Bug 487981

Summary:	CUDA support missing
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Edmond <ymedhui>
Component:	boinc-client	Assignee:	Milos Jakubicek <xjakub>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	9	CC:	cheekyboinc, mmahut, xjakub
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Description Edmond 2009-03-02 00:34:58 UTC

Description of problem:
In the lastest version, CUDA support is missing (require libcudart.so).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
boinc-client-6.4.5-2.20081217svn.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start boinc /etc/init.d/boinc-client start
2. connect to core using boincmgr
3. observed "No CUDA device found" in message
  
Actual results:
message "No CUDA device found"

Expected results:
messgae "CUDA device found" and GPUGrid app is schedule and run

Additional info:
I was able to fix it with these steps:
1) copy libcudart.so from GPUGrid version of boinc-client to /var/log/boinc/
2) change BOINCUSER=root in /etc/init.d/boinc-client

Comment 1 Edmond 2009-03-02 09:23:12 UTC

Also one more step to make CUDA work:

3) put a kludge in /etc/init.d/boinc-client, just before starting boinc-client

        mknod -m 0666 /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 &>/dev/null
        mknod -m 0666 /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0 &>/dev/null

Comment 2 Milos Jakubicek 2009-03-06 15:38:59 UTC

I'm sorry, but Nvidia's CUDA (including the libcudart.so) is not open source and, as such, will never be part of Fedora -- I've just clarified this with Fedora Legal team members. However, I'll consider packaging CUDA in rpmfusion -- but that's another story.