce GTX 960M

I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed on an Asus N551JW laptop with these two graphic cards: Integrated Intel® HD Graphics 4600 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960M 4G GDDR5 By default, Ubuntu recognizes the Intel ...
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How to set up multiple GPUs (12.04)?

I have two GPUs: one Intel i915 integrated, and one NVIDIA 560 Ti. This is NOT a hybrid setup, nor a laptop. In Windows 7, each card is connected to a different monitor, with the NVIDIA doing any "...
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'PRIME Profiles' tab missing in NVIDIA X Server Settings (Ubuntu 16.04)

I have nvidia-settings and nvidia-prime installed, but the 'PRIME Profiles' tab is missing. How can I fix it to be able to switch between my GPUs? Update: ~$ lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D' 00:02.0 ...
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gpu-manager overwrites xorg.conf

I have recently installed the NVIDIA drivers on my Xubuntu 15.10 machine but I had to remove them due to improper multi-monitor setup. Everything went fine, except for the fact that gpu-manager seems ...
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Why are embedded flash videos (like youtube) so heavy on the GPU?

I have noticed (in psensor, and listening to the fan) that my GPU is terribly hot when playing youtube videos. What happens at that point? Is this related to Flash in Ubuntu? Youtube in Firefox and ...
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Making sense of glxinfo OpenGL versions

What is the difference between all the different version strings in the output of the glxinfo command? I have already asked this here, but didn't get many responses and, anyways, it seems that there ...
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Boot Problem with Nvidia GTX 1070

Today I tried several times to install Ubuntu but I have some GPU problems. I have a bootable stick. When I boot in UEFI mode all its normal but the installer isn't able to install the boot loader. ...
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Can´t use Nvidia GPU?

Could somebody please explain to me how I use my 740M GPU from Nvidia instead of the HD4000 form Intel? I am using Ubuntu 13.04 on a Asus N56VB
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setting the default gpu

I have two gpus on my machine: $ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM200 [GeForce GTX 980 Ti] (rev a1) 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 ...
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Ubuntu: Switch from Nvidia to Intel graphics?

By default Ubuntu has selected the nouveau drivers as i have an nvidia gpu. But I need to run my system on the Intel GPU instead, with Intel drivers etc. How can I do this?
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Getting gnome-shell working on nvidia optimus notebook

what i need is to enable the lamest hardware acceleration to get gnome-shell or unity 3d working. i know about bumblebee/ironhide/bumblebee-project. but i didn't understand how to use it directly ...
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NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU not working with Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel 5.8.0-50-generic

I recently created a dual-boot on my Asus ROG STRIX Scar 15 w/ NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU. I had some issues installing Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, but finally got it to work, however, my GPU is not coming up when I ...
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When is CUDA gonna be released for Ubuntu 20.04?

So 20.04 got released two days ago, but when is CUDA for 20.04 gonna be released? Is Nvidia usually following up quickly?
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How to find out what graphics driver is installed?

I installed Xubuntu 13.04 two months ago. But I don't know to find out which driver is installed for my GPU ( I mean graphic card driver ) or is it installed? I'm feeling something is wrong with my pc ...
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Force Xorg to use CPU not GPU

If I'm using my GPU for CUDA computations and I want to use my CPU to manage the display, is there a way to get Xorg to use the CPU and the motherboard's HDMI slot instead of the GPU and its HDMI slot?...
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Can I view Nvidia GPU usage?

I know that I can view CPU usage using System Monitor: Is there such a tool for viewing GPU usage, as well?
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What is the best way of monitoring GPU temperature in Xubuntu 14.04 when using the OpenSource driver?

I had a severe problem with GPU temperature in 12.04 and even later, and even if that seems gone in 14.04, I want to keep an eye on my GPU. Is there a program that would display that, in the xfce-...
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Can I install Ubuntu/Lubuntu on a pc with a video card that is not supported if I add `nomodeset` in using the live cd/usb?

I have a computer with a video card that has no Linux support. I discovered this issue while trying to use a persistent usb to boot from. I found that I can boot like that if I change options and ...
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Nvidia 1070 Overclocking Help Needed

I have 3 1070 GPUs on Ubuntu 16.04LTS with the Nvidia drivers applied and cuda 8 installed, and I have accessed the xorg.config file to activate Coolbits and set up edid.bin to get the manual fan ...
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How can I enable the GPU in Kdenlive?

my system: intel cpu gtx 1050 ti ubuntu suite 16.04 kdenlive 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1 (got this with dpkg -l, think it is the version) The GPU option in Kdenlive is greyed out, I read I have to have the ...
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3rd monitor showing "X" cursor

I have 2 GPUs and 3 monitors. The NVIDIA settings shows all 3 monitors but the Displays panel only shows 2 and xrandr only shows 2 connected. See below: Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 1080, ...
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Laptop screen goes black, but laptop still running

I have an old Asus laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Sometimes the laptop's screen goes black, but the laptop keeps running. It happens when loading a youtube video or websites like GDrive, but not all ...
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Getting GPU Information

