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Topic: BFGMiner and Scrypt mining -- help needed please (Read 1216 times)

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I'm trying to get it to work too, and I generated a debug log file that looks very similar to yours.

I notice you have OpenCL 1.2, and I have OpenCL 1.1

I'll come back here to post my findings after I try to update my software.  Might take me a couple of days, I am trying to run non-stop right now with bitcoin mining, and I don't want to restart for things to take effect.

Edit:  I forgot to mention that I'm running WinXP SP3 and it did not originally have setx, so I had to download a copy of it, but I have correctly implemented it in my batch file before the bfgminer command+arguments... I just don't know if it's part of my problem yet or not.
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Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help me get BFGminer working with scrypt.

I've gone through all the documentation, all the posts I can find on here and other places on the web about getting scrypt running in BFGminer, but I still can't quite get it to work.

Using version 3.1.1 (which has scrypt compiled into it), I can connect to a pool, and send of a get work request, but then things seem to fall apart.  

I'm running an MSI 7970 card and I'm launching BFGminer with the following batch commands:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
bfgminer --scrypt -o pooledbits.com:8337 -u BLANKED.1 -p x -I 13 --shaders 2048 --debug 2>log.txt


The following is what gets dumped with debugging turned on:

 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] setrlimit: Not supported by platform
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 0b38:0010 - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 8086:3a35 - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 8086:3a34 - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 8086:3a37 - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 8086:3a3a - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 8086:3a36 - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 046d:0826 - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 8086:3a38 - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 1532:002e - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 8086:3a39 - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 1532:002e - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] ft232r_scan: Found 8086:3a3c - not a ft232r
 [2013-06-27 22:00:50] Started bfgminer 3.1.1
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1124.2)
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Platform 0 devices: 1
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51]    0   Tahiti
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] GPU 0 iAdapterIndex 0 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_6798&SUBSYS_27741462&REV_00_4&239521B6&0&0008A iBusNumber 1 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series hardware monitoring enabled
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] OCL 0 : Set temperature config: target=75 cutoff=95
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Popping work to stage thread
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Testing pool http://pooledbits.com:8337
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] X-Roll-Ntime expiry set to 120
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] JSON-RPC call failed: {
   "code": -1,
   "message": "method not getwork"
}
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Failed to connect in json_rpc_call
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] X-Roll-Ntime expiry set to 120
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Successfully retrieved and deciphered work from pool 0 http://pooledbits.com:8337
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Pushing pooltest work to base pool
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Network difficulty changed to 769 ( 5.51Gh/s)
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] New block: ...5b7cd24e4e542028 diff 769 ( 5.51Gh/s)
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Pushing work to getwork queue (queued=N)
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Pool 0 http://pooledbits.com:8337 alive
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Popping work to stage thread
 [2013-06-27 22:00:51] Long-polling activated for http://pooledbits.com:8337/LP (getwork)
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] Init GPU thread 0 GPU 0 virtual GPU 0
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1124.2)
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] List of devices:
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52]    0   Tahiti
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] Selected 0: Tahiti
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] Preferred vector width reported 1
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] Max work group size reported 256
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] Max mem alloc size is 2951741440
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] Selecting scrypt kernel
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] GPU 0: selecting lookup gap of 2
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] GPU 0: selecting thread concurrency of 10240
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] OCL 0: Configured OpenCL kernel name: scrypt130511Tahitiglg2tc10240w256l4pOpenCL1_2AMDAPP1124_2
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] No binary found, generating from source
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] Setting worksize to 256
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] cl_amd_media_ops found, setting BITALIGN
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] BFI_INT patch requiring device not found, will not BFI_INT patch
 [2013-06-27 22:00:52] CompilerOptions: -D LOOKUP_GAP=2 -D CONCURRENT_THREADS=10240 -D WORKSIZE=256 -D BITALIGN -D GOFFSET

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At this point, BFGminer simply closes down.

Can anyone give me any advice/help/suggestions about what is happening and how to get it to work.

Thank you very much in advance.

Eric
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