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storm5510 · 2019-12-04, 01:05

OK, this is becoming mind-bending for me. I tried the "apt-get" and got two lines of basically word-salad.

So, i deleted everything in the mfaktc folder. I took the linux64.cuda65.tar archive there and extracted it. The folder structure is like this, relative to the parent folders:

/mfaktc
/mfaktc/mfaktc.exe
/mfaktc/lib/libcudart.so
/mfaktc/lib/libcudart.so.6.5
/mfaktc.lib/libcudart.so.6.5.14

The first two in "lib" are "links to shared libraries," according to the properties. The bottom is actually a "shared library.

I still get the same library error message as above.

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Edit: I was able to move the bottom item into the same folder as mfaktc.exe, and drop the ".14" from the name. No good.

kladner · 2019-12-04, 04:34

This spectator feels your frustration. Though I have not run Linux in a long time, this sort of thing is OS agnostic.

storm5510 · 2019-12-04, 14:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by kladner

This spectator feels your frustration. Though I have not run Linux in a long time, this sort of thing is OS agnostic.

I left the Windows hard drive in and untouched. All I would have to do is shut down, move the drive connectors and restart. If I do that, then it is giving up. I decided to try Ubuntu to learn a few things about it, and I have. Some here have never used anything but this. It's all about going with what you know.

chalsall · 2019-12-04, 18:59

The title says it all!!!

I don't know what other's experience with Asrock is like, but I will personally be avoiding them in the future. Sample size of one, but I don't have time for additional...

James Heinrich · 2019-12-04, 19:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by chalsall

I don't know what other's experience with Asrock is like, but I will personally be avoiding them in the future.

When I first became familiar with them in 2005 they were relatively new as a brand, having been created as the "discount" brand from Asus in 2002. Their main focus (in my mind anyways) has always been more on low price and volume than high quality. In the last few years they've pushed more into higher-end gaming type stuff, but early opinions stick and I would much rather spend my money on Asus or Gigabyte, at least if I was building a system for me. If I was building a $200 check-email-surf-web system for my mother or similar I would consider ASRock.

Sadly, my own main system is now almost exactly 8 years old (2011-Dec-09) so it's high time that I replace it, unfortunately those funds won't be available for another year or so, so I keep plodding along.

kracker · 2019-12-04, 20:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by chalsall

The title says it all!!!

I don't know what other's experience with Asrock is like, but I will personally be avoiding them in the future. Sample size of one, but I don't have time for additional...

My main system has a Asrock board, had one before before I upgraded as well, I've built around 12-15 computers with them... no complaints for me personally... Sorry

On another note, can anyone guess my favorite motherboard manufacturer? Might be hard to guess.

PhilF · 2019-12-04, 20:24

My personal experience is that they are one of the lower quality motherboard manufacturers as well.

However, someone please correct me if I am wrong, when it comes to Radeon VII GPUs George's experience is that the ASRock branded ones are giving the fewest problems. Go figure...

kriesel · 2019-12-04, 21:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by storm5510

I looked around here today and I saw no mention of any program which could use the GPU in a Linux environment. I found that rather amazing. Perhaps I did not look where I should have. Is there no such animal?

Much of the gpu GIMPS app development was and is done on linux. Preda doesn't have Windows for building or testing. He leaves that to us. The readmes for mfaktc, CUDALucas, etc, mention linux.

Prime95 · 2019-12-04, 21:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by PhilF

My personal experience is that they are one of the lower quality motherboard manufacturers as well.

However, someone please correct me if I am wrong, when it comes to Radeon VII GPUs George's experience is that the ASRock branded ones are giving the fewest problems. Go figure...

Again, the problem of small sample size. The ASRock GPUs have worked well, I did get one bad XFX GPU and one good one.

ASRock motherboards were used in "George's dream build". They worked well over the years. I used them because they discovered a way to overclock memory using a chipset that was supposed to prevent that. Free boost in throughput for me.

Now that I have Radeon VIIs, I've been torn about keeping the dream builds running. The dream build used 7 CPUs on one 1 power supply. It burns 450 watts. Compare that to a GPU which is about 40% more productive and uses only 250 watts.

In theory, if I could sell each of seven mobo/CPU/ram combos for $100, I could buy one Radeon VII instead and come out ahead. Don't know if that is unrealistic or worth the hassle.

masser · 2019-12-04, 22:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prime95

In theory, if I could sell each of seven mobo/CPU/ram combos for $100, I could buy one Radeon VII instead and come out ahead. Don't know if that is unrealistic or worth the hassle.

I would buy a mobo/cpu/ram combo from you for $100; probably others on the forum would too.

storm5510 · 2019-12-06, 18:19

Has the automated submission to PrimeNet from Colab been implemented? Based on my experience yesterday evening, it would seem so...

2019-12-04, 01:05	#4467
storm5510 Random Account Aug 2009 1956₁₀ Posts	OK, this is becoming mind-bending for me. I tried the "apt-get" and got two lines of basically word-salad. So, i deleted everything in the mfaktc folder. I took the linux64.cuda65.tar archive there and extracted it. The folder structure is like this, relative to the parent folders: /mfaktc /mfaktc/mfaktc.exe /mfaktc/lib/libcudart.so /mfaktc/lib/libcudart.so.6.5 /mfaktc.lib/libcudart.so.6.5.14 The first two in "lib" are "links to shared libraries," according to the properties. The bottom is actually a "shared library. I still get the same library error message as above. =================== Edit: I was able to move the bottom item into the same folder as mfaktc.exe, and drop the ".14" from the name. No good. Last fiddled with by storm5510 on 2019-12-04 at 01:28 Reason: Additional

2019-12-04, 18:59	#4470
chalsall If I May "Chris Halsall" Sep 2002 Barbados 9,767 Posts	Three screens!!! The title says it all!!! I don't know what other's experience with Asrock is like, but I will personally be avoiding them in the future. Sample size of one, but I don't have time for additional...

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