Electric Eel Nvidia gpu passthrough support

[MG-LSJ]

When installing apps on the nightly build, gpu pass-through shows this.

Is nVidia gpu pass through supported or planned. And are there any workarounds.

[Go_blin]

If your GPU is Nvidia please see my post for solutions

@MG-LSJ

[MG-LSJ]

This one rt?

Truenas Scale 24.10 cannot recognize Tesla P4 graphics card driver

Starting in 24.10, we are no longer including a default Nvidia driver. This is to allow it to be updated separately from TrueNAS releases. There will be a UI selectable option available to install/update nvidia drivers before 24.10.0, but for now you can set it using midclt call -job docker.update '{"nvidia": true}'.

So we need to manually install nVidia drivers

[MG-LSJ]

Were you able to run immich? Or do we need to wait for the maintainers to update it.

[Go_blin]

Yes,I also couldn’t run Immich, and the developer told me I needed to wait.

@MG-LSJ

[Rocketplanner83]

@Go_blin

ouldn’t run Immich, and the developer told me I needed to

My immich wont seem to run with an intel iGPU. It was happy with nvidia.

[MrTea]

I was first running passthrough and had docker running through there for testing. Once i felt ready, I unticked it, but it took 2 restarts for nvidia-smi to start working. I noticed on nightly from last week I had the 560 driver installed, today it’s back to the 550.

Plex sees it and transcodes, Ollama works quick once it loads (think cpu is starting to age out), tried ComfyUI which I got working in the VM, but reaching a size limit since my boot drive is so small. Getting the “var/lib/docker/buildkit/containerdmeta.db no space” error.

**Just realized this was in regards to apps (app store), not in general. I haven’t used apps in a while, jailmaker than started switching over to native docker a few weeks ago here and there. I was referencing isolated GPU passthrough in advanced, for VM’s.

[rambro1stbud]

I struggled getting Electric Eel to recognize my Quadro P400, since it requires legacy drivers. Then, I stumbled upon this post.

After following the directions there, Nvidia passthrough became available as an option when installing Jellyfin, and hardware transcoding is tested and working. Note that you may also have to run this command from the solution linked above in addition to making sure nvidia-smi is up and running:

midclt call -job docker.update ‘{“nvidia”: true}’

I’m pretty new to pretty much all of this — TrueNAS, PC building, etc. — but if anyone has questions I’ll try to help.

[Sawtaytoes]

Is there a newer post available on how to install the NVIDIA drivers? I can’t remember how to enable aptitude in TrueNAS either.

I have an RTX 4060 for Plex transcoding, and I was told in the past NVIDIA passthrough “just works”, but apparently, that’s not the case.

Can I go back to Dragonfish or is it fine to stay on Electric Eel? Do I have to reinstall drivers each time I bump the OS version?

[neofusion]

@Sawtaytoes

Is there a newer post available on how to install the NVIDIA drivers?

Yes:

Nvidia GPU not showing for apps

Take a look at the Upgrade Notes section here for how to enable nvidia drivers in the BETA

@Sawtaytoes

I can’t remember how to enable aptitude in TrueNAS either.

Small correction, apt is short for Advanced Package Tool.
aptitude was a GUI front-end to apt but is, if I remember correctly, not maintained anymore.