NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 1GB not found by FAHControl

[daibak]

As a newbie I’m reluctant to open a new post at a trying time but frustrated still unable to use my NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M CUDA 1GB GPU even though the CPU of this elderly (2011 purchase) ASUS A53S-K53SJ Intel Core i5 laptop running Linux Mint 19.3 Xfce 64-bit has been crunching away at WUs for a week with its 4-core CPU just fine.

Linux Mint told me to install proprietary NVIDIA nvidia-driver-390 version 390.116 upon clean OS installation prior to installing FAHClient and FAHControl. I’ve deleted the FAHControl Configure>Expert tab gpu false entry, replacing it with gpu true then rebooting the PC only to find there is no further mention of any gpu in FAHControl settings when re-checking all the Configure tabs.

I’ve also installed using Synaptic Package Manager,

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ocl-icd-libopencl1:amd64 (2.2.11-1ubuntu1)

which probably goes to show how clueless I am as nothing has made any difference as still staring at last 4 lines of FAHControl System Info saying,

GPUs 1
GPU 0 Bus:1 Slot:0 Func:0 NVIDIA:2 GF119 [GeForce GT 520M]
CUDA Device 0 Platform:0 Device:0 Bus:1 Slot:0 Compute:2.1 Driver:9.1
OpenCL Not detected: Failed to open dynamic library 'libOpenCL.so': libOpenCL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can anyone tell me in baby steps what I need to do as a Linux and FAH newbie as I'm keen to contribute more?
TIA to all.

[JimboPalmer]

Welcome To Folding@Home!

I am sad to tell you you can't fold with that card.
When I check for compatibility, I look for two items: It needs to Support OpenCL 1.2 and be able to do Double Precision floating point math.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/g ... 520m.c1844

You card does not support OpenCL 1.2, and cannot fold.

This is not due to Linux, it is the hardware in the GPU.

[daibak]

Thanks, JimboPalmer.
Sad but really appreciate your instant reply.
Keep up this great work at FAH!