5 hours ago, ich777 said:

Done:

my 3060ti got 7w in idle in drive  v470.141.03 .

but in other of two driver it will be like 17-20w idle

2 hours ago, cherrymomo said:

my 3060ti got 7w in idle in drive  v470.141.03 .

but in other of two driver it will be like 17-20w idle

Thank you for the report.

 

There is literally nothing I can do about that because this is the proprietary driver from Nvidia and you should report that on the Nvidia Forums.

 

Another thing to keep in mind or at least before you report that if this is a measured value (with a power meter at the wall) or is this just something that the GPU Plugin gave back? I wouldn't always count on values which are reported by the software itself. Also good to know would be if you measured this with nvidia-persistenced on or off? In which power state was the card?

 

Also another question that I have is, why reports the GPU Statistics plugin that your card is running at PCIe Gen 1 speeds when it is actually able to run at Gen 4 speeds?

 

Keep also in mind that if you use the RTX3060Ti only for transcoding that is really not the most efficient card for that because there are much cheaper and more efficient cards out there for such tasks like the Nvidia T400 or T600 which also get the job just done fine and was affordable even at the GPU crisis and costed brand new about $ 120,-

The T400 has a maximum TDP of 30W (and yes, this is the real TDP) and draws in idle about 1-3W

(I think the T600 has a maximum TDP of around 40W if I'm not mistaken and there is also a T1000 which has a maximum TDP of around 50W)

1 hour ago, ich777 said:

Thank you for the report.

 

There is literally nothing I can do about that because this is the proprietary driver from Nvidia and you should report that on the Nvidia Forums.

 

Another thing to keep in mind or at least before you report that if this is a measured value (with a power meter at the wall) or is this just something that the GPU Plugin gave back? I wouldn't always count on values which are reported by the software itself. Also good to know would be if you measured this with nvidia-persistenced on or off? In which power state was the card?

 

Also another question that I have is, why reports the GPU Statistics plugin that your card is running at PCIe Gen 1 speeds when it is actually able to run at Gen 4 speeds?

 

Keep also in mind that if you use the RTX3060Ti only for transcoding that is really not the most efficient card for that because there are much cheaper and more efficient cards out there for such tasks like the Nvidia T400 or T600 which also get the job just done fine and was affordable even at the GPU crisis and costed brand new about $ 120,-

The T400 has a maximum TDP of 30W (and yes, this is the real TDP) and draws in idle about 1-3W

(I think the T600 has a maximum TDP of around 40W if I'm not mistaken and there is also a T1000 which has a maximum TDP of around 50W)

Within two hours I reinstalled all the drivers and tried once and found the following problem.
1. standby voltage and driver version has no relationship (in the reinstallation of the latest version of the driver my graphics card can maintain a standby voltage of 5w)
ps: not using any power section script

2. unraid in the first boot (all gpu driver versions) graphics card will maintain the memory frequency at very high, voltage is about 40-50w, fan 0 speed.
First I open the console and enter nvtop, the gpu will become standby (memory frequency drops, fan low speed, voltage 17-20w) when I close the unraid console will resume high load, fan 0 speed. Then I try to open the plex to play the video and then close the video, then the gpu will become standby with 5w voltage (idle state).
So when I start unraid every time I have to have a play video operation to keep the gpu in low power idle.

3. about the pcie problem, I just looked at the idle state default pcie gen 1 when there is a program call to the gpu (such as play video) will automatically switch to pcie gen 4

1 minute ago, cherrymomo said:

unraid in the first boot (all gpu driver versions) graphics card will maintain the memory frequency at very high, voltage is about 40-50w, fan 0 speed.

That's why I recommend to append this to the go file:

nvidia-persistenced

this will solve this.

 

2 minutes ago, cherrymomo said:

1. standby voltage and driver version has no relationship (in the reinstallation of the latest version of the driver my graphics card can maintain a standby voltage of 5w)

So there is no difference in power usage...?

I thought there was a massive difference...

7 minutes ago, ich777 said:

That's why I recommend to append this to the go file:

nvidia-persistenced

this will solve this.

 

So there is no difference in power usage...?

I thought there was a massive difference...

