[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-10-17 Thread ebi72
The workaround with "sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart" works fine. This is the first time that Boinc recognizes my GPU. I think it would be the easiest way if Boinc would be started at boottime with a delay of one minute. That should solve the easiest problem. I think that this is only one sm

Re: [Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-10-09 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, On 10/09/2011 01:14 AM, northa wrote: > The bug still exists. in 6.12.33 in 11.10. When doing $sudo /etc/init.d > /boinc-client restart the GPUs will be found so its a workaround. In the meantime I have managed to confirm this behaviour on a machine at work - yes. Mighty annoying. I just d

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-10-08 Thread northa
The bug still exists. in 6.12.33 in 11.10. When doing $sudo /etc/init.d /boinc-client restart the GPUs will be found so its a workaround. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 Title:

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-05-04 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package boinc - 6.12.26+dfsg-1 --- boinc (6.12.26+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream version. boinc (6.12.25+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low * Changed init dependencies to $all which may help speeding up the boot process and grants time init

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-04-26 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
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[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-04-16 Thread Steffen Möller
** Changed in: boinc (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 Title: No GPU found -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-04-16 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, Skip had sent me a pointer to his summary on the BOINC forums on the matter and I have followed your all's instructions. So, when 6.12.23+ comes out, this should also auto-detect your graphics card. Many thanks to you all. Steffen -- You received this bug notification because you are a me

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-04-14 Thread Ray_GTI-R
Same problem. Ubuntu 10.10 Boinc 6.10.58 ATI 4xxx Tried sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart BOINC restarts OK but (still) "No usable GPU found." (Same rig under Windows 7 works fine.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-02-02 Thread Christian Ebner
Sorry: here is the correct Link: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=6307 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 Title: No GPU found -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-02-02 Thread Christian Ebner
Here are some possible solutions.: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id= Maybe someone will still find the solution of the problem with BOINC and GPU -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-01-15 Thread Christian Ebner
I had an Addendum: I use also Maverick Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10) as a 64Bit-Installation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 Title: No GPU found -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-01-15 Thread s...@webmail.co.za
Same problem here. Installed Ubuntu 10.10 from scratch - did standard update on ATI driver and used Software Center to install Boinc. Got version 6.10.58 which does not find my HD4850. ("No usable GPUs..") Fiddled around a bit using suggestions from this thread with no success. Uninstalled Boinc f

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-01-14 Thread Christian Ebner
Sorry for the change of the description! i made a big mistake. SORRY! I changed it back. I cant use launchpad previously good. ** Description changed: - Binary-Paket Hinweis: boinc + Binary package hint: boinc - Beschreibung: Ubuntu 4.10 LTS x64 + Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x64 Release:

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-01-14 Thread Christian Ebner
i had also the same bug with my ati radeon hd 4830: "No GPU found" with boinc 6.10.58. I use the automatic login on my computer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 Title: No GPU fo

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2011-01-14 Thread Christian
Also on the Boinc site is an appropriate error message. Error 1035: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/1035 This error is probably relates to more than one person could be made a priority of this bug to "high". Maybe you should directly coordinate with the Boinc programmers the cause and th

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-12-19 Thread Skip Guenter
I thought this was working this morning as after creating /etc/gdm/custom.conf and rebooting (but not logging on) I was able to go to another machine and remote gui in and saw GPU WUs running! Applied the change to my other ATI machines (v9.10 & V10.10 but all running v6.10.58 boinc). All seemed

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-12-07 Thread Miha Furlan
If we want to run BOINC at boot without need to login, we have to configure login manager (kdm/gdm/xdm/...) to accept connections. Maybe it's good to add firewall rule to block connections to UDP port 177 and TCP port 6000 afterwards (if you are on public internet) . On Ubuntu (10.10) with GDM (de

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-11-11 Thread WynX
I can confirm this fix works (Skip and gfarmerfr combined) file: /etc/init.d/boinc-client start() { log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME" if is_running; then log_progress_msg "already running" else xhost local:boinc sleep 5 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-10 Thread gfarmerfr
Btw xhost local:boinc works too -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ub

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-03 Thread Skip Guenter
Since I'm using the 'sleep' for my' boinc after gdm delay' I just added the xhost + in front of that to get: start() { log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME" if is_running; then log_progress_msg "already running" else xhost + sleep 5 /home/skip/setfan.sh start-stop-daemon

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-03 Thread gfarmerfr
For ATI users : I've found a simple solution with the ubuntu default install !!! There are 2 reasons why boinc does not detect the GPU. 1) It start to early (before gdm) so deactivate th autostart via sudo update-rc.d boinc-client disable 2) It can't connect to xserver because it can't auth t

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-03 Thread gfarmerfr
For exemple if you try one ATI Overclocking command this seems pretty obvious ,,, Under my user : gfarme...@gnu-box:~$ aticonfig --od-enable ATI Overdrive(TM) enabled Using sudo : gfarme...@gnu-box:~$ sudo aticonfig --od-enable ATI Overdrive(TM) enabled Under root : r...@gnu-box:~# aticonfig

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-03 Thread Skip Guenter
I ran across an issue after changing boint to run as my primary user and connecting to the ATI card. I don't recall this behavior when I had it running as "root" but will have to retest that to be sure. IF you logout the GPU WU running will finish but all subsequent WUs will get repeated errors

