Clarify dependency on nvidia-smi for Nvidia GPUs

MatthiasSchinzel / sysmon

Graphical system monitor for linux, including information about CPU, GPU, Memory, HDD/SDD and your network connections. Similar to windows task manager.

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Clarify dependency on nvidia-smi for Nvidia GPUs #7

Open rany2 opened 3 years ago

rany2 commented 3 years ago

It should be mentioned in the README.md that if you had an Nvidia GPU you will need nvidia-smi.

On Debian you'd install that with sudo apt install nvidia-smi

MatthiasSchinzel commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your comment! In the Readme you can see

If you want to monitor your Nvidia GPU, nvidia-smi has to be installed.

Are you sure you can sudo apt install nvidia-smi and this works without installing the actual driver?

thedanyes commented 3 years ago

FYI on Ubuntu 20.04, the nvidia-smi binary is apparently part of the nvidia-utils-xxx packages.

rany2 commented 3 years ago

@MatthiasSchinzel I need nvidia-smi and the Nvidia drivers but when I install the Nvidia drivers Debian doesn't install nvidia-smi for me