Asus IPMI Card on Pro WS W680-ACE Motherboard Disables Quick Sync

[spall23]

I was recently setting up Plex in Docker and wanted to use the iGPU for Quick Sync on my 13700k. I passed through /dev/dri, tested transcoding, and noticed that it wasn't using hardware transcoding. Upon further investigation, I saw that /dev/dri/renderD128 wasn't present on the host or in the container.

 

After performing a fair bit of troubleshooting, I decided to try taking out the IPMI card (ASMB9-iKVM) that came with the motherboard. After doing this and rebooting, /dev/dri/renderD128 was now present. This leads me to believe that the KVM on the IPMI card was using the iGPU such that it was not able to be used by the host system for transcoding.

 

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this or if you know of a way to have both things operational at the same time.

[SimonF]

9 hours ago, spall23 said:

I was recently setting up Plex in Docker and wanted to use the iGPU for Quick Sync on my 13700k. I passed through /dev/dri, tested transcoding, and noticed that it wasn't using hardware transcoding. Upon further investigation, I saw that /dev/dri/renderD128 wasn't present on the host or in the container.

 

After performing a fair bit of troubleshooting, I decided to try taking out the IPMI card (ASMB9-iKVM) that came with the motherboard. After doing this and rebooting, /dev/dri/renderD128 was now present. This leads me to believe that the KVM on the IPMI card was using the iGPU such that it was not able to be used by the host system for transcoding.

 

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this or if you know of a way to have both things operational at the same time.

It maybe that the IPMI card has its own graphics, and you would need to enable in bios the iGPU normally it will default to dgpu or the BMC.

 

Would you have lspci or diagnostics before you removed it?

 

i.e. my SM mother boards have the following where the Matrox is the IPMI access/console.

 

root@unraid:~# lspci | grep VGA
09:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200eW WPCM450 (rev 0a)
82:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] (rev a1)
83:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 720] (rev a1)
root@unraid:~# 

[JimmyGerms]

Hey there! I'm about to pull the trigger on this board and came across this. Before I buy I'm going to watch this thread.

 

Have you tried changing the Graphics Configuration settings in the BIOS? Looks like there is a toggle for iGPU Multi-Monitor support. Wonder if that will help resolve the issue?

 

 

Seems like this individual had some iGPU issues as well:

https://old.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/10r98b9/new_intel_build_advice_w680_z690_z790/j9u65sd/

Edited September 11 by JimmyGerms

[spall23]

I was able to get IPMI output and Quick Sync transcoding working by changing the two BIOS settings referenced above. That said, I now cannot get DisplayPort output, but for my use case that's fine (as long as KVM works). Not sure if there's a way to get everything to work at the same time without a separate GPU.

[firstTimer]

Hi @spall23, check the couple of comments I made in this thread, I think I have the answer to your problem

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 10:33 PM by firstTimer