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Message 1731533 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 16:21:11 UTC
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My win install is running fine again.
So i tried my Mint 17.1 partition.
It does nothing, just a black screen.
Anyone complains about windows ?
Tried the recovery mode without luck.

How do i update the drivers when i can`t get into the system ?

Any help is much appreciated.


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Message 1731538 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 16:34:49 UTC - in response to Message 1731533.  

If it's anything like the bootloader setup on my Ubuntu+Fedora rig, In the boot loader you should be able to press a key for boot options, and select the boot section to edit. Once into the edit thing, add 'text' before the splash option, and it should boot to a textonly prompt to let you reinstall drivers. At one point with nv I did have to put in some weird options as well, but that was only needed with a certyain card and driver series. I suspect you won;t need to go that far, and just getting to a command prompt will do.
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Message 1731575 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 18:25:16 UTC - in response to Message 1731533.  

My win install is running fine again.
So i tried my Mint 17.1 partition.
It does nothing, just a black screen.
Anyone complains about windows ?
Tried the recovery mode without luck.

How do i update the drivers when i can`t get into the system ?

Any help is much appreciated.

What happen if you type Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+F2 simultaneously? That should drop you into a console session. Beyond that it gets hairy, so let's see if you get that far first of all.
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Message 1731612 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 21:17:28 UTC

I`m a beginner on Linux.
Is there an easy way ?


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Message 1731613 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 21:18:01 UTC
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Hopefully you know which version of Ubuntu your Linux Mint is based on (see Wikipedia) :

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu
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Message 1731616 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 21:23:48 UTC - in response to Message 1731613.  

Hopefully you know which version of Ubuntu your Linux Mint is based on :

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu


I fear my card is not supported by Linux for now.
Not really a way around win.


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Message 1731618 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 21:26:39 UTC - in response to Message 1731616.  

I fear my card is not supported by Linux for now.
Not really a way around win.

What made think that ?
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Message 1731620 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 21:31:44 UTC - in response to Message 1731618.  

I fear my card is not supported by Linux for now.
Not really a way around win.

What made think that ?


I have read somewhere maybe on Planet 3d now Linux doesN`t support new hardware.

You should be at least able to log in and change drivers.
Thats a minimum to me.


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Message 1731621 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 21:33:41 UTC - in response to Message 1731620.  

I fear my card is not supported by Linux for now.
Not really a way around win.

What made think that ?


I have read somewhere maybe on Planet 3d now Linux doesN`t support new hardware.

You should be at least able to log in and change drivers.
Thats a minimum to me.

If your old driver does not recognize your new GPU than your only way will be using the command line, the shell.
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Message 1731626 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 21:41:06 UTC - in response to Message 1731621.  

I fear my card is not supported by Linux for now.
Not really a way around win.

What made think that ?


I have read somewhere maybe on Planet 3d now Linux doesN`t support new hardware.

You should be at least able to log in and change drivers.
Thats a minimum to me.

If your old driver does not recognize your new GPU than your only way will be using the command line, the shell.


With nv cards I have to do that every time there is a kernel update, or a driver update, so seems not a unique situation.
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Message 1731630 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 21:49:37 UTC - in response to Message 1731626.  
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There's an AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390 Series working in Ubuntu right here, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=4420488973
A while back it was changed to where the new kernel update didn't require a new driver install on AMD cards, don't know about nVidias...
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Message 1731631 - Posted: 3 Oct 2015, 21:49:58 UTC

Not sure i`m in the mood to deal with that.
I have enough trouble at work.
Fighting to survive atm.


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Message 1731668 - Posted: 4 Oct 2015, 0:15:04 UTC
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yeah card works great

if you need help getting it going pm me and i help you out

1st couple times trying to get it to work was a nightmare but now i can get it to run in minutes

Nvidia and ati both work
I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap
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Message 1738756 - Posted: 1 Nov 2015, 11:32:34 UTC

Is there going to be a updated Boinc version for Linux to detect latest AMD GPU`s ?

This was the only way to get my 380 to work for windows.


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Message 1739674 - Posted: 4 Nov 2015, 18:19:17 UTC - in response to Message 1738756.  

Have you tried uninstalling the Driver from AMD and installing the one in 'Additional Drivers' with AMD App 1729.3? Seems strange Zombu can get his AMD 390 to work where you can't get a 380 to work. I just went through the 'Missing OpenCL' again with Ubuntu 14.04.3 and BOINC. Ubuntu has been pushing that driver for a couple months and I've been resisting. For Me Cat 14.6 works better. This time I didn't see the driver update listed and when the Updater ran it installed the new driver with AMD-App 1729.3...again. After that BOINC once again claimed NO OPENCL even though clinfo said otherwise. I just looked in usr/lib and all that was there was a file, Not a Link, named libOpenCL.so.1 . I made a link to the File, named it libOpenCL.so, and then BOINC decided I had OpenCL.
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Message 1739755 - Posted: 4 Nov 2015, 23:49:47 UTC - in response to Message 1738756.  
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You'll need a new BOINC 7.6.12(+) built after October 5th 2015, as that's the date my new AMD GPU detection code got added to the 7.6 branch.

This 7.6.12 for Ubuntu was built on October 31st. You can also add Locutus of Borg's PPA to your system's Software Sources and get frequently updated builds from there.

