Newbie to linux, using ubuntu 14.04 LTS, my question is that I'm confused about the nvidia driver settings, with nvidia-smi, it gives
| NVIDIA-SMI 367.57 Driver Version: 367.57 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 960M Off | 0000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 41C P8 N/A / N/A | 1318MiB / 4043MiB | 13% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1103 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 238MiB |
| 0 1984 G compiz 143MiB |
| 0 2499 G ...el-token=97D71C8F7958A5CC7D7CFCDDCA9ED82B 96MiB |
| 0 6010 C ...cc/Downloads/software/envs/py2/bin/python 789MiB |
| 0 7096 G ...rWithCastExtension/Enabled/EnableSessionC 48MiB |
| 0 8760 G /usr/bin/nvidia-settings 0MiB |
and in Nvidia X server settings, in PRIME Profiles, it says I'm using NVIDIA card, not the Intel card, but in software and updates, with additional drivers, it shows that I'm using the nouveau driver, but also a
Nvidia 375 version driver which is not selected.(sorry I don't have enough reputation to post image) But with dpkg -l|grep nvidia, I only got the 367 version installed:
cc@cc-Lenovo-Rescuer-14ISK:~/Downloads$ dpkg -l|grep nvidia
ii nvidia-367 367.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 367.57
ii nvidia-opencl-icd-367 367.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii nvidia-prime 0.6.2.1 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 367.48-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
so my confusion is that: what I'm truly using? is this version 375 already installed in my system and I can switch to it? what the additional drivers option really do? Thanks in advance!
EDIT: lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D' gives:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 191b (rev 06)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 0001
Kernel driver in use: i915_bpo
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Gaussian Mixture Model
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01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 0006
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
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