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I'd been using the Folding at Home client supplied in the Ubuntu repository for a while. It was a little flaky. Nearly every update (especially a kernel update) would disable my graphics card. Usually just stopping it and restarting fixed the issue but sometimes I'd have to remove the application and reinstall it.
Not this time.
Ubuntu has removed the FAH client from the repository. I understand: it was a 7.6 version and they've moved to a 8.4 version. Quite an upgrade. So I downloaded the new client in the bzip format. If failed to launch. Then I downloaded the .deb version and that seemed to work... somewhat. It managed to lock up my system so I had to do a hard shutdown. I deleted it and reinstalled it. And... nope. Failed to launch.
Finally I went into Synaptic and searched for both 'folding' and 'fah'. Apparently, there were both an fahclient and an fah-client still stuck in the system. I deleted both, reinstalled the new client and I'm folding again.
I'm keeping a watch on it. I don't think it likes having any other graphics heavy programs running at the same time. I usually pause folding when I go into Second Life but sometime I forget.
Not this time.
Ubuntu has removed the FAH client from the repository. I understand: it was a 7.6 version and they've moved to a 8.4 version. Quite an upgrade. So I downloaded the new client in the bzip format. If failed to launch. Then I downloaded the .deb version and that seemed to work... somewhat. It managed to lock up my system so I had to do a hard shutdown. I deleted it and reinstalled it. And... nope. Failed to launch.
Finally I went into Synaptic and searched for both 'folding' and 'fah'. Apparently, there were both an fahclient and an fah-client still stuck in the system. I deleted both, reinstalled the new client and I'm folding again.
I'm keeping a watch on it. I don't think it likes having any other graphics heavy programs running at the same time. I usually pause folding when I go into Second Life but sometime I forget.
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