Boinc work manager how to#
Boinc work manager install#

Since that’s what I usually do, when I saw the error about nvidia-uvm not compiling, I roughly knew how to proceed. Sometimes in Linux you have to do things the hard way… use the terminal and watch for error messages… they won’t necessarily appear when you do it the GUI way. It seems some GPU features work with JUST the nvidia module loaded, but CUDA was certainly not working without the nvidia-uvm module compiled/loaded, not to mention the creation of the node mappings with too restrictive permissions, thus why some saw they needed to call nvidia-smi as root to create them correctly. I directed you to the thread below, where myself and others mentioned how to overcome the issues of the later NVIDIA drivers running on newer kernels/ubuntu distros:

That issue is neither NVIDIA’s or BOINC’s… it’s an issue of who packaged the drivers and any relevant bugs should be filed against it. I never said there wasn’t a problem with the drivers that Ubuntu has in their repositories, in fact I know that the xorg-edgers repository’s 337 drivers include an older kernel 3.12 patch that fails to build nvidia-uvm, probably causing the issues you’re experiencing, possibly mingled with a missing /etc/OpenCL/vendors/nvidia.icd file pointing to the OpenCL library like I mentioned before. We return to the top, if not manually installed NVIDIA registering with DKMS everything works perfectly, including BOINC

Boinc work manager install#

Note: You must install the ppa “xorg-edgers fresh X crack” to access all of Nvidia drivers. NVIDIA GPUs drivers present but not found Ubuntu to install it only gives an option if the Nvidia 331.38 BOINC works with, as I said before, but when you upgrade from “Software Updates + Additional Drivers”, a top driver system works perfectly but fails to locate BOINC GPUs installed. Made a complete clean install of Ubuntu 14.04-64bit to install the Nvidia 331.67 driver fails to locate BOINC GPUs.

Setup… NVIDIA 337.12 drivers, BOINC 7.3.11, and able to run work units from PrimeGrid on CUDA and OpenCL on my GTX Titan Black and Quadro K6000 GPUs just fine… so it’s not a BOINC or NVIDIA issue, simply a misconfiguration on your system. Out of curiosity, I tried out BOINC on Ubuntu 14.04 and it works just fine for me…