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Quote from: planalpha on March 12, 2011, 09:28:29 AM

Thanks, Diablo3!
That got it working. But any idea why I'm only getting about 5000khps? Seems like something's wrong...

Did you try using -f 1? That improved my performance on a 5970 from about 15M Hash/s to about 330M Hash/s.

I have no idea why DiabloMiner is affected by the -f option so much more than poclbm, but apparently it is.

Also, is there a way that we can have DiabloMiner output all those interesting statistics about mining like the modified version of poclbm that's been going around here? (Invalid/Stale Percentage, Current position in the getwork, Ratio of getworks to submissions, hashrate, ratio of getworks to answers with more work in them) Those were great for getting a very condensed picture of how your mining is going.

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Its a known problem with fglrx. It effects mostly Windows users, but some Linux users too.

It showed up in 11.1, and 11.2 doesn't fix it, and it only effects some users, and no one can figure out the exact conditions to replicate it. Even using SDK 2.1 (for 5xxx users) with 11.1/11.2 doesn't fix it (and for some, it triggers it while switching to 2.3 fixes it).

The bug also effects some polcbm users too, so its not specific to my miner.

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Thanks, Diablo3!
That got it working. But any idea why I'm only getting about 5000khps? Seems like something's wrong...

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Quote from: planalpha on March 11, 2011, 11:52:18 PM

Hi experts.
I'm getting this error:
ERROR: OpenCL platform ATI Stream contains no devices

lcpic shows:
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 6739

I followed this tutorial:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.47489

Any ideas what I'm missing?

Many thanks!

Thats a 6850, and 6xxx requires SDK 2.3 and a new enough version of fglrx.

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Hi experts.
I'm getting this error:
ERROR: OpenCL platform ATI Stream contains no devices

lcpic shows:
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 6739

I followed this tutorial:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.47489

Any ideas what I'm missing?

Many thanks!

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Quote from: yomi on March 04, 2011, 10:40:37 AM

I just installed Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in my Mac Book Pro and just wanted to let you know what I found:

It seems Java is not installed by default, the first time one runs Java, Software Update kicks in and installs it.

I get lower speed with respect to Snow Leopard, about 25% less.

I get also get a couple of error messages when the program starts and finishes:

Code:

$ ./DiabloMiner-OSX.sh -u yomi.mac -p pepitoria -o mining.bitcoin.cz -w 192 -f 1
[4/03/11 16:12:17] Started
[4/03/11 16:12:17] Connecting to: http://mining.bitcoin.cz:8332/
[4/03/11 16:12:19] ERROR: OpenCL Build Warning : Compiler build log:
:42:8: warning: unused variable 'it'
  uint it;
       ^


[4/03/11 16:12:19] Added GeForce 9400M (#1) (2 CU, local work size of 192)
Waiting...2011-03-04 16:12:28.010 java[2464:5f03] Failed to write public plist to URL file://localhost/Users/edu/Library/Saved%20Application%20State/com.apple.javajdk16.cmd.savedState/windows.plist

It seems also that the local work size has decreased from 256 to 192.

That's all I found so far, I hope someone can make good use of this information!

10.7 seems to be broken so far. Its assuming I want -Werror (if I wanted it, I would have passed it to the OpenCL compiler); two, this kernel works fine on Nvidia hardware with -w 256... however, the default is -w 64, so this should not effect anyone.

And a loss of 25% sounds horrible when 10.6 already loses 25%.

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Update: Output Content-Type of application/json, handle errors in JSON-RPC response

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I just installed Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in my Mac Book Pro and just wanted to let you know what I found:

It seems Java is not installed by default, the first time one runs Java, Software Update kicks in and installs it.

I get lower speed with respect to Snow Leopard, about 25% less.

I get also get a couple of error messages when the program starts and finishes:

Code:

$ ./DiabloMiner-OSX.sh -u yomi.mac -p pepitoria -o mining.bitcoin.cz -w 192 -f 1
[4/03/11 16:12:17] Started
[4/03/11 16:12:17] Connecting to: http://mining.bitcoin.cz:8332/
[4/03/11 16:12:19] ERROR: OpenCL Build Warning : Compiler build log:
:42:8: warning: unused variable 'it'
  uint it;
       ^


[4/03/11 16:12:19] Added GeForce 9400M (#1) (2 CU, local work size of 192)
Waiting...2011-03-04 16:12:28.010 java[2464:5f03] Failed to write public plist to URL file://localhost/Users/edu/Library/Saved%20Application%20State/com.apple.javajdk16.cmd.savedState/windows.plist

It seems also that the local work size has decreased from 256 to 192.

That's all I found so far, I hope someone can make good use of this information!

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Quote from: DiabloD3 on March 02, 2011, 03:20:51 PM

You know, 90% of people having bizzaro problems are on Ubuntu. I wonder if Ubuntu is just broken beyond repair.

I can confirm, have strange issues on Ubuntu (for example, third and fourth cards are detected, but does not work). This weekend I'm going to complete reinstall to Debian, I hope it helps.

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Update: *cough* -u/-p works again.

