Help with N150 iGPU Driver Please

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Help with N150 iGPU Driver Please - Astaroth - 2025-08-20

Hi,

I'm new to Jellyfin and Linux and I'm trying to pass my iGPU (Intel N150) through to my jellyfin lxc for transcoding but having trouble with the drivers. I installed 'intel-media-va-driver-non-free' following various guides etc. and it wouldn't initialise. Then I found a post saying that the non-free version doesn't work, but the standard version does (I.e. 'intel-media-va-driver'). So I removed the non-free one and installed the other which worked on the proxmox host. When I passed it through to the lxc (ubuntu jammy 22.04), vainfo still gave errors. I've now realised that different versions of the driver are available to each of these (see below). I'm assuming the reason is debian vs ubuntu.

Proxmox host:

Code:
uname -r

6.14.8-2-pve 

apt search intel-media-va-driver

intel-media-va-driver/stable,now 25.2.3+dfsg1-1 amd64 [installed]

  VAAPI driver for the Intel GEN8+ Graphics family

intel-media-va-driver-non-free/oldstable 23.1.1+ds1-1 amd64

  VAAPI driver for the Intel GEN8+ Graphics family

Jellyfin LXC ():

Code:
uname -r

6.14.8-2-pve

apt search intel-media-va-driver

Sorting... Done

Full Text Search... Done

intel-media-va-driver/jammy-updates,now 22.3.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]

  VAAPI driver for the Intel GEN8+ Graphics family

intel-media-va-driver-non-free/jammy-updates 22.3.1+ds1-1ubuntu0.1 amd64

  VAAPI driver for the Intel GEN8+ Graphics family

I'm just wondering if there's any way to get the later driver on the LXC please (I.e. intel-media-va-driver/stable,now 25.2.3+dfsg1-1 amd64)? E.g. updating Ubuntu or the kernel?

Thanks

RE: Help with N150 iGPU Driver Please - bitmap - 2025-08-20

It looks like you'll have to install from the repo: https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases

They have decent instructions, though from what I saw it's for the latest LTS rather than 22.

RE: Help with N150 iGPU Driver Please - Astaroth - 2025-08-21

Thanks for the info, I’ll give that a go. I assume there’s a command or something to update from 22 to 24? Or is it easier/better to export the jellyfin config and create a new container on 24?

RE: Help with N150 iGPU Driver Please - Astaroth - 2025-08-22

I created a new container running Ubuntu 25.04 LTS and thought I was in luck because the intel driver supports the CPU on that version, but then I discovered that Jellyfin unfortunately doesn't support 25.04.

I'm also a little confused with the link you gave me. It seems to be an OpenCL driver. Don't I need the VAAPI driver here? https://github.com/intel/media-driver

RE: Help with N150 iGPU Driver Please - bitmap - 2025-08-22

I pulled the links from the docs -- I'll check if that link is incorrect.

If you utilize 24.04 LTS, particularly with the HWE kernel, Jellyfin is fully supported.

RE: Help with N150 iGPU Driver Please - bitmap - 2025-08-23

Another option: you can try 22.04 with the HWE stack:

Code:
sudo apt install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-22.04

RE: Help with N150 iGPU Driver Please - Astaroth - 2025-08-24

Ok, thanks for the help.