Hello

I switched my GF9800gt from my windows 7 machine (worked fine) to a debian machine. Updated kernel, nvidia drivers and boinc so far. No success.

kernel version: Lenny 2.6.26-2-amd64
nvidia driver version: 256.40
boinc version: 6.10.56

Any tips?

I switched my GF9800gt from my windows 7 machine (worked fine)

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Not sure what you mean by "(worked fine)"?
You did not run any GPUGrid tasks with it.

I'm guessing you did not install the driver fully/correctly or restert something like Xorg.

What are the first 20 lines on Boinc Messages?

6.10.58 is the recommended Boinc version for x64 Linux, Debian 4.1+

Did you restart the boinc-client in terminal? I haven't tried Debian, but on the other Linux Distro's I've tried, you have to restart the boinc-client in order for it to detect your GPU after every restart. It's a bug.

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@SK: could've crunched for a different account.

@liveonc: does this also apply if one doesn't start BOINC automatically but rather starts it manually upon reboot? I'm asking because this is what I'm doing and I can't get BOINC to detect the nVidia either. However, I also can't tell if the machine is actually loading the nVidia driver. It's being installed, but I'm not sure.
Edit: running CentOS

MrS

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@ETA I'm too much of a N00B to know the answer for that, I'm guessing no, but there's so much Linux I haven't tried & all I can say is that it was working yesterday, but today it's not, can you relate to that? It's called, why can't I update, without being nervous about if it'll still work after I do.

There's so many ways to install the driver in the first place, I'm still trying to get used to Fedora, & I'm very recently annoyed about something that worked well for me, but all of a sudden doesn't. KMOD out AKMOD in, why is that? Anything to do with too many cooks ruined the dish? Or maybe too many dishes ruined the meal? If one Bill Gates could get me cursing a hundred times a day in the 90's, could a hundred Bill Gates get me cursing 10.000 times a day in 2010?

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If one Bill Gates could get me cursing a hundred times a day in the 90's, could a hundred Penguins get me cursing 10.000 times a day in 2010?

Fixed it for you ;)

Well.. I'm with your there, but will spare you another lengthy rant. Here's the short version: IMO the problem which drives the frustration factor really high is not that its an OS made by geeks for geeks. No, the problem is that the instructions are also written by geeks!
By now I have reached a point where I tend to stumble less across the steps which apparently are too trivial to include them documents like official installation instructions. But voluntary learning it was not..

MrS

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