I have a Dell Laptop. I Want to find GPU Info (Ubuntu 14.04). lshw -C display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics ...
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How to update additional driver (Nvidia GPU and CPU)

Firstly i want my drivers up to date. So can you help me about that? And 1 more question, at CPU title we have 2 options like microwaves and do not use device. Which one i must use? I use that right ...
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Fixing GPU hang caused by i915 driver

Ran updates on my laptop recently, and after rebooting, my laptop started behaving weirdly. After I logged in, the screen started flickering, and as soon as I opened a window (the application menu ...
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AMD A4-5300 and GPU computing on BOINC

I have an AMD A4-5300 APU, which is a dual-core CPU and GPU. It is OpenCL capable. I am trying to get BOINC to recognise the GPU but it seems unable to. Log (snipped): [---] Starting BOINC client ...
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CUDA problems with nvidia driver version

Coming from How do I install NVIDIA and CUDA drivers into Ubuntu? I'm trying the CUDA 9.2 and drivers 396 configuration but the drivers that sudo apt install cuda-9-2 installs are the 410. How can ...
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How can I find the memory usage on my GPU?

Previously I was checking the memory usage on my GPU with the following command: nvidia-settings -q all | grep Memory I am processing some scientific data on my GPU with numpy and theano. I was ...
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How to restart GPU without reboot (softreset)?

How do I restart the GPU from command line? Using a HP DV6 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04-64 and an ATI mobile GPU. Installed the standard ATI propriety drivers suggested by Ubuntu. When I close the lid, ...
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How to use GPU acceleration in FFmpeg with AMD Radeon?

I have a Radeon Vega 64, and installed AMDGPU from the official website, but I have no idea where to go from here. I want to use hardware acceleration for converting video with FFmpeg. What is the ...
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How to turn off Nvidia GPU on a headless server?

I am running a headless server with an Nvidia GPU. Even when the GPU is not doing any work, it is consuming about 25 Watts of power: +------------------------------------------------------------------...
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"Module nvidia is in use" but there are no processes running on the GPU

I am trying to configure VirtualGL, and the configuration gives the following message: IMPORTANT NOTE: Your system uses modprobe.d to set device permissions. You must execute rmmod nvidia with the ...
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external GPU system in Linux?

Has anybody got any idea what would be needed to have a working external GPU system (eGPU) under Linux? I've just seen this post of a DIY eGPU system: http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/hardware/40268-...
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Does Ubuntu for windows have GPU support?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/ubuntu/9nblggh4msv6 I'm wondering if I could get Pytorch running on this version on Ubuntu without needing to dual boot - anyone have more info on this? ...
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What can I do to prevent Ubuntu from overheating my Notebook?

I have an easynote tj65 (2.1 ghz dual core with Geforce GT240M) running Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 in dual-boot-mode. While Windows 7 doesn't have any comparable issues, Ubuntu is making my notebook ...
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How to know the manufacturer of a graphic card?

I recently discovered, in a brief discussion with kos, that Nvidia does not produce its own graphic cards (apart from Quadro series), but other manufacturers are producing and selling them (Zotac, ...
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Switching between Intel and NVIDIA GPU

My laptop has 2 GPUs, the Intel HD Graphics 4000, and NVIDIA GeForce FT 650M. How do I switch between GPUs? I tried installing drivers from NVIDIA, but that ruined my Ubuntu installation, and I had to ...
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Ubuntu hangs on boot after blackout- Detect the available GPUs

Please help me, its my workstation. It worked fine until a power blackout. Since then it doesn't boot anymore. (two times it started to the login screen, but with ENTER or a mouse click he login ...
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Install CoreCtrl (GPU GUI) on Ubuntu 20.04

I read about "CoreCtrl" (GPU GUI) which looks promising but I cannot find it in the repository. Do you have any ideas how I can install it? Thanks. More about CoreCtrl
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Can't Change GPU Driver (Additional Drivers)

When I open Software & Updates, I am told that I am using a "manually installed driver" (which is apparently not proprietary): I'm not too sure why Ubuntu is telling me this, as I ...
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nVidia GPU is not detected

My nVidia GPU (GTX650-DC) can't be detected by my computer(OS is Ubuntu 14.04). I've searched for related discussion(Ubuntu 14.04 couldn't detect nvidia graphic card (not even detect the model of ...
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How can I uninstall specific NVIDIA drivers? [closed]

I installed the latest driver 375.26 for the NVIDIA GTX 1060 GPU using the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa sudo apt update sudo apt install nvidia-375 This ...
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Temperature and other statistics from Radeon Open Source Drivers?

How can I see GPU % usage, temperature, fan speed, etc, with Radeon Open Source Drivers?
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3 monitors on a GT 430?

Will a card like the GT 430 which has 1x dvi, 1x vga, and 1x hdmi ports allow me to connect 3 monitors to it giving me a large desktop spanning 3 screens? Assuming I have 3 vga monitors and get the ...
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