CrankyOldDude
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Hi everyone,
TrueNAS Cobia uses an upgraded NVDIA driver, and the graphics card I use for my transcoding in Jellyfin is no longer supported.
The new version of the driver really cut a lot of the frequently-used cheap transcoding cards out - see list here: (https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/208735/en-us/).
Two questions:
1) Is there any hope that we'll be allowed to downgrade to previous NVIDIA graphics drivers in the near future? Cobia really leaves behind a niche for which TrueNAS was a sweet spot (ie. Jellyfin/Plex folks who use the NVIDIA P400/P600 cards as an inexpensive transcoding solution). I know that there have been a number of people asking about this through the years, but I've never seen a definitive "yes" or "no".
2) In the list of supported architectures in the link I posted above - what would be the cheapest option?
Related: I've got to kind of make a decision at this point about how to proceed. I moved to Cobia, which upgraded my apps/kubernetes, so I can no longer go back to BlueFin. I think the step that was just made in the driver is going to result in either dropping $150 on a used card to continue with TrueNAS Cobia, or a look at other home-grown solutions. For sure, TrueNAS needs to move forward with drivers, and it's entirely my fault that I didn't properly go through the Cobia driver levels to make sure my hardware was still supported - but here we are. I'd absolutely LOVE a "use at your own risk" option to be able to downgrade the nvidia drivers as a fallback option, if it's something we can do.
TrueNAS Cobia uses an upgraded NVDIA driver, and the graphics card I use for my transcoding in Jellyfin is no longer supported.
The new version of the driver really cut a lot of the frequently-used cheap transcoding cards out - see list here: (https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/208735/en-us/).
Two questions:
1) Is there any hope that we'll be allowed to downgrade to previous NVIDIA graphics drivers in the near future? Cobia really leaves behind a niche for which TrueNAS was a sweet spot (ie. Jellyfin/Plex folks who use the NVIDIA P400/P600 cards as an inexpensive transcoding solution). I know that there have been a number of people asking about this through the years, but I've never seen a definitive "yes" or "no".
2) In the list of supported architectures in the link I posted above - what would be the cheapest option?
Related: I've got to kind of make a decision at this point about how to proceed. I moved to Cobia, which upgraded my apps/kubernetes, so I can no longer go back to BlueFin. I think the step that was just made in the driver is going to result in either dropping $150 on a used card to continue with TrueNAS Cobia, or a look at other home-grown solutions. For sure, TrueNAS needs to move forward with drivers, and it's entirely my fault that I didn't properly go through the Cobia driver levels to make sure my hardware was still supported - but here we are. I'd absolutely LOVE a "use at your own risk" option to be able to downgrade the nvidia drivers as a fallback option, if it's something we can do.
