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sectroyer
Journeyman III

Using OpenCL without X running

With (at least some) NVIDIA cards it is possible to use OpenCL simply by loading kernel driver and no X session is required. Is something similar possible with ATI cards?

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Grimm
Journeyman III

I'm looking to do the same thing.  Please post any information, if you find any.  I haven't had much luck in finding anything that works yet.  At least for linux. 

 

Grimm

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it is not possible.

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Originally posted by: nou it is not possible.

 

Why is that?

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because Xserver load fglrx driver.

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It also does the same for nvidia but running modprobe nvidia does enable OpenCL computations however running modprobe fglrx doesn't enable OpenCL for ATI cards

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Originally posted by: sectroyer It also does the same for nvidia but running modprobe nvidia does enable OpenCL computations however running modprobe fglrx doesn't enable OpenCL for ATI cards

 

That's what I thought. modprobe alone should do the job.

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