Folding Forum

Hiya!
I got Ubuntu 19.10, and I got a Radeon R9 370.

The proprietory drivers don't install for 19.10.

Is there a solution or should I retreat to 18.04 ?

Does it work using the current drivers? if it doesn't just go back a version. But I'm not the best at PCs(I use a laptop)

It just doesn't fold with the GPU. I can't add a GPU slot.
I tried

https://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas/amdgpu.html
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110795

but they didn't work.

I'm not a complete noob, I've run BOINC clients with multiple GPU's before, but I can't get this to go.

Someone posted that they were able to install the AMD proprietary drivers on 19.10 by modifying the installer. You may find it with a search,I saw the post within the last 24-48 hours.

When you say you can't get it to go, are the AMD drivers failing to install or is FAHclient failing?

I had a lot of grief with AMD drivers in 18.04 LTS (imho it's best to stick to LTS then don't have to upgrade every year) and my problem hcild RX570 (kernal panics/bluescreens in an eGPU enclosure but seems fine in computer) and after a lot of digging I found ((can't link because this is my first post </3)) (search the forum for Ubuntu 18.04 / 16.04 with AMD Rx 570s by NullPtrException then go page 2 and search for init.d

Basically you need to make sure FAHclient is running as root by editing the init.d for FAHclient (/etc/init.d/FAHclient)

I think I got them sort of installed. I know that sounds odd but I can't remember everything I tried last night. I also tried installing opencl on it's own. That seemed to install OK but client still didn't recognise.
But I didn't get any blue screens or panics.
Have you got it working ?
Has anyone ?

When I try and add a GPU slot I get

On client "local" 127.0.0.1 No available GPU

Is there anything I can do about this ?

So I did end up managing to get a workload onto my AMD GPU which is indeed definitely dead because moment it started to fold the machine would crash

Though with your situation, can you please post the first 20 lines of your /etc/init.d/FAHClient?
edit:
Clarification on my crash, the card had been causing kernal panics on my mac and bluescreening the work laptop so thought maybe was eGPU issue but when I tried folding, initially was getting bad workload error but then when they fixed that I successfully picked up a workload and about 30 seconds in it would kernel panic

Welcome to the F@H Forum mbainrot,

Can you please post your log file. Ensure that you have copied the System configuration which is present at the start of the log file (viewtopic.php?f=24&t=26036).