GekkoScience 2Pac/Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread - page 13.

bakersoft

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In the cgminer output, what is the purpose of the HW label just to the right of the MHz?

I'm running two of these on Windows 10, the third is being returned to the seller because it came defective. I adjusted the voltage as suggested for these to run better / longer but still after maybe 4 hours of operation one of them ceases to stop and become ZOMBIE. I was wondering if there's anything else on screen I can look at to give me a hint as to why only 1 seems to go ZOMBIE over time?

This was happening when running one instance of cgminer and now I am trying it using 2 instances of cgminer where each of them is focused on 1 individual stick. Running at 200MHz with a fan blowing on them.

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Good I will play with it the next few days.

I ordered 2 newpacs

Plan is to run 5 compacs 1 Twopac 2 NewPacs at bravomining

aarons6

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Quote from: philipma1957 on October 22, 2018, 10:33:06 PM

I just loaded a few PCs with Linux mint.

Your software mentions it is for Ubuntu so do I need to load ubuntu 16.0.4 rather then mint ?

linux mint is a fork of ubuntu with its own desktop.. you should be good.

vh

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Quote from: philipma1957 on October 22, 2018, 10:33:06 PM

I just loaded a few PCs with Linux mint.

Your software mentions it is for Ubuntu so do I need to load ubuntu 16.0.4 rather then mint ?

Those first post instructions are just hints to which dependencies is needed to be installed first.
It should works just fine on any Linux environment once you get cleanly through the compiling stage.

Just confirmed:

Fresh install of Mint:
Linux Mint 19 - Cinnamon Edition
build of cgminer using "Debian" section instructions looks good.

(run the extra udev steps in the Q&A for privilege as a standard user)

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

I just loaded a few PCs with Linux mint.

Your software mentions it is for Ubuntu so do I need to load ubuntu 16.0.4 rather then mint ?

vh

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Quote from: tredos1 on October 22, 2018, 06:42:37 AM

Hi all,

My Win10 updated overnight and now I get an error when I try to run cgminer: "Unsupported 16 bit application". I know nearly everyone is using linux, but it's not an option for me. Is anyone else getting this error?

Thanks,

Tony

That sounds unusual. I don't have a Win10 machine handy, but if someone else is experiencing this let me know.

In the mean time;
Here is the internals of the latest binary (a17a0f9) from the first post to validate with:

Code:

F:\>"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" l cgminer.exe

7-Zip [64] 16.04 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-10-04

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 4849664 bytes (4736 KiB)

Listing archive: cgminer.exe

--
Path = cgminer.exe
Type = PE
Physical Size = 4849664
CPU = x86
Characteristics = Executable 32-bit NoRelocs NoLineNums NoLocalSyms NoDebugInfo
Created = 1970-02-26 09:33:46
Headers Size = 1024
Checksum = 4913475
Image Size = 4915200
Section Alignment = 4096
File Alignment = 512
Code Size = 2941952
Initialized Data Size = 4848640
Uninitialized Data Size = 42496
Linker Version = 2.26
OS Version = 4.0
Image Version = 1.0
Subsystem Version = 4.0
Subsystem = Windows CUI
Stack Reserve = 2097152
Stack Commit = 4096
Heap Reserve = 1048576
Heap Commit = 4096
Image Base = 4194304

Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
1970-02-26 09:33:46 ..... 2941952 2941952 .text
1970-02-26 09:33:46 ..... 22016 22016 .data
1970-02-26 09:33:46 ..... 1872896 1872896 .rdata
1970-02-26 09:33:46 ..... 0 0 .bss
1970-02-26 09:33:46 ..... 10752 10752 .idata
1970-02-26 09:33:46 ..... 512 512 .CRT
1970-02-26 09:33:46 ..... 512 512 .tls
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
1970-02-26 09:33:46 4848640 4848640 7 files

vh

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Quote from: albypaul on October 22, 2018, 04:21:16 AM

GSD0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=138)

This error is often generated by an issue in the extension cables or hub.
Start minimizing parts between the miner and the pc to see if you can track it down.

tredos1

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Hi all,

My Win10 updated overnight and now I get an error when I try to run cgminer: "Unsupported 16 bit application". I know nearly everyone is using linux, but it's not an option for me. Is anyone else getting this error?

