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860lacov

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Registered: 2020-05-02

Posts: 476

How can I find GPU Bios version?

I tried with lspci and inxi from aur.
Maybe there is a bios version but I can't fin it.

paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 611

Re: How can I find GPU Bios version?

Some basic information about your hardware would have been a useful starting point!

nvidia-smi -q | grep BIOS 

appears to work for all nvidia cards I've tried.

Alternatively for newish nvidia cards...

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000\:0a\:00.0/information

but the same command doesn't work for me on systems with older nvidia cards (I get "??.??.??.??.??")

Cheers
Paul.

h2-1

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Registered: 2014-08-15

Posts: 12

Re: How can I find GPU Bios version?

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/*/information

I just checked this using a bunch of inxi datasets, and yes, it's only available for nvidia, not amd, not intel, yes, the * part of the path can be various things since it's related to the actual bus location I believe.

This is potentially useful information for inxi, even though I believe it's only present with nvidia non free drivers.

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merlock

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Registered: 2018-10-30

Posts: 258

Re: How can I find GPU Bios version?

I wonder if this is relevant:

dmesg|grep -i amd
...
[    4.386818] amdgpu: ATOM BIOS: 115-C994PI0-102
...
[    4.752085] [drm] Initialized amdgpu 3.39.0 20150101 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0

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