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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I just received this email from primegrid.com!! COOL!! I wonder how often they send these kind of emails out?  On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:41 PM, John Michael Blazek wrote: > Dear Primefinder, > > Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has > found a unique prime number. > > Since you have auto-reporting selected, the following prime was submitted on > your > behalf: > > Added 97833 : 8115*2^617718+1 (185956 digits) > > Once again, congratulations on your find. Thank you for participating in > PrimeGrid. > > John Blazek of PrimeGrid Woo hoo! Very cool indeed! :)  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Congrats. I switched over to ubuntu but haven't tried the GPU yet. Anyone know how to get boinc to not run as a service without uninstalling boinc then reinstalling? What is your reason to not run as a service in Ubuntu? Just curious. It's the only way boinc will allow to use the GPU to crunch. Was the same in win7. Had to reinstall it in win7 without running as a service, worked like a charm. I had this same problem with Ubuntu and Kate told me to do this: Edit the script /etc/init.d/boinc-client as follows (You will need to use "sudo" to do this as root): Find the section that starts: start() { log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME" if is_running; then log_progress_msg "already running" . . . Add the line "sleep 15" after the opening brace: start() { sleep 15 log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME" if is_running; then log_progress_msg "already running" . . . This will cause a long enough delay in bringing up BOINC to let the GPU start. (If 15 isn't quite long enough on your machines, you can adjust it. That's plenty on mine.) It works in Ubuntu 10.04; I haven't upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 so I can't say for sure about it. works like a charm! |
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Congrats. I switched over to ubuntu but haven't tried the GPU yet. Anyone know how to get boinc to not run as a service without uninstalling boinc then reinstalling? What is your reason to not run as a service in Ubuntu? Just curious. It's the only way boinc will allow to use the GPU to crunch. Was the same in win7. Had to reinstall it in win7 without running as a service, worked like a charm. Actually you *can* crunch with the GPU when running BOINC as a service under Ubuntu. I wrote about that in this thread back on Dec. 14. https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/...d_thread,9462_offset,1880 |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I just received this email from primegrid.com!! COOL!! I wonder how often they send these kind of emails out? On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:41 PM, John Michael Blazek wrote: > Dear Primefinder, > > Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has > found a unique prime number. > > Since you have auto-reporting selected, the following prime was submitted on > your > behalf: > > Added 97833 : 8115*2^617718+1 (185956 digits) > > Once again, congratulations on your find. Thank you for participating in > PrimeGrid. > > John Blazek of PrimeGrid Woo hoo! Very cool indeed! :) It's ranked 754th largest in the top 5000 Primes Database! I will have to see how long it stays in that position.  Edit...Beat you to it Kate :) [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 30, 2011 4:21:21 AM] |
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It's ranked 754th largest in the top 5000 Primes Database! I will have to see how long it stays in that position. Edit...Beat you to it Kate :) Congratulations, again! Yep, you beat me! :) You "sound" as if you're feeling better -- hope that's true! Kate |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Still have a headache and my eye's still hurt but the fever has broken and I'm all excited about my find. My son is a math teacher and he thinks it's totally awesome!
Here is my entry in the database... http://primes.utm.edu/bios/page.php?id=2681 Shucks, now everyone will know my real name, oh well.  |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Looks like my graphics drivers are not loaded. Tried to use CCC for ATI and stated no drivers loaded. Package manager shows I have them though. Beats me as to why they didn't load. Anyone have some suggestions to load the drivers, presuming through terminal?
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Looks like my graphics drivers are not loaded. Tried to use CCC for ATI and stated no drivers loaded. Package manager shows I have them though. Beats me as to why they didn't load. Anyone have some suggestions to load the drivers, presuming through terminal? Did you check under System > Administration > Additional drivers (I think that's what it's called in Ubuntu 10.10; it's called "Hardware drivers" in 10.04 and something similar in 10.10). You can enable or disable proprietary drivers there. I don't have any machines with ATI cards, but that was a step I needed with Nvidia drivers. (Now let's see if Brink beat me on this one, too...) |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Looks like my graphics drivers are not loaded. Tried to use CCC for ATI and stated no drivers loaded. Package manager shows I have them though. Beats me as to why they didn't load. Anyone have some suggestions to load the drivers, presuming through terminal? Remove the drivers that you loaded from the package manager and go get the driver from the AMD site. What card is it again? If it's the HD 4xxx series you can get it by doing... wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-1-x86.x86_64.run from the terminal. Then do sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-11-1-x86.x86_64.run Edit: I did not type fast enough... [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 30, 2011 4:54:57 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
For some reason you can't kill the gnome desktop manager any more in Ubuntu 10.10 by opening a term and typing:
----------------------------------------sudo telinit 3 sudo gdm-stop sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop sudo service gdm stop Something changed from 10.04 to 10.10 because all those used to work in 10.04 and prior. Anyone else notice this? The only way I have been able to do this is hold down the Shift key on reboot until the grub menu shows up, highlight the Recovery Mode entry, press e for edit, replace single with text from the end of the linux line, then press Ctrl+x to boot. I needed to do this to manually load my NVidia video drivers since you can't do it unless gdm is stopped completely. ugh I guess that's another reason to stay with the LTS version. I need to go back and read in our thread here, I think Kate had a easier way to do this while in the gui. EDIT: Found Kate's post... Open terminal and copy the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-current-modaliases nvidia-settings Now go to Menu System-->Administration-->Additional Drivers and activate the current Nvidia driver. Reboot your computer. May need to try this. Looks like they have drivers for 10.10 also. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 30, 2011 5:46:02 AM] |
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