I put a GTS 250 in the latest hardy (8.04) and installed that 190.53 from nvidia.

The nvidia settings work, display looks great, etc. All seems to be working and I see the cuda libs where they are supposed to be but boinc 6.10.17 x64 can find no gpu.

I am guessing the card is too new for 8.04 and I edited nv.pci and put in the 0x615 id for gt-250 and reran the install, but that didnt help with the "no GPUs".

I would like to know if anyone has the gts 250 (or any of the newer nvidia cards) working with 8.04.

Do I need to upgrade from 8.04 to 9.1?

thanks for looking

Does BOINC see the drivers/libraries (CUDA 2.2) too?

Has BOINC access rights for the video device files in /dev?

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

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SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

Does BOINC see the drivers/libraries (CUDA 2.2) too?

Has BOINC access rights for the video device files in /dev?

Gruß,
Gundolf

/dev/nvidia(dont remember exact name) showed "video" for a group. I went to users and groups and there was no user "video" nor even a group "video". I did see a user "boinc" but there was no video group to put him/her into. I went and changed ownership of /dev/nvidia(dont remember) to root:root since the other nvidia entry in /dev had root:root and not root:video

that didnt work nor did a reboot. I quickly discovered that a simple reboot lost the nvidia driver and I had to rerun the install on each reboot.

what did work just fine was 9.1 tho it took me 4 hours to download on my slow dsl. I am currently crunching gpugrid but not seti nor collatz for some reason. I have seen that before and I assume they will start a gpu task eventually.

I installed the ALT-CD 9.1 x64 from the iso download, got that "ia32" library, got that "build-essential" stuff that nvidia needed, then installed the nvidia driver 190.53, then ran the boinc 6.10.32 which all it did was unpack and left me to figure out how the service worked. Fortunately, getting the 6.4.5 thru apt-get sets up the service so I copied the new version 10.32 ones over the old ones and stuffed that cudalibart somewhere that google suggested as I knew it would not do me any good on my desktop.

anyway, it is working :-)

Nicked from Einstein

Sentynel wrote:

For future reference if anybody stumbles upon this, the easiest way to install CUDA-compliant nvidia drivers on Ubuntu is by adding the nvidia VDPAU team's PPA from here: https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau/+archive/ppa This has updated nvidia driver packages, making installing and building new modules for new kernel versions totally painless.

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