Subj : Re: Plex Media Server: Intel i915 & Nvidia not found
To   : Nightfox
From : claw
Date : Sun Aug 14 2022 12:33:27

On 11 Aug 2022, Nightfox said the following...
 Ni> I have a PC that I run Plex Media Server on (it's also my BBS PC). I was
 Ni> running Linux Mint 20.3 on it, and last weekend I decided to upgrade it
 Ni> to Linux Mint 21.  I ended up installing Linux Mint 21 fresh rather than
 Ni> doing an upgrade (after backing up the important files).  I got
 Ni> everything all working and set up again.
 Ni> 
 Ni> There's one little snag though.  Normally, Plex Media Server supports
 Ni> hardware accelerated transcoding (if you have a Plex Pass membership,
 Ni> which I do). With the older Linux Mint 20.3 installation, Plex Media
 Ni> Server was able to detect the requird Intel i915 and Nvidia hardware. 
 Ni> The PC has an Intel i7-8700K processor and an Nvidia GeForce 1060, and I
 Ni> have the Nvidia driver (version 515.65) installed for the graphics card
 Ni> as well as drivers to support the Intel features.  However, when I
 Ni> installed Plex Media Server on it, it said the Intel i915 hardware and
 Ni> Nvidia hardware is not found.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I've posted about this on the Plex Media Server support forums a few
 Ni> days ago but haven't heard back there yet.  I'm wondering if I've missed
 Ni> a step somewhere, or if there's something about Linux Mint 21 that is
 Ni> not yet supported by Plex Media Server?

Not a mint guy but I do know that many thing require that MESA be installed to use all the cuda stuff. Its easier for programmers to just write for Vulkan instead of Direct X works in all OSes and all graphics cards.  

Again not sure if this is going to help but though it was worth a shot.  It's really easy to forget to install them.

I do know many of the top distro's automaticall handle the graphics setup now. PopOS, Manjaro, and Ubuntu. I use Manjaro so I know that when you install it there is a great graphics tool to handle which drivers are installed and used.  This really helps with the NVidia stuff.  

Good Luck!

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