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Almost like some of the settings are not correct in the .conf

I'll mess with it a little more tonight and take some of your suggestions and test them out.

I would like to use sgminer, as that is what I have been using on my windows computer and it seems to give me 10-20 more kh per cards.

I'll try a fresh install of 1.3 and just try to change the .conf as carefully as possible. Also need to figure out how to get sgminer running in general lol.

As I said earlier Linux is greek to me. I feel like it should be a lot easier then I'm making it  

Thanks for the help! I hope all goes well this time.

EDIT: Alright got the miner showing up but now after I type /etc/init.d/miner restart I get:

Stopping mining process...: mine..cgminer api failed...
Starting mining process...: minestart_mining: starting mining processses
..munin..GPU 0

Then nothing happens. 

I have rigs on BAMT now... 7 on 1.2 and 1 on 1.3... the oddball would run stable on 1.2... no matter what I did... popped a 1.3 USB stick and it has not complained in hours... still needed Vesper's special sauce and .bin file to get it to run will though!!!

Thanks for the correction. I knew it was .0.0, but was guessing on the main version.. haha

BAMT 1.3 comes with sgminer 4.0.0... I have been staring at it for the past few hours...

What do you mean, "opens up and closes"?


I've hit 500 peak before but it never stayed. I wish he'd left his settings to see what he did, and to know if it was a peak or an average.

RE BAMT 1.3

Newer isn't always better. The main reason 1.3 was released was to included the latest AMD drivers for some R9 cards, and it includes sgminer. This doesn't mean it'll provide you the best hash or most reliable system, because as some are finding out on the BAMT thread, some R9 cards perform better/more stable, with the older drivers. I also question why the author decided to put a dogecoin flash screen in BAMT 1.3. FWIW it's possible to install any mining software you want on BAMT (cgminer, bfgminer, sgminer, etc).

Here's a quick "what I know" breakdown on the versions:

Version / Compatibility / Comments

1.1 - Almost All - Great-to-Excellent for the 7900 series or older cards, known for solid stability. Comes with cgminer 3.1.1, but manually updating cgminer to 3.4.3 makes it even better.

1.2 - 6xxx/7xxx, Some R9 - Excellent for the 7000 series or older cards; Works well with some R9 cards. Comes with cgminer 3.7.2.

1.3 - Some Old / Some R9 - This was released specifically for R9 cards, may not work with others. It's been noted in the BAMT thread that not all R9 cards benefit from this due to driver issues, and might instead run better with 1.2. Comes with sgminer 4.0.0

Basically what I would do is find your "best" settings on a card, and try them across all 3 versions. You might find a card runs better in one version than another.

@vesper,

I read this comment on reddit:


It's this thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoinmining/comments/1s6g4p/if_youre_running_an_r9_gpu_please_leave_your/

Ok, get to work. hehehehehe! Time to beat the half megahash mark on our 270 / 270Xs.

Tomorrow, I'll run my 2 GPU rig for a good 8 hours. It's currently located in my office, so I can't keep it running 24/7 just yet.

The 2nd GPU is cooler than the first one too. Also, my Seasonic 1050 watts PSU is silent. I don't know what's wrong with yours, you better have it checked out if the noise is bothering you. Maybe the fan is hitting some plastic or paper or something is stuck.

I should get my risers next week, so, I'll be able to plug in 4 cards. Still waiting for the store to get my 5th GPU. And, just because I ordered the risers, I went ahead and told him to include one of those ASRock BTC motherboards for my next rig. (or I get another GPU and move 6 of them to the ASRock.)

I'm a bit ecstatic I even managed to get 492 kh/s out of a non-x 270. I did notice that after about an hour, I was starting to get rejects or invalids.

When the risers come in, either the temps should go down, or the fan speed should go slower. (I set the fans to 100% during the tweaking; it was audibly noticeable.)

@ehalvers, I don't know. I just ran the latest BAMT I downloaded from the litecoin forums. Then edited the conf and took out the gpu-related settings (and put in my own pool credentials.) Rebooted the thing, and it started mining.

Let me try and help you, this is almost exactly what I did, because I could not remote desktop log in (no gui mode) and I didn't bother plugging in its own keyboard. The monitor was just to take a peek at what stupid dog splash screen this version of BAMT had. hahahahahaha!

Initial configuration needs to be done by editing the /etc/bamt/cgminer.conf

nano /etc/bamt/cgminer.conf

Delete all the lines that start with "gpu-" such as:

"gpu-engine" : "1000",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250"

Why? So it runs stock.

Also delete the line that says "scrypt", this one:

"kernel" : "scrypt",

You will be using sgminer, and it doesn't do anything except scrypt. If you have an older version or using cgminer, then this line is needed. The fork author forgot to take out this little detail, but it's mentioned in the thread or the reddit.

