Comment 24 for bug 587426

A guy (gfarmerfr) on the DNETC project forums told me "The user launching boinc must have a Xorg session running". We were discussing getting the ATI cards to work on that project. He took another route (that I like better that what I did) in that he changed ownership of the /var/lib/boinc-client directory to be his primary user ID and then changed boinc-client to run under that ID and it worked. Probably a better idea than my running under "root". I think it proves out his statement though and also explains why the Berkeley install also worked (runs under my id).

So the question now becomes WHY does is the user running boinc required to have an X-session running to access the ATI drivers but not so for the NVidia drivers? I seriously doubt that I have the ability / know-how to answer this.