UNIX Graphics Drivers

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Graphics Hardware

Check

sudo lshw -c video

*-display description: VGA compatible controller product: GF100GL [Quadro 6000] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0 version: a3 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:61 memory:dc000000-ddffffff memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:e8000000-ebffffff ioport:a000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff *-graphics product: EFI VGA physical id: 2 logical name: /dev/fb0 capabilities: fb configuration: depth=32 resolution=800,600

glxinfo -B

glxinfo is part of mesa-utils. To install use...sudo apt install mesa-utils

name of display: :1display: :1 screen: 0direct rendering: YesMemory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info): Dedicated video memory: 6144 MB Total available memory: 6144 MB Currently available dedicated video memory: 5175 MBOpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA CorporationOpenGL renderer string: Quadro 6000/PCIe/SSE2OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.157OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIAOpenGL core profile context flags: (none)OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.157OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIAOpenGL context flags: (none)OpenGL profile mask: (none)
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 390.157OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display'

05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF100GL [Quadro 6000] [10de:06d8] (rev a3)

nvidia-smi

Mon Mar 20 08:43:57 2023 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+| NVIDIA-SMI 390.157 Driver Version: 390.157 ||-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC || Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. ||===============================+======================+======================|| 0 Quadro 6000 Off | 00000000:05:00.0 On | Off || 35% 84C P8 N/A / N/A | 1108MiB / 6065MiB | 22% Default |+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+| Processes: GPU Memory || GPU PID Type Process name Usage ||=============================================================================|| 0 5740 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 237MiB || 0 5911 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 241MiB || 0 29708 G ...108944750663,8747736283936019652,131072 537MiB || 0 738494 G /snap/firefox/2391/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 44MiB |+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

ubuntu-drivers devices

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:05:00.0 ==modalias : pci:v000010DEd000006D8sv0000103Csd0000076Fbc03sc00i00vendor : NVIDIA Corporationmodel : GF100GL [Quadro 6000]driver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free recommendeddriver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

Launch the "Additional Drivers" application to see which driver is active...

Bibliography

https://linuxconfig.org/graphics-driver-check-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossahttps://www.linuxcapable.com/install-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-linux/https://itsfoss.com/install-additional-drivers-ubuntu/https://askubuntu.com/questions/1406565/gnome-dragging-application-menu-dock-etc-being-quite-slow-after-update-on-u
NVIDIAhttps://www.redswitches.com/blog/install-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-20-04/https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-uninstall-the-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-22-04-jammy-jellyfish-linuxhttps://linuxconfig.org/how-to-disable-blacklist-nouveau-nvidia-driver-on-ubuntu-22-04-jammy-jellyfish-linuxhttps://askubuntu.com/questions/1118312/loading-freezes-after-removing-nvidia-graphics-cardhttps://askubuntu.com/questions/360761/cannot-get-rid-of-nvidia-drivers-restore-nouveau-driver-and-get-desktop-working?rq=1https://askubuntu.com/questions/12937/remove-nvidia-driver-and-go-back-to-nouveau
AMD/ATIhttps://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2414338 ATI Rage 3 (Rage XL PCI)