Bug#596656: boinc-client: cannot find GPU

2010-11-18 Thread Christian Lins
Package: boinc-client Version: 6.10.58+dfsg-3 Severity: normal However this will only work for nvidia users IIRC, for ATI users the package will need to do some other stuffs, for example they have problems if boinc is not being run under the same user as X, and running boinc as root is not

Bug#596656: boinc-client: cannot find GPU

2010-09-13 Thread René Mayorga
Severity: minor thanks On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 07:09:41AM +0300, Krasu wrote: Hi, thanks for your bug report. Package: boinc-client Version: 6.10.17+dfsg-3 Severity: important Sometimes BOINC cannot find nVidia GPU. I need to restart service manually, then it finds it: #

Bug#596656: boinc-client: cannot find GPU

2010-09-13 Thread Dmitry Baryshev
Hello. No, this is wrong. When people install BOINC, they think that it will use GPU, and they will use CPU for their own tasks. But this is wrong, because boinc doesn't use GPU at all. README will not solve the problem, because the package is broken by default, this is not something

Bug#596656: boinc-client: cannot find GPU

2010-09-13 Thread Dmitry Baryshev
Hello. The other solution (and I think better solution) is to divide boinc-client into 3 parts: 1) kernel part 2) bonc-client-x 3) boinc-client-cli [2] and [3] will depend on [1] [2] will require X login manager [3] will work in CLI And this should be documented in package descriptions, that

Bug#596656: boinc-client: cannot find GPU

2010-09-13 Thread René Mayorga
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:35:05PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshev wrote: Hello. The other solution (and I think better solution) is to divide boinc-client into 3 parts: 1) kernel part 2) bonc-client-x 3) boinc-client-cli [2] and [3] will depend on [1] [2] will require X login manager [3]

Bug#596656: boinc-client: cannot find GPU

2010-09-12 Thread Krasu
Package: boinc-client Version: 6.10.17+dfsg-3 Severity: important Sometimes BOINC cannot find nVidia GPU. I need to restart service manually, then it finds it: # /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart nVidia drivers are 256.53 from nvidia.com. -- Package-specific info: -- Contents of