#Boinc screen saver for mac#
#Boinc screen saver mac os x#
#Boinc screen saver pro#

To test what the problem is, go to BOINC Manager, 'Work' tab, select the 'Running' SETI result, and click on 'show graphics'. If the graphics show up, the problem is most likely somewhere in your screensaver settings. If they don't, let us know what happens, and we'll be able to narrow it down more. It keeps doing this indefinitely, so no computation gets. The problem is, whenever the screensaver starts, after a few seconds of initializing it flashes back and forth between the desktop and the screensaver, even though I am not interrupting it.

#Boinc screen saver pro#

Screensaver problems (where it had once worked) would only be on the 'project' side if a new application was downloaded to your host that had a bug. I recently upgraded my Macbook pro and reinstalled Boinc. SETI hasn't changed the science application in months.ĮDIT:: I have an identical iBook G3 to yours, that I'm typing this on - graphics are working for me. Please note that the iBook's graphics processor is not very powerful, so running the SETI graphics takes a _lot_ of time away from the crunching. I use 'no screensaver' and just have the display go blank, only look at the graphics manually when I want to.Īppleibook1. Under the Apple menu, select System Preferences. Click Personalize, select Screen Saver, and select BOINC.

#Boinc screen saver mac os x#

On clicking the show graphics nothing happens. The BOINC client software on Windows and Mac OS X includes a screensaver program, which you can select as your screensaver. I also run this has no screen saver sept for a display saying so, that runs OK.

Let me verify that there isn't a basic misunderstanding - if you already know this, I'm not meaning to offend you.īOINC will run SETI for an hour, then Rosetta for an hour (assuming equal resource shares, no periods where you couldn't get work from one or the other, you haven't changed any of the basic preferences, etc.). One of these projects will show in the 'Work' tab as 'Running', and the other as 'Preempted'.

#Boinc screen saver for mac#

#Boinc screensaver not working for mac#īOINC can _only_ show graphics on the process that is 'Running', and since Rosetta has none for Mac (yet.) only if the process that is running is SETI, and only if you are not running an 'optimized' version of it. So if a SETI result is what is currently 'Running', and you click on 'Show Graphics' and it does nothing, then we need to dig further. If any of this is not true, then you may not have a problem.Īssuming you do show SETI as 'Running', but 'Show Graphics' does nothing, not even put an icon in the dock, we need to launch Activity Monitor (Applications/Utilities) and click on the CPU tab, then the %CPU column, so it sorts the highest CPU % to the top (may have to click column twice).

Wait about five or ten seconds, and you SHOULD see 'setiathome_4.18_powerpc-apple-darwin' as the top item, probably getting 70-80%. If not, if there is anything 'above' SETI in the list, we'll need to know what it is, and work on it from that side.Īppleibook1. BOINC is secure and will not affect your normal use of the computer.

No offense taken you would be supprised at some thread I read on other forums, just how silly some people are.īut back to problem tops the CPU as you stated. #Boinc screensaver not working for mac#.