Hardwareacceleration on Win 11 docker desktop for intel (arc)
Sorry to bother you guys. I know this might be a stupid question. Thanks in advance for taking your time to read this.
When I set up Immich on my win 11 server I had problems configuring the Hardware accelleration part. The main problem is, that there is a error message: No /dev/dri devices found (Immich server when referring to video transcoding). Also the ml stuff doesn't use my gup. It is using my cpu. In general i had no problems setting it up for my gaming Pc card (3080). I used the gaming pc for remote ml. But this isn't sustainable. My problem is that I cant get all the HW acc stuff to work on my intel arc or my integrated graphic. My hardware is: 14700k, arc a 750. I think it has something to do with the intel drivers in wsl. I can't get them to work.
Merce and greetings from bavaria!
Leo
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Successfully submitted, a tag has been added to inform contributors. :white_check_mark:Here are my files.
Hardware acceleration and Hardware acceleration on WSL are not the same thing
Ok. I tried both and it didn't work.
Can I ask why you're using win11 as a server?
It is because of my university work. I need win. Believ me i hate it. But i did set it up alingside many other apps in docker. I was too lazy to migrate to a vm. But i guess you would reccomend it.
Recommend yes, but let's see what we can do here 🙂
In the container if you do
ls -la /dev/dri what does it show?ls: cannot access '/dev/dri': No such file or directory
and if you do that in WSL?
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Aug 13 11:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 3980 Aug 13 11:51 ..
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 226, 0 Aug 13 11:52 card0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 226, 128 Aug 13 11:52 renderD128
What if you add group to the openvino config?
Wich file exactly? Not the compose (general immich docker-compose file), right? The hwaccell.ml.yml right?
yes the hwaccell
k. Testing
See if you can ls the directories to begin with
I have got this error now: Error response from daemon: Unable to find group render: no matching entries in group file
dang :p
If you do
getent group render or getent group video in WSL, does it return a number?render: x :992: video❌44:
Alright instead of group_add render/video do 992 and 44 instead
ohh now it shows : let me confrim total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Aug 19 07:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 400 Aug 19 07:47 ..
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 226, 0 Aug 19 07:47 card0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 226, 128 Aug 19 07:47 renderD128
Let's see if the ML will do anything now
ok. It seems to work. Task manager dsn't show anything. but it works. CPU util is low and the progress is fast
nice 🙂
Maaan thank youuuuuuuuuuu. Everything works. you sir are a legend
Enjoy!
Hey small update. After running until 1h everything worked. Then I got a wsl error and docker desktop restarted. Now i have the same problem as bevor. Only now when i run ls -la /dev/dri in wsl, I get ls: cannot access '/dev/dri': No such file or directory. Sorry to bother again...
restart WSL
easier to reboot the whole PC tbh :p
nope still not there ( i did wsl -- shutdown, wsl update )
wait a minute. let me try some thing
nope. still nothing (restarted pc too
I have no idea here really 😐
Could you copy your ML container config just in case?
(i doctored in it quite a bit just to try things and the group add with the numers didn't work either)
Why is it
immich_machine_learning2 ? 😛Because i didn't wawnt to mess with my immich installation. There everything works (except gup supp) so i have a remote ml container on the same pc . bit messy i know
With the same ports? 🙃
Usually i just stop the immich ml container. Just lazy. But i thougt it would be just to try some things
Just use 3004:3003
and name it
immich-remote-learning or somethingbut the main problem is still the problem, that dev/dri isn't there wheras bevore when i acessed it throug wsl it was there.
I also tried to (again) install openvino on both windows as well as wsl (Intel website) btw. If i don't answer in half an hour, dw. I my have go (firefighter readiness) . Just so you know I am not disrespectfull
No worries
All I can find is certain WSL updates breaking /dev/dri
I found some comments on docker vs docker desktop. But I mean, it worked. Why did it stop? I might just migrate to a VM
You tell me 👀 I just know that it needs access (like render/video etc)
Ok small update: I tried many things. I may have found a solution. It works now, but i don't know for how long. 1h ago i changed all /dev/dri to /dev/dxg. Now it utilizes the gup and it runs. but i will update you gusy. I want it running for at least one day and restart etc. If it works then, i think this might be the best fix.
Which gpu is that @Leborkan ?
Arc 750. At least it shows high usage
And the rate checks out (about halv my 3080)
What exactly did you change to /dev/dxg because that was mounted already 🤔
I deleted bzw. replaces every dev/dri to dev/dxg
interesting
I still think it's a driver being annoying somehow
Maybe the latest version moved from dri to dxg?
Noted at least, thanks
Yeah. messy stuff but thanks for the help. Should i close the ticket? case i want to test it for a few days. Mybe i reopen it shortly and post my findings then close it again. Or is that unnecessary( If you hear nothing it works).
No leave it open 🙂
Thanks for the support. Today i decided to buy Immich. Continue the good work!