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    Saucy Salamander / Smoking Salmon / Steamy Sandwich aka Ubuntu 13.10

    Anybody having any luck upgrading to the latest release? With me the only Linux box still up is my Xubuntu box.
    It is because it refused to upgrade. Lubuntu starts with a terminal session and Ubuntu only shows the desktop wallpaper.


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    Xubuntu seems to be fool-proofed: I had forgotten to revert to the open-source graphics drivers before upgrading Ubuntu and Lubuntu....

    Ubuntu seems up and running again:
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.7 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | Libraries: libcurl/7.32.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.28 librtmp/2.3
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics [Family 18 Model 1 Stepping 0]
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt arat hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save pausefilter
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | OS: Linux: 3.11.0-12-generic
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | Memory: 5.81 GB physical, 7.49 GB virtual
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | Disk: 65.86 GB total, 30.31 GB free
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | Local time is UTC +2 hours
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | VirtualBox version: 4.2.12r84980
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6520G/6530D/6550D/6620G (SuperSumo) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 2048MB, 1671MB available, 960 GFLOPS peak)
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | CAL: ATI GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 2048MB, 2025MB available, 1152 GFLOPS peak)
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | CAL: ATI GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 1024MB, 1001MB available, 1152 GFLOPS peak)
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6520G/6530D/6550D/6620G (SuperSumo) (driver version 1272.2, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1272.2), 2048MB, 1671MB available, 960 GFLOPS peak)
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (driver version 1272.2, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1272.2), 2048MB, 2025MB available, 1152 GFLOPS peak)
    za 19 okt 2013 00:41:51 CEST | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (driver version 1272.2, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1272.2), 1024MB, 1001MB available, 1152 GFLOPS peak)

    Lubuntu is up again too, but not running BOINC as I tried -so far in vain- to get both the HD 7660D and the HD 7790 running on that box.
    Stupid thing is that I now have a Catalyst Control Center with both the HD 7660D and the HD 7790 mentioned, but 'no usable GPU' in BOINC....
    Previously I had no working Catalyst Control Center, but BOINC found my HD 7660D and it's CAL and OpenCL capabilities and ignored the HD 7790.
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    To boldly go where no one has gone before...

    I've kicked out the Saucy Salamander and having it replaced with a Thirsty Tharg, erh...Trusty Tahr.

    Trusty Tahr comes out-of-the-box with a CAL capable video driver that 'sees' one GPU on a triple GPU system (because I only have one monitor connected). It does not support OpenCL out-of-the-box.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirk Broer View Post
    I've kicked out the Saucy Salamander and having it replaced with a Thirsty Tharg, erh...Trusty Tahr. Trusty Tahr comes out-of-the-box with a CAL capable video driver that 'sees' one GPU on a triple GPU system (because I only have one monitor connected). It does not support OpenCL out-of-the-box.
    Treacherous Tahr has thrown off the AMD Driver and is now unable to crunch at all, CAL nor OpenCL.

    Update:
    Re-instal of the Catalyst driver brought the APU back to CAL-life -after a client restart. It just trashes my Moo! Wus though, erroring them all out. Other than Moo! won't run due to the CAL-only driver.
    OpenCL is supported only for the CPU on startup of the BOINCmanager for some stupid reason and then only when CAL is not active, so not after a client restart (as before).
    My HD 6670s in the system are still doing nothing, despite having monitors connected and having used sudo amdconfig --initial --adapter=all
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    There are known bugs and they are being worked on:
    example - http://devgurus.amd.com/thread/168515

    See if you can try this
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/...inc-amd-opencl

    I haven't tested it yet. It sounds promising, however.

