[Plugin] Nvidia-Driver

ich777 · April 29, 2022

4 minutes ago, maereax said:

This worked, thank you very much!

Nice, then I will change the plugin to take such things also into account.

Bernd Matthießen · May 3, 2022

On 4/25/2022 at 5:01 PM, ich777 said:

No, because there is no benefit of doing so...

What is your usecase? The @SpaceInvaderOne video to save power draw or do you want to use it for your Docker containers?

This card was released in 2009 from what I see and can't be used for Docker containers also nvidia-persistenced works completely different (it is part of nvidia-smi in those old drivers) on those old cards and won't save much power.

Also see this answer:

Hi,

forget my question! I bought a Nvidia GTX 1050TI! With it everything works!

I wanted to set hardware transcoding in Docker/Jellyfin! That works now!

Thanks anyway for the answers!

Greetings Bernd

johnconnor · May 3, 2022

Hello All,

A few weeks ago after my server rebooted I have been unable to utilize the nvidia plugin. When ever I click on the plugin my gui gets stuck in a loading loop and eventually times out. Once this happens I either have to open the unraid gui in a new browser or restart my server. I have tried uninstalling the plug in as well as upgrading to version Version 6.10.0-rc5. I have also deleted the plugin from using the cli as well as using the following commands before installing

mkdir -p /boot/config/plugins/nvidia-driver

echo 'first_installation=true driver_version=latest local_version=none disable_xconfig=false update_check=true' > "/boot/config/plugins/nvidia-driver/settings.cfg"

I can see my p2000 in my sys devices profile

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

skynet-diagnostics-20220503-1639.zip

ich777 · May 4, 2022

9 hours ago, johnconnor said:

Once this happens I either have to open the unraid gui in a new browser or restart my server.

You get a Kernel panic from what I see in the logs. Have you changed anything in the BIOS or did you do any hardware change?

Is it possible for you to put the card in another system, install the drivers and put some 3D load like Unigine Heaven or any other 3D benchmark?

johnconnor · May 4, 2022

10 hours ago, ich777 said:

You get a Kernel panic from what I see in the logs. Have you changed anything in the BIOS or did you do any hardware change?

Is it possible for you to put the card in another system, install the drivers and put some 3D load like Unigine Heaven or any other 3D benchmark?

The only change I've made was to install new ram but I have since put the old ram back in as I was having issues. I don't have access to any other machines to run a benchmark on it. I'm wondering if the card is dead then?

ich777 · May 4, 2022

56 minutes ago, johnconnor said:

I'm wondering if the card is dead then?

It is maybe possible but if you can‘t test it in another machine it can get a bit difficult diagnosing this.

Do you have a second PCIe slot in your server? Maybe try to change the slot if possible.

wgstarks · May 5, 2022

Whenever the unraid os is updated I get a couple of emails I think from this plugin. First is to wait while the nvidia driver updates. Second is the "all done". Third has a subject line "output from your job 3".

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I'm not sure if this is associated with the driver update or not? If it is would it be possible to not send this notification? I doubt it really matters but seems like a waste.

ich777 · May 6, 2022

5 hours ago, wgstarks said:

Whenever the unraid os is updated I get a couple of emails I think from this plugin.

You should get about three messages (but not only from this plugin, depends on how many plugins you have installed that requires Kernel modules):

To wait until everything is downloaded
That the driver for the plugin is downloaded
That it is now safe to reboot

5 hours ago, wgstarks said:

Third has a subject line "output from your job 3".

This message I can maybe hide or suppress so that you don't receive a mail.

I won't remove this feature because this is very helpful for people who doesn't have a active internet connection on boot because they run PfSense or some kind of firewall virtualized on Unraid or have some kind of AdBlocking DNS server also provided to Unraid so the driver won't download on boot.

However about what I can think of is to turn the Plugin Update Helper completely but keep in mind then the boot process will take much longer because the plugin(s) is/are downloaded on boot and I've already had some people pulling their USB Boot device because they thought something funky was going on because the Drive was blinking...

The next thing is that disabling the messages is also pretty bad because how will you know when the plugin is downloaded or how will you know when it has even started?

