Anyone phasing out a working GPU? Deal has been made!

[Sunny129]

oh Linux, eh? i'm afraid i'm not going to be of much help w/ that, as i only know the Windows side of things...

[Ken g6]

I use Linux and a GPU. I have frequently had to restart the BOINC service after a reboot, to get it to recognize the GPU.

sudo service boinc restart

Edit: I see, you're going from nVidia to AMD. You'll need to uninstall the nVidia drivers, then install the proprietary AMD drivers. Probably - worries about getting an AMD card working on Linux are one reason I didn't sign up for that 7850 in General Hardware.

[Rudy Toody]

Fortunately, the NVIDIA is on another box, currently deceased, the box, not the NVIDIA.

The above sentence made sense when I wrote it.

[Rudy Toody]

I restarted the client and still don't recognize the gpu.

EDIT: on the other box, I had to set the NVIDIA as discrete in the bios. In this box I'm using the ATI as the main GPU. Anything else I have to do?

[biodoc]

Just to confirm the driver installation and updating the xorg.conf went ok:

type fglrxinfo and hit return or:

aticonfig --list-adapters

If you don't see your card listed then either the drivers didn't install properly or the xorg.conf file wasn't updated after the drivers were installed.

Try:

sudo aticonfig --initial -f

and reboot

On ubuntu you need the -f switch (force) to properly update the xorg.conf file.

[Rudy Toody]

Both of those commands work. However, my driver is VESA.

EDIT: Client_State shows I have everything I need. Don't know what happened to VESA. I'm going to uninstall it. Wish me luck.

Have you seen Gnome3? It's a completely different desktop concept. Wild. I still haven't found the shutdown button. Before login, it's in the upper right corner. Where it goes from there is anybody's guess.

EDIT2: It works without VESA! Tomorrow I will set up a second boinc client to see if I can crunch POEM with the gpu.

[biodoc]

I haven't used gnome3 but I have used unity which is default for ubuntu these days. Unity is a poor mac knockoff. I switched to kubuntu which uses the kde desktop, which is more to my liking.


FYI, this is what linus thinks of gnome3: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorval...ts/UkoAaLDpF4i

I think he's a bit old fashioned but he has some good points.

[biodoc]

RT, there still could be a problem with driver loading. fglrxinfo output should look something like this:

display: :0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11631 Compatibility Profile Context

[Rudy Toody]

Thanks for the link. I'm trying a few things from one of the comments.

display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series 
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11762 Compatibility Profile Context

Mathematica's OpenCLInformation function displays the following: