Questions tagged [gpu]
Questions related to the the Graphics Processing Unit itself. Questions about graphics cards can be found in the [graphics] tag.
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Ubuntu 16.04 on a i7-6440 and Quadro K1200 reboots after software shutdown
I am facing a strange problem on my ubuntu 16.04 for Lenevo M83 box, having i7 6400 chipset and Nvidia Quadro P1200 gpu card, it restarts even when I choose shutdown through OS.
I tried few things ...
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Installing tensorflow with GPU support
I was trying to install tensorflow with GPU support using the instructions as given on:
TenserFlow offical
Nvidia's installation Guide
But it seems that the installation is broken. I get the ...
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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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Preventing system processes from using GPU
I'm relatively new to Ubuntu, and am currently setting up a machine for dedicated GPU programming. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on an Asus desktop with integrated graphics. It might be worth noting that I ...
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no permission to edit file? [duplicate]
I'm trying to disable Vsync on my BARTS radeon card (source game stuck at 60 fps)
I was directed to the file /usr/share/x11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf to add Option "SwapBuffersWait" "false"
I'm ...
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Using multiple GPU's in Ubuntu 16?
I have a question I have been researching for days on. I have a MSI z97 gaming 5 board with 7 PCI slots. All the slots work fine for GPU's as I have an identical board with 7 AMD GPU's running. The ...
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Extreamly high GPU usage while doing very little
Recently just switched to ubuntu from windows 10, and so far i love it! But i got a problem, when ever i do pretty much anything my gpu usage jumps close to 100% and everything becomes very laggy 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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AsusGeForce GTX 970 installation crash
I have bought 6 month ago this GPU: https://www.asus.com/uk/Graphics-Cards/STRIXGTX970DC2OC4GD5/
I flashed my USB stick with Ubuntu 16.10, 16.04, 14.04 but every times I boot it through the BIOS of ...
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Disable One GPU with NVIDIA CUDA 8.0 on Ubuntu 16.04
I have been having trouble with my GPUs lately. I just did a clean wipe of my machine and installed Ubuntu 16.04 and CUDA 8.0 on it, hoping that would fix the problem. However, I still get errors. ...
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Problem with windows in Ubuntu MATE
Please have a look at this gif. Is this a GPU problem as currently, I had to turn off my card (AMD Radeon HD 7670M) because of the "Ring 0 Test failure."
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"lvmetad is not active yet" when using a GPU
I recently acquired an R910 Dell server which I refurbished as a workstation and installed Ubuntu 14.04 on it. Since the built in GPU can barely run the GUI, I put in a GPU I had lying around, which ...
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External monitor slow/laggy when in standlone mode
Recently, I installed an external GPU (HD6870) on my laptop which connects to an external monitor. Every time that I extend desktops, the graphics work just fine. The problem arises when I try to ...
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AMD GPU PRO detecting wrong GPU + Gnome visual glitches
I've never had any issues with the latest mesa through ppa but still i cannot get the performance boost of amd gpu pro. Amd gpu pro now support my card which is an AMD R7 240.
After install i got ...
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How to force hardware acceleration on Ubuntu 16.04 RX460
I have googled and searched and i want to move back to windows (as this setup works FLAWLESSLY with windows 10, sigh)
I have an MSI A68HI-AC mb with A10-something CPU, 12GB ram, a shiney gigabte RX ...
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MSHYBRID boot on UEFI mode
I have a Clevo P65xRP notebook with a intel onboard GPU and a GTX1060 discrete GPU. After months trying to make work on UEFI and no luck with several kinds of distro's(ubuntu and all it's flavours, 16....
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How to check if I installed tensorflow with GPU support correctly?
I installed Tensorflow with GPU support and want to check it if I really installed it properly.
I tried simple check provided by Tensorflow which says:
$ python
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Nvidia-smi low GPU Utilization
I have a Titan X and have been running the Breakout simulation for over two days now and it's only 7% through training and nvidia-smi is showing that it's only using 4-5%. The README.md says that it ...
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How to fix login loop after GPU switch
I've been using an NVidia GTS 450 for years and I just switched to an AMD RX 480. I opened my desktop, switched the hardware and booted. Now I'm facing a login loop with .xsession-errors containing
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cannot login after Wednesday [1-11-17] update
For perhaps the last month I have had problems sometimes logging into my Ubuntu after updates. But I would shut down the computer and restart until I could successfully login, and that worked for me. ...
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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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CPU getting stuck during boot due to nvidia driver
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on my desktop and it seems the boot is delayed by the nvidia driver in this line of dmesg: [ 32.227060] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [nvidia-smi:...
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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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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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Have AMD GPU output to one display, and integrated Intel to another
So i have my main display plugged into an AMD GPU (Radeon R9 380), everything working fine. I also have another GPU (integrated from intel i5 4430 CPU), and another display. I want to plug my second ...
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Lubuntu overheating problem with ATI Radeon card 3650
I am using Toshiba A-300 series Laptop which is 8 years old..It has a dedicated graphics card ATI Radeon 3650 and an basic Intel graphics card as integrated one.. I have 2 OS dual boot(Windows 7 and ...
