Topic: 50 BTC if you write a complete guide on GPU mining on Ubuntu using ATI - page 4. (Read 102903 times)

Both errors are because SDK is not installed or installed in a different directory than in the guide.

I got:

And I do not kown why, but
got "No such file or directory".
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Try:

While logged in via ssh try this:


If you get errors do:


And then try aticonfig again.

EDIT: By the way, there is a Polish bitcoin forum at http://bitcoin.pl/forum (I assume you're Polish judging by your nick).

EDIT 2: As for the CPU try typing:


If this doesn't work follow this guide.

It's any way to monitoring GPU and CPU temperatures with Bitcoing progress of work by telnet ? Or i obliged to use remote desktop :/

I was in truth rather discouraged by all this. Last time I had tried to change versions it was very difficult to get it working again at all.

But the export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1 did it, with 2.3, no need to re-install 2.1

So thanks very much for that clue!!

Screens section is as follows:
Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[1]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[1]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection


I hear what you say, I will try 2.1 I guess.

Thanks very much for your help.

Looks OK. If you have also correct  "Screen" sections (pointing to different devices) then the only thing is SDK 2.3. I read reports that it had some problems with multi-GPU settings:
http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=390&threadid=143851

Install SDK 2.1 and cross fingers. After reading the above thread, it's probably the case.

edit: Apparently
should also help (you can make a quick test) but there is no reason to use SDK 2.3.

Catalyst version 10.12 according to amdcccle.

I have always hated Xorg.conf!  Here are my device sections:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[1]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

And while on the subject, here is
lspci | grep ATI
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
04:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]

Regards, and thanks for your help !

You are running it correctly but the threads apparently compete for the same GPU instead of running on their own. 

My ideas:

1. Buggy SDK
2. Buggy Catalyst driver (10.11 or 10.12 are reported to work best). What's your version?
3. Broken xorg.conf

Could you show your "Device" sections in /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

1st window:

mark@bigdaddy:~/poclbm20110311$ ./poclbm.py -f 100 --verbose -w 128 -r 10 -v -d0 --user ... --pass ...
25/03/2011 23:04:05, 187777 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:04:11, checking 3512679190 <= 62265
25/03/2011 23:04:15, 186506 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:04:20, checking 3742602603 <= 62265
25/03/2011 23:04:25, 189006 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:04:35, 192135 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:04:45, 190200 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:04:55, 189390 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:05, 193691 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:15, 194551 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:22, checking 3736923992 <= 62265
25/03/2011 23:05:25, 192253 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:31, checking 1440968788 <= 62265
25/03/2011 23:05:35, 190937 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:45, 193015 khash/s
^C
Compilation terminated.

2nd window:
mark@bigdaddy:~/poclbm20110311$ ./poclbm.py -f 100 --verbose -w 128 -r 10 -v -d1 --user ... --pass ...
25/03/2011 23:04:06, 85915 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:04:16, 78925 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:04:26, 80097 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:04:36, 80161 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:04:46, 79075 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:04:56, 75824 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:06, 73409 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:16, 75611 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:26, 74499 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:36, 74750 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:46, 74164 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:05:54, checking 3327463497 <= 62265
25/03/2011 23:05:56, 241692 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:06:02, checking 589964444 <= 62265
25/03/2011 23:06:06, 255866 khash/s
25/03/2011 23:06:06, checking 2921145210 <= 62265
25/03/2011 23:06:11, checking 2796295684 <= 62265
25/03/2011 23:06:16, 256471 khash/s
^C
Compilation terminated.

3rd window:

mark@bigdaddy:~$ date ; aticonfig --odgc --adapter=all
Fri Mar 25 23:05:24 GMT 2011
Adapter 0 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
                            Core (MHz)    Memory (MHz)
           Current Clocks :    765           1125
             Current Peak :    765           1125
  Configurable Peak Range : [550-900]     [900-1300]
                 GPU load :    72%

Adapter 1 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
                            Core (MHz)    Memory (MHz)
           Current Clocks :    765           1125
             Current Peak :    765           1125
  Configurable Peak Range : [550-900]     [900-1300]
                 GPU load :    28%
mark@bigdaddy:~$ date ; aticonfig --odgc --adapter=all

Fri Mar 25 23:06:10 GMT 2011
Adapter 0 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
                            Core (MHz)    Memory (MHz)
           Current Clocks :    157           300
             Current Peak :    765           1125
  Configurable Peak Range : [550-900]     [900-1300]
                 GPU load :    0%

Adapter 1 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
                            Core (MHz)    Memory (MHz)
           Current Clocks :    765           1125
             Current Peak :    765           1125
  Configurable Peak Range : [550-900]     [900-1300]
                 GPU load :    96%
mark@bigdaddy:~$ date ; aticonfig --odgc --adapter=all

