Comment 3 for bug 1177433

The underlying problem here is not with BOINC but with the way the driver initializes the GPU. It seems that for newer AMD/ATI GPU's you need an active x-session (aka logged in user). Usually BOINC is started via init-script at boot time but there is no user logged in. What you can do is to deactivate the init-script and somehow transform this into an autostart skript after you login to your desktop manager. The init process can't help us here as it has no information about logged in users.

@laza74: Can you post what driver you have installed for your GPU?

@costamagnagianfranco: can you add the driver package to this bug as the reason is clearly in the driver.