December 30, 20169 yr Hi all, I'm trying to enable the iGPU (i915 - i5 4690K) to give Plex the possibility to transcode using QSV. Can anyone provide me pointers on how to do it? *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 06 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 I went to http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware64-14.2/slackware64/x/ and installed the following packages: mesa-11.2.2-x86_64-1.txz libva-intel-driver-1.6.2-x86_64-1.txz libva-1.6.2-x86_64-1.txz libvdpau-1.1.1-x86_64-1.txz libdrm-2.4.68-x86_64-1.txz libXext-1.3.3-x86_64-2.txz libX11-1.6.3-x86_64-2.txz libXfixes-5.0.2-x86_64-1.txz libxcb-1.11.1-x86_64-1.txz libXau-1.0.8-x86_64-2.txz xf86-video-intel-git_20160601_b617f80-x86_64-1.txz Drivers are available in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/dri and /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers but I don't know how to properly load them (i915_dri.so and/or intel_drv.so*?). Thanks a lot! anthonws
December 30, 20169 yr I'm trying to enable the iGPU (i915 - i5 4690K) to give Plex the possibility to transcode using QSV. Can anyone provide me pointers on how to do it? You would have to build the i915 kernel driver module or wait for those guys at Limetech to do it. I think the user space packages would be unnecessary if you were using Plex in a Docker container: https://hub.docker.com/r/plexinc/pms-docker/ It sounds like we're both working on the same goal
December 31, 20169 yr Author I'm trying to enable the iGPU (i915 - i5 4690K) to give Plex the possibility to transcode using QSV. Can anyone provide me pointers on how to do it? You would have to build the i915 kernel driver module or wait for those guys at Limetech to do it. I think the user space packages would be unnecessary if you were using Plex in a Docker container: https://hub.docker.com/r/plexinc/pms-docker/ It sounds like we're both working on the same goal Thanks for the feedback So, I'm following this guide: http://www.lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Building_a_custom_kernel and got the kernel sources uncompressed. Looked around and there's the i915 driver that I need (/usr/src/linux-4.8.12/drivers/gpu/drm/i915). And according to the guide, I've already copied the unRAID patches + the md drivers and the .config file. In the .config file there's a comment line saying: # CONFIG_DRM_I915 is not set Should I add "CONFIG_DRM_I915=m" to it and then compile? Thanks!!!
December 31, 20169 yr Should I add "CONFIG_DRM_I915=m" to it and then compile? Yes, that should work.
December 31, 20169 yr The wiki page is a bit outdated, but take look at this script for hints to do it on current unraid. The script downloads and installs needed packages and does everything regarding compiling and packing bzroot. But if you don't know what you're doing, I don't advice you to use it on a production system. Edit: Changed link to the correct one.
December 31, 20169 yr The wiki page is a bit outdated, but take look at this script for hints to do it on current unraid. The script downloads and installs needed packages and does everything regarding compiling and packing bzroot. But if you don't know what you're doing, I don't advice you to use it on a production system. That script won't work on V6.2 as it's the wrong Slackware version. You'd need to modify the ones here. Use the kernel compile module one first, then any of the other modules to recompress. The kernel compile one will need some editing as it will pull a .config from our server.
December 31, 20169 yr Author The wiki page is a bit outdated, but take look at this script for hints to do it on current unraid. The script downloads and installs needed packages and does everything regarding compiling and packing bzroot. But if you don't know what you're doing, I don't advice you to use it on a production system. Edit: Changed link to the correct one. Thanks for the hint!! Edit: It's my production system, but I like to live on the edge LOL!
December 31, 20169 yr Author The wiki page is a bit outdated, but take look at this script for hints to do it on current unraid. The script downloads and installs needed packages and does everything regarding compiling and packing bzroot. But if you don't know what you're doing, I don't advice you to use it on a production system. That script won't work on V6.2 as it's the wrong Slackware version. You'd need to modify the ones here. Use the kernel compile module one first, then any of the other modules to recompress. The kernel compile one will need some editing as it will pull a .config from our server. Gotcha! I'll be using the .config file from RC6 but I'll take a look on the one from your server. The scripts are really nice and they provide a lot of needed information. Maybe this should be part of the wiki that I've initially pointed out. Cheers!
