Posts by Keith Myers

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1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Suspend when computer is in use not working Message 115995 Posted 27 Apr 2025 by Keith Myers	That is a private, separately developed distro. It will have to incorporate the changes from the official Boinc distro if idle detection on Linux is expected to work. Best to ask the developer of that distro this question.
2) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 115992 Posted 27 Apr 2025 by Keith Myers	Feeder backend at Gaia@home has been offline for most of the day. Keeps throwing contacts into 2 hour backoffs.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : GPU no longer detected? Message 115885 Posted 10 Apr 2025 by Keith Myers	Yes, but you need to use the correct AMD compute drivers. I don't know all that much about AMD cards and their drivers are always a fiasco. I know that they have moved to drivers called RoCm that don't support legacy hardware like your RX340. That is probably why you don't have any compute drivers now. I don't know if they still have legacy compute drivers now or not. The normal drivers that AMD promotes are only for displaying video content and are devoid of any compute components. You have to use specific command line parameters to force the installer package to install the needed compute components. You could be now in the situation that your card is too old for Boinc since the driver support evaporated. The Adrenalin drivers that AMD provides DO NOT contain OpenCL support. You'll have to use the Pro drivers. https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/faqs/PDH-INSTALL.html You can check for system support of OpenCL by installing and using the clinfo application. https://support.zivid.com/en/latest/getting-started/software-installation/gpu/check-opencl-driver.html
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : GPU no longer detected? Message 115883 Posted 10 Apr 2025 by Keith Myers	You haven't reinstalled any gpu drivers after the reinstall that Boinc recognizes as a gpu. If you don't see the gpu detection in the top of the Event Log after restarting the client, you don't have any compute drivers installed. Since you mention card type being AMD, you need to install the AMD compute drivers which enable OpenCL support which is what Boinc is detecting and looking for. You can set the coproc_debug flag for the Event Log in the Manager also for any information. Your Boinc directory should also contain a coproc_info.xml file which defines the cards that Boinc detects. I suspect you don't even have that file currently.
5) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 115707 Posted 29 Mar 2025 by Keith Myers	Free-DC stats is down. https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/stats.free-dc.org.html
6) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 115557 Posted 6 Mar 2025 by Keith Myers	Asteroids has gone missing again. First couldn't upload or download. Now site entirely missing. Same ole, same old. Rinse and repeat.
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Screensaver Message 115440 Posted 14 Feb 2025 by Keith Myers	That works too and is probably simpler to accomplish. Good job!
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Screensaver Message 115427 Posted 13 Feb 2025 by Keith Myers	Delete the screensaver executable or mark non-executable. Or disable the screensaver in the OS.
9) Message boards : GPUs : Failed to initialize OpenCL on Fedora 41 with AMD RX 6950 XT Message 115302 Posted 30 Jan 2025 by Keith Myers	Fedora 41 is equivalent to Ubuntu 24.10 so an interim release, not a LTS release. ROCm tends to only support LTS releases. I'd try the Fedora 40 release and see if the card gets picked up.
10) Message boards : GPUs : Failed to initialize OpenCL on Fedora 41 with AMD RX 6950 XT Message 115300 Posted 30 Jan 2025 by Keith Myers	Believe your Fedora 41 is too new for official support for Radeon ROCm yet. Did you already do: sudo dnf install rocm-opencl sudo dnf install rocm-clinfo rocm-clinfo
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : RasPi 5 using Ubuntu 24.10 Message 115229 Posted 19 Jan 2025 by Keith Myers	Problem with rpc and/or port availability. Check that the password in gui_rpc_auth.cfg is good. Check that port 31416 is open in your firewall and that no other program is already using that port. Try starting the client directly in the Boinc directory via the terminal to see all the messages the client prints out before the error message.
12) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 115119 Posted 1 Jan 2025 by Keith Myers	Working for me just now. Getting and reporting work just fine.
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not getting new tasks Message 115109 Posted 30 Dec 2024 by Keith Myers	If the Science United client doesn't try a different project, he won't get any tasks. AFAIK, the user has no control over SU client. Only can select different interests. That may be the only way he can shift his client away from the deprecated Universeathome project. Why, in my opinion, Science United shouldn't exist. Just go with the stock and working BOINC installation and select your own projects to crunch for.
14) Message boards : GPUs : Apple Silicon GPU cores - supported projects Message 115072 Posted 26 Dec 2024 by Keith Myers	Only one I know of offhand, is Einstein. https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php
15) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC Mgr on M4 Pro Mac mini Message 115067 Posted 26 Dec 2024 by Keith Myers	Look in the BOINC data directory and see if you actually have a global_prefs_override.xml file. If it is not there, that explains your issue. Should be in ~/Library/Application Support/BOINC If it is there, then have you re-read config files in the Manager recently?
16) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 114984 Posted 12 Dec 2024 by Keith Myers	https://numberfields.asu.edu is down.
17) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 114839 Posted 11 Nov 2024 by Keith Myers	Notice from the last remaining maintenance person on Universe@home project officially posting the project is finished. https://universeathome.pl/universe/forum_thread.php?id=754
18) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 114832 Posted 11 Nov 2024 by Keith Myers	NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobbie Allison dies at 86
19) Message boards : Projects : Milkyway@home unavailable with expired SSL certificate Message 114768 Posted 1 Nov 2024 by Keith Myers	Milkyway's certs expired today on Halloween. Project unavailable. Uploads piling up.
20) Message boards : Questions and problems : Memory Management Message 114767 Posted 31 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers	OK, uncheck any value in the Manager settings for storage allocation. Leave the host to be unlimited. I've seen the issue be solved this way also. The client doesn't/can't/gets confused sometimes interpreting which host allocation resource value is limiting a task and just reports one or the other values that can constrain a task from running.

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