I just upgraded the server to an intel i7 14700 setup and had everything working splendid yesterday with Quicksync transcoding working on Plex.  I have quicksync iGPU enabled on bios and Graphics set to "CPU"

 

Motherboard: Asus W680-ACE

CPU: i7 14700

Tonight, I have one of my friends say there was a problem about transcoding so I replicated it, rebooted the plex container and it wouldn't boot up because "/dev/dri" was not found.  I rebooted the server a couple of times, installed the Intel GPU Top plugin and still for some reason, /dev/dri still doesn't show; even when I type "modprobe i915" in terminal.

Weirder still.  On one of my reboots, I decided to check quick on terminal to see if it existed, and in the screenshot you can see it's there one second, and gone the next.

 

Any thoughts?  Included the diagnostic file.  I've turned off transcoding on plex and it's back to "operational" but part of the reason I got the i7 was so I could use quicksync transcoding so this is a real bummer.

 

 

 

Edited December 6, 20241 yr by Flexbomb
solved. put the fix below in a reply incase someone else runs into this.

Found out why.

 

On boot, my Home Assistant VM also had "graphics card" as the intel 770 integrated graphics and probably had some sort of overriding collision going on and was deleting/removing /dev/dri and stopping it from being created with the modprobe command.

 

SOLUTION:

1. edit home assistant VM to graphics card = "virtual"

2. run the modprobe i915 command

3. done. /dev/dri appeared again with the /card0 and /renderD128 folders.

 

 

Sigh...

Edited December 6, 20241 yr by Flexbomb