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oh! Well I didn't know that was out! My apologies. It is not current then. I would assume it is the same, but won't have time to test until later today.

The patch number stays the same. The instructions are current.

If anyone else wants to try @thor2002ro's latest kernel, its very simple. Backup your USB drive. You're very unlikely to screw up, but you should be doing this anyway Download the latest kernel from https://github.com/thor2002ro/unraid_kernel/releases Download the latest firmware file from https://github.com/thor2002ro/unraid_kernel/releases. Note: this isn't always included with every release. As of this writing, the latest firmware file is found under 5.18rc2 20220412 o3 clang14 thin LTO 6.9.2. Power down your Unraid server and plug the USB drive into your computer. In the root of the drive, move or rename the following files: bzimage, bzimage.sha256, bzmodules, bzmodules.sha256, bzfirmware, bzfiremware.sha256 Unzip and move all the downloaded files into the root of the USB drive. Open /syslinux/syslinux.cfg in a text editor. Look for the following entry: label Unraid OS menu default kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot and add md_mod.unraid_patch=22 to the append section. It should look like this: label Unraid OS menu default kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot md_mod.unraid_patch=22 Note: Pay attention to the release notes from @thor2002ro as that Unraid patch number may change! 8. Plug the USB drive back into the server and start her up! 9. Profit.

I *am* running the 5.18 kernel, so probably not.

So I just tested @thor2002ro's 5.18RC7 kernel. It gave me hope. I transcoded a movie for about 10 minutes without issue. Previous to this the Plex container would crash after a couple of minutes. But then I did a sync/download stress test and it crashed. So its not there yet, but things are getting better!

I'm pretty sure I've done that, yes. I don't think this is a Plex problem though, as it happens in anything else that attempts to use the iGPU with Alder Lake. I just tried with the 5.18RC7 linux kernel and its much better, but still crashes.

It doesn't.

I'm using Alder Lake.

BTW, while the iGPU still doesn't work in 5.18, the CPU transcoding performance is MUCH better. If you're okay with swapping the kernel, I would highly recommend it.

Nope. Its a known issue right now.

I'm running a 12600. And yeah, nothing I've tried works.

As somewhat expected unblacklisting and trying both: options i915 enable_guc=2 options i915 enable_guc=0 failed

I shall try this. I think intel_gpu_top blacklists the driver automatically (or *something* is on my server). So I'll need to remove that first. edit: GPU Statistics and intel_gpu_top are gone, and I have no idea what's force blacklisting it. I remove it from modprobe, reboot, it comes back. Is Unraid doing it?

This suggests that it does. Just to confirm, that setting should work irregardless of the blacklist?

What is the purpose of blacklisting the i915 drivers? Any chance they work with RC7 and the 5.18 kernel? I've seen some suggestions that adding "options i915 enable_guc=2" makes QS work, but I assume that command means nothing if we're blacklisting the drivers.

It does not work. Crashes the Plex container.

Yeah, I realized that after I posted it. Thanks!

Well then I'll try tonight and let you know.

Were you able to test transcoding?

Seems it doesn't work with hardware transcoding. Not sure why it was showing that it did.

Interesting. That doesn't have whatever 6.10RCx changes were done.

Hello @thor2002ro Great work. Any chance you can help us Alder Lake folks over here?

I just turned on hardware transcoding and Plex shows that its using it. Seems odd based on whats in the system log. Weird. I guess we'll see how stable it is?

Well crap. Is there any easy way for me to do that? I'm guessing not.

Yay. Up and running on 5.18rc5 kernel. Gonna give it a day, just to make sure the kernel is stable.