How can I start the Ubuntu "System Testing" to test my graphics card and graphics memory from the terminal or from a menu in Gnome Metacity?

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How can I start the built in Ubuntu "System Testing" to test my graphics card and graphics memory from the terminal or from a menu in Gnome Metacity?

I'm having occasional system lockups, and suspect a graphics problem, or perhaps mouse problem.

Rinzwind · Answer 1 · 2022-01-17T15:34:10.770

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The command for the one on the live session is checkbox_ng.
The most comprehensive one is the Phoronix suite (download the DEB and open it with software center.

I'm having occasional system lockups

System testing would not help you with that. Lockups tend to be memory issues. Run memtest for that (see How do I run memtest86+? )

edited Jan 17 '22 at 15:34

answered Jan 17 '22 at 11:19

Rinzwind

I can find no reference to phoronix-test-suite in the official repos. – Organic Marble Jan 17 '22 at 15:28
@OrganicMarble AFAIK phoronix-test-suite is for benchmarking computer performance. I don't know if it can be used for testing RAM. – user68186 Jan 17 '22 at 15:43
It will show details on hardware. It does not test ram indeed but technically that was not the question... but likely what should have been the question ;) – Rinzwind Jan 17 '22 at 16:32
So how do I check / test graphics card memory ? – Roger Davis Jan 23 '22 at 09:52

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