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 Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5124 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462  |
I needed to move my Gtx 1060's cards off the current machine in preparation to move them onto a larger/faster motherboard. I thought I remembered "unusable" but looking at the log, it says GPU is missing.
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Keith Myers   Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 
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No video drivers listed. Are you running Nvidia drivers?? What does nvidia-smi in Terminal report? Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours   A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
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Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5124 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 |
No video drivers listed. Are you running Nvidia drivers?? What does nvidia-smi in Terminal report? I have been poking around and not only does "nvidia-smi" not report any drivers but I can't get the very old binary in the "additional drivers" to install. So I am quite confident I need step by step instructions on installing Nvidia drivers. I have managed to download the current set of drivers from nvidia but haven't been able to make the manual install work.... Ummmm.... help? :) Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
Zalster  Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242
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Hey Tom, look at Youtube and search for Installing proprietary Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu by Ohheyit'sLou. He shows you how to down load drivers from the PPA and install them. Also, when you are looking for your nvidia driver, look for the nvidia-compute (insert driver version) is also there. I know when I was looking at trying to install the 396 there was no nvidia compute for 396 listed so it wasn't installing those. Hope that helps.  
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Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873
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No video drivers listed. Are you running Nvidia drivers?? What does nvidia-smi in Terminal report? You are running the stock Nouveau drivers somehow that don't support compute. You will have to install the nvidia drivers with the compute components too. sudo apt remove --purge nvidia* sudo apt install nvidia-390 sudo apt install nvidia-compute-390 sudo apt install nvidia-compute-utils-390 Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
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Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5124 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 |
Sigh. My patience expired earlier today. So I reinstalled Lubuntu. And got part of the way through Boinc before I realized I didn't have a full set of instructions. They were in the previous messages. So let me check them, because boincmgr is not starting :( What files do I have to transplant so that Boinc doesn't issue me yet another computer id? I made copies of all the logical ones. But I still am not sure. Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
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TBar Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 5204 Credit: 840,779,836 RAC: 2,768
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If you are using the version of BOINC from CA, 7.4.44 or 7.8.3, the boinc folder in your Home folder contains Everything related to BOINC. It's entirely self-contained. The usual practice is to ZIP the BOINC folder to preserve the Execute bits, then copy it to a USB drive or some other location. All that is required to 'reinstall' it is to unzip it to your Home folder. Of course, with a new system you will have to install the two dependencies again, and the video driver. I use the Recovery mode to install the driver. When you first boot you will see the Grub screen with systems listed on it. Use the down arrow to select Recovery mode. After it boots, enable networking and then Root. Then run the apt-get remove --purge nvidia* from there. After that run apt-get autoremove to remove the leftovers. Then cd to the location of the driver you downloaded and set the Execute bit on. If you placed it in your home folder it would be; cd /home/username Then type dir to print the contents of home and you should see the driver there. Then install the driver; ./drivername Afterwards enter reboot to restart. |
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Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5124 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 |
I seem to be up and running on two gtx 750Ti's. And things "seem" to be running ok ;) Thank you all. Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
Stephen "Heretic"    Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628 
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I seem to be up and running on two gtx 750Ti's. And things "seem" to be running ok ;) . . That's good, it's RAC is picking up quickly. But I have to ask, is the rig with the "1060-3GB" the card you bought from Asia? . . Because a 1060-3GB should have 9 CUs not 4 ... :(, and take about 7.5 mins to do a Blc task with SoG, not 26 ... Stephen ? ? [/url] |
Raistmer  Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 
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My Old CentOS 6.4 refused to load on new hardware (some sort of kernel panic while booting) so I decided to go with new installation of (this time) Ubuntu 18.4 as mostly recommended here. I have some fake chinese flash that claims it 128GB but has only ~16GB real storage space. Currently it partitioned that single primary partition ~14GB works OK being formatted into FAT32. Advantage of that flash - it's very small so can be attached to netbook constantly w/o fear to mechanically break it on transportation. So, I would like to install Ubuntu there (on the first 14GB of "virtual"128 ones). Is it possible? Can Ubuntu use already created partition, just reformat it into ext4 or whatever modern Linux uses? EDIT: recommended 25 GB of free hard drive space... More than I will have on that flash.' Does all modern OSes really need to be SO space-hungry ??? SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
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Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873
