Maginos Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Hi guys, as the title suggests, I have a question concerning pikvm. The base of my unraid server is a Asus Prime Z590-A motherboard and an Intel i5-11400 with Intel UHD 730. Since I use the iGPU for Plex transcoding or Handbrake, I had to put in a dedicated GPU for pikvm, which is a GT 710. So the pikvm is connected to the GT 710. Unfortunately, the pikvm stops at a certain point in the boot process and doesn't show the console prompt, as you can see in the picture. I bound the VGA controller and the Audio device of the GT 710 to VFIO at boot, but that didn't help. What else can I do to make pikvm show the whole boot process again? Thank you for your help! Maginos Quote Link to comment
TitanTigger Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 Hi, I was just wondering if you have found any solution to this. I have a very similar setup and issue. Quote Link to comment
Maginos Posted November 12, 2023 Author Share Posted November 12, 2023 4 hours ago, TitanTigger said: Hi, I was just wondering if you have found any solution to this. I have a very similar setup and issue. Unfortunately not. I will keep you up updated, if I find a solution. Quote Link to comment
leutnantlurch Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 Do you have a BliKVM? Perhaps the PCIe version? Quote Link to comment
Maginos Posted November 13, 2023 Author Share Posted November 13, 2023 11 hours ago, leutnantlurch said: Do you have a BliKVM? Perhaps the PCIe version? No, I've build the pikvm myself on base of a RPi 4. Quote Link to comment
leutnantlurch Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 Hmm okay, I had a simmilar issue with the BliKVM, I fixed the problem with reformatting and reimaging the SD Card with the pikvm image. But unfortunately that doesn't help you Quote Link to comment
Maginos Posted November 13, 2023 Author Share Posted November 13, 2023 9 minutes ago, leutnantlurch said: Hmm okay, I had a simmilar issue with the BliKVM, I fixed the problem with reformatting and reimaging the SD Card with the pikvm image. But unfortunately that doesn't help you Oh man. It should not be necessary to do that. I really like the functionality of pikvm, but that annoys me. Maybe I will search for help on the discord server. Quote Link to comment
SimonF Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 3 hours ago, Maginos said: Oh man. It should not be necessary to do that. I really like the functionality of pikvm, but that annoys me. Maybe I will search for help on the discord server. Could it be the console is being set to a resolution the pi cannot support or refresh rate not sure if kernal video= may help to set thar? Quote Link to comment
Maginos Posted November 20, 2023 Author Share Posted November 20, 2023 On 11/13/2023 at 7:46 PM, SimonF said: Could it be the console is being set to a resolution the pi cannot support or refresh rate not sure if kernal video= may help to set thar? If the resolution of the console is not supported by the pi/pikvm, wouldn't there be no video output at all at the pikvm? Btw, I use a Raspberry Pi 4 for the pikvm, so it should support resolutions up to 4K60p. Or do you think the boot process starts with a resolution the pi/pikvm supports and at a certain point it changes to a resolution, which is not supported by the pi/pikvm? This seems unlikely to me. Concerning your suggestion with "kernal video=", where do I have to put that and is it correct? kernal vs kernel. Quote Link to comment
Maginos Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 I have another information to share: When I connect the GT 710 to another display, I get the same output. So the pikvm doesn't seemt to be the problem. Quote Link to comment
Maginos Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 Second news to share: With the BIOS setting "Auto" as primary display, I can get to the login prompt as normal, when I connect the pikvm to the HDMI port of the mainboard. When I select "PCIE" in the BIOS and connect the pikvm to the GT 710, I get to the same point as posted above. So how can I tell unraid, that it should use the GT 710 as primary display? Quote Link to comment
Solution Maginos Posted December 14, 2023 Author Solution Share Posted December 14, 2023 Hi guys, @TitanTigger and @leutnantlurch, I found a solution to this: ich777 gave me the hint, that a second GPU is not necessary for my setup and that I can use the iGPU for both the console output and for plex/handbrake hardware transcoding. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
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