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 * Unicode Block “Geometric Shapes” U+25A0 - U+25FF
 * Unicode Block "Box Drawing" and "Block Elements" U+2500 - U+259F
 
+### **Optional Dependencies (Needed for GPU monitoring)**
+
+GPU monitoring also requires a btop binary built with GPU support (`GPU_SUPPORT=true` flag).
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+See [GPU compatibility](#gpu-compatibility) section for more about compiling with GPU support.
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+ * **NVIDIA**
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+If you have an NVIDIA GPU you must use an official NVIDIA driver, both the closed-source and open-source ones have been verified to work.
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+In addition to that you must also have the nvidia-ml dynamic library installed, which should be included with the driver package of your distribution.
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+ * **AMD**
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+If you have an AMD GPU `rocm_smi_lib` is required, which may or may not be packaged for your distribution.
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 ### **Notice (Text rendering issues)**
 
 * If you are having problems with the characters in the graphs not looking like they do in the screenshots, it's likely a problem with your systems configured fallback font not having support for braille characters.