Folding@home Installation guide! Linux distros and server.

[Gorgon]

17 minutes ago, Zeldatrek said:

Thank YOU so much for this.  Now the head swelling can go down now that the head V wall battle has stopped.  I have been trying to get the software to install since yesterday.  Now my old PC sits with nothing to do after I just rebuilt it.  It's not like I can just sell it these days. 

 Though since my Ubuntu was a clean install with no data is there a version of Ubuntu of some other free OS that will work with F@H?

Ubuntu 18 (Bionic Beaver) will work with FAHControl - see the much newer Linux Howto linked in my Sig.

In order to get FAHControl to work you need to add some Python2 compatibility packages as out-lined there. They will work with Ubuntu 18 but now with the newer Ubuntu 19

[Zeldatrek]

4 hours ago, Gorgon said:

Ubuntu 18 (Bionic Beaver) will work with FAHControl - see the much newer Linux Howto linked in my Sig.

In order to get FAHControl to work you need to add some Python2 compatibility packages as out-lined there. They will work with Ubuntu 18 but now with the newer Ubuntu 19

Thanks for the tip.  I have downgraded from 19 to 18 and got F@H running.  Only problem is now I've found out my RX 580 gpu was not installed.  I've tried installing the divers via script but I'm too much of a ubuntu noob to figure it out.

[Gorgon]

5 minutes ago, Zeldatrek said:

Thanks for the tip.  I have downgraded from 19 to 18 and got F@H running.  Only problem is now I've found out my RX 580 gpu was not installed.  I've tried installing the divers via script but I'm too much of a ubuntu noob to figure it out.

@Metallus97 might be able to help with the AMD drivers

[MikkelB]

Hi all. I managed to get it to work on my FreeNAS. I made a new jail (remember to select  allow_mount_procfs, mount_procfs and mount_linprocfs) and then I pretty much just followed this guide: https://github.com/mrclksr/fah-installer

Edit /root/.fah/config.xml to your liking. 

 

Should work on most BSD systems.

 

Took me a good 4-5 hours fiddling around with it though, so maybe this will save someone time

 

/Mikkel

[Metallus97]

2 hours ago, Gorgon said:

@Metallus97 might be able to help with the AMD drivers

@Zeldatrek as of today I am only able to provide help for  Arch based distros. Have not been able to get the GPU going on anything Debian based... 

[sirwalter]

does anyone else have problem with GPU folding on ubuntu newer than 18.04 and with a AMD gpu(specifically rx480)?

it seams like FAH needs opencl. but the specific version of opencl that is required is only available in the amd-gpu-pro driver directely from AMD. but they have Hardcoded the dependency on Ubuntu 18.04. 

I have tried to run mesa  from the kisak/kisak-mesa ppa but that just leads to a "Bad platformId size." error.

anyone a idea how to fix it?

otherwise i am stuck with using a gt470 and my ryzen CPU.

[Zeldatrek]

On 3/26/2020 at 8:44 AM, sirwalter said:

does anyone else have problem with GPU folding on ubuntu newer than 18.04 and with a AMD gpu(specifically rx480)?

it seams like FAH needs opencl. but the specific version of opencl that is required is only available in the amd-gpu-pro driver directely from AMD. but they have Hardcoded the dependency on Ubuntu 18.04. 

I have tried to run mesa  from the kisak/kisak-mesa ppa but that just leads to a "Bad platformId size." error.

anyone a idea how to fix it?

otherwise i am stuck with using a gt470 and my ryzen CPU.

Nope we are pretty much in the same boat.  My RX580 also failed to properly install on 18.04 and newer.  Plus when I downgraded I couldn't click get updates so so it gave me the generic windows driver.  And had not gotten the available drivers installed either.

[Gorgon]

On 3/26/2020 at 9:44 AM, sirwalter said:

does anyone else have problem with GPU folding on ubuntu newer than 18.04 and with a AMD gpu(specifically rx480)?

it seams like FAH needs opencl. but the specific version of opencl that is required is only available in the amd-gpu-pro driver directely from AMD. but they have Hardcoded the dependency on Ubuntu 18.04. 

I have tried to run mesa  from the kisak/kisak-mesa ppa but that just leads to a "Bad platformId size." error.

anyone a idea how to fix it?

otherwise i am stuck with using a gt470 and my ryzen CPU.

There's a hint on my thread at FoldingForm about getting my new 5700XTs working on Ubuntu 18.04 about installing the drivers in 19 & 20

[Gorgon]

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