Hello All,

It's crazy. I had the same problem here last week. Seti GPU was changed from Cuda 80 to Cuda 90. It was necessary to change the graphics driver as well. The procedures I executed identically on 2 different computers. On the first computer is all OK - on the second computer, I have the error that the CL-GPU applications are not running. Astropulse not and also Einstein @ Home etc. I could not find the error and completely reinstalled the system. Same drivers and clients. Now the system is running correctly. The ways of God and IT are unfathomable.

Hello All,

It's crazy. I had the same problem here last week. Seti GPU was changed from Cuda 80 to Cuda 90. It was necessary to change the graphics driver as well. The procedures I executed identically on 2 different computers. On the first computer is all OK - on the second computer, I have the error that the CL-GPU applications are not running. Astropulse not and also Einstein @ Home etc. I could not find the error and completely reinstalled the system. Same drivers and clients. Now the system is running correctly. The ways of God and IT are unfathomable.

. . Thanks for the info, glad it is not only me. I hate re-installing whole systems so I have taken the cowards way out and simply set preferences to NO APs. If I can't run them I simply won't try.

. . Problem solved ... :)

Stephen

:)

Has anyone with this problem tried a driver different than 384.111? I don't remember hearing of this error before 384.111.
Remove 384.111, run autoremove, then install a driver from nVidia, http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-amd64-display-archive.html

I had issue with 384.111 right off the bat. Dumped it immediately and put in a newer version. Have had no issues since 384.111 was foisted on me automatically. I think that version is buggy as hell.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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I had issue with 384.111 right off the bat. Dumped it immediately and put in a newer version. Have had no issues since 384.111 was foisted on me automatically. I think that version is buggy as hell.

. . Interesting, thanks Keith. Was that a repository version or straight from nVidia?

Stephen

That is what the automatic update gave me out of the repository. That was the release with the first Spectre fix in it. It trashed all my OpenCL tasks.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

That is what the automatic update gave me out of the repository. That was the release with the first Spectre fix in it. It trashed all my OpenCL tasks.

. . Sorry I didn't make myself clear, was the version with which you replaced 84.111 also from the repository or was it from nVidia? And what is that version?

Stephen

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I use the additional graphics-drivers repository. I replaced the Main repository 384.111 driver that was automatically sent out to all Ubuntu machines by choosing the 390.25 driver from the additional drivers repository. I have never downloaded any driver directly from Nvidia.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

I use the additional graphics-drivers repository. I replaced the Main repository 384.111 driver that was automatically sent out to all Ubuntu machines by choosing the 390.25 driver from the additional drivers repository. I have never downloaded any driver directly from Nvidia.

. . OK I'll investigate that, never used that repository before, is the process the same as the normal repository?

Stephen

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Yes, just add the repository in your additional sources in Software Center. Then when new updates are published for the Main and graphics-drivers repository, just select whether you want them or not. Just as painless as updating from the main repository.
Ubuntu Now Has An Official PPA For Graphics Drivers

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Yes, just add the repository in your additional sources in Software Center. Then when new updates are published for the Main and graphics-drivers repository, just select whether you want them or not. Just as painless as updating from the main repository.
Ubuntu Now Has An Official PPA For Graphics Drivers

. . I have tried several times but every time it only comes up with the one driver, 384.111 which I am using.

Stephen
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Did you install the ppa? Did you update your software sources?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
 

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Did you install the ppa? Did you update your software sources?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
 

. . AAAhh! There's the trap for a Windows user. I thought I could add it by using the app find thingy in the menu. There was an option for additional drivers and I mistakenly thought that was what I needed. OK I will do that now ...

. . Thanks for the pointer.

Stephen

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Well you could have added the ppa in the Software & Updates app too. Right from the Other Software tab. You would have just clicked on the Add button on the bottom and added the ppa repository source right there.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Well you could have added the ppa in the Software & Updates app too. Right from the Other Software tab. You would have just clicked on the Add button on the bottom and added the ppa repository source right there.

. . When I went there it did not appear in the list, and I did not know the right line to use to add it ... :(

. . It is there now :)

Stephen

:)

That's great Stephen. I don't have any issues just getting the Nvidia driver from the ppa. It's maintained by the official graphics crew. Everything they publish eventually makes it into Main repository after a few cycles. You just get the latest driver a lot faster through the ppa instead of waiting for Main to update.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

That's great Stephen. I don't have any issues just getting the Nvidia driver from the ppa. It's maintained by the official graphics crew. Everything they publish eventually makes it into Main repository after a few cycles. You just get the latest driver a lot faster through the ppa instead of waiting for Main to update.

. . So if I select the new driver it will download and then I have to go through the driver install routine correct ?

Stephen

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No, it downloads and installs the driver just like any other Linux software update. All automatic. Since the drivers are installed into the kernel, it will have to reboot the machine. You don't have to go through the Nvidia direct driver installation through the terminal interface.

Select the driver you want in Software and Updates or Synaptic Package Manager. Hit apply. It downloads the driver and configures the dpkg routines and applies the driver to the kernel. Machine asks you to reboot.

Reboot and voila! You are running the new driver. Simple.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

No, it downloads and installs the driver just like any other Linux software update. All automatic. Since the drivers are installed into the kernel, it will have to reboot the machine. You don't have to go through the Nvidia direct driver installation through the terminal interface.

Select the driver you want in Software and Updates or Synaptic Package Manager. Hit apply. It downloads the driver and configures the dpkg routines and applies the driver to the kernel. Machine asks you to reboot.

Reboot and voila! You are running the new driver. Simple.

. . OK, that is the way an update should work ... :)

. .{Edit} OK that is the way it SHOULD work but as usual in Linux it doesn't. I went through that simple process and when it instructed me to restart the machine I did, only it also updated it from release 96, the last one that actually works on this machine, to release 116, which like all recent releases doesn't work, it has trashed the loader and Linux will no longer boot. I tried my familiar recovery process of manually selecting 96 but even that no longer works, even that can no longer load. It throws up messages about not being able to access the USB and then drops into some kind of shell from which I have no idea of what to do. Another rig bites the dust. I think someone somewhere is trying to tell me something. First a 26 hour outage, then my ISP loses my cable service (I suspect it may be related to NBN rollout) which was finally back up at 6:30 this am, now my best rig is a boat anchor .... time to get a life I suspect.

Stephen

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. . UPDATE!

. . After lunch and time to chill I attempted to resurrect Linux again. This time I tried release 96 recovery mode and for once something worked ... I rebuilt/repaired "broken packages" and now it boots into Linux AOK. Back to running BOINC with the old (384.111) drivers. I will just have to abort any AP tasks it persists in sending me despite having set AP work to NO for that rig.

. . All that and the 1050ti has lost a fan as well (seized bearing). At least that is still under warranty. I guss I have to pack things up and take a trip to the supplier.

Stephen

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