Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 487981
CUDA support missing
Last modified: 2009-03-06 10:38:59 EST
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
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
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.