July 10, 20232 yr 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
November 12, 20232 yr Hi, I was just wondering if you have found any solution to this. I have a very similar setup and issue.
November 12, 20232 yr Author 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.
November 13, 20232 yr Author 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.
November 13, 20232 yr 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
November 13, 20232 yr Author 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.
November 13, 20232 yr Community Expert 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?
November 20, 20232 yr Author 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.
December 11, 20232 yr Author 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.
December 11, 20232 yr Author 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?
December 14, 20232 yr Author Solution 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.
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