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- May 31, 2004
First I should say I know next to nothing about Ubuntu so if anyone sees errors
please suggest corrections.
Apparently the Ubuntu 1604 installer will not correctly handle FAHClient or FAHControl.
In addition there are two python components that have been upgraded but that break FAH.
After much fooling around I got things installed by doing it the hard way.
After a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04, python needs downdating (the opposite of updating I suppose).
cntr+alt+t <---- opens a terminal window, then copy and paste the commands below
wget "http://launchpadlibrarian.net/109052632/python-support_1.0.15_all.deb" <-- remove the " " marks
sudo dpkg -i python-support_1.0.15_all.deb
Next python_gnome2 needs to be installed
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-gnome2
The latest graphics driver can be download as follows;
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa NOTE: was "ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa" DO NOT do a major update without uninstalling xorg-edgers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-370
add opencl support by:
sudo apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev
%% sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev <-- these two lines stopped working for open cl, not sure why - left here just incase
%% sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
Reboot to install the video drivers.
Now download FAHClient and FAHControl from the FAH website and they get saved in the Downloads folder,
then you have to install them manually because the auto installer in 16.04 is faulty
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends Downloads/fahclient_7.4.4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends Downloads/fahcontrol_7.4.4-1_all.deb
Reboot and run FAHControl. If the GPUs.txt file is missing from the folder /var/lib/fahclient
you need to download it manually, and then copy it to the above folder.
You can check the /var/lib/fahclient folder using
sudo nautilus
then navigate to computer and then /var/lib/fahclient, you should see a few
folders called work, logs and config as well as the file GPUs.txt (upper case important). If not you can
download the file from here and put it in the folder /var/lib/fahclient.
If that link doesn't work navigate to here and click the link in that thread.
Important links:
GDEBI == https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/gdebi/
XORG-EDGERS == https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
NVIDIA drivers == https://askubuntu.com/questions/851069/latest-nvidia-driver-on-ubuntu-16-04
XORG_EDGERS UBUNTU updates == https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/xorg-edgers?dist=xenial
please suggest corrections.
Apparently the Ubuntu 1604 installer will not correctly handle FAHClient or FAHControl.
In addition there are two python components that have been upgraded but that break FAH.
After much fooling around I got things installed by doing it the hard way.
After a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04, python needs downdating (the opposite of updating I suppose).
cntr+alt+t <---- opens a terminal window, then copy and paste the commands below
wget "http://launchpadlibrarian.net/109052632/python-support_1.0.15_all.deb" <-- remove the " " marks
sudo dpkg -i python-support_1.0.15_all.deb
Next python_gnome2 needs to be installed
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-gnome2
The latest graphics driver can be download as follows;
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa NOTE: was "ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa" DO NOT do a major update without uninstalling xorg-edgers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-370
add opencl support by:
sudo apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev
%% sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev <-- these two lines stopped working for open cl, not sure why - left here just incase
%% sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
Reboot to install the video drivers.
Now download FAHClient and FAHControl from the FAH website and they get saved in the Downloads folder,
then you have to install them manually because the auto installer in 16.04 is faulty
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends Downloads/fahclient_7.4.4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends Downloads/fahcontrol_7.4.4-1_all.deb
Reboot and run FAHControl. If the GPUs.txt file is missing from the folder /var/lib/fahclient
you need to download it manually, and then copy it to the above folder.
You can check the /var/lib/fahclient folder using
sudo nautilus
then navigate to computer and then /var/lib/fahclient, you should see a few
folders called work, logs and config as well as the file GPUs.txt (upper case important). If not you can
download the file from here and put it in the folder /var/lib/fahclient.
If that link doesn't work navigate to here and click the link in that thread.
Important links:
GDEBI == https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/gdebi/
XORG-EDGERS == https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
NVIDIA drivers == https://askubuntu.com/questions/851069/latest-nvidia-driver-on-ubuntu-16-04
XORG_EDGERS UBUNTU updates == https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/xorg-edgers?dist=xenial
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I'm not going to be using GPU's on my 4P's, so I don't need the GPUs.txt file. What GPU's I have is folding under Windows.
