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Quote from: Raulo on February 12, 2011, 02:27:11 PM

Well, something is broken with the fglrx driver installation. I told you not to touch it if it worked

What is the result of?

Code:

$ dpkg -l |grep fglrx

This:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:~$ dpkg -l |grep fglrx
ii fglrx 2:8.801-0ubuntu1~xup~maverick Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerators
ii fglrx-amdcccle 2:8.801-0ubuntu1~xup~maverick Catalyst Control Center for the ATI graphics accelerators
ii fglrx-modaliases 2:8.801-0ubuntu1~xup~maverick Identifiers supported by the ATI graphics driver

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Also, what happens if you try to install fglrx driver again?

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install fglrx

This:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:~$ sudo apt-get install fglrx
[sudo] password for mahkul:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
fglrx is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 257 not upgraded.

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May I ask if this guide will work for multiple ATI 5970s?

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Well, something is broken with the fglrx driver installation. I told you not to touch it if it worked

What is the result of?

Code:

$ dpkg -l |grep fglrx

Also, what happens if you try to install fglrx driver again?

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install fglrx

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Quote from: Raulo on February 12, 2011, 12:39:44 PM

aticonfig should be in the fglrx package. xorg-driver-fglrx is an old package. But these drivers work (or not) by magic and there are millions of possibilities of conflicts between version so something might have got broken.

What is the result of

Code:

$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/aticonfig

I have a symlink to /usr/lib/fglrx/bin/aticonfig

Try running

Code:

$ sudo /usr/lib/fglrx/bin/aticonfig --initial

I tried both:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/aticonfig
ls: cannot access /etc/alternatives/aticonfig: No such file or directory
mahkul@mahkul:~$ sudo /usr/lib/fglrx/bin/aticonfig --initial
[sudo] password for mahkul:
Unable to open /etc/ati/control, please reinstall the driver.
/usr/lib/fglrx/bin/aticonfig: No supported adapters detected
mahkul@mahkul:~$

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aticonfig should be in the fglrx package. xorg-driver-fglrx is an old package. But these drivers work (or not) by magic and there are millions of possibilities of conflicts between version so something might have got broken.

What is the result of

Code:

$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/aticonfig

I have a symlink to /usr/lib/fglrx/bin/aticonfig

Try running

Code:

$ sudo /usr/lib/fglrx/bin/aticonfig --initial

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Quote from: Raulo on February 12, 2011, 04:24:53 AM

Quote from: Mahkul on February 11, 2011, 06:38:56 PM

On a side note, is there any easy way to upgrade those drivers that I installed via the system->administration thing? I have no VNC access to that machine, only SSH. Thanks in advance for any help with that.

You can always login with X support via

Code:

ssh -X your_host

and

Code:

$ /usr/bin/jockey-gtk

runs the System->Administration->Hardware Drivers thingy.

Probably a better option to update is to remove those drivers altogether

Code:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* xorg-driver-fglrx

and install the ones from the ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-update.

I removed the old drivers using the remove command there and I installed the ones from ppa by performing this:

Code:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-amdcccle
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-modaliases

However, now when I try to use aticonfig:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:~/Downloads/poclbm$ sudo aticonfig --initial
sudo: aticonfig: command not found

Where did it disappear? Or is this a path issue or a missing package?

EDIT:

I read somewhere that this could be due to the xorg driver missing. I tried to install it, but this is what I got:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:~$ sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
[sudo] password for mahkul:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xorg-driver-fglrx : Depends: fglrx but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Any thoughts?

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Quote from: Mahkul on February 11, 2011, 06:38:56 PM

On a side note, is there any easy way to upgrade those drivers that I installed via the system->administration thing? I have no VNC access to that machine, only SSH. Thanks in advance for any help with that.

You can always login with X support via

Code:

ssh -X your_host

and

Code:

$ /usr/bin/jockey-gtk

runs the System->Administration->Hardware Drivers thingy.

Probably a better option to update is to remove those drivers altogether

Code:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* xorg-driver-fglrx

and install the ones from the ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-update.

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I've posted a guide, which may be helpful to some, over here.

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Quote from: Raulo on February 11, 2011, 06:14:32 PM

Quote from: Mahkul on February 11, 2011, 06:01:45 PM

I am logged in via two ssh tunnels as the same user at the same time. On one of them this returns PASSED! On the other one:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:/opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx32/samples/opencl/bin/x86$ ./CLInfo
./CLInfo: /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so: no version information available (required by ./CLInfo)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cl::Error'
what(): clGetPlatformIDs
Aborted

It has to work first before getting into poclbm.py.

Why does it look for /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so? Do you even have /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so? Do you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH correct? Also, set DISPLAY=:0 to make sure it is correct.

If it does not help, give output of

$ ldd ./CLInfo

I think I have had too much of alcohol this evening. Of course I didn't export the Library path on that console window...

Thank you so much for this again! Bitcoins sent, as you know.

On a side note, is there any easy way to upgrade those drivers that I installed via the system->administration thing? I have no VNC access to that machine, only SSH. Thanks in advance for any help with that.

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Whoa, thanks! I missed the -f --adapter=all part in generating the xorg.conf. Now I have ~270MHash on each GPU.

If I mine successfully, I'll be sure to send some coins along.

