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Just got a new GPU, why is it so hard to use it?
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 570.158.01 Driver Version: 570.158.01 CUDA Version: 12.8 | |-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | 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 RTX 2070 ... Off | 00000000:09:00.0 On | N/A | | 0% 37C P8 18W / 235W | 481MiB / 8192MiB | 2% Default | | | | N/A | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 2099 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 143MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2358 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 105MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2950 G ...exec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 10MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 5684 G .../6565/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 167MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 8244 G /usr/bin/nautilus 13MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 8333 G ...tcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher 20MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Well the driver is loaded, and you have processes engaged with it, so it's functional.
If you're losing output, maybe you have a conflict with the nouveau driver. Have you blacklisted it?
Honestly I haven't even heard of a nouveau driver. I sure haven't blacklisted it.
To be clear I got this output with my old GPU. Not sure how I would get to the command terminal with the new one.
You need to run these commands on the machine having the problem. Giving output from another machine doesn't help solve anything.
If you're getting dead output on your 5070, it means the driver is more than likely NOT loaded, so the output will be different.
Boot the 5070, and when you get a black screen, hit ALT+F2 to drop to a console shell. Login, and run 'nvidia-smi', and you should get something that confirms it's loaded, or something that says it is not loaded.
If it's not loaded, it means you haven't installed the drivers (you sure you did?). Check your packages, make sure the driver is properly installed, then do this to blacklist the nouveau driver which may be in conflict.
Reboot. See if it works.
They didn't run it on a different machine, they ran it with the old GPU is installed instead of the new one.
Thanks for clarifying. Missed that.