Bug#596656: boinc-client: cannot find GPU

[René Mayorga]

Severity: minor
thanks

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 07:09:41AM +0300, Krasu wrote:

Hi, 
thanks for your bug report.

> Package: boinc-client
> Version: 6.10.17+dfsg-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Sometimes BOINC cannot find nVidia GPU. I need to restart service manually,
> then it finds it:
> 
> # /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart

Well, this is a known problem, the GPU and CUDA functions depends that your X session
be enable at the time you start boinc, right now boinc is being started before
your X session.

Even that this is known problem we don't have a good way to deal with it yet,
since we can not set boinc to have a depends on an fully X installation.

Maybe we need to add an entry on README.Debian telling users about the common
issues with ATI and NVIDIA GPUs and the common workarounds too.

Cheers

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René