Hi Everyone,
I am working my way through adding my software that I wish to use and a main one is Pixixnsight which is used for Astrophotography processing. This can use the Nvidia card to accelerate some of its processes but I am having issues in that it is not rendering to the GPU but using the CPU which is much slower.
I want to check if I have installed and setup the Nvidia / Cuda correctly while i work out if its a Pix problem or my setup. I have followed a couple of the previous post on the forum here so I think I am in the right ball park. If someone could comment on the following I would be appreciate it.
I am using Grub as the PC also has a separate windows 10 drive.
Sorry for the long post but i though I would try to give as much info upfront
partial outputs from inxi -Faz
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 545.xx+ status: current (as of
2023-10; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3
bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2486 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
outputs from Nvidia-smi
±--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 545.29.06 Driver Version: 545.29.06 CUDA Version: 12.3 |
|-----------------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| 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 3060 Ti Off | 00000000:07:00.0 On | N/A |
| 30% 34C P5 169W / 200W | 1086MiB / 8192MiB | 21% Default |
| | | N/A |
±----------------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
±--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 859 G /usr/lib/Xorg 442MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 959 G /usr/bin/ksmserver 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 961 G /usr/bin/kded5 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 962 G /usr/bin/kwin_x11 94MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1013 G /usr/bin/plasmashell 92MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1052 G …b/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1171 G /usr/bin/python 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1180 G /usr/lib/kdeconnectd 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1198 G /usr/bin/kaccess 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1204 G /usr/lib/DiscoverNotifier 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1236 G /usr/bin/nvidia-settings 0MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1536 G /usr/bin/dolphin 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1551 G /usr/bin/dolphin 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1673 G /usr/bin/krunner 10MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1721 G /usr/lib/baloorunner 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1801 G /usr/bin/dolphin 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2053 G /opt/brave-bin/brave 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2088 G …,262144 --variations-seed-version=1 147MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2094 G /usr/bin/kwalletd5 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3064 G /usr/bin/flameshot 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3375 G /usr/bin/konsole 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3739 G /usr/bin/plasmawindowed 9MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 4528 G /usr/bin/kwrite 2MiB |
±-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
output form inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 545.29.06
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.276 drivers: nvidia surfaces: xcb,xlib
outpu from smod | grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 118784 25
nvidia_modeset 1863680 55 nvidia_drm
nvidia_uvm 3653632 4
video 77824 1 nvidia_modeset
nvidia 8953856 923 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
output from yay -Qs nvidia
local/cuda 12.3.1-2
NVIDIA’s GPU programming toolkit
local/cudnn 8.9.7.29-1
NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network library
local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.13-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 545.29.06-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.5-2
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 545.29.06-1
NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nccl 2.19.4-1
Library for NVIDIA multi-GPU and multi-node collective communication primitives
local/nvidia-force-comp-pipeline 1.0-1
Simple script to enable “Force Composition Pipeline” on all monitors connected to an Nvidia card (fixes tearing).
local/nvidia-hook 1.5-1
pacman hook for nvidia
local/nvidia-inst 23.1-1
Script to setup nvidia drivers (dkms version) in EndeavourOS
local/nvidia-open 545.29.06-15
NVIDIA open kernel modules
local/nvidia-settings 545.29.06-1
Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 545.29.06-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia 545.29.06-1
OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
if i have missed any key info or am on the wrong track please let me kn ow
Thanks
Mark