Imagine this, somebody clicks updated, and reboots instantly and the Plugin Update Helper is working in background, this could ultimately lead to further issues that the plugin will recognize that there is already a download for the new Kernel there but it is cut of because the reboot was initiated to early...

Hope that makes sense to you.

What are your opinions on that?

wgstarks · May 6, 2022

I agree with the wait message and the completed message. Was just complaining about the progress message.😁

Its really not an issue though. Just seems unnecessary.

ich777 · May 6, 2022

58 minutes ago, wgstarks said:

Was just complaining about the progress message.😁

Its really not an issue though. Just seems unnecessary.

I know this is a bit odd and I think you only get these messages when you‘ve enabled Email notifications.

A workaround would be to use Pushover or Discord but I will look into this.

@Squid is it possible that the ouptut from wget get‘s sent out to the user like in this case per Mail like the „at now“ messages?

Squid · May 6, 2022

1 hour ago, ich777 said:

is it possible that the ouptut from wget get‘s sent out to the user like in this case per Mail like the „at now“ messages?

you need to include -M on the at command to have it not send out a notification

disco4000 · May 10, 2022

Anyone got an idea why my P400 is not recognized with the latest Production Branch driver v510.68.02?

The info section in the plugin screen remains empty and plex and tdarr won't see the card either (of course).

Rolling back to v470.94 and everything is working again.

Since this is a Pascal based card which still is fully supported by NVIDIA and the latest Linux drivers on their webpage are also the v510.68.02, I am wondering what the problem is?!

ich777 · May 10, 2022

20 minutes ago, disco4000 said:

Anyone got an idea why my P400 is not recognized with the latest Production Branch driver v510.68.02?

Can you please upload your Diagnostics?

FEF · May 11, 2022

Had the same problem. Kernel panic related to the nvidia drivers after update them.

Upgrade unraid to rc8 solved the problem.

Maybe something is incompatible with 6.9.2?

ich777 · May 11, 2022

39 minutes ago, FEF said:

Had the same problem. Kernel panic related to the nvidia drivers after update them.

What issue?

Do you have a screenshot, Diagnostics, or anything?

I can't diagnose anything without anything, driver version, Kernel panic, Unraid version...?

EDIT: @disco4000 & @FEF Tested it now on my test machine and seems like there are no issues whatsoever:

FEF · May 11, 2022

1 hour ago, ich777 said:

Do you have a screenshot, Diagnostics, or anything?

Sorry, didn't save any since I needed the problem fixed asap. just posted to share the issue.

The only thing that i saved from system logs is this:

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kernel: CPU: 6 PID: 14293 Comm: nvidia-container Tainted: P O 5.10.28-Unraid #1

not sure if it helps tho.

EDITED: my graphics card is a nvidia P2000

Edited May 11, 2022 by FEF

ich777 · May 11, 2022

16 minutes ago, FEF said:

kernel: CPU: 6 PID: 14293 Comm: nvidia-container Tainted: P O 5.10.28-Unraid #1

Not really. This can also be caused by a container but this is only a guess...

As said above, tested the driver and transcoding on my Nvidia T400 with three concurrent streams is working just fine.

disco4000 · May 11, 2022

OK, in order to capture the diagnostics for both driver installs I reinstalled the v510.68.02 and miraculously this time the card has been recognized after reboot. I did exactly the same thing 3 times before, no success. Now it works.

P400_driver.png.ac28abbbb50c21cbad3b87e0c643cf67.png

ich777 · May 11, 2022

30 minutes ago, disco4000 said:

I did exactly the same thing 3 times before, no success. Now it works.

I swear that I don't changed anything...

Really strange that it now just works... but I'm also happy that it now is working...

Raider_M · May 14, 2022

Hey,

So I just saw in the news;

NVIDIA is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open source with dual GPL/MIT license, starting with the R515 driver release. You can find the source code for these kernel modules in the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules repo on GitHub
Source: https://videocardz.com/press-release/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-for-linux

GitHub: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

Don't know how much it will help the unraid community but considering the amount of issues I have had with NVIDA & unraid over the years I hope it does

whynot88 · May 14, 2022

Trying to figure out why I am getting this SMI error.

