Hi Forum,

I installed Fedora 11, nvidia drivers from the rpmfusion repository (185.18.14-1) and the CUDA SDK from nvidia.com for Fedora 10. (They don't have anything for 11 yet).
Nevertheless, here's what I get from BOINC client: (installed from Fedora repositories)
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Starting BOINC client version 6.4.7 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 NSS/3.12.3 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.9 libssh2/1.0
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Data directory: /var/lib/boinc
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Processor: 3 AuthenticAMD AMD Phenom(tm) II X3 720 Processor [Family 16 Model 4 Stepping 2]
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc pni monitor cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm exta
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||OS: Linux: 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Memory: 7.74 GB physical, 16.12 GB virtual
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Disk: 180.96 GB total, 173.18 GB free
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Local time is UTC +3 hours
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Not using a proxy
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||No CUDA devices found
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||No coprocessors
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST|climateprediction.net|URL: http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID: XXXXXX; location: (none); project prefs: default
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 3961.98MB
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 7131.56MB
Tue 23 Jun 2009 10:20:43 AM EEST||Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB

I've tried disabling SELinux, running boinc as root and setting the permissions of /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl to 777.

Nothing helps.

Has anybody made BOINC with CUDA work with Fedora 11?

I haven't gotten it to work with F10 yet. I need to upgrade to F11, but I don't know when I'll get around to it. I tried a couple things I found on the GPUGrid forums, but no luck.

If you do get it working, post back here.

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Kathryn :o)

Is there something like libcudart.so in the packages? What happens if you copy
the file http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/tags/boinc_core_release_6_8_4/coprocs/CUDA/posix/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libcudart.so to /var/lib/boinc ?

File list from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=1170228

Files 1 through 17 of 17
Name ascending sort Size
/etc/bash_completion.d 4096
/etc/bash_completion.d/boinc-client 2811
/etc/logrotate.d/boinc-client 1009
/etc/rc.d/init.d/boinc-client 4267
/etc/sysconfig/boinc-client 1305
/usr/bin/boinc 12
/usr/bin/boinc_client 550480
/usr/bin/boinccmd 225088
/usr/bin/crypt_prog 102320
/usr/bin/switcher 5920
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client-6.4.7 4096
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client-6.4.7/COPYING 35147
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client-6.4.7/COPYRIGHT 1607
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client-6.4.7/USAGE_FEDORA 149
/usr/share/man/man1/boinc.1.gz 1621
/usr/share/man/man1/boinccmd.1.gz 2497
/var/lib/boinc 4096

I don't have Fedora, but I just about a month ago upgraded my Gentoo-derived distro and reinstalled boinc, cudatools and all that. No matter what I did, it refused to see any Cuda devices.

Yesterday I discovered that I hadn't added the boinc account to the video group.

Set that and I'm a happy cruncher again.

If you update to the latest kernel (as of this post) and livna RPM for the Nvidia drivers, CUDA will work. Be sure to check permissions of your /dev/nvidia0 device... as whatever user runs BOINC needs to have write permission to the /dev/nv* devices.