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Quote from: smgoller on March 02, 2011, 03:37:42 PM

Quote from: DiabloD3 on March 02, 2011, 03:20:51 PM

Quote from: smgoller on March 02, 2011, 03:17:45 PM

Catalyst 10.11, SDK 2.1. I had -w set to 128, but I set it to 64 and now I'm getting 6Mhash/sec. XD

I'm at the point where I'm about to install windows just to make sure the card's not messed up. I've reinstalled ubuntu from scratch 3 times, with the same results. I've tried 32-bit and 64-bit with the same results. Sad

You know, 90% of people having bizzaro problems are on Ubuntu. I wonder if Ubuntu is just broken beyond repair.

What are you using, personally? I'm not distro religious at all.

Debian. But then again, Debian doesn't ship known-to-be-broken pre-release versions of fglrx inside of shipping distro releases.

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Quote from: smgoller on March 02, 2011, 04:01:37 PM

Ok. I'm going to install windows quickly to see if I can get real speeds out of it, then reinstall ubuntu. Tongue

Good luck! I'd be interested to see what the speed difference is between Windows and Ubuntu. Nudge me if you run into difficulties with Ubuntu: I don't promise I'll be able to help but I'll give it a shot.

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Quote from: LMGTFY on March 02, 2011, 04:00:08 PM

Quote from: smgoller on March 02, 2011, 03:54:06 PM

Which drivers/sdk did you install? the edge ones or ones from ati? which version?

Drivers: 10.11. SDK 2.1. All from ATi. IIRC, the 2.2 SDK wouldn't work, and I'd seen advice here that 2.3 was slower than 2.1 and 2.2 for mining.

Ok. I'm going to install windows quickly to see if I can get real speeds out of it, then reinstall ubuntu. Tongue

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Quote from: smgoller on March 02, 2011, 03:54:06 PM

Which drivers/sdk did you install? the edge ones or ones from ati? which version?

Drivers: 10.11. SDK 2.1. All from ATi. IIRC, the 2.2 SDK wouldn't work, and I'd seen advice here that 2.3 was slower than 2.1 and 2.2 for mining.

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Quote from: LMGTFY on March 02, 2011, 03:50:42 PM

Quote from: DiabloD3 on March 02, 2011, 03:20:51 PM

You know, 90% of people having bizzaro problems are on Ubuntu. I wonder if Ubuntu is just broken beyond repair.

I'm using Ubuntu (10.10) with your miner, without issue (1x ATI 5870). It's possible I'm just lucky, but I suspect what's happening is that users without Linux experience are selecting Ubuntu as it's got a reputation for being a fairly accessible and "easy" distro. Which it is, but if you're coming from a solely Windows mind-set it's going to be tough, whatever distro you choose (I assume: I find it difficult having to use Windows (no ssh, need to install Cygwin to get grep, everything seems to require the GUI etc), so I assume Windows users will have a similar problem going in the opposite direction...)

I followed this guide when I got my 5870; I don't know if it's still current, but it worked for me a month or so ago.

Which drivers/sdk did you install? the edge ones or ones from ati? which version?

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Quote from: DiabloD3 on March 02, 2011, 03:20:51 PM

You know, 90% of people having bizzaro problems are on Ubuntu. I wonder if Ubuntu is just broken beyond repair.

I'm using Ubuntu (10.10) with your miner, without issue (1x ATI 5870). It's possible I'm just lucky, but I suspect what's happening is that users without Linux experience are selecting Ubuntu as it's got a reputation for being a fairly accessible and "easy" distro. Which it is, but if you're coming from a solely Windows mind-set it's going to be tough, whatever distro you choose (I assume: I find it difficult having to use Windows (no ssh, need to install Cygwin to get grep, everything seems to require the GUI etc), so I assume Windows users will have a similar problem going in the opposite direction...)

I followed this guide when I got my 5870; I don't know if it's still current, but it worked for me a month or so ago.

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Quote from: DiabloD3 on March 02, 2011, 03:24:28 PM

Update: Merged cdecker's patch for device selection. -D/--device takes a comma separated list

My first ever accepted pull request on GitHub , you just made my day ^^

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Quote from: DiabloD3 on March 02, 2011, 03:20:51 PM

Quote from: smgoller on March 02, 2011, 03:17:45 PM

Catalyst 10.11, SDK 2.1. I had -w set to 128, but I set it to 64 and now I'm getting 6Mhash/sec. XD

I'm at the point where I'm about to install windows just to make sure the card's not messed up. I've reinstalled ubuntu from scratch 3 times, with the same results. I've tried 32-bit and 64-bit with the same results. Sad

You know, 90% of people having bizzaro problems are on Ubuntu. I wonder if Ubuntu is just broken beyond repair.

What are you using, personally? I'm not distro religious at all.

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Update: Merged cdecker's patch for device selection. -D/--device takes a comma separated list

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Quote from: smgoller on March 02, 2011, 03:17:45 PM

Catalyst 10.11, SDK 2.1. I had -w set to 128, but I set it to 64 and now I'm getting 6Mhash/sec. XD

I'm at the point where I'm about to install windows just to make sure the card's not messed up. I've reinstalled ubuntu from scratch 3 times, with the same results. I've tried 32-bit and 64-bit with the same results. Sad

You know, 90% of people having bizzaro problems are on Ubuntu. I wonder if Ubuntu is just broken beyond repair.

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