Hi, i am using a Lenovo ThinkPad P162 with a NVIDIA T550. When i am running fastfetch it shows that the internal graphics of the CPU are clocked at 1.4 GHz, but shows nothing for the NVIDIA GPU. This raises the question for if the GPU is ever used or the driver correctly installed, is there any way to check both? Initially i thought the drivers were correctly installed since the name of the GPU is shown and intuitively i would suggest that if i don’t have any driver, i would even know what GPU is inside my machine.
So, hwo would you check if you have correctly installed the GPU drivers and test is functionality?
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvtop/
This should show you details about the GPU utilization.
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Really helpful, thank you! nvtop showed me, that it can only display the internal intel GPU of the CPU, so i guess i’ll have to look again to properly install the NVIDIA drivers.
Managed to install the drivers correctly with nvidia-inst. But nvtop is awesome to check success and general GPU output!
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inxi -Ga will show if the drivers are installed and being loaded and which gpu is being used for rendering. Obviously if you have a hybrid laptop then it has to have a method of switching to the nvidia gpu.
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nvidia-smi will also show you what processes are using your gpu.
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