E@H screensaver not working on Ati cards?
14 Jun 2005 19:34:39 UTC
Topic 189345
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Hi.. I read from the BOINC site that this bug is related to BOINC and has been fixed. The screensaver still doesn't work for me with the new version 4.45.
Is it that E@H hasn't been rebuilt yet with the new BOINC or what's wrong?
My gfx card is Radeon 9800 PRO.
E@H screensaver not working on Ati cards?
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Check [url=http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/apps.php]this page, when the dates change it is likely that the problems are fixed.
They found on Pirates that
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They found on Pirates that the fix was not complete. So no one is currently in a rush to recompile the apps since it may or may not fix the screensaver.
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Actually we are :-) Right as
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Actually we are :-) Right as I am typing this, Eric and I seem to have found the reason for the remaining problem. It might take another week 'till the Apps are finally ready for release, but we don't just sit and wait...
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RE: Actually we are :-)
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Ok, good to hear and thanks for fixing it. :)
Out of curiosity, being a programmer myself, what was causing the problem?
We are not fully sure yet. We
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We are not fully sure yet. We seem to have found the check into the cvs which introduced the problem , but a lot of files have been modified at that time. I right now suspect a certain piece of code (three lines) which I think finally causes some heap corruption, but that's hard to track and probably even harder to fix.
In any case that's a problem that is not limited to ATI graphics cards anymoe (this one apprently has indeed been fixed by Rom), but is still in the boinc code, preventing us from building new Apps. I see it even more frequently on a machine with an NVidia.
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