Have a Latitude E6420 notebook with an NVS4200M chipset (Optimus) with current MXLinux.

I installed the 390 legacy drivers then installed BOINC. Both are from Stable. The GPU wasn't detected. I tried adding the BOINC CUDA package which has worked before on Ubuntu based distributions. Most recently I was testing Bodhi and after I installed the Legacy package BOINC picked it up right away.

I tried restarting BOINC and rebooting to no effect. I can't seem to find anything on my searches to resolve this especially since a lot info is several years old.

I tried: adduser boinc render (I remember that from Ubuntu many years ago) to no effect either.

The MXTool shows the driver is installed. I don't see a way offhand to verify it's active though.

If you need more info, you'll have to point me in the right direction as my Linux troubleshooting is not that in-depth. Otherwise, TIA for any aide you can provide.

Have a Latitude E6420 notebook with an NVS4200M chipset (Optimus) with current MXLinux.

I installed the 390 legacy drivers then installed BOINC. Both are from Stable. The GPU wasn't detected.
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I tried restarting BOINC and rebooting to no effect. I can't seem to find anything on my searches to resolve this especially since a lot info is several

Under Debian I install nvidia-driver and nvidia-kernel-dkms. If you want OpenCL you’ll also need nvidia-opencl-icd. You’ll have to reboot after installing them.

Given it’s an old GPU you might be out of luck with CUDA support.

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MarkJ

Still no luck. Rebooted just to make sure.


I don't what it could still run. Last I checked it could do SETI but that's gone. Einstein went to a minimum of 1 gb of VRAM some years ago. I'd like to see what it might run still.

Yav