[18:24] <fred_> hello guys
[18:25] <fred_> does anyone fancy helping me with drivers for my graphics card?
[18:42] <fred_> when i run 'sudo lshw -C display' i get:
[18:42] <fred_> description: VGA compatible controller
[18:42] <fred_>        product: NVIDIA Corporation
[18:42] <fred_>        vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
[18:42] <fred_>        physical id: 0
[18:42] <fred_>        bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
[18:42] <fred_>        version: a1
[18:42] <fred_>        width: 64 bits
[18:42] <fred_>        clock: 33MHz
[18:42] <fred_> but there is no model number
[18:42] <fred_> I know its a rtx 3050
[18:43] <fred_> i let ubuntu install drivers during installation and blender does 'see' the card, but when i render its only using the CPU
[18:44] <fred_> i dtried other drivers but that broke the system (no boot) so i had to redo the install :(
[18:48] <fred_> According to system profiler is had loaded the 2507 device driver, and i dont know if its the correct one
[18:53] <fred_> neofetch lists the card as:
[18:53] <fred_> GPU: NVIDIA 06:00.0 NVIDIA Corporation Device 2507 
[18:55] <fred_> glxinfo -B does find it
[18:56] <fred_> OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050/PCIe/SSE2
[18:56] <fred_> and from there it look like the correct driver was loaded (535)
[18:56] <fred_> OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.86.05
[18:57] <fred_> but, again, i go to blender and try to select GPU for render and it goes gray and dumps it on CPU :(
[18:57] <fred_> any help appreciated
[18:58] <fred_> nvidia-smi also lists the card
[18:59] <fred_> 0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050        Off 
[19:14] <fred_> just done some more digging with gpu-manager
[19:14] <fred_> s nvidia loaded? yes
[19:14] <fred_> Was nvidia unloaded? no
[19:14] <fred_> Is nvidia blacklisted? no
[19:14] <fred_> Is intel loaded? no
[19:14] <fred_> Is radeon loaded? no
[19:14] <fred_> Is radeon blacklisted? no
[19:14] <fred_> Is amdgpu loaded? no
[19:14] <fred_> Is amdgpu blacklisted? no
[19:14] <fred_> Is amdgpu versioned? no
[19:14] <fred_> Is amdgpu pro stack? no
[19:14] <fred_> Is nouveau loaded? no
[19:14] <fred_> Is nouveau blacklisted? yes
[19:14] <fred_> Is nvidia kernel module available? yes
[19:14] <fred_> Is amdgpu kernel module available? no
[20:14] <davef> Sounds like a blender issue. I know we've had that trouble getting blender to work properly if it's not compiled with cuda support.
[20:20] <fred_> i fixed it!
[20:20] <fred_> i had to add my ser to the render group!
[20:20] <fred_> *user not ser