SETI on LINUX, please help!

[ChrisLudwig]

SETI on LINUX, please help!

I'm new to Linux, but I'm having a weird problem running SETI.
I'm using v3.08: i686-pc-linux-gnu

It's running on a AMD 2400+ CPU with plenty of RAM and a nForce chipset with integrated GeForce 4 MX video.

My Linux version is Mandrake 9.2 with KDE.

The problem is that within 20 seconds or so of running SETI, the screen starts to have problems. It looks like the video display is shorting out! A seizure inducing array of screen images flash around everywhere. Whatever is on my screen replicates and flashes all over. Only as an imaage, not a duplicate window. It's very strange.

I've lowered SETI's priority to -19 but the problem persists. Any ideas?

 

[silverpig]

You're just running setiathome and not xsetiathome aren't you?

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[alltaken]

yes gotta watch these X things. you see linux assumes you don't have a monitor....i mean videocard....i mean mouse....yeah ti assumes you don't have a mouse



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[ChrisLudwig]

Ya, just the standard command line version.
It seems that whenever the processor is running at 100% it freaks out the video display. I’m guessing that it’s interfering with the GUI interface, but it also may be an issue with the video card. Interestingly enough I loaded SETI on ARK Linux, a new distribution, same hardware, and it had the same problem.

I really don’t know Linux well enough to figure this one out just yet.

 

[silverpig]

The standard command line version comes with two binaries: in my /seti directory I've got

setiathome
xsetiathome

I do a

./setiathome

to start seti. Doing a

./xsetiathome

would try to load some graphics and what not as well. Make sure you've only got the ./setiathome one going. They're both command line, but one uses x, the other doesn't.

If that's not it, then I couldn't say what it could be.

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