Bug#596656: boinc-client: cannot find GPU (Christian Lins) is also #587426 in launchpad

[Skip Guenter]

Reported earlier as: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/587426

if is_running; then
log_progress_msg "already running"
else
sleep 5
xhost local:boinc &> /dev/null


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>    1. Bug#596656: boinc-client: cannot find GPU (Christian Lins)
>    2. re : votre devis (Mickael RODER)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:55:06 +0100
> From: Christian Lins <christian.lins at hs-osnabrueck.de>
> Subject: Bug#596656: boinc-client: cannot find GPU
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <596656 at bugs.debian.org>
> Message-ID: <20101118215506.24737.26933.reportbug at zaphod>
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> Package: boinc-client
> Version: 6.10.58+dfsg-3
> Severity: normal
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>> However this will only work for nvidia users IIRC, for ATI users the package
>> will need to do some other stuffs, for example they have problems if 
>> boinc is not being run under the same user as X, and running boinc as 
>> root is not a sane solution.
>>     
>
> If /etc/init.d/boinc-client would have this at the beginning, BOINC will
> recognize ATI GPUs just fine without running BOINC as root:
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> /usr/bin/xhost local:boinc &> /dev/null
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:36:46 +0100
> From: Mickael RODER <aps-usb at orange.fr>
> Subject: re : votre devis
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