9 hours ago, ich777 said:

I would describe that as a workaround.

Yes, the driver plugins only support official Kernels because each driver needs to be compiled specificly for each Kernel and since you are on a Kernel version that‘s not officially supported ther is no driver package for the plugins to download.

You can compile the drivers yourself if you want to (everything is in the GitHub from the driver plugins) but please be aware that this is not an easy task because you would need to come up with a way to install the drivers on boot and load them.

Second way is to ask the maintainer from the custom Kernel to create you a driver package.

Please understand that I only can say:

No support from my side if you are using a custom Kernel.

Thanks. I assumed it was due to the custom kernel.

I have reverted back to official kernel. Thanks for the feedback.

I have more than one Nvidia GPU, one that I pass through to a VM and I plan to pass another to a Docker. The warning says not to install this plugin if I plan to pass through your card to a VM but I assume my situation is not what it is referring to. I just want to make sure, is it ok to install this in my situation?

It always appeated when I reinstall the Nvidia-Driver. How to improve?

3 hours ago, bobbintb said:

I just want to make sure, is it ok to install this in my situation?

yep, may consider to vfio bind the "VM" Card so there will be no conflicts ... (then its unuseable for unraid and dockers, vm only then)

4 hours ago, fxhe said:

appeated when I reinstall the Nvidia-Driver. How to improve?

On what Unraid version are you?
Please post your Diagnostics after the failed attempt.

On 7/20/2025 at 3:06 PM, ich777 said:

On what Unraid version are you?
Please post your Diagnostics after the failed attempt.

I got it and Thanks

On 7/15/2025 at 1:19 PM, musicking said:

So far, logs are clear for 24 hours after changing:
Boot > CSM to Disable.

Will report back after a couple days.

Errors are still showing up.

What I've done since:
Upgraded my BIOS (Had to use a BETA to get C.A.M)

Factory reset BIOS
Disabled CSM

Enabled Above 4G Decoding

Enabled C.A.M (Clever Access Memory) -- Also known as Resizable Bar

I will give it a few more days to see if the logs are clean.

Title: Issue After Updating to Unraid 7.1.4 – NVIDIA Plugin Warning (Deprecated trim)

Post Content:

Hi,

I updated my Unraid server today to version 7.1.4. During the process, the NVIDIA plugin driver failed to update, but I proceeded with a reboot anyway. After restarting, the server came back up successfully, and everything appears to be working fine.

Currently, I am on:

• Unraid version: 7.1.4

• NVIDIA driver version: 575.64.05

However, in the driver settings, I’m getting the following deprecation warning:

Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/DefaultPageLayout.php(864): eval()'d code on line 87

This message is shown twice with the same details.

I've attached my diagnostics file to this post.
Could someone please confirm whether everything is up to date and functioning as expected?
Is this warning something I should be concerned about?

Thanks in advance for your help!

BUSTER

unraid-diagnostics-20250726-1338.zip

1 hour ago, BUSTER said:

However, in the driver settings, I’m getting the following deprecation warning:

Please remove the plugin, reboot, install the plugin again and reboot once more.

Also see the recommended post on top.

On 7/23/2025 at 8:25 AM, musicking said:

Errors are still showing up.

What I've done since:
Upgraded my BIOS (Had to use a BETA to get C.A.M)

Factory reset BIOS
Disabled CSM

Enabled Above 4G Decoding

Enabled C.A.M (Clever Access Memory) -- Also known as Resizable Bar

I will give it a few more days to see if the logs are clean.

Still showing problems :(

Quick Q: Would a 6GB RTX A2000 be a suitable upgrade for my 1050ti?

I know it's said we've still got a fair amount of time before the 1000 series drivers are unsupported, but I figure this might buy me a few more years with the setup I have (plus I could do with something to crunch through Tdarr processes).

I'm running 23 data + parity, 3xSSD and a temp spinner in an SC846 case and don't think there's that much headroom on the PSU, and I can't currently afford to replace the mobo, RAM, CPU, etc.

Used ones seem to be fairly reasonable.

2 minutes ago, Cessquill said:

Quick Q: Would a 6GB RTX A2000 be a suitable upgrade for my 1050ti?

I would call this overkill upgrade... :D

If you just need something to transcoding 4 simultaneous 4K streams (main profile) then a Nvidia A400 would be also be enough I think.

However if you get the A2000 for pretty cheap why not...

14 minutes ago, ich777 said:

If you just need something to transcoding 4 simultaneous 4K streams (main profile) then a Nvidia A400 would be also be enough I think.

However if you get the A2000 for pretty cheap why not...

Even better, thank you! I hadn't kept up to date with graphics cards and was searching for something recent, doesn't require external power, and the A2000 kept cropping up.

