Friday, October 9, 2009

Linux nVidia driver update

I do get a lot more credit per hour on GPUGrid than I do on SETI, so I looked for another project for the 9800GT card now that I have problems with GPUGrid. I attached to Collatz but that is running a beta application for Linux Cuda and despite spending an hour messing with the set-up and moving files around, I couldn't get it to work. It trashes work units immediately each time. The Windoze version seems to run fine on the 'ol 8600GT.
One of the comments on the Collatz message board says you need driver version 190.xx ...so, I upgraded to 190.32. It was a painless upgrade and everything else seems to work fine except Collatz. I have allowed new work units from GPUGrid and will watch to see if they complete without errors. If not ... then I am back to the joys of trying to keep a 9800GT card running!

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