Folding Forum

Mesa drivers do not work for GPU folding on Linux. I'll try purging (or a fresh install) in the morning, it's getting late here now and I've tested quite a few reinstalls with different drivers today... I've set it up to run on cpu only for the night... Is there a repository that does the same for ...

Well, i completely borked my install, and ended up starting from scratch. Installed ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS without proprietary drivers, then updated and upgraded. Installed opencl (and mesa) from standard repos. Installed fahclient, fahcontrol and fahviewer. Added the gpu through fahcontrol with default...

Right, i have been digging deeper and also reinstalled drivers on and off with no luck. I cant seem to get the proprietary drivers to install, but i do have this information: sudo lspci -vvv -d 1002:679a 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti PRO [Radeon HD ...

I am not a Linux expert, But I know that the OpenCL install is separate from the Driver install, and that sometime you need runtime and development installs for F@H https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/relea ... stallation I am aware of this, i'm 85% sure i've tried both open source and proprietary dr...

i've dug out an old computer from mothballs, running ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. I have an AMD Radeon HD 7950 gpu that doesn't seem to play well with folding@home. I keep getting a message saying i may need to upgrade my drivers, but they should all be fully updated. I have been playing with this issue the ...