When you’re done, save the file and restart the mining process with:

/etc/init.d/mine restart

To view the cgminer output and make interactive changes, run:

screen -ls

Note the number you find next to the CGMiner process. “Attach” to that screen with the command (replacing 8213 with the number your screen output reported).

screen -r 8213.cgminer


Oh yah, you connect to it from another computer. After I got the rig starting up on its own, I took out the monitor and now it's completely headless: no mouse, no keyboard, no monitor, no hard drive (just the USB flash drive), no case!

Awesome!

Hope that helps!

Definitely something in your cgminer.conf file... Vesper is the expert on Linux/BAMT... but I learned enough to know that I am not a Linux hero... so I use file manager instead of command line.

I burn a copy of BAMT1.2 or 1.3 onto a brand new USB... start and let the BAMT boot-up... use file manager to find... etc/bamt/cgminer.conf(I think)... right click... then click open... I very, very carefully make the changes needed... pool, user, password and any change to the actual parameters... making sure I do not lose any commas, brackets, quotes, etc and etc... when done... click save... then restart mining through the BAMT control options in the start menu... wait until the terminal closes... then open a terminal and type - sudo screen -x cgminer - to open the cgminer screen... and that is a much as I know!!!

I have 8 rigs running on BAMT... I really like it.

Hope that helps.

Up all night trying to figure out BAMT in order to avoid having to go get windows.

Anyone know why my miner just opens up and closes?

Gigabyte 280x

ASrock H81 Pro BTC

Intel Celeron 2.8 Ghz

BAMT 1.3

2g of RAM

and 8g USB

I'm sure its in my conf, I am a complete linux noob.

Haven't been able to compile/make/wtf you have do to run things in this OS.

any help would be appreciated, thanks!

That's awesome dabs, congrats!

Got my 270 MSI rig back online. The burning smell and shutdown issue was a failed power cable. Nothing new and improved wiring couldn't fix.

Ok, I finally got the GPU to work.

Dabs Rig with 1 GPU running


Watt Meter thingie shows 190 watts, and the idle system was doing 75 watts, so can I assume the card only uses up 115 watts?

Time to do some tweaking I guess. But at almost stock, it's running 480 kh/s.

*edit 1*
After some tweaking


*edit 2*
I put in another video card, right beside the first one. This is all I can fit in the motherboard physically, without risers. I need risers to set up my rig with all the GPUs I bought.


Watt Meter = 355 watts total.

Ok, what do I do next? .... hehheheheehehehe... I log in to it from another computer after disconnecting the monitor using putty.

Dabs Rig Bare motherboard, with 1050 watt PSU


Dabs Rig with 1 GPU, and a National Grid Corporation coffee mug on top of the PSU.


Booting up BAMT 1.3 R9, but no network connection yet.
Idle, 40 to 60 watts at the wall.

Not mining yet. I'm wasting time, but erghh, can't be helped yet...

This may perhaps be common knowledge for everyone else out there, but I'll share anyway.  I'm still learning more daily as I go and this seemed a tidbit worth sharing for similar rigs performing differently.

I was tweaking the cards I got from Fuse.  They had been running stable at stock clocks for about a week now, so I thought it was safe to do some adjustments.  I have 6 identical to the 3 I got from him, so I just plopped the identical settings on them, but they were not stable.  After a while, got it figured out.

My original settings have the VDDC set at 1038mV via MSI Afterburner.  GPUz shows the cards on my original rig getting 12.1V from the PSU and the VDDC was showing as 998mV.  On the new rig, it was getting 11.7V from the PSU and VDDC was showing as 969mV.  I bumped MSI Afterburner to 1050mV which raised the VDDC GPUz was seeing to 992mV and it has been stable all day.  So apparently, it seems like the drivers and VRMs (in at least these GPUs) do not seek the voltage you set, but sets the VRMs to a specific setting where under ideal circumstances will equal the specified voltage.

I'm not sure what the standard tolerance range is for the 12V line.  I am hoping 11.7 is within tolerance.  It is the same whether idle or under load and seems stable, so I hope the PSU is good. 

I know, I double post a lot... but it's my thread, right lol.

So about the only good thing that came out of today was that when I got home, 2 of my Gigabyte 270s were at the door.  They shipped in three separate shipments I guess.

So I popped the bad boy in this computer, pulled the settings from the mining hardware comparison page, and boom...

450KH/S on a $180(shipped) card.  Booya!

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.  I'm guessing Vesper could get 750+ out of it, but I'm happy with what I'm seeing lol.

-Fuse

Daniel_X, PM sent.

-Fuse

Always glad to hear I could be helpful!

Fuse (above) is the admin, he will fix you soon.

Oh wow. That is amazing Vesper haha. Was getting around 650 kh with the best config I could come up with.

Pop this in a bam 700+ thanks!

I'll try it with the other 3 tahiti 7950's and let you know how it goes!

Hello miners,
After several days of mining TAGs on tagmining.com I have a problem with logging. When I try to log in it says:
Unable to login: Account is locked. Please contact site support.

Do not know what to do? Does anyone have the same problem?

Daniel_X