{"id":949,"date":"2026-10-06T04:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisfaulkner.org\/?p=949"},"modified":"2026-10-06T04:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:24:25","slug":"jellyfin-server-on-arch-linux-lts-with-pascal-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisfaulkner.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/jellyfin-server-on-arch-linux-lts-with-pascal-gpu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jellyfin server on Arch Linux LTS with Pascal GPU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few months ago, they made a lot of changes to nvidia GPUs, namely dropping Pascal support for the new driver. Here are the steps I took to get Jellyfin working, also with a tunarr server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course a fresh load, and boot into linux-lts. I had better luck with LTS kernel than shipped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\/etc\/modprobe.d\/blacklist-nouveau.conf
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\nblacklist nouveau
\noptions nouveau modeset=0<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Installing files we will need later:

As Root:
pacman -S –needed git base-devel dkms linux-headers linux-lts-headers nvtop

As User:
git clone https:\/\/aur.archlinux.org\/yay.git<\/a> && cd yay && makepkg -si
yay -Syu
yay -S nvidia-580xx-dkms

As Root
nano \/etc\/mkinitcpio.conf

remove “kms” from the hooks section
reboot<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you come back, type ‘nvtop’ to see if drivers are locked in, if not, do not proceed til 580 drivers are loaded<\/p>\n\n\n\n
lspci -k<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Check to see kernel driver for nvidia card says “nvidia”

If it does, Proceed

pacman -U https:\/\/archive.archlinux.org\/packages\/l\/libjxl\/libjxl-0.11.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst<\/a>
pacman -Ud https:\/\/archive.archlinux.org\/packages\/x\/x265\/x265-4.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst<\/a>
pacman -U https:\/\/archive.archlinux.org\/packages\/f\/ffmpeg\/ffmpeg-2%3A8.1.2-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst<\/a>

nano \/etc\/pacman.conf
Edit Ignore Package Line:

IgnorePkg = libbluray x265 ffmpeg
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Now Install Jellyfin and Tunarr if you want
pacman -Sd jellyfin-server jellyfin-web
systemctl enable –now jellyfin

As User:

yay -S tunarr-bin

As Root:

whereis jellyfin.env

Edit Jellyfin.env file and make sure it points to the system FFMPEG and not jellyfin-ffmpeg
Also, within Tunarr, make sure it’s using system FFMPEG

Any issues, leave a comment
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A few months ago, they made a lot of changes to nvidia GPUs, namely dropping Pascal support for the new driver. Here are the steps I took to get Jellyfin working, also with a tunarr server. Of course a fresh load, and boot into linux-lts. I had better luck with LTS kernel than shipped. Installing … <\/p>\n
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