Thank you both. Further changes at my system I can't do right now but I will give ssh a try after a big exibition at the end of may.

Cheers
ONYX

Hello,

at the moment my set up is fine but I have an unused GTX480 which I want to use for Octane.
My mainboard allows another GPU but at the moment I must use one PCIe 3.0 slot for a display card (FX 580).
I tried to get the internal intel hd to work for several days. Without an nvidia driver the ...

Cuda Toolkit Version 3.1 was responsable for the error.
After installing version 3.0 everything works fine.

Thanks mib2berlin!

Thanks mib2berlin. I will try it and post the result on Monday.

Have a nice weekend.

I just type ./octanedemo in terminal. The splash screen is shown for a very short time and then the error message appears.

To prevent that there are some mistakes I installed a clean Ubuntu 64. Deinstalled all default nvidia drivers (sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*). Installed the 256.44 ...

OK, I found the answers here: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... 132#p25132

But anyone has an advise to my issue on Ubuntu 64?

This error occures on Ubuntu 64 Bit 10.04 LTS with Xeon W3530 - maybe someone has an idea to solve that problem
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*** glibc detected *** ./octanedemo: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x00007f80a400c7f0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x775b6)[0x7f80adc115b6]
/lib/libc ...

I think about operating system and graphics card to use Octane Render.
(Processor I want to use is Xeon W3530 with 6GB RAM - only OS and graphics cards related questions)

My test results are:
Ubuntu 64-bit (E8500 + 2GB RAM + 8800GTS 512) - Octane benchmark scene: 2.4 Mega samples / sec
Windows XP ...