Subj : Plex Media Server: Intel i915 & Nvidia not found
To   : All
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Aug 11 2022 16:01:29

I have a PC that I run Plex Media Server on (it's also my BBS PC). I was running Linux Mint 20.3 on it, and last weekend I decided to upgrade it to Linux Mint 21.  I ended up installing Linux Mint 21 fresh rather than doing an upgrade (after backing up the important files).  I got everything all working and set up again.

There's one little snag though.  Normally, Plex Media Server supports hardware accelerated transcoding (if you have a Plex Pass membership, which I do). With the older Linux Mint 20.3 installation, Plex Media Server was able to detect the requird Intel i915 and Nvidia hardware.  The PC has an Intel i7-8700K processor and an Nvidia GeForce 1060, and I have the Nvidia driver (version 515.65) installed for the graphics card as well as drivers to support the Intel features.  However, when I installed Plex Media Server on it, it said the Intel i915 hardware and Nvidia hardware is not found.

I've posted about this on the Plex Media Server support forums a few days ago but haven't heard back there yet.  I'm wondering if I've missed a step somewhere, or if there's something about Linux Mint 21 that is not yet supported by Plex Media Server?
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