No video on Librelec VM when passing through NVIDIA GPU

[theGrok]

I have installed an nvidia 1050ti GPU into my Skylake i7-6700 system. I have set my primary graphics card as IGFX in the BIOS. I had to enable ACS override to isolate the GPU. I then created a Librelec VM and passed through the GPU but I cannot get any video at all when connected to my TV via HDMI.

 

I deleted the VM and then passed through the GPU to my windows 10 VM and it worked without problems. I removed the GPU form the windows machineI then tried to create an OpenElec VM instead. I was able to get video out but it gave me this error " failed to start xorg server".

 

I really don't know where to go from here. I need to run Librelec because my end goal is to have a Plex Media Player VM with this GPU. Any suggestions? Thank you

[billington.mark]

I found that libreElec\openElec didnt ever shutdown the GPU properly, so I had to reboot the server to get any output again after making any changes.

 

With the 1050ti being a pretty recent card, are you using a build of LibreElec with newer drivers?

Dev builds for libreElec are here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=298462

 

 

[theGrok]

I found that libreElec\openElec didnt ever shutdown the GPU properly, so I had to reboot the server to get any output again after making any changes.

 

With the 1050ti being a pretty recent card, are you using a build of LibreElec with newer drivers?

Dev builds for libreElec are here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=298462

 

Thank you for your suggestions. I will reboot the server and try a latest build. I was using the pre-packaged template 7.0.1. I guess if I use a newer image I need to create a linux VM?

[billington.mark]

I found that libreElec\openElec didnt ever shutdown the GPU properly, so I had to reboot the server to get any output again after making any changes.

 

With the 1050ti being a pretty recent card, are you using a build of LibreElec with newer drivers?

Dev builds for libreElec are here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=298462

 

Thank you for your suggestions. I will reboot the server and try a latest build. I was using the pre-packaged template 7.0.1. I guess if I use a newer image I need to create a linux VM?

 

Correct. There's a guide here to install not using the template. The guide is for openELEC but the steps are the same: https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=44683.0

[theGrok]

I found that libreElec\openElec didnt ever shutdown the GPU properly, so I had to reboot the server to get any output again after making any changes.

 

With the 1050ti being a pretty recent card, are you using a build of LibreElec with newer drivers?

Dev builds for libreElec are here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=298462

 

Thank you for your suggestions. I will reboot the server and try a latest build. I was using the pre-packaged template 7.0.1. I guess if I use a newer image I need to create a linux VM?

 

Correct. There's a guide here to install not using the template. The guide is for openELEC but the steps are the same: https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=44683.0

 

well, good news bad news. I get video out on latest Librelec linux Vm install. Bad news I am getting an Failed to start Xorg server error. I guess this more than likely a Librelec Problem and NOT a passthrough or unraid problem?

[billington.mark]

It may be worth posting on the development forum for libreelec requesting that a newer nvidia driver is integrated into the build to support the new cards. They've moved onto kodi 18 builds now: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=298462

 

You'll get a better response if you manage to pull the logs from kodi and post them at the same time... not sure if that would be possible if you cant boot though. you might still be able to SSH into the VM assuming it initialises network and starts the SSH service before trying to load XORG...

 

you could possibly flip it to use VNC so it boots to possibly grab the logs (not sure if they'd be fresh after the reboot though), or to try and install the latest binary drivers by hand... if theres instructions in the openelec forums, it would be the same process for libreelec.

[theGrok]

Thanks. I left a post in the LE forums and they said support for this card should be coming in the next release so I will wait for that.  Thank you for your help. Much appreciated.

[billington.mark]

FYI,

 

The latest DEV build of LibreElec contains an updated NVIDIA driver (375.20), which added support for the 1050 and 1050 Ti...

 

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=298462&pid=2473200#pid2473200