    But I think your expectations are a bit ahead of reality.
    Experience shows that the next catalyst release after the official release of the Ubuntu OS usually gets it right - caveat, at least for 1 GPU & monitor.
    Support for multi GPU & SDK etc is still at older versions of Ubuntu, as per the AMD documentation available, so you are trying to do something that is not yet supported and you should expect to have problems.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AMDave View Post
    There are known bugs and they are being worked on: you are trying to do something that is not yet supported and you should expect to have problems.
    That's why I was swearing ever so mildly

    BTW: I have boinc-amd-opencl already installed (came free with the roll-over to 14.04 which brought me BOINC 7.2.42), it's just not working yet:
    "This package is not perfect, yet. A major problem for the moment is the availability of the OpenCL driver for 32bit binaries for AMD64"

    All is not lost yet, I will transfer the HD 6670s from the F1A75-V EVO to my recently bought 2nd hand F2A85-V PRO and install Xubuntu on it...
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    Re-launching my A10-5700 under Lubuntu 13.10 (but now sitting on an Asus F2A85-V Pro) I had no problem getting both CAL and OpenCL for both APU and GPU.

    Ubuntu 14.04 still will not work with my GPUs (only with the APU), nor will it use OpenCL while crunching BOINC, only CAL. May want to transfer the GPUs to the Lubuntu box...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirk Broer View Post
    Ubuntu 14.04 still will not work with my GPUs (only with the APU), nor will it use OpenCL while crunching BOINC, only CAL. May want to transfer the GPUs to the Lubuntu box...
    Well, I'll be dipped in dogshit.....I decided to read up on other user's problems and found the 'solution': Removing ubuntu-drivers-common allowed for customization of xorg.conf again

    My F1A75-V Evo is finally earning it's pay again and is both OpenCL and CAL capable under Ubuntu 14.04 and Catalyst 14.4:

    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | Libraries: libcurl/7.35.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1f zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.28 librtmp/2.3
    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6520G/6530D/6550D/6620G (SuperSumo) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 2048MB, 1797MB available, 1096 GFLOPS peak)
    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | CAL: ATI GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 2048MB, 2026MB available, 1315 GFLOPS peak)
    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | CAL: ATI GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 1024MB, 1001MB available, 1315 GFLOPS peak)
    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6520G/6530D/6550D/6620G (SuperSumo) (driver version 1113.2, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1113.2), 2048MB, 1797MB available, 1096 GFLOPS peak)
    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (driver version 1113.2, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1113.2), 2048MB, 2026MB available, 1315 GFLOPS peak)
    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (driver version 1113.2, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1113.2), 1024MB, 1001MB available, 1315 GFLOPS peak)
    zo 11 mei 2014 02:14:19 CEST | | OpenCL CPU: AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 1113.2 (sse2), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1113.2))

    Look at those GFlops.... all able to perform some Collatz miracles very soon!
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 05-11-2014 at 12:23 AM.


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    Nice work!
    Your CPU may have trouble keeping up the feed to those GPUs.
    You may have to tweak the CPU setting in the app_config to set the ratio just right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AMDave View Post
    Nice work! Your CPU may have trouble keeping up the feed to those GPUs. You may have to tweak the CPU setting in the app_config to set the ratio just right.
    That maybe an OpenCL thingie, the system has no problem running six Moo! Wus alongside three Rosetta, a Climate@Home WU and a WUProp WU


    I found this at the site of the Scottish Boinc Team for Collatz (OpenCL)
    Code:
    <app_config> 
      <app> 
        <name>solo_collatz</name> 
        <gpu_versions> 
          <gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage> 
          <cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage> 
        </gpu_versions> 
      </app> 
    </app_config>
    I guess I can tweak that to:
    Code:
    <app_config> 
      <app> 
        <name>mini_collatz</name> 
        <gpu_versions> 
          <gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage> 
          <cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage> 
        </gpu_versions> 
      </app> 
      <app> 
        <name>solo_collatz</name> 
        <gpu_versions> 
          <gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage> 
          <cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage> 
        </gpu_versions> 
      </app>
      <app> 
        <name>large_collatz</name> 
        <gpu_versions> 
          <gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage> 
          <cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage> 
        </gpu_versions> 
      </app>
      <app> 
        <name>micro_collatz</name> 
        <gpu_versions> 
          <gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage> 
          <cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage> 
        </gpu_versions> 
      </app> 
    </app_config>
    Furthermore there was a recommendation to change the config files for the applications (e.g. solo_collatz_4.07_windows_x86_64_opencl_ati_100 config )
    to contain these lines:

    verbose=0
    items_per_kernel=14
    kernels_per_reduction=9
    threads=8
    sleep=1
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 05-11-2014 at 04:35 PM.


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