Fri Mar 25 23:07:19 GMT 2011
Adapter 0 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
                            Core (MHz)    Memory (MHz)
           Current Clocks :    765           1125
             Current Peak :    765           1125
  Configurable Peak Range : [550-900]     [900-1300]
                 GPU load :    0%

Adapter 1 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
                            Core (MHz)    Memory (MHz)
           Current Clocks :    157           300
             Current Peak :    765           1125
  Configurable Peak Range : [550-900]     [900-1300]
                 GPU load :    0%


Explanation:

What I did here is broadly what you suggested. windows 1 and 2 were started as near as I could at the same time.
Although both rates are low, the 2nd window is lower. I stop the 1st window and the 2nd picks up in speed.

In the 3rd window, I run the command a) when both threads are running. b) after the first has been stopped c) after both are stopped.


Any thoughts?

If you run the above in one window and
in another (notice different device numbers) and you still have problems, then it's weird. Do it and show the output of

Both cards should have close to 100% usage.

You may also try SDK 2.1 because SDK 2.3 may be broken and SDK 2.1 is faster so it's best to use it anyway.
Notice that the device numbers change with SDK 2.1.


If by "small difference" you mean about 10% then I agree (in my opinion 10% is quite a lot if you don't care about responsiveness). 

Thank you! Obviously I HAVE made some error because it SHOULD work. Here goes:

export DISPLAY=:0
mark@bigdaddy:~$ ./poclbm.py
No device specified or device not found, use -d to specify one of the following

[ 0]   Cypress
[1]   Cypress
[2]   Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         950  @ 3.07GHz
./poclbm.py -f 100 --verbose -w 128 -r 60 -v -d1 --user ...  --pass ...

-d0  works exactly the same way so far as I can see.
I use -f 100 because it makes only a small difference to the hash rate but increases display responsiveness a lot.

Well, let's check what you did because it should work.

Could you write the output of ./poclbm.py without any options
and your command line options for poclbm.py (obviously without user and pass)?

Yes thats what I did.

Do you run poclbm with different device numbers, e.g. "-d 1" for the first GPU and "-d 2" for the other (adjust the numbers according to the list printed by poclbm with no options)? It looks like you don't and if you run it with the same device, they will compete for the graphics card.

By the way (but do it after you solve the above issue), SDK 2.1 is faster.

Yes, crossfire off, and the connector between the boards not connected.

Crossfire off?

I have followed a lot of this and have

 1 off NVIDIA GTX 470
 2 off ATI HD5850

After messing with the NVIDIA Cuda libraries (which I did in fact get working) , I gave up on this and decided to concentrate on getting the ATI cards working.

So far both the ATI cards work and give the expected hashrate, but if I run 2 threads then the combined hashrate is lower than with one card.

If both threads are started with the same -f parameter then its pretty much that the 2nd one to start has a hashrate similar to the cpu and the other one falls to about half what it was.

Otherwise it seems that the one with the lower -f parameter "wins" and the gets about half the expected hashrate, and the other does very much much worse than that.

podclm.py with no parameters gives 3 devices, the cpu, and the 2 ati cards.

Other data:
Ubuntu 10.04.
poclm version: poclbm/201103.beta1
ATI Stream SDK 2.3

Can anyone suggest what I might do to fix this?

There is an omission in this tutorial that will send linux noobs astray on the driver install ...

at this point here

 
Assuming a starting position as new clean ubuntu install, between setting your repository to ppa:ubuntu-x-swat and getting the drivers you'll need to issue a command to update the repository list in the machine else you will just go ahead and install the current fglrx drivers referred to in the default repository. (10.10) which is exactly what Mahkul got.

So it should read
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
$ sudo apt-get update
### or alternately here you can open Synaptic and hit the "Reload" button, check ppa:ubuntu-x-swat is ticked as a repository in Settings->Repositories->Other Software ... also beware an "apt-get update will update your whole system which may take a while depending ....

and now it will get the drivers from ubuntu-xswat (if that is what you really want, I didn't use them)
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-amdcccle
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-modaliases

Also here at the repository it recommends you completely uninstall all traces of any installed fglrx before trying to put another on the system ... and you can install a tool to do that (sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates), so I guess they really mean it.
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates?field.series_filter=maverick
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Maverick_Installation_Guide#Removing_Catalyst.2Ffglrx

I've noticed when using poclbm sometimes the GPU/CPU numbers change on subsequent runs which makes scripting interesting (to automate a miner for each GPU) - maybe that is the cause here too?