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Have a new secondhand PC, running Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64 Bit, Linux Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic. System info recognises two VGA cards - onboard and the GTX 770.

However, when I query

lscpi -vnn | grep VGA -A 12

The response I get is:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 770] [10de:1184] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8465]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 50
Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at db000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia

However this graphics card is supposed to have 2GB GDDR5 as far as I'm aware.

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I am wondering if you are running your card with nouveau(open source drivers) or nvidia drivers? I guess you are running on open source!

You should try to install the proprietary drivers (nvidia drivers) to see if it is really reading your card wrong. With nvidia-setting you should be able to see everything related to your GPU.

This site should show you how to install them easily mintguide.org.


(source: tomshardware.com)

image source : tomshardware.com

This is an old image but you should see the right information!

Keep me posted !

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  • Hey :) Thanks for response. nvidia settings is reading the correct memory I have been working converting extremely large bitmaps to vectors so I believe that I'm just experiencing the limit of my hardware, guess i'll just wait till i can upgrade :)
    – Kennedy
    Jul 1, 2015 at 21:10

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