Bug 508979 - System Monitor doesn't show Intel GPU stats if not started with sudo
Summary: System Monitor doesn't show Intel GPU stats if not started with sudo
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: neon
Classification: KDE Neon
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neon Bugs
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Reported: 2025-08-31 16:12 UTC by Steve Zakulec
Modified: 2025-10-08 01:01 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Steve Zakulec 2025-08-31 16:12:04 UTC 
SUMMARY
System Monitor (plasma-systemmonitor) only shows Intel integrated GPU stats if run with sudo/root permissions.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Run System Monitor normally on a laptop with an Intel integrated GPU.
2. Run "sudo plasma-systemmonitor" from a terminal on a laptop with an Intel integrated GPU.
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
System Monitor (and kstatsviewer) can't see the integrated Intel GPU stats without using root/sudo.

EXPECTED RESULT
Intel GPU stats should be available without sudo permissions.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-29-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® HD Graphics 520
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon R5 M330
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 80SA
System Version: LENOVO_IDEAPAD

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Supposedly this should be available per https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436770#c9 and later comments. 
This is why I've put this as a Neon bug, because the feature is there, just the Neon packages seemingly do not have it.
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Comment 3 Steve Zakulec 2025-10-08 01:01:44 UTC 
Hi, is this supposed to be fixed in 6.4.5, or a later release?

I've got:
System Monitor: 6.4.5
KDE neon User Edition (Wayland)
KDE Frameworks: 6.18.0
Qt: Using 6.9.2 and built against 6.9.2
Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
Kernel: linux 6.14.0-33-generic

and this feature is not enabled yet.

Thanks!