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That's only for the full default installation. During installation when it asks, choose the Minimal Installation which is just the kernel, necessary support files and network. Won't load all the crap fluff like the games, LibreOffice, and all the unnecessary media support apps. Should fit in 9GB easily. You can choose which file format you want to use, default is ext4. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
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Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121
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Will be possible to install on the same drive from that booted? Just in another partition? SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
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Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873
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Will be possible to install on the same drive from that booted? Just in another partition? Yes, if there is enough room. I gather you are trying to install to a USB stick? The Live USB takes about 1.9GB. So if you have say a 32GB stick then you could partition a 2GB partition and a 30GB partition and boot from the first partition say and install to the second partition. Should work. USB running at 3.0 or 3.1 speeds is still slower than normal hard drives or SSD speeds. Doable but slow. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
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Stephen "Heretic" Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628
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My Old CentOS 6.4 refused to load on new hardware (some sort of kernel panic while booting) so I decided to go with new installation of (this time) Ubuntu 18.4 as mostly recommended here. I have some fake chinese flash that claims it 128GB but has only ~16GB real storage space. . . Hi Raistmer, . . I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with default installation on a 16GB flashdrive without problems, but if I do any updates I have to manually remove the old versions to keep enough free work space on the drive. Using sudo autoremove and sudo autoclean helps with some stuff but I have to use Synaptic Package manager to remove the redundant versions of the OS. Not sure how much more space 18.04 LTS requires as I have not been able to get it to install and boot on the new 32GB flashdrive for the new system. The install keeps failing with a grub error saying it cannot make the drive bootable ... :( Though Lubuntu, a lightweight version that might be helpful for you, did install and boot AOK, it just did not have what I need to work with Linux. . . Fast USB3.0/3.1 32 GB flashdrives are very reasonably priced here. Send me a pm .......... Stephen :) |
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Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5124 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 |
I seem to be up and running on two gtx 750Ti's. And things "seem" to be running ok ;) The card you are talking about is a "FAKE" http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8281049 Gtx 1060 3GB. It has 192 shaders, and I have read speculation that a GT 570 is hidden under there. I have a used gtx 750TI on order that should be here on Friday. And that stage things should get back to "normal". Since I am having good luck with dual-booting I am considering turning that machine into another "secret sauce" machine. It's cpu has AVX so should crunch a lot faster than it does with stock SETI (at least it did under Lunatics beta distro). I expect to resurrect the 16c/32t machine (e5-2670) Saturday afternoon. It will have two Gtx 1060's and probably shortly after I get it home (the resurrection will be held at the local cemetery err my Nephews basement tech workshop) I will get it upgraded to CUDA90. It is possible I will have a single cpu version of the same system up and running next week. It will probably start out as a CPU-only cruncher while I round up another GPU. The gtx 750Ti's are getting down to $50 on eBay in some cases. So two of those produce a respectable result for the time being. Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489
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The card you are talking about is a "FAKE" http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8281049 Gtx 1060 3GB. It has 192 shaders, and I have read speculation that a GT 570 is hidden under there.More likely it's a GTX550Ti or GTX560M core at that configuration. ;-) Cheers. |
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Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5124 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 |
This question is about how to setup the bios of a high end 16c/32t motherboard. The basics are clear via a discussion with Wiggo some time ago. 1) Turn off the motherboard wait states. aka: Intel Speedstep. 2) Turn on Intel's "Turbo Boost." Many motherboards don't really let you tinker with the "standard" overclocking features. The Intel motherboard I had previously didn't clearly state (as I think I remember) where to turn off the "wait states" and where to turn on the "Turbo boost." Discussion: On your high core count MB what tuning did you try or not try? Thank you, Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
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Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121
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Will be possible to install on the same drive from that booted? Just in another partition? I used (as recommended in Ubuntu tutorial) Rufus to flash ISO into USB stick. Unfortunately it recreates partition and allocates full drive to that partition. So, before OS installation I need to shrink bootable partition with ISO itself. Currently I decided to go another route - to boot ISO into VirtualBox having USB stick attached to it. I hope this will make possible to install OS on USB stick w/o using same stick for booting ISO image. Work in progress cause on my netbook booting Ubuntu under VM isn't speedy process :) EDIT: it sits here https://clip2net.com/s/3W7nyTe more than half hour already :/ CD icon flashing so I hope it didn''t hang, just veeeery slow.... SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
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Brent Norman Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835 
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That is slow, but looks about right. Next popup is Time Zone, I think ... |
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Stephen "Heretic" Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628
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. . If the red dot is moving along the row of dots it should still be proceeding ... Stephen <fingers crossed> |
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