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#1 2017-02-20 17:42:19

planck
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Registered: 2015-03-08
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Graphics card not being utilised on my laptop

Hi,

I have a Radeon R7 M265 graphics card in my laptop. I have confirmed this by running lspci, which gave the following output:

> lspci | grep Radeon
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Opal XT [Radeon R7 M265]

I have installed the xf86-video-ati package, as described here, along with lib32-mesa from multilib, mesa-libgl, lib32-mesa-libgl, mesa-vdpau, and lib32-mesa-vdpau.

Upon rebooting, I ran lsmod to check that the kernel module had loaded.

> lsmod | grep radeon
radeon               1478656  1
ttm                    86016  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper        126976  2 radeon,i915
drm                   294912  8 radeon,i915,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit           16384  2 radeon,i915

However, when I run applications they do not seem to detect my GPU. In chromium, visiting the chrome://gpu page shows that chromium is using intel's integrated graphics to render pages. In blender, there is no CUDA device available which usually allows you to select your graphics card. Steam games run quickly but only when the graphics levels are turned down.

Is there any way to check whether or not my graphics card is being used by these programs for rendering? In particular, I would like to get chromium to use my graphics card to render pages.

Thank for your help,
Planck.

Last edited by planck (2017-02-20 17:43:11)

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#2 2017-02-20 17:59:50

Trilby
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Re: Graphics card not being utilised on my laptop


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