Thanks,

Tony

albypaul

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Hello guys i have a question i switched off my computer and turned it on 2 days later so i could solo mine via ckpool and i had never had problems then i started getting these errors via debug in cgminer-4.10.0-windows-gekko = (GSD0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=138) next line is> Successfully rolled work), i am confused and a little concerned to , may be my 2paks might be faulty can any one please help me.

xliquidacidx

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Ok i updated the cgminer.
However the only pool that i can get a worker to show up is ckpool for bitcoin.

vh

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Quote from: xliquidacidx on October 19, 2018, 08:15:12 PM

Hello all i was hoping someone could tell me whats going on. When my workers are not showing up

Your best share "Best share: 474" needs to be higher than then pool's minimum difficulty "diff 131K" a few times before your worker will show up.

Also check the first post carefully again. You should be on 4.11.1 unless you have specific reasons not to.

xliquidacidx

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Hello all i was hoping someone could tell me whats going on. When my workers are not showing up

I am using Win 10. I have a powered usb
Cgminer -n shows the miner

cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://dgbsolo.brutang.work:5025 -u DDDzYHvuKiEJFJSXa7PoGtYAHVa6w5UJCN -p x

cgminer version 4.10.0 - Started: [2018-10-19 17:03:32.364]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(5s):8.289G (1m):7.079G (5m):2.423G (15m):895.1M (avg):9.404Gh/s

A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:122.5/m

Connected to dgbsolo.brutang.work diff 131K with stratum as user DDDzYHvuKiEJFJSXa7PoGtYAHVa6w5UJCN

Block: 12de4c1b... Diff:95.5K Started: [17:04:57.694] Best share: 474

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit

0: GSD 10024808: COMPAC-2 100.00MHz HW:0 | 8.473G / 9.352Gh/s WU:122.5/m

tredos1

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Hi all,

I have a pair of GeckoScience Compac-2 stickiminers running on a windows 10 machine. I don't have any linux machines at home so this is what I'm stuck with. I went away on a business trip and the windows machine rebooted and my batch file doesn't restart so I had to do it manually and when I did that, I got nothing but usb write errors. I found a newer version of the code online (thank you), I'm now running 4.11.1 which tries to recover from the usb write errors and it seems to be dealing with the chips a little bit. But one has been placed in OFF mode and the other is getting write errors about 75% of the time. I searched the thread for 'usb write error' and the only hit I got was for the announcement of version 4.10.1 release indicating it would try to autorecover from this error.
Can someone offer me a suggestion or two on how to deal with this? Are the chips dead? I've been running at 156.25 MHz with no HW errors for about a year on each with fan cooling.

Thanks,

Tony

vh

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Quoting part of original message and removed the one with first post inside.

Quote from: ?? on ??

boys & girls, I've been trying EVERY SEARCH to find a working leg that will drive the "Compact-2/Gekko-2" chips. I've been digging for 4+ days.
I FOUND ONE THAT WORKS! going to make you wait a little.

I'm running a Rpi3b (no plus) attached to an Orico - 20 port USB2.0 hub. It has a 150w power supply. I have miners in 10 ports, at the default 100mhz I'm averaging 86Gh/s.

This is the fork... AJJJJ-MASTER (4 j'S) this distro is running cgminer 4.10.0 ... install all the prereque's, ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko ./configure --enable gekko make make file

WOW, seak and find, fix, the unwritten prayer of any Systems & Network Engineer... now at 28 years... MY TINY BRAG...

VMS using punch cards and 9 track tape. IBM3090 TSO (ewww) Mac OS 7-10.5, RedHat 3.x, running appache 1984, Sun Solaris 4.3 - 1984, Exchange 4.0 - v.10, sendmail (barf) Barracuda Firewalls & Web Filter, Cisco ASA's, HP ProCurve 4108 - 5600. Sharepoint, Sybase SQL, MS-SQL 4-13, NT 4 - W 13, OSSEC, STATEFUL PACKET INSPECTION FIREWALL - somewhere in Symantic now...

no I'm not working. 3 of us, all working the "Enterprise Systems & Network group" at Rockwell Collins - as contractors migrated 1200 physical servers to Vspere 5.x on 75 hosts, in 5 months. Thanks, bye, no call back... we were all 55+, now you know the bean counters are counting you!

