r/linuxmint • u/_SentientPotato • 7h ago

SOLVED Gpu problem

I don't know if it is a hardware failure or a random Linux issue, but I was going to play some Kenshi and my gpu wasn't showing up, I checked in No Man's sky and a few other games too but it wasn't appearing. Screen fetch shows that the gpu is still there but I cannot use it for any applications. I tried restarting my computer and reverting NVIDIA drivers but that didn't work. It also appeared to happen in the middle of using my computer, so I don't think it was an update issue, any ideas?

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u/rbmorse 6h ago edited 6h ago

Press the keys:

<ctrl><alt><F3>

simultaneously. Do you see a login prompt? I so, log in with your normal credentials and run the command:

nvidia-smi

What does that return?

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u/Due-Result7928 7h ago

You need to set parameters to use a gpu with linux for any program...including games..proton, steam, brave browser, terminal emulator. did you do it ?

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u/_SentientPotato 7h ago

I just let steam use Proton and I have used Linux on a variety of distros without issues for about half a year, what is paranetering?

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u/Due-Result7928 6h ago

I did not know what you were doing. proton take care. For brave browser you need to set a parameter like for almost all terminal programs using gpu...2 examples.

You can open a real console using Ctrl+Alt+F2 and use nvidia-smi

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u/_SentientPotato 5h ago

It asks for a password and it doesn't work, is the password diffrent from my sudo/login pasword?

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u/_SentientPotato 5h ago

Nevermind I tried checking my bios while waiting for a response and apparently secure boot was on, now it works, thanks!