Hi - keep getting a download issue with a driver update tonight, unsure if its a issue with the download server?

I've tired rebooting, removing the plugin, rebooting agian, attempting to reinstall but now its just failing to install the plugin altogether due to the download failing at around 61%.

Uploading Attachment...

Edited August 1, 2025Aug 1 by Inch

6 hours ago, Inch said:

unsure if its a issue with the download server?

The packages are hosted on GitHub.

6 hours ago, Inch said:

Please don't call the update script like that, please do that from the WebUI by clicking and Update & Download this will either force a download or verification from the already existing driver.

The drivers for your Unraid version which you are trying to download are still there and as long as nothing is blocking access to GitHub on your network everything should work:

https://github.com/unraid/unraid-nvidia-driver/releases/tag/6.12.24-Unraid

EDIT: I just tried downloading the driver package and everything is working as expected.

Please again, don't call the scripts from the command line, this won't do anything different than the button on the Plugin page.

2 hours ago, ich777 said:

The packages are hosted on GitHub.

Please don't call the update script like that, please do that from the WebUI by clicking and Update & Download this will either force a download or verification from the already existing driver.

The drivers for your Unraid version which you are trying to download are still there and as long as nothing is blocking access to GitHub on your network everything should work:

https://github.com/unraid/unraid-nvidia-driver/releases/tag/6.12.24-Unraid

EDIT: I just tried downloading the driver package and everything is working as expected.

Please again, don't call the scripts from the command line, this won't do anything different than the button on the Plugin page.

Hi thanks for the reply, the driver was failing to download via the web ui/plugin too. I'm trying again now, will update if it fails to go through again.

Looks like its failing to download again. I'm starting to wonder if this is an ISP issue or a problem with a Github node for me.

I've even tried downloading the latest driver via chrome and its failing also. Do you know of a way to manually install the plugin and driver package locally on unraid itself?

Edited August 1, 2025Aug 1 by Inch

1 hour ago, Inch said:

I've even tried downloading the latest driver via chrome and its failing also. Do you know of a way to manually install the plugin and driver package locally on unraid itself?

I don't know how to help since it seems there is some kind of issue with your Internet connection, I can not reproduce the issue over here and the download finishes just fine.

Do you possibly have some Unifi network gear, if yes, please check if you IDS/IPS is maybe set to strictly since this caused also issues for a few users.

Since even the driver download fails it would be a pretty manual process downloading the plugin and everything to get it going and when you can't get the driver the plugin installation wouldn't help much.

Please try to diagnose in your logs from your Firewall/Router, maybe that's the culprit and also disable AdBlocking if you have enabled some kind of.

8 hours ago, ich777 said:

I don't know how to help since it seems there is some kind of issue with your Internet connection, I can not reproduce the issue over here and the download finishes just fine.

Do you possibly have some Unifi network gear, if yes, please check if you IDS/IPS is maybe set to strictly since this caused also issues for a few users.

Since even the driver download fails it would be a pretty manual process downloading the plugin and everything to get it going and when you can't get the driver the plugin installation wouldn't help much.

Please try to diagnose in your logs from your Firewall/Router, maybe that's the culprit and also disable AdBlocking if you have enabled some kind of.

Thank you for your help, I was able to get it to go through after multiple failures. Checked to make sure nothing was using free api tokens or anything, which is wasn't. Checked my firewall/gateway no obvious blocks going on, also allowlisted the github api -- will continue to monitor and share if i find anything for other Unifi users.

Me again :D

So to update, I've been doing some tests. I decided to run some download tests of previous drivers from https://github.com/unraid/unraid-nvidia-driver/releases/tag/6.12.24-Unraid.

I've found that other drivers download fine, e.g. 570.153.02. However, the latest driver 575.64.05 always fails around 61% similar to my previous CLI screenshots. I'm honestly starting to wonder if the driver upload for 575.64.05 is corrupt or incorrectly synced on some of GitHubs CDN nodes or PoPs in the UK or some intermittent ISP specific peering issue. This would explain why this just keeps failing for that driver and not others.

> Failed - Unknown server error. Please try again, or contact the server administrator. Is the error that Chrome keps throwing. I don't believe this is a local network issue - if it were being blocked by my firewall the download wouldn't start at all.

edit further tests: VPNed over to France, ZERO issues whatsoever. Plugin feedback suggestion: if the plugin fails to download the latest driver version let it fall back once or twice to other drivers. Users can always update at a later date when there aren't download issues. 575.64.05 downloaded incredibly fast via the VPN. 25MB/s vs. 850KB/s.

