I installed the client into Arch, and all ran fine for a while, until i noticed my GPU wasn't doing anything. After a bit of playing I broke somethng and now I can't get CPU folding working either. The client overwrites my config.xml when I run it, so I don't really know what I did wrong
It looks like both my CPU and my GPU are detected just fine though. Any ideas?
With the release version of the folding client, 7.4.4, the default settings used by the installer will cause the CPU slot to sometimes request WU's that are no longer available. That is for a setting of CPU:7. Pause the folding client and either move the slider to Medium or set the number of CPU threads to use to 6 using Configure on the CPU folding slot. Then un-pause the CPU slot.
Another option is installing the public beta for the folding client. The later code has included provisions for negotiating with the Assignment Servers for the highest CPU count WU's available, up to the number set by the client in the request.
As for GPU folding, if you are also trying to do that more information would be needed. At the least you need to be using the proprietary drivers from AMD and have support for OpenCL installed as well.
With the release version of the folding client, 7.4.4, the default settings used by the installer will cause the CPU slot to sometimes request WU's that are no longer available. That is for a setting of CPU:7. Pause the folding client and either move the slider to Medium or set the number of CPU threads to use to 6 using Configure on the CPU folding slot. Then un-pause the CPU slot.
Another option is installing the public beta for the folding client. The later code has included provisions for negotiating with the Assignment Servers for the highest CPU count WU's available, up to the number set by the client in the request.
As for GPU folding, if you are also trying to do that more information would be needed. At the least you need to be using the proprietary drivers from AMD and have support for OpenCL installed as well.
Thanks
CPU folding is working just fine now. Still no GPU but I am using the open source drivers, Ill look into installing the propiertary ones.
woden wrote:After a bit of playing I broke something and now I can't get CPU folding working either. The client overwrites my config.xml when I run it, so I don't really know what I did wrong
I'll bet that your "blt of playing" involved manually editing config.xml. (That's the most common cause of the client overwriting it.) FAHClient does not tolerate xml errors if you introduce them and simply overwrites the invalid config.
We strongly advise against manually editing FAH's files, especially config.xml. FAHControl.exe contains a good editor for your config and will enable you to make whatever changes you need to while keeping it coherent.
woden wrote:After a bit of playing I broke something and now I can't get CPU folding working either. The client overwrites my config.xml when I run it, so I don't really know what I did wrong
I'll bet that your "blt of playing" involved manually editing config.xml. (That's the most common cause of the client overwriting it.) FAHClient does not tolerate xml errors if you introduce them and simply overwrites the invalid config.
We strongly advise against manually editing FAH's files, especially config.xml. FAHControl.exe contains a good editor for your config and will enable you to make whatever changes you need to while keeping it coherent.
Welcome to foldingforum.org, woden.
Unfortunately I'm using a headless Arch Linux machine.
If you have another machine on your LAN that can run FAHControl, it can be used to remotely reconfigure any other machine on the LAN once you've established suitable communications. Otherwise you must be extremely careful to avoid XML errors or anything else that FAHClient doesn't like.
