I am having an issue with the first steps of getting hardware acceleration set up on scale. I cannot seem to verify that nvidia drivers are installed or working correctly. I would eventually like to use HW acceleration for things like jellyfin and immich.
Running lspci does show the card
admin@truenas[~]$ lspci |grep NVIDIA
0d:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104 [GeForce RTX 2080 Rev. A] (rev a1)
0d:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation TU104 HD Audio Controller (rev a1)
0d:00.2 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104 USB 3.1 Host Controller (rev a1)
0d:00.3 Serial bus controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104 USB Type-C UCSI Controller (rev a1)
However, when I try to run nvidia-smi, the command is not found
admin@truenas[~]$ nvidia-smi
zsh: command not found: nvidia-smi
I only have a month or so of TrueNAS experience, but am I correct in understanding that nvidia drivers are supposed to come preinstalled and usually just work - indicating I have something wrong in my setup?
Most related forum posts I’ve found on google are cases where nvidia-smi is found at least. I feel like I’m doing something dumb.
Thanks in advance for the support and for reading.
nvidia-smi is working now that I’ve ticked that box to install NVIDIA drivers. I didn’t think to look in the apps menus - would have been great if the search bar returned that tick box when you search “NVIDIA”, but alas
Thanks for the support!
I had the same problem. 3 days ago i just went into app settings and enabled the gpu option. also nvidia-smi worked and it did output my gpu. It also worked correctly in my apps (emby).
Now i changed nothing, but suddenly nvidia-smi gives this output:
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
In my Apps Configuration Settings i can’t find any checkbox for GPU anymore.
and when i check gpu passthrough in one of my apps, there isn’t any gpu to choose
I really don’t know what to do, because like 3 days ago it was totally fine. The gpu seems to be connected correct, the fans are spinning.