[Intel Arc support]

On 1/25/2023 at 4:04 PM, DeadDevil6210 said:

Hi Guys,

 

I don't know if this can help us but thor2002 has some unraid kernels ready on variouse 6.x.x linux kernels, My problem is that my servers RTL8125 (Realtek 2.5GBe nic) stops working, I also will receive my A380 tomorrow and was looking in to the arc support. Hope some have succes with the 6.x.x kernels from thor. I will also start testing again tomorrow with a different machine that has the RTL8125 and an intel nic for backup (not the machine that will get the A380)

https://github.com/thor2002ro/unraid_kernel/releases

I also used thor's kernels when Alder lake iGPU was still not officialy supported and that worked great! but now My nic is not supported with his kernels so I hope others with other nics have more luck.

Edit 26-01:
I tested some more with another Intel based dual gb nic card and the custom kernels from thor also don't work with that, I will check on a different machine with a clean unraid stick to see what whil happen

 

Edit 27-01:
I finally got the kernel to work, See print screen below, Also The DG2 card shows up in terminal: ls /dev/dri. Now let's see how far we can get this to work. I also dit de syslinux edit for i915 to force probe the dg2 card.

The main problem was my netowrk.cfg file, for some reason the official unraid 6.11.5 worked normal but replaceing the files from thor2002's kernels broke everything. I took a plain version of the network.cfg file from the manual install zip and changed all neccessary netowrk info accordingly and now I have hopefully a working kernel with the A380 GPU

 

EDIT 28-01

I got everything to work, The ARC A380 is converting H264 to h265 files at this moment. After the changes of yesterday I didn't change to much I'm checking my notes and will make a good Short tutorial for those wanting to get on some support in docker

 

Looking forward to the tutorial!  Also curious, what application is the image showing here?  I'm looking at options for transcoding with the A380 on the software side and whatever it is you're running looks pretty nice!

[Intel Arc support]

12 hours ago, Mr.coco said:

jellyfin,emby or plex can use the A380?Whether the decoding ability can be used，include AV1

None of them can do anything with the A380 in Unraid itself.  If you pass through to a VM you can use it, but otherwise it's unsupported right now.

[Intel Arc support]

The Asrock A380 Challenger is the 56a5 per the testing I've done with @ich777.  Still working on getting the card running with Unraid directly.

[Intel Arc support]

2 hours ago, ich777 said:

Kernel 6.0.1 is stable since today, chances are high that the next Unraid release includes it.

Awesome!  I'll have mine up and running tomorrow, so I'll send you a DM back once I have it ready!

[Intel Arc support]

On 10/7/2022 at 3:18 AM, ich777 said:

Was anybody lucky enough to get their hands on a ARC GPU?

 

If yes, please contact me... why, because of this:

 

Yes and no, if the driver also uses /dev/dri, like all currently Intel based iGPUs, it should work OOB or better speaking at least on the Host and how it behaves after that, in terms of usage in Docker containers and so on is to be seen and needs to be tested.

 

Also keep in mind that maybe the Intel Media Driver needs to be updated inside the containers but these are all things that need to be seen if someone can get there hands on a ARC GPU.

I'm picking one up from my local Microcenter in just a few minutes.  If you've got something that's needing testing, I'd be happy to give it a shot!

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3 minutes ago, ich777 said:

No problem.

 

Hope you are liking Unraid so far, for me it's the best NAS/Server OS in many years...

(Also note the EDIT on the previous post)

Love it so far!  Best Docker integration I've seen to date as well, and it's helping me move many of my host VMs over from ESXi to Docker (cleaning up the whole home network).  Only downside so far is the loss of overall read/write speeds, as I'm on a 10Gbps network, though once I add cache drives in, I suspect that limitation will be null as well!

 

Noted on the previous edit, looking forward to their updates.

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Just now, ich777 said:

Exactly.

 

The share would be also okay but I would recommend to select a single disk.

No, that's not possible since Unraid is not a real RAID. What you can do is if you are on the latest beta create a second cache pool and then add more disks if you need more space, since you can expand btrfs when you add more disks but keep in mind that this all is done in software...

I would make a single share and assign it to one disk and then store the .img there.

But that's completely up to you and your needs.

As I was expecting, thank you very much for the quick reply!

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Hi ich777, first and foremost, thank you for the work you've done, as you've solidified my move from FreeNAS over to Unraid with iSCSI support.

 

Second, I'm working on setting up a FileIO iSCSI share, and have a quick question... Since this is setup as an IMG file for the share "drive", I'm assuming that it can't be split across drives?  If that's the case, should I select a single disk to setup the FileIO share on instead of selecting a share that spans disks, or is the share okay (as that's how it's shown in your text file [the /mnt/user/ directory leads to shares])?  Ideally it could span multiple drives and the file would somehow be split, so that I can make a share larger than a single drive, but I understand that an image file is exactly that and likely won't work that way.

 

Thanks!