I do not know whether there is a difference in the peak voltage of the gpu in each driver version, but in the three versions of the idle state voltage only 1-2w difference (the highest 7w lowest 5w)

 

All results were obtained after I reinstalled the driver, normal upgrades may vary

Edited September 28, 20224 yr by cherrymomo

3 minutes ago, cherrymomo said:

I do not know whether there is a difference in the peak voltage of the gpu in each driver version, but in the three versions of the idle state voltage only 1-2w difference (the highest 7w lowest 5w)

I would recommend that you measure this with a real power meter and compare the results.

This is as always, just a software sensor and this is something that is calculated and doesn't have to reflect the real power usage.

 

As said above, to solve your issue after a reboot append this to your go file:

nvidia-persistenced

 

Installed the Nvidia Driver for the 1st time or a least uninstalled in the past.

 

Unraid 6.11.0   Edit: also happens on Unraid 6.10.3

 

I can access Unraid via browser but local boot monitor is just black with a cursor line at the top left.

 

Local boot monitor show all text during boot then when it would come time to for the Unraid login screen to come up everything goes black.

 

Unraid boot video card is an ATI old 32bit PCI card that has always worked.

 

unraid-diagnostics-20220928-1734.zip

Edited September 29, 20224 yr by Paul_Ber

3 hours ago, Paul_Ber said:

I can access Unraid via browser but local boot monitor is just black with a cursor line at the top left.

Execute this command from a Unraid terminal and reboot afterwards:

sed -i "/disable_xconfig=/c\disable_xconfig=true" /boot/config/plugins/nvidia-driver/settings.cfg

 

Hi all,

I'm very new to unraid and servers in general. I have a good understanding of software and hardware but I'm still learning so please go easy on me.

I have an old GTX980ti I put in my server in hopes of being able to use it with plex and transcoding. In stalled the Nvidia driver from apps and it said it installed correctly but what I see is the following:

 

 

It doesn't look like the driver is picking up the installed GPU or displaying the driver version.

I stopped the docker process and restarted as I've seen suggested but that doesn't seem to have done the trick.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

 

2 hours ago, dfrontiera said:

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

 

may start with a screenshot

 

 

and just to make sure, you didnt bound the GPU to a running VM or setted VFIO Bind

2 hours ago, dfrontiera said:

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

Please also post your Diagnostics.

8 hours ago, alturismo said:

may start with a screenshot

 

 

and just to make sure, you didnt bound the GPU to a running VM or setted VFIO Bind

 

I apologize. I've attached my diagnostics.

I don't have any VM's or containers setup yet. The only thing I've done so far is just get the array built, setup a few shares and users. 

Next was to try to get Plex installed and was following a youtube tutorial on getting the nvidia driver installed and got this issue.

 

 

 

executor-server-diagnostics-20220930-0735.zip

2 hours ago, dfrontiera said:

I don't have any VM's or containers setup yet. The only thing I've done so far is just get the array built, setup a few shares and users. 

It seems that you have closed the plugin installation window before it actually finished.

Please uninstall the plugin once, go to the CA App download a fresh copy from the plugin and wait for the Done button to appear.

32 minutes ago, ich777 said:

It seems that you have closed the plugin installation window before it actually finished.

Please uninstall the plugin once, go to the CA App download a fresh copy from the plugin and wait for the Done button to appear.

 

Yep that did it. Feel a bit silly, I should have tried that first. Thank you for your help!!! 

Hello!

 

I'm facing an issue with my Unraid tower.

I have a RTX3080 + P2200, and nvidia-driver plugin see only the RTX3080.

Unraid: up-to-date / nvidia-driver plugin: up-to-date / nvidia driver installed: 515.76 / both devices are not VFIO binded / Cpu Threadripper: 3960x / motherboard: Aorus Master TRX40

 

root@ValiLab:~# nvidia-smi
Mon Oct  3 15:41:08 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.76       Driver Version: 515.76       CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  On   | 00000000:21:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%   48C    P8    14W / 370W |      0MiB / 10240MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
root@ValiLab:~# lspci -nnv | grep -i nvidia
21:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080] [10de:2206] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidia_drm, nvidia
21:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GA102 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:1aef] (rev a1)
4a:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106GL [Quadro P2200] [10de:1c31] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GP106GL [Quadro P2200] [10de:131b]
        Kernel modules: nvidia_drm, nvidia
4a:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:10f1] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:131b]
root@ValiLab:~# dmesg | grep nvidia
[   72.084431] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[   72.084434] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[   72.084829] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[   72.085201] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[   72.221439] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 243
[   72.222868] nvidia 0000:21:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[   72.269157] nvidia 0000:4a:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[   72.513267] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  515.76  Mon Sep 12 19:11:54 UTC 2022
[   72.516799] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002100] Loading driver
[   72.517198] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:21:00.0 on minor 0
[   72.517675] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00004a00] Loading driver
[   72.518082] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:4a:00.0 on minor 1
[  111.118063] NVRM: Persistence mode is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use nvidia-persistenced instead.