JLH

minefarmbuy

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We are not retail.

These tend to over deliver, I finally found the six we got and push 90-110gh stock.

Code:

{
"hashrate1m": "97G",
"hashrate5m": "96.9G",
"hashrate1hr": "94.3G",
"hashrate1d": "96.2G",
"hashrate7d": "91.2G",
"lastshare": 1538927247,
"workers": 6,
"shares": 156105012,
"bestshare": 74737988.5097044,
"bestever": 297723585,
"worker": [

Also, looks like poorly constructed marketing of some kind? You know I know all about shitty marketing.

sidehack

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Curmudgeonly hardware guy

First off, glad you got something working. However, it's not working well since 10 sticks at default should see 110GH. Search also may have gone easier if you'd named the product correctly; there is no "Compact-2" or "Gekko-2", just the "GekkoScience 2Pac".

Second, thanks for re-posting the entirety of the first post. It really added to your comments, contextually.

Third - uh, what? Never heard of AJJJ anything, but if it's a linux-based Pi OS, it's probably easier to have found Raspbian, Minera or any number of other things. VH's cgminer, the download and compile instructions (and complete dependency list) for which are in the first post you quoted, work on pretty much any OS.

Fourth, next time you buy GekkoScience gear you should request aid from the seller. Any official reseller is required to provide product support or risk losing access to factory stock, and any unofficial reseller who doesn't provide support is a dick.

dinu_hasith

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Quote from: xhomerx10 on October 05, 2018, 04:07:34 PM

Quote from: dinu_hasith on October 05, 2018, 10:02:31 AM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on October 05, 2018, 06:53:07 AM

Quote from: dinu_hasith on October 05, 2018, 02:26:25 AM

Hi guys,
Please tell me the meaning of AMU 0: Share above target
I get that message quite a lot in cgminer. Image attached.

Thanks.

https://imageshack.com/a/img923/4360/rp8Kn3.png

I believe that means that you are submitting shares that are below the minimum threshold. Does it eventually show "offline"?

Yes.. the slushpool dashboard eventually shows worker as offline.

So you should use the correct version of cgminer, as sidehack said. If you aren't submitting at the minimum requirement with slush's pool, it will go offline. I think that's 10gh/s - not verified though - so you should be good with one stick running at 100 MHz.

Ok.. thanks for the info guys.. btw, do u know a good USB hub and a cooling fan that I can buy?

xhomerx10

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Quote from: dinu_hasith on October 05, 2018, 10:02:31 AM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on October 05, 2018, 06:53:07 AM

Quote from: dinu_hasith on October 05, 2018, 02:26:25 AM

Hi guys,
Please tell me the meaning of AMU 0: Share above target
I get that message quite a lot in cgminer. Image attached.

Thanks.

https://imageshack.com/a/img923/4360/rp8Kn3.png

I believe that means that you are submitting shares that are below the minimum threshold. Does it eventually show "offline"?

Yes.. the slushpool dashboard eventually shows worker as offline.

So you should use the correct version of cgminer, as sidehack said. If you aren't submitting at the minimum requirement with slush's pool, it will go offline. I think that's 10gh/s - not verified though - so you should be good with one stick running at 100 MHz.

dinu_hasith

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Quote from: xhomerx10 on October 05, 2018, 06:53:07 AM

Quote from: dinu_hasith on October 05, 2018, 02:26:25 AM

Hi guys,
Please tell me the meaning of AMU 0: Share above target
I get that message quite a lot in cgminer. Image attached.

Thanks.

https://imageshack.com/a/img923/4360/rp8Kn3.png

I believe that means that you are submitting shares that are below the minimum threshold. Does it eventually show "offline"?

Yes.. the slushpool dashboard eventually shows worker as offline.

sidehack

legendary

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Merit: 1865

Curmudgeonly hardware guy

Actually what it means is you're using a stock cgminer with Icarus and getting crap for hashrate instead of the correct cgminer with Gekko support. Read the first post.

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