Hi All,

Well, I had to step back from SUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 because I tried to install Milestone 5, and it really borked my system. In the interim, I'm going to try using the NVIDIA install via YAST rather than compile a driver for the kernel. Of course, I now cannot seem to connect to GPU Grid. Not sure if it's an OpenSuse 11.1 problem or Nvidia instllation through YAST problem.

Any Ideas? Or am i stuck going to Milestone 5?

Mike D
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Is the problem that the video card is no longer being recognized as a CUDA device, or no work units are downloading or work units are downloading but not starting?
I found in Suse 11.2, that I had to run BOINC as root to connect the localhost. There is a way around this using the gpg authorizations but I found running it as root was easier.
If you can describe the problem in more detail, it will help.
Thanks
Ralph Ellis

When I ran Suse 11.2 Milestone 4, everything worked fine, but I ran Nvidia's installer manually rather than thru YAST (i.e. I compiled my own kernel modules using the Nvidia script.) When I had problems with Milestone 5, I went back to Suse 11.1, but this time when I try running GPU Grid it tells me I don't have a CUDA enabled video card even though I have the same 185.18.14 drivers installed, this time through YAST rather than manually installing them (which I like immensely, now that I know it works well.)

Sounds like a permission problem to me that is fixed in Suse 11.2, but that I'm stuck with under 11.1. I don't want to run BOINC as root as I am running from my personal directory.

This gives me an idea though, I'll see if installing BOINC thru YAST may fix this problem. That may eliminate my permission problem....Hmmmm...

Mike Doerner
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Well, using the BOINC thru YAST will not help, as it is 6.2.18, and you need at least 6.4.5 to CUDA with GPU Grid.

I think you may be onto something with the "running as root" thing, I'm just not willing to try that. I think it's a permission problem that will eventually get fixed.

Oh well.

Mike Doerner
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There is a nice discussion of how to get boinc to run without root priviledges.
See:

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=1913

It has a discussion of how to edit the gui_auth_rpc.txt file to get the result that you want.
I tried Suse 11.2 Milestone 5 and it creates a lot of barriers to Nvidia proprietary drivers compared to Milestone 4. I am sure that this will get fixed as Suse gets closer to a final release.