All seems to be going well with the Leadtek 9800GT so far, however GPUGrid work units started crashing at a good rate of knots this morning. Their home page carries the ominous phrase "The new Linux application is now based on CUDA2.2 and requires drivers 185.xx."
Up until now I have been using the 180.x driver that is in the Ubuntu repositories ... but alas, nothing newer than that available.
I resorted to using the following to get it to work (all entered into a terminal window):
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
Followed by (for GPG key):
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys CEC06767
And finally:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-185-modaliases nvidia-glx-185
Everything seemed to work fine after a reboot, except for the Boinc client trashing all the previously downloaded SETI Cuda work units. It did, however download 3 new GPUGrid work units and seems to be crunching merrily.
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