I have tried to a uninstall of the plugin and reinstall of the plugin this did not help. With reboot in between removal and adding of th nvidia plugin

The tools system devices list shows the card is there.

10de:128b] 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)

---------------------------------------------------

Results below

plugin: removing: nvidia-driver.plg
----------------------------------------
---Uninstalling Nvidia driver package---
----------------------------------------
Removing package: nvidia-driver-2022.05.06
Removing files:
--> Deleting /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/nvidia-driver/images/nvidia-driver.png
--> Deleting /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/nvidia-driver/include/download.sh
--> Deleting /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/nvidia-driver/include/exec.sh
--> Deleting /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/nvidia-driver/include/update-check.sh
--> Deleting /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/nvidia-driver/nvidia-driver.page
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/nvidia-driver/include/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/nvidia-driver/images/
WARNING: Unique directory /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/nvidia-driver/ contains new files

/boot/config/plugins/nvidia-driver/nvidia-driver-2022.05.06.txz

plugin: installing: https://github.com/ich777/unraid-nvidia-driver/raw/master/nvidia-driver.plg
plugin: downloading https://github.com/ich777/unraid-nvidia-driver/raw/master/nvidia-driver.plg
plugin: downloading: https://github.com/ich777/unraid-nvidia-driver/raw/master/nvidia-driver.plg ... done
plugin: downloading: https://github.com/ich777/unraid-nvidia-driver/raw/master/packages/nvidia-driver-2022.05.06.txz ... done

+==============================================================================
| Installing new package /boot/config/plugins/nvidia-driver/nvidia-driver-2022.05.06.txz
+==============================================================================

Verifying package nvidia-driver-2022.05.06.txz.
Installing package nvidia-driver-2022.05.06.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
Package nvidia-driver-2022.05.06.txz installed.

+==============================================================================
| WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING
|
| Don't close this window with the red 'X' in the top right corner until the 'DONE' button is displayed!
|
| WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING
+==============================================================================

-----------------Downloading Nvidia Driver Package v515.43.04------------------
----------This could take some time, please don't close this window!------------

----Successfully downloaded Nvidia Driver Package v515.43.04, please wait!----

-----------------Installing Nvidia Driver Package v515.43.04-------------------

------------Installation of Nvidia driver v515.43.04 successful----------------

Please make sure to disable and enable Docker if you installed the Nvidia driver for the first time! Settings -> Docker -> Enable Docker 'No' -> Apply -> Enable Docker 'Yes' -> Apply
plugin: nvidia-driver.plg installed

Updating Support Links

Finished Installing. If the DONE button did not appear, then you will need to click the red X in the top right corner

bryunraid-diagnostics-20220513-1741.zip

Edited May 14, 2022 by whynot88
added diags

alturismo · May 14, 2022

1 hour ago, whynot88 said:

NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)

may your card is just too old and not supported anymore, may try the oldest driver instead ...

as sidenote, this card prolly cant hardware decode hevc anyway ...

ich777 · May 14, 2022

1 hour ago, whynot88 said:

10de:128b] 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)

Exactly as @alturismo said, your card is too old for this driver version...

You have to select driver version 470.94 (this is the last driver that supports this card), click Updated, click on the Download button, wait for it to finish and reboot.

ich777 · May 14, 2022

4 hours ago, Raider_M said:

Don't know how much it will help the unraid community but considering the amount of issues I have had with NVIDA & unraid over the years I hope it does

There is not much benefit currently from this because this driver only supports Ampere and Turing cards.

On top of that you have to install the closed source software so that you can even use it in your Docker containers.

repomanz · May 17, 2022

Just upgraded to 6.10 today and appears the plugin failed. Went to reinstall the plugin and get this:

image.png.f7727fa6685e497c9f7296b3b611f774.png

In this state I can't click into the plugin or leverage it. Shows as "unknown" in my installed plugins list.

Edited May 17, 2022 by repomanz

[Plugin] Nvidia-Driver

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