Don't require Nvidia related packages when using on a AMD/Intel based system

[ghost]

At least using the AUR nvtop-git package for Arch Linux, it requires nvidia-utils to be installed. On a system with only AMD/Intel hardware, there shouldn't be a need to require any nvidia packages to use nvtop.

This would be really nice to see changed as it turns out KDE Plasma's Wayland session doesn't play all that well with it on my laptop and causes delays with program launch speeds :(

[Syllo]

Please open an issue or send an email to the maintainer of the AUR package. I cannot do anything about this issue on my end.

[ghost]

Just to make sure, can nvtop run without that package installed?

[Syllo]

Nvtop will load whatever library is installed: libnvml.so for NVIDIA or libdrm.so/libdrm_amdgpu.so for AMD. If a library is not installed nvtop will just ignore one or the other vendor. To answer the question: nvtop will work without the package. It will just not report NVIDIA GPUs without the proprietary driver installed.

[Mhowser]

This is still an issue for us Ubuntu users with AMD only GPUs. I just freshly installed nvtop to my system and it gives me the error Impossible to initialize nvidia nvml : Driver Not Loaded when I try to use it.

My OS is Zorin OS 16 (which is basically Ubuntu 20.04)

GPU info from inxi:

Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] driver: amdgpu 
           v: kernel 
           Display: wayland server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: ati,fbdev unloaded: modesetting,radeon,vesa 
           resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.41.0 5.13.0-39-generic LLVM 12.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.6

[Syllo]

@Mhowser for Ubuntu < 22.04 and derivatives, or AMD support, please follow the manual install of the README