Edited August 1, 2025Aug 1 by Inch

1 hour ago, Inch said:

575.64.05 downloaded incredibly fast via the VPN. 25MB/s vs. 850KB/s.

1 hour ago, Inch said:

I don't believe this is a local network issue - if it were being blocked by my firewall the download wouldn't start at all.

This is a ISP issue and I see that from time to time.

1 hour ago, Inch said:

Plugin feedback suggestion: if the plugin fails to download the latest driver version let it fall back once or twice to other drivers.

Sorry but this is really hard to accomplish and I won‘t change that since this would be really hard to implement and got almost no time on hand currently.

1 hour ago, Inch said:

However, the latest driver 575.64.05 always fails around 61% similar to my previous CLI screenshots

Again I tried to download the file and it was just working without any issue, of course I tried that in my browser but it worked just fine.

Before getting into the detail, I'd like to thank everyone involved for all the hard work maintaining this plugin. I'm pretty sure my problem is with the NVIDIA drivers, not the plugin, but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm pretty new to unraid and trying to get a system up and running using old stuff I had lying around and a couple of cheap GPUs. I have two GPUs - a Quadro P2200 and a Quadro P4000. The P2200 works fine with all the NVIDIA drivers, but the P4000 is causing major headaches.

With the P4000 installed, any attempt to query the card causes a single core on the CPU to max out at 100% and the process to freeze. I can't "kill" the process and have to force a reboot. For example "nvidia-smi --version" will cause the thread to lock up, and running the GPU statistics plugin causes the whole WebUI to lock up.

By booting the same PC into Ubuntu 24.04.2 (and a with lot of trial and error) I have worked out that driver version 535 works with the P4000 and (I assume) can be compiled against the current kernel. The 570 and 575 drivers don't work with the P4000 on Ubuntu either.

So my question is - is it possible for me to install driver version 535 outside of the plugin (or have 535 added into the plugin??). I have seen the recent posts requesting legacy drivers, but as I'm looking for 535 and not 470, I am hoping there is a "simple" workaround?

I have tried searching this thread and have made various changes to the BIOS setting (CPU power states, UEFI etc) - none of which made any difference. I have also attached a diagnostics.zip - this is with the P2200 installed not the P4000 as diagnostics seems to run nvidia-smi which would freeze the thread.

mythback-diagnostics-20250802-2330.zip

4 hours ago, simmo said:

So my question is - is it possible for me to install driver version 535 outside of the plugin (or have 535 added into the plugin??). I have seen the recent posts requesting legacy drivers, but as I'm looking for 535 and not 470, I am hoping there is a "simple" workaround?

Sorry, but I only see one Nvidia Card in your system, you can easily see that when you go to Tools and PCI Devices.

I only see your P2000 and the syslog also doesn't show any signs of the P4000.

Please check if the device is properly seated (maybe reseat it) and if it has external power connectors check if they are properly seated.

However I would also have to say this wouldn't be the first Quadro card I see dying, these cards are now pretty old <- not that your card is dead, but I always would like to point that out.

@ich777 thanks for the fast reply.

I mentioned at the bottom of my post that I can't run diagnostics with the P4000 and the nvidia driver installed as it calls nvidia-smi and so locks up the process. I have attached a new diagnostics.zip with the P4000 installed but without the nvidia drivers.

If this is a hardware issue then it is very subtle. I can flash and verify the P4000's vbios, I can run the Unigine Superposition graphics benchmark repeatedly under Ubuntu, and I can run ollama to max out the P4000's VRAM - all with no stability issues and good temperatures. The only problem is when I try and use nvidia-smi.

In fact, Deepseek-r1 running on ollama on the P4000 tells me that the minimum CPU requirement for the P4000 is a 4th gen or better i5 (Haswell or better). I'm using an i5-3450 which is 3rd gen (Ivy Bridge). Could this be true? I can't find this requirement in any of the NVIDIA documentation.

I asked Deepseek as a bit of a joke. If it has actually diagnosed the problem, then my mind will be officially blown.

mythback-diagnostics-20250803-0942.zip

Hello All, having trouble with the:
Installed GPU(s):
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Issue for Unraid. I have tried everything i can find online from reseating the GPU, disabling Secure Boot and more but cannot seem to get it working:

root@HomeServer:~# nvidia-smi

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

root@HomeServer:~#

GPU is detected as GTX 1050 TI in Tools -> System Devices.
Any help is appreciated!

Hello!

First of all, I apologize for my English. I wanted to ask if any of you know about the driver support for an Nvidia Quadro P4000 so you can use it for transcoding with this plugin. I've the opportunity to buy this GPU for 100€ and I was wondering if it'll be worth the money and if it'll work properly. Thanks very much.