Video2x not detecting GPU (NVIDIA RTX 6000) on Runpod setup, with Ubuntu24.04

[gopi77]

Installed video2x on Runpod environment. It uses only CPU and not using GPU.
(Issue remains with Appimage as well as built deb)

Command line debug info:

root@2df600ad54d7:/workspace/test# video2x --version
Video2X version 6.4.0
root@2df600ad54d7:/workspace/test# video2x -l       
0. llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1, 256 bits)
	Type: CPU
	Vulkan API Version: 1.3.289
	Driver Version: 0.0.1
	Device ID: 0
root@2df600ad54d7:/workspace/test# nvidia-smi
Tue Mar 25 09:21:10 2025       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.127.05             Driver Version: 550.127.05     CUDA Version: 12.4     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Gene...    On  |   00000000:A1:00.0 Off |                  Off |
| 30%   29C    P8             23W /  300W |       2MiB /  49140MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

root@2df600ad54d7:/workspace/test# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Release:	24.04
Codename:	noble
root@2df600ad54d7:/workspace/test# 

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[k4yt3x]

Video2X uses Vulkan, not CUDA. This could help you:

apt-get install -y nvidia-driver-565-server-open
export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/etc/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json

Then run video2x -l again.

[gopi77]

It works, Thanks

[k4yt3x]

I'll consider adding this to the docs later.

[gopi77]

Thanks.
FYI: The above fix broke other nvidia cuda modules. So, needed below commands as well.

apt-get --purge remove "nvidia"
/usr/bin/nvidia-uninstall

[k4yt3x]

Yeah Docker and nvidia-container-toolkit mounts some driver files. It's always annoying. Although video2x shouldn't need uninstalling anything to run from my experience.