Posts by Trog Dog

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1) Message boards : GPUs : GPU still not working. HD6950 Message 44794 Posted 8 Jul 2012 by Trog Dog	In my experience yes
2) Message boards : GPUs : GPU still not working. HD6950 Message 44790 Posted 8 Jul 2012 by Trog Dog	I logged out from root and switched to my standard user account. It detected the GPU! THANK YOU!!! Now I have two more questions. 1, How do I get it load right from rc.local (or at boot). I believe rc.local executes as root. I've had mixed success and I'm unable to pinpoint the differences in setup that cause it to be detected or not (I've got 3 boxes and only one continues to recognise the gpu on startup) for the ones that don't I use gnome to autostart a terminal and execute the boinc command. I wrote these a while back - you'll have de-gentoo-fy them
3) Message boards : GPUs : GPU still not working. HD6950 Message 44785 Posted 7 Jul 2012 by Trog Dog	It's quite probably a permissions issue. Try running boinc from within an X terminal as a non-root user. Don't worry about specifying that it use your existing /opt/BOINC directory we intentionally don't want it to do so. ~ ./boinc See if it can detect your GPU
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC processes keep crashing on excessive disk usage Message 44653 Posted 28 Jun 2012 by Trog Dog	If you've been suffering this problem for several years that would cover many versions of boinc - initial thoughts are that this is a hardware (or local) issue. First thing I would check would be the power supply.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc computation error Message 44638 Posted 27 Jun 2012 by Trog Dog	You're best going to the individual projects web sites to ask this
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : g++: libboinc.a: No such file or directory Message 44211 Posted 21 May 2012 by Trog Dog	If you have wine (or are able to compile it) have a look at boinctasks its an alternative boinc manager. And if you ever get sick of slackware give gentoo a try ;)
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : g++: libboinc.a: No such file or directory Message 44208 Posted 21 May 2012 by Trog Dog	This lists the main dependencies - note you can run the client(CLI) without the manager(GUI). I couldn't see any errors in the build log you posted, maybe it got truncated. Sorry, I have no idea what bumblebee is - but if you have an NVIDIA gpu you need the NVIDIA drivers, likewise for ATI gpu you need the ATI drivers.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : g++: libboinc.a: No such file or directory Message 44204 Posted 20 May 2012 by Trog Dog	7.0.25 is the currently listed "stable" version although 7.0.28 is a bugfixed version of this. Try building at least 7.0.25 (although I would recommend you just start with 7.0.28) and use this info as a guide to assist you compiling. I'm not sure how many slackers frequent the forums.
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Problem with BOINC manager from v 6.12.n onwards Message 44140 Posted 14 May 2012 by Trog Dog	A bug has been raised on trac and the devs are aware - guess you could always add a me too comment in the bug to bump it - as to when it will be addressed....?
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : 7.0.25 will not upload on FreeBSD Message 44101 Posted 12 May 2012 by Trog Dog	Sorry guys, haven't got time to do anything about this at the moment. Getting married tomorrow and then on honeymoon for a week. I'll take a look at it when I return if you haven't already resolved it. Congratulations
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc can`t connect Message 44046 Posted 8 May 2012 by Trog Dog	i managed to solve it by myself, thank you all who helped me with this issue Care to explain it may help another user.
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : 7.0.25 will not upload on FreeBSD Message 44045 Posted 8 May 2012 by Trog Dog	Are you able to compile against an earlier version of curl eg 7.18.0 which alpha reported as working with 6.12.26?
13) Message boards : BOINC client : massive work fetch bug in 7.0.25 Message 43975 Posted 4 May 2012 by Trog Dog	Likewise, may be there a mistranslation in Bam prefs' settings, because I do not find these new ones. I guess that Bam prefs' labels haven't been updated to follow new 7.x version. Anyway, should I put my 5 and 0,1 values into: "Connect to network about every" 5 days "Maintain enough work for an additional" 0,1 day Correct? Regards Unfortunately issues with BAM need to be raised with Willy over at the BAM/Boincstats website - I do know that his has been working on a new version of the website for about 18 months and the new site is expected to go live around the end of this month
14) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7.0.26 Message 43935 Posted 3 May 2012 by Trog Dog	7.0.27 compiles fine on gentoo (stable 64bit) and no noticable hiccups running it so far.
15) Message boards : Questions and problems : 7.0.25 will not upload on FreeBSD Message 43934 Posted 3 May 2012 by Trog Dog	No probs, the other difference apparent is that 6.12.26 reports it was compiled against libidn/0.5.18 whereas 7.0.25 is compiled against c-ares/1.8.0 have you tried recompiling against libidn?
16) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7.0.26 Message 43928 Posted 2 May 2012 by Trog Dog	A 7.0.27 tag has been created in the tree so an official release is getting nearer ;)
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : 7.0.25 will not upload on FreeBSD Message 43921 Posted 2 May 2012 by Trog Dog	I used Ageless's link and tried 6.12.26. It works perfectly. I noticed that with this version, the task computation progress steadily increases, but with 7.0.25 it stayed at 0% until completion. 6.12.26 outputs: 01-May-2012 12:33:24 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.5.18 7.0.25 outputs: 01/05/2012 15:55:05 \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.24.0 GnuTLS/2.12.18 zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.8.0 GnuTLS - I suspect is where your problem lies - BOINC requires curl with ssl but NOT tls (at least on gentoo and that appears to be the same with bsd at least on a cursory inspection)
18) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC doesn't detect mouse or keyboard activity Message 43894 Posted 30 Apr 2012 by Trog Dog	How are you running boinc - as a service or from a terminal?
19) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7.0.26 Message 43892 Posted 30 Apr 2012 by Trog Dog	There are other bugs that have surfaced and the devs are working on a 7.0.27 Interesting philosophical debate. In a situation where the "receommended" version has bugs which are complete show-stoppers for some projects, is it better to wait and promote the bug-free version, or to promote an interim "not quite so bad" version. Hint: if we waited for bugs like [trac]#336[/trac] - described as 'critical' by the lead developer, when he reported it five years ago - to be fixed, we would still be in a pre-beta testing phase. So why wait now? I'm not speaking on behalf of the devs but if we were able to recruit a greater number of alpha testers then we could probably have recommended releases that were "stable" and relatively bug free avoiding this situation - and this is only meant as a comment, not an answer or counter-point to your question :)
20) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7.0.26 Message 43878 Posted 29 Apr 2012 by Trog Dog	Since there is nowhere feedback to be found for this build, I give some here. BOINC 7.0.26 works all fine for me; well, with its small and useful changes (from 7.0.25) it should do so ;) IMHO you should set this build as the "Recommended version". Even more, since it does solve some problems as can be seen here. Greetings :) There are other bugs that have surfaced and the devs are working on a 7.0.27

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