Add Intel GPUs?

[dm17]

Is there a way to display the output from intel_gpu_top in btop already? If not, that is kind of what I'm looking for... And perhaps other users can use the same method to poll radeontop and similar.
Thanks; btop is great!

[42willow]

#529 (comment)

Support for intel GPU's was added mentioned in this PR, but unfortunately for now there isn't any intel GPU support

edit: oops wrong wording sorry, it was mentioned but not added

[notorand-it]

As of 1.3.2, no Intel GPU (mine is Iris Xe Graphics) usage is shown.

[Sarajevo1914]

thinkpad T14 Gen 2 i5 1135g7 is not shown (btop 1.3.2)

[dontknowhy]

Good news:There is some other way to show Team Blue's GPU usage:

Bad news:I think it uses DRM to get the GPU's usage.
Mission Center

As this pull message said,it's hard to use the same way as igt-gpu-tools.

[Antiarchitect]

btop 1.3.2 IrisXe HP Pro Book - not shown

[dm17]

In terms of AMD and Intel GPUs, I've found nvtop to be significantly nicer than radeontop and intel_gpu_top. Would be cool to have them all working in btop though!

[notorand-it]

The point here, IMHO, is not to the the best ever GPU usage tracking, but rather to add (for now) an idea on how much the GPU(s) are loaded. Nicer, fancier, more accurate can come later.

[dm17]

Right and the only thing I care about typically is one of the GPUs memclock and temp. There's an amdgpu bug where it gets suck at full clock for no reason and can overheat. I suppose it is best to write a script that monitors that... I wanted to mention nvtop because it is the only GPU monitor I've used in Linux that detects all GPUs correctly so far, including multiple (and all brands so far). And so if there's a way to not double its efforts in BTOP and use its libs somehow, then great...

[aristocratos]

Added in commit 24fc97c

[dontknowhy]

Added in commit 24fc97c

@aristocratos
It works for me.
But why I need to give it my root permission to see my GPU usage?
Is there any way to use it without root?

[aristocratos]

@dontknowhy
Because the user you are launching btop with doesn't have permission to read SYSFS.

You can either check documentation for your distribution how to fix that.
Or try with sudo setcap cap_perfmon=+ep /usr/local/bin/btop (replace the path with your path to btop).

This will be explained in the documentation when I create a new release, and will add a option to the Makefile make setcap that will do that for you.

[dontknowhy]

@dontknowhy
Because the user you are launching btop with doesn't have permission to read SYSFS.

You can either check documentation for your distribution how to fix that.
Or try with sudo setcap cap_perfmon=+ep /usr/local/bin/btop (replace the path with your path to btop).

This will be explained in the documentation when I create a new release, and will add a option to the Makefile make setcap that will do that for you.

Now it works.
:)

[FranMUex]

Mine only shows gpu usage, but not it's frequency or power usage, even when running as root

[dontknowhy]

Mine only shows gpu usage, but not it's frequency or power usage, even when running as root

Try to restart it.
Because mine didn't show up in her first time.

[aristocratos]

Only utilization, watt and clockspeed is supported for Intel, same as intel_gpu_top.

Open up the GPU box to see clocks, '5' key if you only got 1 gpu.

[FranMUex]

Oh, thanks, I thought it was supposed to show in the CPU box.

[aristocratos]

Added in release v1.4.0

[notorand-it]

Super! It works on ArchLinux!

Maybe the Watt reading need some polishing as it shows 0... But this is not the final goal, it's a start line!
Kudos!

[UPDATE]
I could see something larger than 0W at some point.

[matthenning]

Can confirm. GPU usage including power draw works on Arch. Thank you!

[notorand-it]

Also GPU "ad hoc" panel works nice!

[7system7]

I upgraded, but sadly it does not work here. 😢

[notorand-it]

Have you "fixed"other permissions with sudo?

(Read above)

[7system7]

Nope. But after the permissions added, it just works. Thank you and sorry to not read the thread completely. 🥳

[dontknowhy]

btop version: 1.4.0+2e7208d
Compiled with: c++ (14.2.0)
Configured with: cmake -DBTOP_STATIC=OFF -DBTOP_USE_MOLD=OFF -DBTOP_FORTIFY=ON -DBTOP_GPU=ON

 ❯ sudo getcap btop                
btop cap_perfmon=eip

I'm sorry. But it looks like somebody did some nasty things...
Edit: That Kylin 9000s is a custom CPU name, not a bug.

[1nv3n7or]

Gonna save some time for future generations

As it seams, apt has old version of btop 1.2

You need to install it from sourse or use homebrew

In mine case brew has same 1.4 version as in repo at the time

Using homebrew

Install homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Install btop

brew install btop

Find path to btop

which btop

# /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/btop

Find actual path

readlink -f /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/btop
# /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/btop/1.4.0/bin/btop

Use actual path to fix permissions

sudo setcap cap_perfmon=+ep /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/btop/1.4.0/bin/btop

Now should be fine: