Hi all,

 

I have built an Unraid server and so far, so good !

I just got a Quadro P2000 GPU to add to the current config, to support hardware transcoding in Plex.

I went through numerous threads, including this one of course, and I think I now have a pretty good idea of how to proceed thanks to all of you.

The Unraid Nvidia Plugin is installed.

Now that I'm ready to open the box, I just have a simple question. Should I :

- install Nvidia Unraid build without the P2000 plugged-in, shutdown, install the P2000 physically, and then restart

- or shutdown, install the P2000, restart, install Nvidia Unraid build, and then reboot

- or the order doesn't matter ?

 

Thanks in advance for your help !

Edited November 1, 20205 yr by Gnomuz
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6 hours ago, Scroopy Noopers said:

Given that it is a tainted kernel, I'm thinking that my next step is to replace the unraid nvidia installation of beta 30 with the stock OS and see if the plugin registers the GPU (which I don't expect it to) and then re-install the unraid nvidia kernel and see if that works. 

I don't really see the point in doing that. A reboot would do the same as the OS is unpacked on each boot. So it's the same as reinstalling it.

And no, stock unraid will not make anything appear in the Nvidia plugin.

3 hours ago, Gnomuz said:

Hi all,

 

I have built an Unraid server and so far, so good !

I just got a Quadro P2000 GPU to add to the current config, to support hardware transcoding in Plex.

I went through numerous threads, including this one of course, and I think I now have a pretty good idea of how to proceed thanks to all of you.

The Unraid Nvidia Plugin is installed.

Now that I'm ready to open the box, I just have a simple question. Should I :

- install Nvidia Unraid build without the P2000 plugged-in, shutdown, install the P2000 physically, and then restart

- or shutdown, install the P2000, restart, install Nvidia Unraid build, and then reboot

- or the order doesn't matter ?

 

Thanks in advance for your help !

It doesn't matter.

7 hours ago, saarg said:

It doesn't matter.

Thanks, so on we go !!!

Hello ,

 

My Unraid is 6.7.2 , when i install the nvidia app, and i go the plugin it only show unraid version 6.8 and above, i see some tutorial on youtube and on them i saw 6.7.2 version... What i´m doing wrong ?

Thanks

2 hours ago, galego100 said:

Hello ,

 

My Unraid is 6.7.2 , when i install the nvidia app, and i go the plugin it only show unraid version 6.8 and above, i see some tutorial on youtube and on them i saw 6.7.2 version... What i´m doing wrong ?

Thanks

I guess we delete older versions. So you should probably update to the recent version.

But if update to the recent version i have to buy a new unraid licence!!!

 

 

Just now, galego100 said:

But if update to the recent version i have to buy a new unraid licence!!!

 

 

Updates are free after you've initially bought the license.

59 minutes ago, saarg said:

I guess we delete older versions. So you should probably update to the recent version.

But if update to the recent version i have to buy a new unraid licence!!! Because it update to version 6.8...  No chance to get this working ??

24 minutes ago, galego100 said:

But if update to the recent version i have to buy a new unraid licence!!! Because it update to version 6.8...  No chance to get this working ??

You DO NOT need to purchase a new license. Upgrades are FREE.

9 hours ago, galego100 said:

But if update to the recent version i have to buy a new unraid licence!!! Because it update to version 6.8...  No chance to get this working ??

Where did you get that info? You don't pay for upgrades.

Yesh, I dont understand why they think that.

 

You only have to buy a license if your setup is currently using a pirated, hacked, or blacklisted license or subverting the license scheme in some illegal way. If you are, shame on you!

Edited November 3, 20205 yr by BRiT

On 11/2/2020 at 6:29 AM, Scroopy Noopers said:

Given that it is a tainted kernel, I'm thinking that my next step is to replace the unraid nvidia installation of beta 30 with the stock OS and see if the plugin registers the GPU (which I don't expect it to) and then re-install the unraid nvidia kernel and see if that works. 

I finally figured out my issue. 

You might want to check if you're booting UnRAID in UEFI or BIOS...you can check this in UnRAID GUI going to Main > Boot Device (Flash) > scroll down bottom to Server Boot Mode. 

If it say's UEFI, try booting to your BIOS and change the Boot Priority to USB: <Device Name> instead of UEFI: <Device Name>

After Reboot, check the Server Boot Mode now says "Legacy". 

See if the GPU works now. 

 

Turned out when I updated my server, I set my boot priority to UEFI by mistake. 

Edited November 3, 20205 yr by Jarsky

8 hours ago, Jarsky said:

I finally figured out my issue. 

You might want to check if you're booting UnRAID in UEFI or BIOS...you can check this in UnRAID GUI going to Main > Boot Device (Flash) > scroll down bottom to Server Boot Mode. 

If it say's UEFI, try booting to your BIOS and change the Boot Priority to USB: <Device Name> instead of UEFI: <Device Name>

After Reboot, check the Server Boot Mode now says "Legacy". 

See if the GPU works now. 

 

Turned out when I updated my server, I set my boot priority to UEFI by mistake. 

My system says legacy. Unfortunately my Dell R510 doesn't seem to play nice with unraid when running in UEFI mode. I do appreciate you thinking of me once you found your solution though. 

 

This potential solution confuses me, as unraid still recognizes the GPU under the PCI device list, and is available for passthrough to VMs. So it doesn't seem to me that it would be an issue with the BIOS of my server so much as unraid nvidia itself. 

8 hours ago, Scroopy Noopers said:

My system says legacy. Unfortunately my Dell R510 doesn't seem to play nice with unraid when running in UEFI mode. I do appreciate you thinking of me once you found your solution though. 

 

This potential solution confuses me, as unraid still recognizes the GPU under the PCI device list, and is available for passthrough to VMs. So it doesn't seem to me that it would be an issue with the BIOS of my server so much as unraid nvidia itself. 

I believe its more to do with Secure Boot in UEFI in my instance. You perhaps could try booting a Linux Live distro to make sure your card is actually working as it should normally, that would rule out UnRAID incase potentially your card has gone faulty or have a power issue to the card. 

On 10/29/2020 at 4:13 PM, endiz said:

To answer my own question, looks like plex now requires nvidia drivers 450.66 and up for NVENC to work. Looks like i'll have to wait for 6.9.0 to go stable before updating my drivers.

While waiting for 6.9.0 to go stable, does it make sense to revert Plex back to a version before this requirement, or is that version to far back and would mess up the docker trying to revert back to it?  Sorry if this is a noob question, this all still feels new to me.

 

I had been wanting to installed a quadro for a couple months now, and I finally did today not realizing this was an issue.  I have my LSIO Plex docker on auto update so I passed that version by a couple of version, and was thinking about reverting it back before this requirement but wasn't sure if there was a reason not to.

I just installed but it says 

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. 

 

What do I need to do?

2 hours ago, PsiPlexServ said:

I just installed but it says 

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. 

 

What do I need to do?

Did you also download the Nvidia build and reboot your server?

8 hours ago, saarg said:

Did you also download the Nvidia build and reboot your server?

Yep did that, tried restarting a couple times in fact. I'm thinking it's because the drivers are old but I don't see how to update them. Currently it has driver 440.44

6 hours ago, PsiPlexServ said:

Yep did that, tried restarting a couple times in fact. I'm thinking it's because the drivers are old but I don't see how to update them. Currently it has driver 440.44

I just installed Unraid Nvidia and have the same problem. My drivers are 440.59 though not 440.44. I do have the same NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

22 hours ago, PsiPlexServ said:

I just installed but it says 

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. 

 

What do I need to do?

what card?

28 minutes ago, bytchslappa said:

what card?

1050 ti

4 hours ago, PsiPlexServ said:

1050 ti

The drivers in 6.8.3 will work fine with the 1050ti (i use one myself) - the drivers in 6.9.0 beta30 are better for current builds of Plex (if that is the use case)
from terminal run lspci -k this will show the devices found - for example a 1050ti might come up like this in the list:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti]
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidia_drm, nvidia

If its not showing - either the card itself could be busted - the card might need a monitor or dummy hdmi installed - or the other I have seen that its not actually a 1050ti - but some wish/aliexpress/dodgy ebay special thats not actually a 1050ti  oh and make sure you are not booting into GUI mode either

5 hours ago, PsiPlexServ said:

1050 ti

You should also make sure that you have not set it up to be passed through to a VM as this would hide it from the drivers at the Unraid level (VM's provide their own drivers).

On 10/29/2020 at 8:13 PM, endiz said:

To answer my own question, looks like plex now requires nvidia drivers 450.66 and up for NVENC to work. Looks like i'll have to wait for 6.9.0 to go stable before updating my drivers.

Hi all,

 

this is a real problem in plex for using an NVIDIA card for encoding (decoding work fine) is there anyway to update the drivers to 450.66 ? 

 

im Currently on 440.59

 

thanks all!

 

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