Don't hold your breath for Berkeley to build a new version any time soon, they haven't got the man power or money. (Although usually when I post things like this, within a week they do release new versions. ;-))

Edit: Of course, you can also try building the client yourself, using CompileClient as a guide.
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Message 1740302 - Posted: 7 Nov 2015, 1:29:52 UTC - in response to Message 1739755.  

Don't hold your breath for Berkeley to build a new version any time soon, they haven't got the man power or money. (Although usually when I post things like this, within a week they do release new versions. ;-))

See?
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Message 1740573 - Posted: 8 Nov 2015, 13:47:54 UTC

It is simply amazing.

Updated to Boinc 7.6.12 and still getting ..........................

So 08 Nov 2015 14:38:40 CET | | Starting BOINC client version 7.6.12 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
So 08 Nov 2015 14:38:40 CET | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
So 08 Nov 2015 14:38:40 CET | | Libraries: libcurl/7.41.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8zg zlib/1.2.7
So 08 Nov 2015 14:38:40 CET | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
So 08 Nov 2015 14:38:40 CET | | No usable GPUs found
So 08 Nov 2015 14:38:40 CET | | Host name: Mike-FX-L
So 08 Nov 2015 14:38:40 CET | | Processor: 8 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]


What i have tried so far.

- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
- sudo apt-get install lib32gcc1
- sudo aticonfig --initial --force
- reboot

Also made links to libOpenCL.so and libOpenCL.so.1

- sudo aticonfig --initial --force
- reboot


Boinc still refuses to detect my GPU.

One thing is for sure if Linux wants to become a windows replacement it has to get more user friendly.

This is very annoying.


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Message 1740578 - Posted: 8 Nov 2015, 14:12:07 UTC - in response to Message 1740573.  

Try just doing a sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart

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Message 1740581 - Posted: 8 Nov 2015, 14:23:52 UTC - in response to Message 1740578.  

Try just doing a sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart

Claggy


Did that 100 times already.
purged fglrx reinstalled.

CLInfo.

Device Type: CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU
Vendor ID: 1002h
Board name: DID:6939 RID:F1
Device Topology: PCI[ B#1, D#0, F#0 ]
Max compute units: 28
Max work items dimensions: 3
Max work items[0]: 256
Max work items[1]: 256
Max work items[2]: 256
Max work group size: 256
Preferred vector width char: 4
Preferred vector width short: 2
Preferred vector width int: 1
Preferred vector width long: 1
Preferred vector width float: 1
Preferred vector width double: 1
Native vector width char: 4
Native vector width short: 2
Native vector width int: 1
Native vector width long: 1
Native vector width float: 1
Native vector width double: 1
Max clock frequency: 985Mhz
Address bits: 64
Max memory allocation: 2944401408
Image support: Yes
Max number of images read arguments: 128
Max number of images write arguments: 64
Max image 2D width: 16384
Max image 2D height: 16384
Max image 3D width: 2048
Max image 3D height: 2048
Max image 3D depth: 2048
Max samplers within kernel: 16
Max size of kernel argument: 1024
Alignment (bits) of base address: 2048
Minimum alignment (bytes) for any datatype: 128
Single precision floating point capability
Denorms: No
Quiet NaNs: Yes
Round to nearest even: Yes
Round to zero: Yes
Round to +ve and infinity: Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add: Yes
Cache type: Read/Write
Cache line size: 64
Cache size: 16384
Global memory size: 4129292288
Constant buffer size: 65536
Max number of constant args: 8
Local memory type: Scratchpad
Local memory size: 32768
Max pipe arguments: 16
Max pipe active reservations: 16
Max pipe packet size: 2944401408
Max global variable size: 2649961216
Max global variable preferred total size: 4129292288
Max read/write image args: 64
Max on device events: 1024
Queue on device max size: 524288
Max on device queues: 1
Queue on device preferred size: 262144
SVM capabilities:
Coarse grain buffer: Yes
Fine grain buffer: Yes
Fine grain system: No
Atomics: No
Preferred platform atomic alignment: 0
Preferred global atomic alignment: 0
Preferred local atomic alignment: 0
Kernel Preferred work group size multiple: 64
Error correction support: 0
Unified memory for Host and Device: 0
Profiling timer resolution: 1
Device endianess: Little
Available: Yes
Compiler available: Yes
Execution capabilities:
Execute OpenCL kernels: Yes
Execute native function: No
Queue on Host properties:
Out-of-Order: No
Profiling : Yes
Queue on Device properties:
Out-of-Order: Yes
Profiling : Yes
Platform ID: 0x7f7c6c48d8f0
Name: Tonga
Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Device OpenCL C version: OpenCL C 2.0
Driver version: 1729.3 (VM)
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1729.3)
Extensions: cl_khr_fp64 cl_amd_fp64 cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_3d_image_writes cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_ext_atomic_counters_32 cl_amd_device_attribute_query cl_amd_vec3 cl_amd_printf cl_amd_media_ops cl_amd_media_ops2 cl_amd_popcnt cl_khr_image2d_from_buffer cl_khr_spir cl_khr_subgroups cl_khr_gl_event cl_khr_depth_images

Boinc tells no usable GPUs found.

Wasted 4 hours now.
Very nice.


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