Hi there! I have an old pc that I use as a server (I use Ubuntu Server) and I would like to add a NVIDIA 1050 to it (for jellyfin and guacamole).

In the past I tried to do it and somehow I corrupted the system when installing the video drivers, I have always had complications when installing NVIDIA drivers on Linux.

Could any of you help me know what is the right way to install the video drivers on a headless system and use it correctly with docker compose?

Thanks in advance 😄

  • Trincapinones@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Thank you! Last time I used the official desktop drivers because most guides recommended them. When I install the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, I can include the GPU in the runtime of the container and it should work, right?

    • fraydabson@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I used the desktop drivers as well (on arch from the extra repo) for my headless arch server.

      Regarding nvidia container toolkit once it was installed I added this to my Jellyfin docker compose:

      deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              capabilities: [gpu]

      Then to confirm, I did docker exec -it jellyfin nvidia-smi Which responded with my GPU. Note that (for me) the “processes” part of nvidia-smi comes up blank, even when Jellyfin is using it. I can tell it is working though from jellyfin logs and when it is not using it, instead of being blank it says ** “no processes” **

      Edit for formatting and to add that I believe I also had to add an environment variable to jellyfin (I am using lsio’s version)

            - NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all
      - NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all