CryptoSlax Linux Mining Distro - page 7.

Zoella

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Quote from: aleargbtc on January 28, 2014, 05:05:16 AM

I tried these changes but unfortunately my mini rig 2x5970 1x5850 has always a big lag and the cgminer on the terminal windows can't display the stats. I've tried running the "screen" command but nothing... the GPU's runs but I cannot say how it runs, and logging the process with 2>logfile.txt seems to be ok...
The Intesity is 18 on all GPU.
I suppose it's a bad driver + SDK combination for me.

However a PC with only 7850 works flawlessly.

Anyway Thank you

I assume you are experience the lag on a local terminal window? If you start your miner in the background with the screen command, you can then SSH over to watch without the lag.

aleargbtc

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I tried these changes but unfortunately my mini rig 2x5970 1x5850 has always a big lag and the cgminer on the terminal windows can't display the stats. I've tried running the "screen" command but nothing... the GPU's runs but I cannot say how it runs, and logging the process with 2>logfile.txt seems to be ok...
The Intesity is 18 on all GPU.
I suppose it's a bad driver + SDK combination for me.

However a PC with only 7850 works flawlessly.

Anyway Thank you

Zoella

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In case you have issues with cgminer and X taking up way to many CPU cycles, modify /slax/boot/syslinux.cfg...

After line 4 (TIMEOUT 40), add the following line:
ONTIMEOUT default

At the end of line 33 (that starts with APPEND vga=normal...) add nohz=off highres=off

I had to do this on one of my rigs (but not all). The completed line as I have it looks like this...

APPEND vga=normal initrd=/slax/boot/initrfs.img load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 slax.flags=perch,xmode,toram nohz=off highres=off

This was a problem for me when running I=20 or trying to run multiple instances of cgminer. Hopefully that helps anyone else with the same problem.

I'm starting to like this distro, thanks uray. Lot of potential.

Zoella

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For faster boot/run, modify /slax/boot/syslinux.cfg...

After line 4 (TIMEOUT 40), add the following line:
ONTIMEOUT default

At the end of line 33 (that starts with APPEND vga=normal...) add ,toram

This will cause it to copy itself to RAM at boot time automatically.

Zoella

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This worked for getting multiple GPU running for me...

aticonfig --adapter=all --initial
aticonfig --adapter=all --initial
(Yes, run twice. First time only saw one device section, second time saw all.)

amdsetup

aticonfig --adapter=all --initial
(Yes, again. Should see found device for every card you have)

reboot

aleargbtc

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Thank you it's a good job but I also can't get this to work running multiple GPU's...

maraJ

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Slax will not boot.My motherboard that use a 64 bit processor and use

IOMMU in order to find those USB devices. Since the default SLAX 3.8.2

kernel doesnt include AMD IOMMU and doesnt have HID built in (it has

modules), some motherboards are not able to use USB keyboards at all

with their usb 2.0 ports.How can I fix this?

pgminer01

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can you support for slush mining proxy ? thanks

alcaedo

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How to add to it the SHA3?

Wopin

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Hello. I will use your distro during the week but is compatible with the new AMD graphics cards R9?

If not, I will be able to install the new drivers right?

caution

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I can't get this distro to work with multiple gpu's,...getting "ADL found less devices than opencl". Tried with just a 6870x2, it would only see one gpu & run at half speed. Then tried a 7950 with a 7870 Myst LE, both give error -1. With only 1 gpu it worked great. Any ideas on how to update the video drivers? I've tried dummy plugs, hooking up each card to monitors, aticonfig --adapter=all (get "parsing the command-line failed", wants aticonfig --inital run first), aticonfig --adapter=all --initial -f. Even re-ran # cd /opt/radeon-setup/ # ./radeon-setup.sh reboot. All without success & google hasn't helped so far besides saying it's a driver issue. thanks

Namachieli

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Trying this out soon. Cool!

outsider

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Uray,
Any thoughts on when the next release will be out?

uray

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it can be installed ofcourse, slax is just another linux, i will planning to include vncserver and xrdp server built in on next build

Sinyk7

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Is xrdp remote desktop installed on SLAX or can it be installed?

nairb131

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This is awesome. I wish I would have seen this a few days ago. I was having a hell of a time getting my Linux machine working with my cards.

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Quote from: yvg1900 on December 31, 2013, 07:20:59 PM

Hi,

Note that new version of pts miner is available, and pls take care of huge pages config to achieve better perf.

Also look at my comment at reddit for some extra info on miner update.

yvg1900

This.

Thanks again, finally a 64bits mining distro.

uray

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Quote from: garna on January 04, 2014, 06:37:33 AM

hi uray, nice lean and mean implementation!
3 requests:
* TODO compile cgminer with all asic support, or include bfgminer
* TODO related usb support
* TODO add chrome (40 MB) or dillo (few MB) - for web lookup
* TODO include latest ptsminer

thats 4 !, ok you got it, updated to 0.2

garna

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hi uray, nice lean and mean implementation!
3 requests:
* TODO compile cgminer with all asic support, or include bfgminer
* TODO related usb support
* TODO add chrome (40 MB) or dillo (few MB) - for web lookup
* TODO include latest ptsminer

yvg1900

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Dev of yam miner

Hi,

Note that new version of pts miner is available, and pls take care of huge pages config to achieve better perf.

Also look at my comment at reddit for some extra info on miner update.

yvg1900

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