December 31, 20169 yr Author So I got to the point where things are compiled and installed. I used the kernel-module-compile.sh, removed all non-necessary sections and added variables.sh content (see script in attach). AFAIK the next step is the creation of the bzImage, correct? Went to "kernel" and executed "make bzImage" but got the following error: make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.o', needed by 'net/netfilter/built-in.o'. Stop. scripts/Makefile.build:440: recipe for target 'net/netfilter' failed make[1]: *** [net/netfilter] Error 2 Makefile:970: recipe for target 'net' failed make: *** [net] Error 2 Source files exist in unRAID but apparently not on the kernel sources I downloaded Tried copying .c and .o for xt_RATEEST from unRAID local sources but it failed to compile. Oh well... One step at a time But if you have any hints, they are more than welcome I wish you all an awesome New Year's Eve and an excellent 2017!!! Cheers, anthonws. build_new_kernel.txt
January 5, 20179 yr Author @CHBMB, @eschultz and @saarg, Any guidance on how overcoming the issue I mentioned previously? Thanks, anthonws.
January 5, 20179 yr Best thing to do now is take a look at the libreelec module script. Covers making the bz files. Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk
January 29, 20179 yr Author With 6.3.0-rc9, the i915 CONFIG was added to the kernel!! I'm added some lines to the go scripts and my Plex container is now using HW acceleration! Super Thanks! anthonws
January 29, 20179 yr Good to know -- haven't been following the 6.3 threads, but it's definitely nice to know hardware acceleration is now supported for Intel IGPs.
January 29, 20179 yr With 6.3.0-rc9, the i915 CONFIG was added to the kernel!! I'm added some lines to the go scripts and my Plex container is now using HW acceleration! Super Thanks! anthonws hey anthonws, please can you make a short description? Many thanks!
January 30, 20179 yr Author Here it goes! Added to "/boot/config/go" (very first lines): modprobe i915 chmod 777 /dev/dri/* Then to the Plex docker config: Extra Parameters: "--device /dev/dri:/dev/dri" Version: "#.#.#.####-xxxxxxx" Hth, anthonws. *mod* don't post plexpass version #
January 31, 20179 yr Here it goes! Added to "/boot/config/go" (very first lines): modprobe i915 chmod 777 /dev/dri/* Then to the Plex docker config: Extra Parameters: "--device /dev/dri:/dev/dri" Version: "**********" Hth, anthonws. That is a plexpass only version, so I suggest you edit your post and remove it.
January 31, 20179 yr Here it goes! Added to "/boot/config/go" (very first lines): modprobe i915 chmod 777 /dev/dri/* Then to the Plex docker config: Extra Parameters: "--device /dev/dri:/dev/dri" Version: "----" Hth, anthonws. Many thanks for this!!! This should also working for Emby Docker. I will test this. -------------------------- EDIT a great feature! Thanks Limetech for adding the i915 CONFIG to the kernel.
March 9, 20179 yr Damn it I was avoiding 6.3.x because of the noVNC issues.. now this will force me to try it out...again. Edited March 9, 20179 yr by mr-hexen
March 9, 20179 yr It works, had to set the docker to privileged, but it's working on my i5-4460! UPDATE: and BOY does this work. I was able to stream 7 transcoded streams at once using this! Edited March 9, 20179 yr by mr-hexen
March 16, 20179 yr I have a Xeon E3-1246 v3 and would like to enable this too. Not sure I understand exactly how to enable i915 in unRAID. Do I edit the 'go' file in the flash drive under "config"? My file currently says this #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & would I change it to this? modprobe i915 chmod 777 /dev/d #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp &
March 17, 20179 yr 14 hours ago, djsnafu said: I have a Xeon E3-1246 v3 and would like to enable this too. Not sure I understand exactly how to enable i915 in unRAID. Do I edit the 'go' file in the flash drive under "config"? My file currently says this #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & would I change it to this? #!/bin/bash #enable module for iGPU and perms for the render device modprobe i915 chown -R nobody:users /dev/dri chmod -R 777 /dev/dri # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & See above changes in red.
March 17, 20179 yr 5 hours ago, mr-hexen said: See above changes in red. Thanks mr-hexen. Another question. Do I put nobody:users just like that? or am I suppose to put a users name there? I've never created a username.
March 18, 20179 yr Just set this up, encodes about the same speed as using 5 cores @ 100%, this is using about 1.5 to 30% (I'd guess the higher CPU stuff is file transfers from/within plex) on a single core and the built-in Intel graphics on my Xeon E3-1265Lv3. At quick glances, the quality appears to be the same, and my videos (when being encoded) load a solid 2-3 seconds faster on play. Edited March 18, 20179 yr by McCloud
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