Sunday, February 8, 2009

CUDA & Ubuntu

After messing with almost every setting on my home computer, it turns out there is one really really important little line that no-one really mentions:

sudo adduser boinc video

It enables Boinc to see the CUDA graphics card! Without this, it just does not work! It seems that you cant do this from the System > Administration > Users & Groups (at least I couldnt find a way!).

I am using the 180 driver from the Ubuntu repository, Boinc ver 6.4.5 from www.getdeb.com and a Nvidia 8600GT graphics card on 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10.

So ... Boinc now recognises the CUDA device ... just have to wait for Seti to start sending out CUDA workunits for Linux!

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