Coming from a recent upgrade from 8800gt to 4870 x2, I really wanted to put this new monster under work with Boinc ( you can exploit your ATI gpu only if it’s on this list)
But there were so many problem: i spent more than two days with segmentantions fault, creating deb driver packages, no gpu relevating, ecc..
This is how i solved :p
1) Check you have drivers installed AND working properly
Download the Catalyst 9.12 (the lastest) here
I never got they working properly by creating the deb in this way:
./ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run –buildpkg Ubuntu/9.04
I just installed in the normal way:
sudo ./ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run
Next, next, next, …
At the end:
sudo aticonfig –initial
Reboot.
You must be able to run the desktop effect
2) Download and install Boinc
Here the last linux x86_64 6.10.32
Then
sh boinc_6.10.32_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh
It will create a folder BOINC in that directory
cd BOINC
Now, before the critical point you need to be sure to have the option nopat added after the kernel in grub (tested with 2.6.31-20)
..and maeby even “libqtgui4” installed…
Prey the ATI big-tits goddess 
And run
./boinc
If you get something like
16-Feb-2010 22:04:30 [—] ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD 4700/4800 (RV740/RV770) (CAL version 1.4.519, 1024MB, 1200 GFLOPS peak)
16-Feb-2010 22:04:30 [—] ATI GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4700/4800 (RV740/RV770) (CAL version 1.4.519, 1024MB, 50 GFLOPS peak)
WE GOT IT 
They are two here, coz i have a 4870 x2 
3) Configure Collatz
Now download collatz_2.01_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__ati14_r1.2.tar.bz2
– copy both libbrook64.so and libbrook_cal64.so to /usr/lib64
–
cd collatz_2.01_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__ati14_r1.2/app
–
ldd collatz_2.01_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__ati14
you should see something similar to this:
libaticalcl.so => /usr/lib64/libaticalcl.so (0x00002b373b4e3000)
libbrook64.so => /usr/lib64/libbrook64.so (0x00002b373b6d1000)
libbrook_cal64.so => /usr/lib64/libbrook_cal64.so (0x00002b373b914000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00002b373bb33000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002b373be3b000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002b373c08e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b373c29d000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002b373c5e2000)
libaticalrt.so => /usr/lib64/libaticalrt.so (0x00002b373c7fd000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00002b373c91e000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b373cb27000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x00002b373cd2b000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x00002b373cf3d000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002b373b4b4000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x00002b373d273000)
libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0x00002b373d477000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libxcb.so.1 (0x00002b373d679000
– copy the app_info.xml, app file and the 2 libs (libbrook64.so and libbrook_cal64.so) to projects/boinc.thesonntags.com/
– make sure to have a copy of the 2 libs (libbrook64.so and libbrook_cal64.so) removing 64 from the name in /usr/lib64/
sudo ln -s libbrook_cal64.so libbrook_cal.so
sudo ln -s libbrook64.so libbrook.so
4) Test it
cd ../collatz_2.01_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__ati14_r1.2/test_files
cp ../app/collatz_2.01_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__ati14 ./
cp../libs/* ./
and run the test: ./collatz_2.01_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__ati14
It will take some time (in my case just ca 20s)
Now, to run Boinc you need the demon
./boinc
and the graphical interface
sh run_manager
Both of them run in BOINC folder
It’s over, you can join Collatz (the only project at the moment supporting ATI gpu computing, Milkyway is still on the “way” 
)
A thanks specially to Stoffel, Marco Vuano and this blog http://radialmind.blogspot.com/2010/01/ati-stream-technology.html
the other side.. 
I have a HD 5770 vapor-x, with Fedora 8 and latest ATI driver, and I get this:
[—] ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD5700 series (Juniper) (CAL version 1.4.553, 1024MB, 50 GFLOPS peak)
I think that I should get something like 1200 GFLOPS peak as in your card 0 (as this is the potential of the card). Instead I get 50 GFLOPS like in jour card 1. The problem is that if it run at 50 as it say, the card is not used well.
However, an Collatz task is extimanted to be completed in 2h 36m, but every time the client is restarted, counting start from 0 again.
I think because the driver put it in idle mode
Check the frequencies with this applet
Download the lastest at the bottom
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showpost.php?p=76209&postcount=1
Install libqt4-network and libqtgui
make it executable
and run it
I think that in fedora the packages you give about qt are already installed (I use KDE and QT3/4) with another name, however the application fails to retrieve information:
./107457-atioc_x86_64_105
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_CurrentActivity_Get
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_FanSpeed_Get
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_ODPerformanceLevels_Get
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_ODParameters_Get
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_ODPerformanceLevels_Set
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_FanSpeed_Set
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_FanSpeedToDefault_Set
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_FanSpeedInfo_Get
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_ODParameters_Get
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_ODPerformanceLevels_Get
Error loading address of ADL_Overdrive5_Temperature_Get
In the applet the card is not named and all other info fields are empty.
When closing the application there are a window with ( in summary):
error 15989888 retriving OverDrive performance level.
Maybe there are some problem with ATI driver. I attends 10.3 to see if this will change.
Try running this first
sudo aticonfig –od-enable
aticonfig –od-enable
ATI Overdrive(TM) enabled
but I then get the same wrong result.
However, if get this:
aticonfig –odgc
ERROR – Could not find library: libatiadlxx.so
locate libatiadlxx.so
/usr/lib/libatiadlxx.so
/usr/lib64/libatiadlxx.so
/usr/lib64/fglrx/libatiadlxx.so
don’t know if this information can help
Sry, i just notice right now this comment >.>
Do u still get this error?
Hi, just browsing and found this. Wonder how it’s going with his 5770? Do you use Ubuntu? I’m using 10.04 and have a 5830 on the way from newegg which I plan to put to use similarly.
Ice:
This could be a case of completely removing your drivers and cleanly installing them with no leftovers. Instructions for doing this can be found in the Ubuntu forums, probably under the Multimedia category, (you can interpolate for fedora.) Under the latest drivers, the 5770 is supposed to work.
Im going now with a 5850, no problem
Everything ok, no trick like “nopat”, it works out of the box :p
Yes, from version 10.4 the driver supports the Xorg of Fedora 12.
I don’t try jet to reinstall the driver from zero, but actually I have:
10.4: Boinc now see the correct peak:
ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD5700 series (Juniper) (CAL version 1.4.636, 1024MB, 1376 GFLOPS peak)
but the card seems always in idle as the applet show always 0% usage (and infact calculation is very low in Boinc)
10.5: same issue for Boinc, but worst, Tremulous game graphics is now completely wrong in some part (maybe some effects are no correctly applied by the card).
I will try to reinstall all, as maybe I cannot install Fedora 13 as it has a new XOrg version that ATI will never support before a year I think 😦
Did u care about, in the preference, “use the vga when the pc is in use”?
yes, I have it turn on, and I try even with the new “”Continue GPU elaboration” on, but the calculation is still as in idle (GPU temperature is 40°, with 40 % fan)
Great post, I am almost 100% in agreement with you