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Plex hardware encoding with Intel Arc A380

UPDATE: The instructions in the original post were for Ubuntu 22.04. If you already have Ubuntu 24.04, you can skip all this as long as you can see your device under /dev, it should show something like /dev/renderD2128. I do recommend installing the compute packages from Intel’s repository # Install the Intel graphics GPG public key wget -qO – https://repositories.intel.com/gpu/intel-graphics.key | \ sudo gpg –yes –dearmor –output /usr/share/keyrings/intel-graphics.gpg # Configure the repositories.intel.com package repository echo …

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Configuring NFS Share on Ubuntu

Configuring NFS is a simple but can be a frustrating experience esp. if you are trying to export an NFS root. Here’s step by step instructions that helped me. On the server where NFS is configured, path is /storage. Let’s call this server nas. This NAS runs Ubuntu. Edit the /etc/exports file on the NAS. The IP is your network and subnet mask. The magic option is fsid=0 for NFS root. This allows the /storage …

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zpool creation failing in Proxmox GUI

While trying to create a brand new zpool from Proxmox GUI, I was facing an error. This was partly solved by New SSDs not showing correct Serial# in Proxmox Disk Manager so at least in Proxmox, correct Serial#s were showing in the zpool creation screen (see below). In looking further, the by-id links are not present, and the two that are present are incorrect. The remaining work is to update udev rules so the correct …

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New SSDs not showing correct Serial# in Proxmox Disk Manager

I faced a weird issue. I added 5x identical brand new consumer grade SSDs to my DL380P, and inside Proxmox disk manager, they all showed up as having Serial#s as 0s, see below. Upon looking further, it appeared that Proxmox is using ID_SERIAL from udevadm. The correct serial number is shown in ID_SCSI_SERIAL. I looked around on Proxmox forums, and found that someone had reported a similar issue here: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/disk-serialnumber-in-pve-host-disk.122251/ There was a solution recommended …

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Resetting password for HP V1910-48G J009A

I recently had to reset admin password for my home network switch. I had to look around on multiple forums on the internet for instructions, and was finally able to figure out how to do it. I thought of sharing the instructions in this post to help others looking to reset password on this switch. First, the ethernet cable (link) method didn’t work for me. Therefore, the only possible option was to use the serial …

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