Hello,

just yesterday I received my new NVIDIA 8400GS based graphic adapter (ok, it is slow, I know, but it should work for this project in principle).
I installed it in my openSUSE 11.0 x64 linux box and installed the driver with yast from the nvidia repository (driver version 173.14.09-0.1).
The BOINC client (self build 6.3.5 from svn) was telling me, that it has no CUDA devices found, but found a GPU coprocessor at startup.
Workunits were downloaded and started, but all crashed right at the beginning with:

<core_client_version>6.3.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
process exited with code 1 (0x1, -255)
</message>
<stderr_txt>

</stderr_txt>
]]>

outcome.
So what is the problem ?
Do I need a different driver ?
Is it a workunit resp. application error ?
Missed I something ?

Any help is appreciated.

Regards, Frank

Hello,

just yesterday I received my new NVIDIA 8400GS based graphic adapter (ok, it is slow, I know, but it should work for this project in principle).
I installed it in my openSUSE 11.0 x64 linux box and installed the driver with yast from the nvidia repository (driver version 173.14.09-0.1).
The BOINC client (self build 6.3.5 from svn) was telling me, that it has no CUDA devices found, but found a GPU coprocessor at startup.
Workunits were downloaded and started, but all crashed right at the beginning with:

6.3.5

process exited with code 1 (0x1, -255)




]]>

outcome.
So what is the problem ?
Do I need a different driver ?
Is it a workunit resp. application error ?
Missed I something ?

Any help is appreciated.

Regards, Frank

You should try to download the driver from the Nvidia website, as we indicate.
Also, some libraries are packed in the client after you compile, so your self compiled client is not working. Download the package from the link in our website. The 8400 is so slow that will not return any workunits in the assigned time frame even if you let it run day and night.

GDF.

You should try to download the driver from the Nvidia website, as we indicate.

I was there, but found no driver for openSUSE 11.0, I tried the 10.3 drivers, but had some problems to compile it.

Also, some libraries are packed in the client after you compile, so your self compiled client is not working. Download the package from the link in our

If you mean the libcudart64.so, I copied it in the boinc dir. Isn't that lib enough ?

The 8400 is so slow that will not return any workunits in the assigned time frame even if you let it run day and night.

I know this and I have another -faster- card in the pipeline, but at first I want to see if it works in principle.

How can I determine if a driver supports CUDA ?

Greetings, Frank

You should try to download the driver from the Nvidia website, as we indicate.

I was there, but found no driver for openSUSE 11.0, I tried the 10.3 drivers, but had some problems to compile it.

Also, some libraries are packed in the client after you compile, so your self compiled client is not working. Download the package from the link in our

If you mean the libcudart64.so, I copied it in the boinc dir. Isn't that lib enough ?

The 8400 is so slow that will not return any workunits in the assigned time frame even if you let it run day and night.

I know this and I have another -faster- card in the pipeline, but at first I want to see if it works in principle.

How can I determine if a driver supports CUDA ?

Greetings, Frank

You are having a driver problem.

# Selecting CUDA device #0
# Using CUDA device 0
Cuda error in file 'deviceQuery.cu' in line 59 : feature is not yet implemented.

Try to uninstall it, and pick another distribution driver until it works. Older ones could also be fine. Alternatively, use a supported distribution for your PC.

GDF

all looks well now.
I installed the cuda driver from nvidia page, boinc found a cuda device.
let me see if the work unit will be calculated.