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Kdenlive and Blender both can't use GPU hardware acceleration
I'm currently under Ubuntu 16.04 and have installed the newest versions of Blender and Kdenlive from the official repositories.
Unfortunately, Blender won't let me select my GPU for rendering (Device ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Intel graphic drivers fail in multiple applications
I am having graphical problems with my laptop and have consistently had it since I bought it. So far I have found no solution to my problems.
First my specs via lshw
laptop-aspire-e5-574
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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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Issues with video
Im having issues with the video on my HTPC. Sometimes, more or less within 30 minutes from boot, video freezes and I cant do anything (except move mouse around). Either Ctrl+Alt+F1 nor Ctrl+Alt+Supr ...
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radeon 0000:02:00.0: ring 0 stalled for more than 10492msec
I have recently (last 4 weeks) been encountering an intermittent graphics lockup, associated with messages like:
radeon 0000:02:00.0: ring 0 stalled for more than 10492msec
Dec 8 15:26:30 tinonee ...
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Check if intel processor supports GVT -g
I am trying to do a full graphics virtualisation. I have a intel i7 CPU 920 . In the intel spces sheet it says yes for Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x). But I am not able to confirm if the ...
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My gpu is running slower than it should
I have a GTX 750 ti and it's capable of running at 5GT/s, However in the nvidia xserver settings it says it's maximum link speed is 2.5GT/s. How do i change that?
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FPS drop in games after installing and uninstalling a GPU
I have recently purchased an NVidia GTX 1050 Ti OC WF3 but I did not realise that my PSU would be underpowered for it.
I've uninstalled the GPU and now my FPS in games has halved.
In games such as ...
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Ubuntu Start and End Issues
Whenever I boot Ubuntu 16.04 on my HP Probook (Single Boot), The following Statements appear. They seem to be error of some sort, though my Ubuntu starts and works normally.
Another Error which ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 4k@60hz via HDMI which card (and driver) is capable of that? [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and use a 4K TV as a monitor, the TV has 4K @60hz capability via HDMI.
My current cards are an R9 270x and R9 280x, both card have only HDMI 1.4, so they can only go up to ...
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(How) can I enable automatic switching between Intel and NVIDIA GPU?
I'm using a PC with an integrated Intel and a dedicated NVIDIA GPU. Is there a way to switch between the two graphics adapters automatically - depending upon the need at the moment?
Using the NVIDIA ...
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Will the AMDGPU PRO driver for AMD R9 270X work in Ubuntu 16.04 with my AMD HD 7870? [duplicate]
I have an HD 7870 and I read it is the exact same card with the R9 270X, just with another name. I want to upgrade from 14.04, but the AMDGPU PRO does not support the 7870. However, it supports the R9 ...
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Ubuntu GPU utilities
how to overclock and donwclock gpu on ubuntu with amdgpu-pro drivers (core memory, voltage)? What utilities exist for this?
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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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Can I get hardware acceleration working for video (H.264) in firefox?
My CPU is always maxing out and fans going crazy whenever I watch streaming video on Firefox.
visiting about:support, I see Hardware H264 Decoding: No, despite Firefox otherwise recognising my ...
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Multi GPU boot fail
First of all I'm new to linux systems. My problem is that whenever I install the AMDGPU-PRO driver to my system, it does not boots. I only get an empty dark purple screen or a flashing dash or ...
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CPU on Ubuntu running high
In the terminal I used "top" to check the processes and how much of the CPU was being used as I thought max was 100%, so I restored 292,000 photos with recoverjpeg on my sda1 HDD, I opened the folder ...
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Ensure hardware acceleration feature working
Firefox in my ubuntu distribution typically takes up high resources of CPU. Since hardware acceleration is an often suggested way to ensure performance, i have enabled it under the browser preference, ...
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bumblebee: X did not start properly
Bumblebee doesn't work, without giving me any clear error message other than "X did not start properly".
Here is the result of optirun -vvv glxgears :
[19243.370955] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/...
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Fail to Nvidia GPU passthrough in Ubuntu
I followed this post to setup the passthrough. I also referred some other articles. I installed the driver following this article.
I tried both the following options for qemu 2.2:
-device ioh3420,...
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Problem with install drivers to r9 290 on ubuntu 16.04 gnome
After instalation amdgpu-pro the screan doesn't display and i can see only corsour. I found the solution here amdgpu-pro-install on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with R9 285 and RX 480 but after exute a command ...
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Ubuntu Nvidia drivers vs Nvidia drivers from the website [duplicate]
What is the difference?
I can see that the 'Additional drivers' section installed drivers that are older than the latest ones available on the website.
Are there any drawback to installing Nvidia ...
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Change primary GPU to Intel
I ran into the problem that Ubuntu GNOME automatically uses my Nvidia dedicated GPU as the primary GPU. But because I have to blacklist the device and passthrough it to a VM, I need my integrated ...
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GV-N770OC-2GD GPU driver on Ubuntu
How can I install driver for GPU (GV-N770OC-2GD) on Ubuntu (Ubuntu 16.04.1).
Gigabyte site does not show any driver for Linux OS (Ubuntu).
Thanks