I'm preparing a new server to replace my current server that, for one of its roles, is a Plex media server. I was thinking I might put a dedicated nvidia GPU in it, but I've never used a dedicated GPU in FreeBSD before so I thought I'd ask here to make sure I'm going about this correctly.
What I'm going to get is probably just a decent cheap card like a 3GB Nvidia 1060. From what I understand, I should just need to install (
Also, Plex will be running in a jail - do I need to install and enable the driver in the jail, the host, or both? Do I need some certain extra parameter in my jail.conf for the plex jail to be able to use the gpu?
Is there anything I'm not thinking of here?
What I'm going to get is probably just a decent cheap card like a 3GB Nvidia 1060. From what I understand, I should just need to install (
pkg install nvidia-driver
) and enable the driver in rc.conf ( kld_list+=nvidia-drm
), and that's it? Plex will use it when appropriate?Also, Plex will be running in a jail - do I need to install and enable the driver in the jail, the host, or both? Do I need some certain extra parameter in my jail.conf for the plex jail to be able to use the gpu?
Is there anything I'm not thinking of here?