#Install boinc linux driver#
But, at any rate, here are the command-line incantations that I used to get the real NVidia driver installed: Back in the day, ubuntu distros included a driver called "nouveau" which is brain-dead w/r/t CUDA.
I went through the process of re-building a machine out of spare parts about two weeks ago (). I installed Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS and the “boinc” & “boinc-nvidia-cuda” packages for Boinc, the Nvidia driver and dependencies. I really battled to get the BOINC installation to detect the GPU. After playing around for a while and spending some time on Google, I found and installed the missing “nvidia-modprobe” package which sorted out the issue.
Two further points, the first is that there seems to be a general (Ubuntu?) problem where Boinc is up and running before the Nvidia driver is ready and the GPU is reported as “missing” on reboot. There are more elegant ways of resolving this but I just “sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart” as soon as I log in and that gets it going. The second point is that some GPU/driver combinations just refuse to show up in Ubuntu-Boinc unless there is a monitor or dummy plug connected to that card. Thanks for all the Linux suggestions so far. Still plenty of choice I see, and even within the Ubuntu derivatives there's more than a bit of choice.
Given some of the design decisions of Ubuntu, I think I will give Mint a try first this time and see how I go from there. I'm a bit surprised it seems to be the most popular one these days, taking over from Ubuntu. The last time I looked at distros I think mint was offered as a slimmed down version of Ubuntu.
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