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Former Member
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Hi.
This was reported on beta, I would have hoped that you would have fixed it before release here, your hack workaround is really not much good  sorry. |
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Former Member
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The ugm graphics work for me when launching boincmgr from terminal with sudo as prefix, if that is the hack you refer to. There is another bit that can be added to not close applications launched from terminal, when closing latter by suffixing an ampersand. So you get
sudo boincmgr & Now can close terminal and boincmgr remains open. All in a 2 minute web search. Got not even a blip for cep2, not even a frame that pops up a microsecond. It's something in the client api, something that needs berkeley fixing. And tell you what, the graphics does not get much better than the static images post in the faq at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/ugm1/faq.do#700 |
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alanb1951
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That reference by lavaflow to running BOINC Manager as root gave me an idea...
----------------------------------------I have set the s-bit on the WCG graphics executable on a couple of my machines (to check it out on different graphics configurations): sudo chmod +s /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcgrid_ugm1_gfx* Graphics now seems to work for ugm1 from BOINC Manager run as a user. I've also done the same for mcm1 - that also now shows graphics! (FAAH graphics worked already, and I've not got any FAHV tasks to try at present...) Hope this helps. [Edited to fix blatant typo in code fragment!] [Edit 1 times, last edit by alanb1951 at Oct 17, 2014 12:05:27 AM] |
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