The first thing I had to do to get this to work was to obtain the updates for GPUs, for ubuntu this was boinc-amd-opencl.<\/p>\n
Then I had to add into \/etc\/init.d\/boinc-client the xhost command, which would give access to the GPU to the boinc username.<\/p>\n
The information on the web was wrong about this. The command I had to add was:<\/p>\n
xhost si:localuser:boinc<\/p>\n
si means server interpreted, and the kinds of strings accepted are described in man xsecurity. Localuser implies a local username. The web articles I found claimed one needed to do xhost local:boinc, but the description of xhost:local is that it doesn’t take a username, and it makes LOCAL connections available. Which sounds good, but didn’t work. After doing xhost local:boinc it was the same as if I had just done xhost local, and I got an entry “LOCAL” when I did xhost, but it didn’t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first thing I had to do to get this to work was to obtain the updates for GPUs, for ubuntu this was boinc-amd-opencl. Then I had to add into \/etc\/init.d\/boinc-client the xhost command, which would give access to the GPU to the boinc username. The information on the web was wrong about this. The … Continue reading Boinc client: No usable GPUs<\/span>