Plex on Debian 11 on Intel NUC 11 not hardware transcoding

Plex Media Server
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Yes.

You set / remove any conf changes.

Example: This is how to make the Apple Magic Keyboard function keys work.

[chuck@lizum ~.2001]$ cd /etc/modprobe.d
[chuck@lizum modprobe.d.2002]$ ls
alsa-base.conf                  blacklist-firewire.conf     blacklist-rare-network.conf     mdadm.conf
amd64-microcode-blacklist.conf  blacklist-framebuffer.conf  hid_apple.conf                  vmware-fuse.conf
blacklist-ath_pci.conf          blacklist-modem.conf        intel-microcode-blacklist.conf
blacklist.conf                  blacklist-oss.conf@         iwlwifi.conf
[chuck@lizum modprobe.d.2003]$ cat hid_apple.conf 
options hid_apple fnmode=2
[chuck@lizum modprobe.d.2004]$

Next I update-initramfs and reboot.

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So even if I don’t have the latest firmware that dmesg is complaining about ( tgl_guc_70.1.1.bin), if I do an update-initramfs, it will update the kernel to use the existing one that I have (older version)?

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Are you using the default kernel or did you upgrade that manually?

45

That was upgraded manually through the Bullseye backports repo:

root@mediaserver:~# uname -r
6.0.0-0.deb11.6-amd64

46

I can’t help with that stuff. Keeping up with current distribution is challenging enough.

You’ve created a custom kernel config. You NEED to get the right kernel drivers in it for it to work.

This is why I never recommend messing with the kernel unless you know what you’re doing.

47

I see, ok. There was another problem (which I forgot what it was) that a kernel upgrade fixed. So that’s why for all my Debian servers, I upgrade the kernel always.

However, all these GuC stuff didn’t really fix the issue in this thread. I don’t know what did.

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First get all the drivers in that it’s complaining about.

Once that’s done (and initramfs rebuilt) – retest