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-02 Thread Skip Guenter
My understanding is that upstream doesn't want to force xserver as a pre-req for running BOINC. OK, then we need something in the install to ask if it's going to run on a server w/o a GUI (leave as is) or in a normal desktop environment with gdm running (set the boinc user to be the installing use

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-09-02 Thread Skip Guenter
A guy (gfarmerfr) on the DNETC project forums told me "The user launching boinc must have a Xorg session running". We were discussing getting the ATI cards to work on that project. He took another route (that I like better that what I did) in that he changed ownership of the /var/lib/boinc-client

Re: [Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-22 Thread Steffen Möller
On 08/22/2010 01:41 PM, Skip Guenter wrote: > OK, I got it working with the Debian package (actually used the PPA > v5.10.58 x64)... This is ugly but if nothing else it's another > confirmation that we've got a "boinc" user permissions problem with the > ATI driver. > > In /etc/default/boinc-clien

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-22 Thread Skip Guenter
OK, I got it working with the Debian package (actually used the PPA v5.10.58 x64)... This is ugly but if nothing else it's another confirmation that we've got a "boinc" user permissions problem with the ATI driver. In /etc/default/boinc-client I set the user to "root" in: # The BOINC core client

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-19 Thread Skip Guenter
OK, I'm using the drivers off of the AMD/ATI sight with same results so it's good to know it's across both driver installs. -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-19 Thread Prosthetic Head
I've found a way to get this to work, at least on my machine. I simply downloaded and manually installed the latest BOINC software direct from Berkeley. The versions in the ubuntu repository and the PPA i tried do not work, but the berkely version does. This is with the default ATI drivers installe

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-15 Thread Skip Guenter
OK, another day and no major progress on finding what the issue is but for sure: 1) The general problem of boinc getting started to soon can be confirmed by doing the terminal command "sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart". IF the GPU is then found apply the "sleep 5" to the startup script that I

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-14 Thread Skip Guenter
WOW! Guys I just downloaded the Berkeley package and ran it's script which installs into /home/skip/BOINC ("skip" being my user account). from the default home/skip prompt I typed "BOINC/run_client" and then "BOINC/run_manager" and it started each up in a terminal. In the run_client window I saw

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-14 Thread Skip Guenter
I think this thread is suggesting that it's a permissions problem for boinc?? Any thoughts on that? http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=5936 -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-14 Thread Skip Guenter
moved the Berkeley v6.10.56 binaries to /usr/bin/ and no diff. @northa, what driver r u using from where? -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing lis

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-14 Thread Skip Guenter
I just did a fresh install of v10.04 and driver .run package from ATI running the PPA BOINC v6.10.58 (all x64 stuff) and BOINC reports no usable GPUs found (HD5830). Dang... guess I'll go try the berkeley binaries but I'm thinking it's a driver issue. -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-11 Thread Prosthetic Head
Tried everything suggested here in Karmic 64 with ATI 4550 with no luck. Do we actually know which part(s) of the default ubuntu / driver / boinc are responsible for this problem? -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-06 Thread northa
Sorry, the development version 6.10.58 from the ppa didn't work on my machine. Didn't get to connect to the client when starting the manager. (I'm running the dl:ed 6.10.56 and it works fine ,GPU and all - starting it with a *.sh script .../BOINC/run_client --daemon & ./BOINC/run_manager &

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-05 Thread Prosthetic Head
I have just tried with the updated drivers from http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppas/27 in combination with the newist BOINC and the sleep hack. Still 'No Usable GPU detected' :( -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-05 Thread Prosthetic Head
Further to my previous post, I just tried under windows with latest BOINC & ATI driver and it worked perfectly. -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-05 Thread Prosthetic Head
I have tried both the "sleep 10" hack and the PPA version. My 4550 is still undetected by BOINC. "No usable GPU found". The 4550 supports stream and is listed in various places as supported for single precision BOINC processing so should work. Could it be something to do with the driver installed t

Re: [Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-03 Thread Daniel Hahler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > PS: Use "sleep 9" if machine is slow getting thru gmd start or if you > wanna be really, really safe that it'll not start until after gdm for > remote, unattended reboots. Just for info: I would just use "sleep 30" and be done with it: it's not wor

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-01 Thread Skip Guenter
"Manual restart" must have left something running. Sure sounds like just need to "sudo gedit /etc/init.d/boinc-client" and add the "sleep 5" command as shown below: . start() { sleep 5 log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME" if is_running; then . PS: Use "sl

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-08-01 Thread Daniel Hahler
Can you check this with the "Debian BOINC packagers" PPA, please? https://launchpad.net/~pkg-boinc/+archive/ppa If it's related to some upstream changes, this should work for you. If it's related to how we start BOINC, it should have worked with a manual "restart" already (when all upstart proces

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-06-23 Thread northa
http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?language=1&view=471 It should have. -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-06-23 Thread LocutusOfBorg
Maybe in the .17 release there were no ability to use gpu under linux... -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com htt

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-06-23 Thread northa
Also tried killing the boinc and boincmgr processes and restarting them too. No gpu found:/ -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@l

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-06-23 Thread northa
Yep. No GPU found. As stated It Works fine with (6.10.56) - finding GPU. Then again, i'm starting it after all other upstart processes are done.. -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-06-22 Thread LocutusOfBorg
@northa could you try the command given by elhoir? -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/

[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

2010-06-17 Thread elhoir
tried $sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart ? -- No GPU found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma