[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

[gfarmerfr]

For exemple if you try one ATI Overclocking command this seems pretty
obvious ,,,

Under my user :

gfarmerfr at GNU-BoX:~$ aticonfig --od-enable
ATI Overdrive(TM) enabled

Using sudo :

gfarmerfr at GNU-BoX:~$ sudo aticonfig --od-enable
ATI Overdrive(TM) enabled

Under root :

root at GNU-BoX:~# aticonfig --od-enable
ATI Overdrive(TM) enabled

and when sshing localhost :

gfarmerfr at GNU-BoX:~$ ssh localhost

Linux GNU-BoX 2.6.35-19-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Sun Aug 29 06:34:38 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu maverick (development branch)

gfarmerfr at GNU-BoX:~$ aticonfig --od-enable
aticonfig: This program must be run as root when no X server is active

root at GNU-BoX:/home/gfarmerfr# aticonfig --od-enable
ATI Overdrive(TM) enabled

>> OK, then we need  something in the install to ask if it's going to
run on a server w/o a GUI (leave as is) or in a normal desktop
environment with gdm running (set the boinc user to be the installing
user ID). Maybe? Comments, ideas??

We can try to ping the upstream packing in debian about this issue and give your thoughts (and maybe a packging patch) :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588976

I know that you can ask interactive questions via debconf.
We canproceed like this :
"Is this computer intended to use GPU capabilities ? (a running graphical session is required)"
Yes/No

No : Will follow the basic debian installation with the "boinc" user.
Does not change rcX.d links.

Yes : "Please enter user capable of running a graphical session (default
current user) : "

Then change the /var/lib/boinc-client directory ownership to the specified user.
Change the BOINC_USER in /etc/default/boinc-client for the specified user.
Also create rcX.d links with a starting order after gdm/kdm/whateverdm.
This would prevent messing with the sleep 5 in boinc init script and would also fix LP#414244.

Would be great to have a report of the Nvidia guys out there because it
seems that for nvidia cards you have just to delay boinc start after gdm
and not mess with directory / user permissions.

Or wa can wait for AMD/ATI to fix their drivers :) ... or dream of
OpenCL support in opensource drivers / boinc apps.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #588976
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588976

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