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So I have a Linux Mint machine with a Ryzen 5600G CPU with integrated graphics. I just recently got a GTX 660ti from a friend, and I’m trying to set it up, and the driver seems to be loading (running nvidia-smi gives the following):
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.74 Driver Version: 470.74 CUDA Version: 11.4 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 N/A | N/A |
| 30% 33C P8 N/A / N/A | 67MiB / 3015MiB | N/A Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
However, a message on boot when the card is installed mentions that the system is running without video hardware acceleration, so the CPU is doing all the graphical heavy lifting without the help of its iGPU.
So it seems like it knows the card is there, it’s just not letting it do anything. Any ideas? I tried older nvidia drivers, nouveau, installing with the .run file from nvidia, even updating the kernel to 5.11, nothing has worked.
Edit: running lspci | grep -i vga outputs
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 660 Ti] (rev a1)
I’m at a total loss.
Output of inxi -Fxxz
System:
Kernel: 5.11.0-38-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.6 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma
base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: A520M DS3H v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: A520M DS3H serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F13 date: 07/08/2021
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard
serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 93425
Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1409 2: 3193
3: 3209 4: 3220 5: 1409 6: 3162 7: 3217 8: 3249 9: 3184 10: 3219 11: 3255
12: 2619
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK104 [GeForce GTX 660 Ti] vendor: eVga.com.
driver: nvidia v: 470.82.00 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1183
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: nvidia
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.2.0-devel
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0e0a
Device-2: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 06:00.1
chip ID: 1002:1637
Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 06:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-38-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000
bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 8086:2526
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 05:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 129.82 GiB (27.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 PRO 512GB size: 476.94 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 467.96 GiB used: 129.81 GiB (27.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 35 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 30%
Info:
Processes: 293 Uptime: 1h 05m Memory: 15.52 GiB used: 2.19 GiB (14.1%)
Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 8/9
Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38
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