 

Anyone can help please?

Diagnostics here => valilab-diagnostics-20221003-1552.zip

Thanks !

Edited October 3, 20224 yr by Valiran
add CPU + MB info + diagnostics

1 minute ago, Valiran said:

Anyone can help please?

Please post your Diagnostics.

Diag added to my post!

1 hour ago, Valiran said:

Anyone can help please?

Because your Quadro is bount to VFIO and the system can't see it:

4a:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106GL [Quadro P2200] [10de:1c31] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GP106GL [Quadro P2200] [10de:131b]
	Kernel driver in use: vfio-pci
	Kernel modules: nvidia_drm, nvidia
4a:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:10f1] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:131b]
	Kernel driver in use: vfio-pci

 

Do you use the Quadro in a VM? If not I would recommend that you unbind it and reboot, after that it should show up just fine.

Hello,

 

My quadro WAS bound to VFIO but it wasn't anymore when I sent Diagnostics.

Tools => System Device, none of my GPUs are ticked

Already removed the boot args related to VFIO binding (Unraid OS strandard boots args) :

 

kernel /bzimage
append initrd=/bzroot kvm.ignore_msrs=1

 

But it's in use in a VM.

3 hours ago, Valiran said:

But it's in use in a VM.

which is in the end the same, not visible anymore to the plugin (the GPU must be free on the Host ...)

 

so you can turn the VM off, then you shoul dbe able to see it in the plugin, but is pretty much useless as its used in a VM anyway.

Oh ! OK !

So the plugin is only there for Docker.

 

Thanks for your answers!

10 hours ago, Valiran said:

My quadro WAS bound to VFIO but it wasn't anymore when I sent Diagnostics.

But from what I saw in the Diagnostics it was still bound to VFIO from what I saw in your Diagnostics.

I assume you haven‘t rebooted after you‘ve unbound the GPU from VFIO?

 

6 hours ago, Valiran said:

So the plugin is only there for Docker.

Please go to the first post of this thread and read the black text below the headline.

After 2 days of pulling my hair out, I managed to have plex use my P400 Quadro Nvidia card for transcoding.

 

I went through a lot of troubleshooting, scrubbed the internet for answers, tried using different docker images for plex....

 

I tested adding Device variable to the container, in all its shapes and syntaxes, made sure it is visible to the container (could see it in the container, but plex would not use it)

 

And in the end, what worked, was adding this precise and specific Extra Arguments to the plex container:

 

--runtime=nvidia --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri

 

Worth mentioning I also have the Nvidia extra variables added aswell, but until I added "--device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri" on top of the --runtime=nvidia, it did not use the card.

 

 

40 minutes ago, Epoustoufflante said:

And in the end, what worked, was adding this precise and specific Extra Arguments to the plex container:

Have you yet seen the second post where it is exactly described what to do step by step for Emby/Jellyfin/Plex?

 

40 minutes ago, Epoustoufflante said:

--device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri

You don't have to add that, this is only for Intel and AMD GPUs.

Please remove that, adding this won't change anything in terms of transcoding, at least not for Nvidia.

I am really new to all this, but my understanding about the use of this plugin is to enable transcoding of movies/videos when using apps like Plex. If I only have one video card in my Unraid server, how can I use it for both Plex and VMs? As I understand it, this plugin can only be used for Plex, but not if I want to use the same video card for a vm. If I want to create a VM, do I need to pass through the video card to it in order to see the VM? If so, what do I need to do to be able to use the video card for both Plex and VMs (though I don't think I would be running the vm and Plex at the same time)? Sorry, if this seems like a really silly question, Like I said I am really new to all this stuff. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edited October 6, 20224 yr by Erich
clarification