libcudart does not get detected/CUDA does not works

[shiki08]

I saw a similar topic, but it was about MAC OS X. I read about the problem accross the net, but not found a usable solution.

OS: Arch linux x86-64 card: MSI NX8600GTS driver: Nvidia 180.51 prop

Cuda 2.2 toolkit is installed.

Any idea?

[Ageless]

Little warning, you're posting in the BOINC BUG Database. If you're just looking for help on how to do things, please post in the BOINC Dev forums or the project forums of your choice.

Now then, you did follow the correct installation steps on installing your drivers? See ​this thread at GPUGrid for the correct steps.

CUDA only works for Linux in GPUGrid. It doesn't work in Seti, or any other project yet, there it's restricted to Windows only. (Last I checked). You will have to ask at the project of choice for further setup steps.

[shiki08]

I'm aware of where does it works. I installed the driver correctly. libcudart is in place, but BOINC can't detect it. And I don't think that is a correct behavior. By the way.. instead of fixing bugs just use forums and workarounds?...not bad.. oO

[shiki08]

(Checked forums, no solution. Checked GPUGrid installation howto, its not even correct. Since Nvidia 180.51 for example does NOT provides libcudart, only libcuda.so . One have to install CUDA toolkit in order to get libcudart.so)

Any other idea?

[Ageless]

Replying to shiki08:

By the way.. instead of fixing bugs just use forums and workarounds?...not bad.. oO

I am not a developer, just a moderator of sorts around here. Making sure that these questions are really bugs, not yet another question for help.

This so far seems a question for help, which is better done at a forum. Then when you finally have no other conclusion than that it is a bug, then you add it to Trac. Complete with a whole reproducibility score and what you have done so far to find out it is a bug.

[shiki08]

Sadly I cant really say what I did. Just compiled it from source, installed it. Then I started boinc_client, what can't detect the correctly installed library. :-/

[Ageless]

Then start over and document what you do. Post about it in a forum first, ask for help from people who are more knowledgeable. If it's for a specific project, ask in that project's forum. If it's just for having your CUDA device recognized, but not for actual use anywhere, ask yourself the question if there's any use in perusing a solution.

​These guys are really good at helping you out. Don't just read, register and write. It'll get you help quicker around there than it will around here. With the (non)information in this ticket, the developers can't do much of anything. They'll throw it out and ask you to come back when you have information for them, a patch, figured out what does not work where.

[shiki08]

Registered on the forum , posted my problem. You can close this report, but its not a PEBKAC. I'm not sure about opening new ticket. (Compiling fails with every build above 6.4.5)