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Jimbo Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 7 Credit: 4,103,456 RAC: 0 |
I searched and no answer appears to fix my trivial concern. BOINC SETI has run for me for years. I upgraded to the new Mac and everything ran fine for a while. Now just get "Starting screensaver Graphics, please wait..." The engine runs fine, data is dealt with, just no screen saver graphics. No errors in event log. I see where this has been an issue and there were to be fixes. Is there a simple one? Again, it does not effect the process, just the visuals. Thanks, Jim Berkeley grad class of '74 |
Kissagogo27 Send message Joined: 6 Nov 99 Posts: 716 Credit: 8,032,827 RAC: 62 |
hi, take a look at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83293#1956010 |
Jimbo Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 7 Credit: 4,103,456 RAC: 0 |
Tried a reset. No change. BTW, I had taken the software out and loaded an older version, same issue. I'm on the latest version now. Really don't know how to overcome now. Not a deal breaker, just miss it. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22233 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Since the application version you are running does not have the graphics component built in, and is the "stock" version distributed automatically by the servers the graphics won't appear. There are a few solutions: 1) - Find an old version, set up the appropriate application configuration files to ensure you only ever run that version. There are problems with that however, the "new" version was built to overcome a number of known issues with the "old" version (others can fill you in on the detail). 2) - Add the required computational updates to the above version, and then get that distributed as the "stock" application. Again, there are problems, not the least of which is having to go through the "Beta" testing phase. 3) - Do 2) in combination with the latter part of 1) to set up the application configuration files. 4) - As 2), but build the graphics stuff into the current application etc. Since the application is open source you can get hold of copies of any (recent) applications and "do your own thing", just make sure that the product doesn't dump loads of errors.... Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Jimbo Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 7 Credit: 4,103,456 RAC: 0 |
I'll just leave it alone. I do not possess the technical skills to do as you suggested. I'm an older guy with a basic plug & play mentality. Thanks for your help, I'm fine as is. |
James Adrian Send message Joined: 15 Oct 05 Posts: 8 Credit: 4,399,090 RAC: 1 |
Hi Jimbo, take a look at the "No graphics on Mac 8.04 version" thread. Zalster has posted some instructions to fix the problem there. |
Jimbo Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 7 Credit: 4,103,456 RAC: 0 |
No luck, I'll just wait... Thanks so much.. |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
Jimbo, in the spotlight search type terminal, once it's open copy the following and paste and hit return cd /Library/Application\ Support/BOINC\ Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu it should then look something like Zalsters-Computer:setiathome.berkeley.edu Zalster$ In this case you can see it's my name but in yours it should have yours. Then copy the following into the blinking icon sudo chmod +xsetigraphics_8.04_i686-apple-darwin If you do it right, it should ask for your password that you used to sign on. Hit return and you should see usage: chmod [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-a | +a | =a [i][# [ n]]] mode|entry file ... chmod [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-E | -C | -N | -i | -I] file ... quit terminal, close boinc, restart your computer and relaunch boinc. It should work now. Good luck Zalster PS, I got all this from TBar... |
Jimbo Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 7 Credit: 4,103,456 RAC: 0 |
Same....."screen saver graphics staring, please wait" until timeout to blank screen. Thanks again. Wait, I see an error in the event log in RED text... "Unrecognized tag in cc_config.xml:<don't use_wsl>" |
Bob Merrill Send message Joined: 7 Jun 99 Posts: 120 Credit: 8,531,677 RAC: 19 |
I did this, it didn't work... |
Jimbo Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 7 Credit: 4,103,456 RAC: 0 |
Don't know why, but my SETI screensaver was working properly this morning in classic mode. Don't know if there was a Mac update (known shown in history), SETI update (nothing in event log), or what, but it started working spontaneously in an older mode (not changed by me). I'll watch it for a while and try the other visual modes later. Could be but shouldn't be an anomaly. |
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