Comment 0 for bug 1568233

Back on 14.04 and also 12.04, all you had to do to get BOINC to use the GPU(s), was to install AMD's proprietary fglrx driver, and then type in terminal:

sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart

You had to type that like every time you (re)started Ubuntu for BOINC to recognize your graphics card, but it worked to fix the GPU recognition with AMD cards (not sure about Nvidia cards though, since I don't have any). Now however, in 16.04, AMD's Catalyst drivers have been deprecated, and while the switch to AMD's open source GPU drivers is a good move, for some reason, this command line no longer works to recognize AMD graphics cards. And since we can't install Catalyst on Xenial, I hope AMD's work on their open source drivers gets a BOINC optimization ASAP.