Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568233
Title:
BOINC doesn't recognize AMD/ATI GPU in 16.04 despite sudo /etc/init.d
/boinc-client restart
Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Back on 14.04 and also 12.04, all you had to do to get BOINC to use
the GPU(s), was to install AMD's proprietary fglrx driver, and then
type in terminal:
sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart
You had to type that like every time you (re)started Ubuntu for BOINC
to recognize your graphics card, but it worked to fix the GPU
recognition with AMD cards (not sure about Nvidia cards though, since
I don't have any). Now however, in 16.04, AMD's Catalyst drivers have
been deprecated, and while the switch to AMD's improved open source
GPU drivers is a good move, for some reason, this command line no
longer works to recognize AMD graphics cards. And since we can no
longer install fglrx/Catalyst on Xenial, I hope AMD's work on their
open source drivers gets a BOINC optimization ASAP.
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