This is my first time using unraid.  My sole goal is to replace an old ESXi system that has been running a Plex VM for the last 5 years.

 

The new system is a MSI A-390 PRO motherboard with a i9-9900k CPU. 

 

I can't seem to get hardware transcoding working with the Plex container. 

 

Here are the steps I've taken:

 

• Enabled the IGPU in the BIOS
• Appended "i915.alpha_support=1" to the initrd line in syslinux.cfg
• Appended the modprobe i915 and chmod commands to the go file
• Added the --device line to the docker config

 

When I manually run "modprobe i915" i see the module being loaded with lsmod, but the device "/dev/dri" doesn't appear.

Is the i9-9900k IGPU supported?

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

-Brian

Edited November 17, 20187 yr by TheBrian

It looks like the GPU in the 9900k is only supported in 4.20+.

 

The top image is from the i915 dev channel I found and the bottom image is from my unraid 6.6.5 system running the 9900k. Any idea when unraid will support kernel 4.20+? 

 

 

 

Edit: Just came to the sad realization the latest stable kernel is 4.19 .

Edited November 17, 20187 yr by TheBrian

35 minutes ago, TheBrian said:

Any idea when unraid will support kernel 4.20+? 

 

On 11/12/2018 at 7:31 PM, limetech said:

Too bad we couldn't time linux 4.20 kernel with Unraid 6.6.6.

 

1 hour ago, Squid said:

 

 

Now that 6.7 is out with kernel 4.19, will we see kernel 4.20 in the next release?

1 minute ago, TheBrian said:

Now that 6.7 is out with kernel 4.19, will we see kernel 4.20 in the next release?

I would think that 6.8 rc series (when begun) would include the 5.x kernels

That works too

I just installed the 6.8.0-rc3 release.  /dev/dri now appears and the Plex container is using it.  The CPU doesn't even blip when I hit it with 3 4k streams, transcoding down to 480p.  

 

Fantastic!

 

 

So great for 9th Intel