BOINC Command Line

[Brucifer]

heh......... strange.............

[Bender10]

I have my CF Booted computer (FreeNas ala' FreeBSD) running through a KVM, and have not seen these problems.

I'm going to stick with the Transend CF Cards. And try Booting to a different OS next.

[drezha]

I dont believe it's a KVM problem at all. I'm using a Belkin KVM with attached sound and it takes USB KB+M.

I shall try running DSL without the KVM but I think it's an error with my system.

[AMDave]

Question:
Are you using a "powered" KVM switch with it's own independent power supply or is it passing through the power from each machine to the devices (ie USB KBD & Mouse thru-switch) ?
Reason:
thru-switch KVMs may dupe the linux OS into failing to recognize the keyboard or mouse correctly and then they don't get enough power

Also, is the mouse a USB Optical?
Reason:
This is especially the case with optical mice as they need that tiny extra bit of power to run the LED/Laser.

A powered KVM switch should never have this problem.

If none of these are your problems then you may want to hit up the DSL forum:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi

For future reference getting into IP-KVM is a better option, although I still profer to control my machines via IP from a single machine via SSH console or VNC (no KVM switch required, no extra co$t )

[AMDave]

Duuuh. Forgot to add....

BTW, you know that if you run BOINC in RPC mode (see previous notes by me in this forum or by others in others), you don't have to execute command line instructions. You would be able to connect to the BOINC manager on your win-workstation to the BOINC-client on your DSL machine.
No problems. Been doing it for ages. Next upgrade to that (thanks to Jason1478963) is to slap BOINCview onto a machine to give you full controll of all BOINC instances at once. Very neat. I never saw the BOINC manager interface for months after that :D

[drezha]

Using a cut back distro of Debian now. Installed network debian, stripped out the CUPS services, disabled logging services, removed extra non useful packages such as CD burning bits (PC has no CD drive)

It's a Belkin that draws power from the USB ports. it was cheap but has been working no trouble. And is now working no trouble what so ever. Yes it is a laser mouse.

As for BOINC RPC, don't I have to start BOINC locally before I can use BOINCView? I have used RPC control and BOINC briefly. Worked fine from memory.