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mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 1:43 AM

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Anyone able to walk me through installing graphics drivers so they’re properly detected on the machine? Im trying to install them but its not being recognized i think

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 2:09 AM

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hello.

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first have a look at your hardware, use inxi -Gxx command

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it may be using opensource one

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may as well list results here for others to help out

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AMD or Intel graphics are typically out-of-box ready to go via the kernel's own drivers

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nvm u titled it nvidia

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ensure secure boot didn't get turned on somehow by some fairy at night.. mokutil --sb-state

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then proceed to Driver Manager and install the recommended proprietary one or the nouveau open source one if it works better

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 5:27 AM

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secure boot is disabled

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i think ill try the nouveau drivers cause nvidia-smi says it can't communicate with the nvidia driver

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how do i know the nvidia drivers are being downloaded by the driver manager its taking a long time

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tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 5:48 AM

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hm it may take one minute? maybe bit less

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 5:49 AM

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oh ok

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 5:49 AM

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open your system monitor, and see if internet traffic is happening

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 5:49 AM

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How

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 5:49 AM

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just type that name in start

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you may also right click the menu icon and add to panel

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once it's installed have a look at:

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 5:51 AM

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tight jasper first have a look at your hardware, use `inxi -Gxx` command

this again, and you will see the details. Oh I think it needs a reboot anyway once the driver installed.

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Tip: search APPLETS for an applet called Upload and Download Speed (or is it Download and Upload Speed) if you'd like to see the net traffic rates for either WiFi or LAN cable connection (set the config), and put that applet on ur panel

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 5:54 AM

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is that it

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i don't think theres "applets" installed on my system

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:01 AM

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mortal mantle is that it

for this, when u want to see cpu use, memory use, and network usage, click the middle tab called "Resources"

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For Applets, which was the other thing I was talking about, either right-click the panel to choose Applets, or type that word in the start menu.

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and once there, go to the add tab, and search the one I mentioned, download it, and add it to panel. then right click it and configure

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:09 AM

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theres a task manager on the application finder

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is that it?

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Also this is resources tab

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:11 AM

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^ that is called System Monitor, yes.

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:11 AM

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I don't see applets

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:12 AM

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tight jasper For Applets, which was the other thing I was talking about, either right-click t...

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mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:15 AM

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ive right clicked panel and its showing separator, properties, move, remove, and panel

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in panel theres add new items, panel preferences, log out, help, about

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:16 AM

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oh are u on xfce?

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:16 AM

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yeah

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:17 AM

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in that case, add new items

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search the list for network monitor, add

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and u can drag it up down the items list to arrange/place it

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:18 AM

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theres system load monitor and cpu frequency monitor

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:22 AM

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Top one in pic

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otherwise install the xfce4-goodies package and it'll show up

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:26 AM

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okay i have the network monitor what am i looking for now

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:28 AM

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nothing to do, ur inxi shows ur Device 2 information

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:28 AM

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the driver manager is still not loading

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:29 AM

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leave it then

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:29 AM

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okay

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what are the next steps?

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:30 AM

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i suspect it switched and on reboot ur driver wont say 550

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:30 AM

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mortal mantle what are the next steps?

for what?

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:31 AM

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wait so is the graphics card drivers installed?

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:31 AM

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looks like it

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:31 AM

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is there a way to check if its working properly?

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:32 AM

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well first do a reboot cuz it may have switched now that u fiddled with driver manager

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then check again in terminal upon restart

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then i suggest get the Flatpak app called Resources in the software manager, it'll show the gpu activity

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check ur panel/tray for a Prime applet or something

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i think it used to check which gpu to enable

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:42 AM

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i don't have a prime applet

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are these pictures alright?

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ive rebooted also

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:47 AM

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ya i can see u did

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look urself, at the device 2 line in inxi info

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:48 AM

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okay its being recognized?

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:48 AM

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show a inxi -SC

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...

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I'm heading out. post that so others can help. it seems nothing's connected on the nvidia gpu

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:52 AM

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tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:53 AM

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is it laptop?

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:53 AM

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nothings connected?

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Yeah

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:54 AM

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read it urself, it says ports: ___ active: none for Device 2

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:55 AM

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where?

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Oh and on cinnamon everything was working fine

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:55 AM

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also resources is being dumb prob cuz of permissions. u need flatseal app to give it perms to access ur video hardware i guess. or uninstall it and install nvtop instead

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:56 AM

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i have flatseal which permissions do i need to apply?

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:56 AM

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well for the Resources flatpak

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so it can properly read the gpu

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cuz last pic it showed all n/a

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 6:57 AM

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okay this is nvtop

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 6:58 AM

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obviously u gotta use the gpu

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if it plays youtube in HD ur fine

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or switch back to 550 and reboot

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drivers are likely the easy peasy bit. u should rename this post title to , how to switch between integrated graphics, and nvidia gpu on mint xfce laptop

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 7:03 AM

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Is there a way to use mostly the nvidia gpu?

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instead of integrated graphics

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 7:05 AM

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from what I've heard, when u install the nvidia proprietary driver in places a tray applet called prime, and u can do it with that, or u use a game launcher specific setting to insist on that dedicated GPU

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 7:06 AM

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how can i switch without prime?

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cant seem to find it on xfce

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 7:09 AM

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tight jasper or switch back to 550 and reboot

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mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 7:14 AM

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okay lemme switch to 550 then and see cause i dont think nvtop detects my nvidia gpu

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 7:18 AM

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mortal mantle okay lemme switch to 550 then and see cause i dont think nvtop detects my nvidia...

then install a game or something or play youtube at 4K or 2K or sumthing to make the graphics work hard before looking at nvtop

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 7:19 AM

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Also when i go back to 550 it says “no proprietary drivers are in use”

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its still using the nouveau drivers

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 7:35 AM

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try lower number

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since that model is like 7 or 8 yrs old

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like try the 470

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bottom line inxi -Gxx is ur friend after reboot

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 7:39 AM

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okay i did sudo apt purge nvidia and tried to install it via the terminal since it didn't let me switch with the driver manager

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and install with the terminal

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 7:41 AM

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wait for 10 hours when more ppl are around for insight on this

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I'll mention it to some I know

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 7:42 AM

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mortal mantle okay i did sudo apt purge *nvidia* and tried to install it via the terminal sinc...

did u put an asterisk ? (nvidia* )

mortal mantle Nov 20, 2024, 7:44 AM

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yea

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okay nvtop detects it after i installed the 470 drivers and i enabled nvidia performance mode by typing in sudo nvidia-settings and going into prime profiles

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its using the nvidia gpu now i think its fixed

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hooray

tight jasper Nov 20, 2024, 8:02 AM

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neat

tight jasper Nov 21, 2024, 8:56 PM

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mortal mantle its using the nvidia gpu now i think its fixed

good stuff, now I also came across this interesting article regarding GPU in Mint. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906

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scroll down a bit, and read all the topic of Nvidia.

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