HD 7850 on Ubuntu? {Not Yet}

It seems that a lot of GPU problems revolve around specific versions of drivers. Though AMD has their own support structure, you can often learn from information reported by others who fold.

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dudeami
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HD 7850 on Ubuntu? {Not Yet}

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Hello, I have just recently started to fold again, and my CPU is working fine atm. Only issue is on Ubuntu, I don't really know if my card is supported, but its not working right now. I updated the GPUs.txt (added to /var/lib/fahclient), added client-type=advanced and restarted, still nothing. Errors are:

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06:48:19:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
06:48:19:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment
06:48:19:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
06:50:56:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
06:50:56:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
06:50:56:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment
06:50:56:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
06:50:56:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
06:50:56:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment
06:50:56:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
06:55:10:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
06:55:10:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
06:55:10:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment
06:55:10:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
06:55:11:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
06:55:11:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment
06:55:11:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
From what I see, on the folding typepad AMD support is not enabled for GPUs on linux, but the install guide says it is with driver version 13.6 (which I installed, beta ofc).

http://folding.stanford.edu/home/guide/ ... ide/#ntoc4

Anything I am not doing, or do I just have to wait longer? Thanks in advance!
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Re: HD 7850 on Ubuntu?

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The guide is mistaken, while the blog (Typepad) is correct.
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Re: HD 7850 on Ubuntu?

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AMD folding in Linux is not supported at this time. We're waiting for AMD to produce more mature Linux drivers. The internal testing team on IRC tested the Linux AMD edition of FahCore_17, and though it ran, so many crashes and weird issues happened that Proteneer pulled the plug on that for now. So now it runs on Nvidia and AMD cards in Windows, but only Nvidia cards in Linux. Go tell AMD to improve their Linux drivers! :)
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Re: HD 7850 on Ubuntu?

Post by dudeami »

Thanks for the help, guess I'll wait on AMD to get better drivers :S
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