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Message 23142 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 16:50:17 UTC

It would be interesting to see the graphics on Linux. I'm running Seti@Home. The "show graphics" feature used to work when I had a previous version of SuSE, but they are not working now (SuSE version 11). So, I assume that something was installed on a previous version that I don't have installed now. Anyone have any idea what I should look for?
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Message 23143 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 17:03:50 UTC - in response to Message 23142.  

See if this FAQ helps you out.
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Message 23144 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 17:27:35 UTC - in response to Message 23143.  

No, I don't have a separate user account for BOINC.
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Message 23685 - Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 1:31:05 UTC - in response to Message 23142.  

I heard that BOINC version 6 will run version 5 work units, but not display version 5 graphics. That is part of the problem, as Astropulse is still in version 5. (If I want to see graphics, maybe I should downgrade to BOINC version 5.)
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Message 23686 - Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 1:46:10 UTC - in response to Message 23685.  

I heard that BOINC version 6 will run version 5 work units, but not display version 5 graphics. That is part of the problem, as Astropulse is still in version 5. (If I want to see graphics, maybe I should downgrade to BOINC version 5.)

No, don't do that. There are versions, and versions, and versions.

Astropulse is BOINC v6 compliant. That's the serious point. Hold there if you don't want the laughs.

Astropulse is only the right description for vesions up to v5.00

Everything above v5.00 is Astropulse_v5

And for Linux, the graphics should work for x86, but they never got x64 graphics to work.

Apart from that, it's a great app.
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Message 28594 - Posted: 9 Nov 2009, 14:56:56 UTC - in response to Message 23142.  

I suspect that I need to install something on SuSE Linux that I don't have installed now, but I don't know what that is.

It might help if I knew how "show graphics" is supposed to work in Linux. Does anyone know of a page where I can read about this?

Also, is there a way I can try to run the graphics from a command line? If I could try that, I might see an error message I don't see when I try to show graphics from the client manager.
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Message 28596 - Posted: 9 Nov 2009, 17:25:51 UTC - in response to Message 28594.  

I suspect that I need to install something on SuSE Linux that I don't have installed now, but I don't know what that is.

Open a terminal console, then type ldd boinc and post the list of shared libraries it throws back at you. (That's small character L, not One).
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Message 28686 - Posted: 12 Nov 2009, 14:49:53 UTC - in response to Message 28596.  

james@linux-x15g:~/Research/BOINC> ldd boinc
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb808b000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0xb8074000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb8060000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7f70000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f58000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7f32000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7dee000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7de0000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb80ad000)
james@linux-x15g:~/Research/BOINC>
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Message 28687 - Posted: 12 Nov 2009, 14:57:07 UTC

Can you make sure that you have accelerated OpenGL support in your X server (version of OpenGL and graphics hardware required depends on the project)?
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Message 28787 - Posted: 16 Nov 2009, 18:33:28 UTC - in response to Message 28687.  

As far as I can tell, the way to do this on Open SuSE 11 is to check a box "accelerated graphics", and that box is checked. Is there another way I can check it?

(I use Linux the way most people use Windows. In my case, the user interface is KDE 4.)
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Message 28877 - Posted: 19 Nov 2009, 22:29:17 UTC - in response to Message 28787.  

Could it be that I need to set an environment variable?
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Message 30765 - Posted: 2 Feb 2010, 16:14:15 UTC - in response to Message 23142.  

I recently installed a newer version of OpenSuSE (11.2) and the newest version of BOINC. I'm pleased to report Seti@home graphics are working again.

I suspect the problem was that I was missing a file or files, or environment variable. If I was missing files, the missing files may have been within BOINC, or there may have been an error in my BOINC security (permissions) that caused the problem. We may never know.
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