Intel Arc GPU does not work under Linux

[HubKing]

I ran it, and it started downloading GB's of Nvidia-related packages and it printed

WARNING: NOT using GPU acceleration, using 10x slower CPU instead.
Using device cpu

I don't know much about A.I., but Vladmir's Automatic1111 works on Intel Arc, and it seemed to use PyTorch. So, there probably is a way to do this task too with an Intel Arc GPU.

At least it should automatically detect the existing GPU and if it's not Nvidia, it should not download GB's unnecessary files. If detection is difficult, it could simply ask: "Do you have an Nvidia GPU?"

[Kreijstal]

I agree... it is wasteful to download nvidia code that you will never use

[zackees]

I don't have an Intel Arc so I can't test this. The detection to install the gpu version of whisper dependencies is fairly primitive. Unfortunately I can't test any fix for this. So it will have to be up to someone else to create a pull request.

[HubKing]

I don't have an Intel Arc so I can't test this. The detection to install the gpu version of whisper dependencies is fairly primitive. Unfortunately I can't test any fix for this. So it will have to be up to someone else to create a pull request.

I can't write code, because I don't know how A.I. works, but I can test if something works or not.

[zackees]

I don't know how AI works either. But I am an expert in packaging up the dependencies to make it work.

You might be able to use my AI coding assistant to help you out:

pip install advanced-aicode

Then launch it in the repo:

aicode

I'll accept a PR to fix this and work around test failures.

[ikt]

Yeah a bit painful as an AMD user watching it download GB's of nvidia packages, hopefully someone can fix!

Thanks though this is great :)