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Quote from: Mahkul on February 11, 2011, 06:01:45 PM

I am logged in via two ssh tunnels as the same user at the same time. On one of them this returns PASSED! On the other one:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:/opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx32/samples/opencl/bin/x86$ ./CLInfo
./CLInfo: /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so: no version information available (required by ./CLInfo)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cl::Error'
what(): clGetPlatformIDs
Aborted

It has to work first before getting into poclbm.py.

Why does it look for /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so? Do you even have /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so? Do you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH correct? Also, set DISPLAY=:0 to make sure it is correct.

If it does not help, give output of

$ ldd ./CLInfo

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Quote from: Fractality on February 11, 2011, 05:47:49 PM

Thanks for the great instructions! At least I got pyopencl to compile. However, poclbm only shows 256MHash on GPU one and a paltry 2MHash on GPU two. It is a HD 5970, so I think it should do about 500MHash on each of them?

The other one is your CPU.

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Any idea what could be wrong? What I did differently was maybe loading the latest drivers from ATI, with that grep command I get

A few things.

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I did not use the export DISPLAY=:0 line, what does it do?

I would check this first. :0.0 is the first GPU, :0.1 is the second one, etc. :0 is "all of them". If you have :0.0 in your environment, only one will be used.

Also, Check if the card is correctly setup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It should have two Device sections.

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grep "ATI Proprietary Linux Driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 13.543] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.81.5
[ 13.543] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 8.812
[ 13.543] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Jan 4 2011 21:31:36

could that be the problem? I tried to disable crossfire, too, not sure how to check that.
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It's a very recent driver but check the other suggestions first.

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Quote from: Raulo on February 11, 2011, 05:52:11 PM

Quote from: Mahkul on February 11, 2011, 05:35:33 PM

On the two-card system I get:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:~/Downloads/poclbm$ ./poclbm.py --user=user --pass=pass
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./poclbm.py", line 20, in
platform = cl.get_platforms()[0]
pyopencl.LogicError: clGetPlatformIDs failed: invalid/unknown error code

Check
$ cd /opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86_64
$ ./CLInfo

first.

I am logged in via two ssh tunnels as the same user at the same time. On one of them this returns PASSED! On the other one:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:/opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx32/samples/opencl/bin/x86$ ./CLInfo
./CLInfo: /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so: no version information available (required by ./CLInfo)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cl::Error'
what(): clGetPlatformIDs
Aborted

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Quote from: Mahkul on February 11, 2011, 05:35:33 PM

On the two-card system I get:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:~/Downloads/poclbm$ ./poclbm.py --user=user --pass=pass
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./poclbm.py", line 20, in
platform = cl.get_platforms()[0]
pyopencl.LogicError: clGetPlatformIDs failed: invalid/unknown error code

Check
$ cd /opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86_64
$ ./CLInfo

first.

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Thanks for the great instructions! At least I got pyopencl to compile. However, poclbm only shows 256MHash on GPU one and a paltry 2MHash on GPU two. It is a HD 5970, so I think it should do about ~~500~~ 250MHash on each of them?

Any idea what could be wrong? What I did differently was maybe loading the latest drivers from ATI, with that grep command I get

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grep "ATI Proprietary Linux Driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 13.543] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.81.5
[ 13.543] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 8.812
[ 13.543] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Jan 4 2011 21:31:36

could that be the problem? I tried to disable crossfire, too, not sure how to check that.

I did not use the export DISPLAY=:0 line, what does it do?

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On the two-card system I get:

Code:

mahkul@mahkul:~/Downloads/poclbm$ ./poclbm.py --user=user --pass=pass
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./poclbm.py", line 20, in
platform = cl.get_platforms()[0]
pyopencl.LogicError: clGetPlatformIDs failed: invalid/unknown error code

:/

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Quote from: Mahkul on February 11, 2011, 05:15:04 PM

mahkul@mahkul:~/Downloads$ grep "ATI Proprietary Linux Driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 11.175] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.78.30
[ 11.175] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 8.78.3
[ 11.175] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Sep 20 2010 21:30:49

This is Catalyst 10.10. But if it works, keep it.

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mahkul@mahkul:~/Downloads$ grep "ATI Proprietary Linux Driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 11.175] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.78.30
[ 11.175] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 8.78.3
[ 11.175] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Sep 20 2010 21:30:49

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Quote from: Mahkul on February 11, 2011, 04:54:21 PM

Sorted: just added -display :0 switch

Good. If you have some weird problems, you may try to uninstall the ones from System->Administration->Additional drivers and install the ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates. The latter ones are 10.12 and are recommended (10.11 are as good as 10.12 and better for some but I had no problems with 10.12 while I had problems with multi-card set-up with older drivers). But if you don't have any problems, it's better not to touch it.

What version is printed with?
$ grep "ATI Proprietary Linux Driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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Quote from: Mahkul on February 11, 2011, 03:26:16 PM

I managed to test it with my Radeon 4670 here and i works flawlessly. I am getting ~9 more khash/s than I was getting on Windows XP.

Wow. Out of 36 MH/s or so? That's impressive.

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I am really impressed. I am a linux noobie, so perhaps what you wrote isn't very complicated for people who are more experienced. But still - impressive.

I'm quite experienced with Linux and it took me anyway a few hours to make it work. The worst part is that ATI drivers work by magic. If it doesn't work, you have no idea why. That's a problem with proprietary binary only drivers.

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Should I use the Bitcoin address in your signature?

Yes, I'll appreciate it.

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I am going to test this with a 2x5850 setup soon. If you don't mind, I may get back to you later if I run into problems with that?

Sure. No problem.

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