Kate,
THANK YOU!!!
I did the restart with sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart

YAY!!

Captain Jack,
Greetings!!
I am installing Raring as we speak.
On debian I had upped the sleep to 33 seconds.
Sigh, alas, I still had to do restart.

I did a git-clone and got the code - looked where the the message of no-usable GPU was coming from.
The message was from where the code checked to see if OpenCL.so
existed.
I did not have time to chase down all of the include files to see where the
path was set. I was probably chasing a snark :-)
Anyway that test would have nothing to do with a delay of loading the driver.
Tests afte that one ( it was the first of a few) *did* test for available memory and such.
Am I confused? You bet! Will I be happy as a clam doing a restart after boot? YES!

Kate, Jack
Thanks again
..and I *am* impressed with all of the time both of you have donated to the projects!! Wow!
Jay

Sleep 6 works for me

1) Installed a fresh copy of the raring daily build for today
2) Installed the "AMD graphics accelerators from fglrx (proprietary)"
3) Installed BOINC from the Ubuntu software center (version 7.0.27)
4) Edited /etc/init.d/boinc-client and inserted "sleep 6" at the following location


Note that the boinc-client script looks very different from the old example that I cited above.

5) Reboot
6) Waited until boinc was running (as verified using system monitor)
7) Started up BOINC Manager and verified that GPU was recognized
8) Attached to WCG and started processing

Just turned in the first completed GPU job.

Thanks, captainjack.

I just checked the boinc-client script that came with BOINC 7.0.58 from the LocutusOfBorg repository, and a "sleep 5" was there without my doing any editing:

start()
{
log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
if is_running; then
log_progress_msg "already running"
else
# workaround for ubuntu bug #933354
log_progress_msg "sleeping a little bit in order to let graphics start"
sleep 5
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" -a -x /usr/bin/xhost ]; then
# grant the boinc client to perform GPU computing
xhost local:boinc || echo -n "xhost error ignored, GPU computing may not be possible"
fi

Now just to see whether I can reboot and have the GPU be recognized automatically. I hadn't previously tried with this version.

By the way, the part below is something that Skip Da Shu (at the link I posted a few messages ago) had come up with, and recommended to the BOINC developers. Nice that they are now including it.

if [ -n "$DISPLAY" -a -x /usr/bin/xhost ]; then
# grant the boinc client to perform GPU computing
xhost local:boinc || echo -n "xhost error ignored, GPU computing may not be possible"
fi

Need to type faster...kateiacy discovered same :D

Kate,

Have mentioned your continued tribulation with the sleep 60 value v.v. the recognition of the ATI card to the compiler/maintainer of Locutus. Maybe he comes back with a solution... but he's got his off day today... no trunk updates. He's working toward acceptance by Ubuntu/Canonical, so his builds go straight into main... no need to use Locutus. That certainly would raise the easy install availability on Linux to newer versions, now I think stuck on 7.0.27. I'm happy with 7.0.58... it does what it needs to do without issue, happily steering 1 CEP2 job to the front [CEP2 hit nearly 20 years last night, when this was in fact a low weekend day... members starting to discover app_config.xml benefits slowly but steadily is my guess]

cheers