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Linux = tinker, here's how to fold in wine...
There's has been a bug for a while in the linux gromacs core where many gromacs projects will not work correctly in the linux client. Stanford has had a few projects for Linux that do work, and that's usually enough to keep us getting the good projects and points. But they seem to have run out in the last few days. the last time this happened was a few months ago, and it lasted less than a week.
For those who are diehard about getting the points, I can assist in setting up wine and the windows folding client.
But do it when you've just finished a WU and have no WU's in queue waiting to be sent, so that you avoid the risk of deleteing finished wu's or a wu in progress.
For overclockix users, make sure your client.cfg is already configured properly for your username:
This is if you have an older CD, pre-Eidolon and pre-Technomancer.
foldoff
rm /home/knoppix/fold/Fahcore_*.exe
wine (this launches a setup program choose the default options)
sudo winefold (close the wine dialog box. give wine a good 40 seconds to take over the CPU. Use the "top" command to watch the wine.bin process. Press q to quit top.)
For the newest iso's you can probably just do:
wine (this launches a setup program choose the default options)
sudo winefold (close the wine dialog box. give wine a good 40 seconds to take over the CPU. Use the "top" command to watch the wine.bin process. Press q to quit top.)
For other distros:
You'll need to get wine installed on your system if you don't already have it.
type:
which wine
It'll show you where wine is if its installed.
If not, head to http://winehq.org/ to get your distro-specific rpm or src for wine. Redhat 9 users will have a major ordeal- see this thread: http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=5624
For those with portage or apt-get, you can just emerge wine or apt-get install wine.
RPM: rpm -i /path/to/wine.rpm (you can probably right-click the rpm file and go into its properties and make it executable, then just double-click the file)
SRC: untar the file, compile and configure
cd /dir/where/wine.src/is
tar -xfvz filename.tgz
./make
./make install
Wine script for Linux:
Arkaine's winefold script
This script is called winefold. It will kill a native linux client, delete linux fahcores, download, rename, and make executable the windows 3.25 beta client, then start folding in wine in stealth mode (aka as a background process).
You need to save it in /usr/local/bin (probably mv it there as root)
chmod +x winefold
Now you'll need to edit it slightly with a text editor like kedit, vi, nano, etc.... BasiThe lin at the top of FoldDir=/home/knoppix/fold in the script needs to be changed to reflect the actual folding directory on YOUR linux box.
There's has been a bug for a while in the linux gromacs core where many gromacs projects will not work correctly in the linux client. Stanford has had a few projects for Linux that do work, and that's usually enough to keep us getting the good projects and points. But they seem to have run out in the last few days. the last time this happened was a few months ago, and it lasted less than a week.
For those who are diehard about getting the points, I can assist in setting up wine and the windows folding client.
But do it when you've just finished a WU and have no WU's in queue waiting to be sent, so that you avoid the risk of deleteing finished wu's or a wu in progress.
For overclockix users, make sure your client.cfg is already configured properly for your username:
This is if you have an older CD, pre-Eidolon and pre-Technomancer.
foldoff
rm /home/knoppix/fold/Fahcore_*.exe
wine (this launches a setup program choose the default options)
sudo winefold (close the wine dialog box. give wine a good 40 seconds to take over the CPU. Use the "top" command to watch the wine.bin process. Press q to quit top.)
For the newest iso's you can probably just do:
wine (this launches a setup program choose the default options)
sudo winefold (close the wine dialog box. give wine a good 40 seconds to take over the CPU. Use the "top" command to watch the wine.bin process. Press q to quit top.)
For other distros:
You'll need to get wine installed on your system if you don't already have it.
type:
which wine
It'll show you where wine is if its installed.
If not, head to http://winehq.org/ to get your distro-specific rpm or src for wine. Redhat 9 users will have a major ordeal- see this thread: http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=5624
For those with portage or apt-get, you can just emerge wine or apt-get install wine.
RPM: rpm -i /path/to/wine.rpm (you can probably right-click the rpm file and go into its properties and make it executable, then just double-click the file)
SRC: untar the file, compile and configure
cd /dir/where/wine.src/is
tar -xfvz filename.tgz
./make
./make install
Wine script for Linux:
Arkaine's winefold script
This script is called winefold. It will kill a native linux client, delete linux fahcores, download, rename, and make executable the windows 3.25 beta client, then start folding in wine in stealth mode (aka as a background process).
You need to save it in /usr/local/bin (probably mv it there as root)
chmod +x winefold
Now you'll need to edit it slightly with a text editor like kedit, vi, nano, etc.... BasiThe lin at the top of FoldDir=/home/knoppix/fold in the script needs to be changed to reflect the actual folding directory on YOUR linux box.
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