It would be interesting to see the graphics on Linux. I'm running Seti@Home. The "show graphics" feature used to work when I had a previous version of SuSE, but they are not working now (SuSE version 11). So, I assume that something was installed on a previous version that I don't have installed now. Anyone have any idea what I should look for?

See if this FAQ helps you out.

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No, I don't have a separate user account for BOINC.

I heard that BOINC version 6 will run version 5 work units, but not display version 5 graphics. That is part of the problem, as Astropulse is still in version 5. (If I want to see graphics, maybe I should downgrade to BOINC version 5.)

I heard that BOINC version 6 will run version 5 work units, but not display version 5 graphics. That is part of the problem, as Astropulse is still in version 5. (If I want to see graphics, maybe I should downgrade to BOINC version 5.)

No, don't do that. There are versions, and versions, and versions.

Astropulse is BOINC v6 compliant. That's the serious point. Hold there if you don't want the laughs.

Astropulse is only the right description for vesions up to v5.00

Everything above v5.00 is Astropulse_v5

And for Linux, the graphics should work for x86, but they never got x64 graphics to work.

Apart from that, it's a great app.

I suspect that I need to install something on SuSE Linux that I don't have installed now, but I don't know what that is.

It might help if I knew how "show graphics" is supposed to work in Linux. Does anyone know of a page where I can read about this?

Also, is there a way I can try to run the graphics from a command line? If I could try that, I might see an error message I don't see when I try to show graphics from the client manager.

I suspect that I need to install something on SuSE Linux that I don't have installed now, but I don't know what that is.

Open a terminal console, then type ldd boinc and post the list of shared libraries it throws back at you. (That's small character L, not One).

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james@linux-x15g:~/Research/BOINC> ldd boinc
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb808b000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0xb8074000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb8060000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7f70000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f58000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7f32000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7dee000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7de0000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb80ad000)
james@linux-x15g:~/Research/BOINC>

Can you make sure that you have accelerated OpenGL support in your X server (version of OpenGL and graphics hardware required depends on the project)?

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As far as I can tell, the way to do this on Open SuSE 11 is to check a box "accelerated graphics", and that box is checked. Is there another way I can check it?

(I use Linux the way most people use Windows. In my case, the user interface is KDE 4.)

Could it be that I need to set an environment variable?

I recently installed a newer version of OpenSuSE (11.2) and the newest version of BOINC. I'm pleased to report Seti@home graphics are working again.

I suspect the problem was that I was missing a file or files, or environment variable. If I was missing files, the missing files may have been within BOINC, or there may have been an error in my BOINC security (permissions) that caused the problem. We may never know.