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Topic: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread - page 104. (Read 268015 times)

legendary
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Tomorrow when I get time I'm going to upgrade my PSU fan system I am using to cool down Compac's and U3's.   I am using computer fans as I had a box full of free after rebate ones.   Today I got a fan controller for decent (would have been a tad cheaper online).  But It allows me to have more fan's and control of airflow a little better.

Should be pretty nice after I am done with it as far as a nice little solo mining area.
zOU
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I didn't say "use a screen", but "use screen". https://kb.iu.edu/d/acuy

Allows you to run multiple virtual terminals inside a single session, with persistence such that when your session ends or disconnects any active screen sessions will keep running and you can reconnect to them at any time. Pretty handy if you're running something that needs to stay running and accessible for a long time even if your SSH session is likely to end (for deliberate or unforseen reasons). Minera starts its cgminer instance inside a screen session, as do a lot of miners with internal Linux controllers.

My bad Smiley

Understood !
legendary
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I didn't say "use a screen", but "use screen". https://kb.iu.edu/d/acuy

Allows you to run multiple virtual terminals inside a single session, with persistence such that when your session ends or disconnects any active screen sessions will keep running and you can reconnect to them at any time. Pretty handy if you're running something that needs to stay running and accessible for a long time even if your SSH session is likely to end (for deliberate or unforseen reasons). Minera starts its cgminer instance inside a screen session, as do a lot of miners with internal Linux controllers.
zOU
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If you use screen you don't need to keep the connection live.

There are a few overlaps remaining between gekko and icarus that we'll probably take care of before updating the driver for new hardware, but for now you can't compile both because of some naming conflicts and such.

Thank you, I'm looking forward the update Smiley

My Raspberry Pi is headless Smiley

In the meantime I'll wait.

I have 2 Gekkoscience Compac running @210Mhz flawlessly , and I've ordered 4 more earlier today.
I will plug them in a D-Link DUB-H7 (although the 3A power supply may be unsufficient for 6 sticks, but I've got a bunch of USB hub so I'll figure something :p

My U1 and U3 and BFL are running on other computers at the moment anyway.
legendary
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If you use screen you don't need to keep the connection live.

There are a few overlaps remaining between gekko and icarus that we'll probably take care of before updating the driver for new hardware, but for now you can't compile both because of some naming conflicts and such.
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Ok

Well I'm using Minera because I like the fancy UI.

Unfortunately it can only display 1 instance of the miner, the 2nd could probably run manually in the background though... but that means keeping a putty session opened to run and monitor it?
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zOU
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7. ./configure --enable-gekko

This will configure the build.  This is the most likely place to have anything go wrong, if it does, let me know exactly what's up.  Odds are it would be some package that you should have installed.


Don't forget that this will only add support for the Gekkoscience USB ASIC Smiley

If you need to use different ASICs on that build, you may need to add support for them during the configure step.

In my case:

./configure --enable-gekko --enable-bflsc --enable-icarus

Code:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
cgminer 4.9.2
------------------------------------------------------------------------


Configuration Options Summary:

  libcurl(GBT).: Enabled: -lcurl
  libsystemd...........: Disabled
  curses.TUI...........: FOUND: -lncurses

  Antminer.S1.Bitmain..: Disabled
  Antminer.S2.Bitmain..: Disabled
  Antminer.S3.Bitmain..: Disabled
  Avalon.ASICs.........: Disabled
  Avalon2.ASICs........: Disabled
  Avalon4.ASICs........: Disabled
  BlackArrowMinion.ASIC: Disabled
  BlackArrow.ASICs.....: Disabled
  BFL.ASICs............: Enabled   <<<====
  BitForce.FPGAs.......: Disabled
  BitFury.ASICs........: Disabled
  BlockErupter.ASICs...: Disabled
  Cointerra.ASICs......: Disabled
  Spond-sp10.ASICs.....: Disabled
  Spond-sp30.ASICs.....: Disabled
  Bitmine-A1.ASICs.....: Disabled
  Drillbit.BitFury.....: Disabled
  Hashfast.ASICs.......: Disabled
  Hashratio.ASICs......: Disabled
  Icarus.ASICs/FPGAs...: Enabled   <<<====
  Gekko.ASICs..........: Enabled   <<<====
  Klondike.ASICs.......: Disabled
  KnC.ASICs............: Disabled
  ModMiner.FPGAs.......: Disabled

Compilation............: make (or gmake)
  CPPFLAGS.............:
  CFLAGS...............: -g -O2
  LDFLAGS..............:  -lpthread
  LDADD................: -ldl -lcurl    compat/jansson-2.6/src/.libs/libjansson.a -lpthread    -lm compat/libusb-1.0/libusb/.libs/libusb-1.0.a -ludev -lrt

Installation...........: make install (as root if needed, with 'su' or 'sudo')
  prefix...............: /usr/local

But then the "make" fails...

Code:
minera@minera /var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko $ sudo make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko'
Making all in lib
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
  GEN    signal.h
  GEN    string.h
make  all-recursive
make[3]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
make[4]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
Making all in compat
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat'
Making all in jansson-2.6
make[3]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
make  all-recursive
make[4]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
Making all in src
make[5]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6/src'
  CC     dump.lo
  CC     error.lo
  CC     hashtable.lo
  CC     hashtable_seed.lo
  CC     load.lo
  CC     memory.lo
  CC     pack_unpack.lo
  CC     strbuffer.lo
  CC     strconv.lo
  CC     utf.lo
  CC     value.lo
  CCLD   libjansson.la
make[5]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6/src'
make[5]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
make[5]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
Making all in libusb-1.0
make[3]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
make  all-recursive
make[4]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
Making all in libusb
make[5]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0/libusb'
  CC     libusb_1_0_la-core.lo
  CC     libusb_1_0_la-descriptor.lo
  CC     libusb_1_0_la-io.lo
  CC     libusb_1_0_la-sync.lo
  CC     os/libusb_1_0_la-linux_usbfs.lo
  CC     os/libusb_1_0_la-linux_udev.lo
  CC     libusb_1_0_la-hotplug.lo
  CC     os/libusb_1_0_la-threads_posix.lo
  CCLD   libusb-1.0.la
make[5]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0/libusb'
make[5]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
make[5]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
make[3]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat'
Making all in ccan
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/ccan'
  CC     opt/libccan_a-helpers.o
  CC     opt/libccan_a-opt.o
  CC     opt/libccan_a-parse.o
  CC     opt/libccan_a-usage.o
  AR     libccan.a
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/ccan'
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko'
  CC     cgminer-cgminer.o
cgminer.c:237:7: error: redefinition of âopt_anu_freqâ
cgminer.c:229:7: note: previous definition of âopt_anu_freqâ was here
cgminer.c:240:7: error: redefinition of âopt_rock_freqâ
cgminer.c:232:7: note: previous definition of âopt_rock_freqâ was here
Makefile:782: recipe for target 'cgminer-cgminer.o' failed
make[2]: *** [cgminer-cgminer.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko'
Makefile:1411: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko'
Makefile:618: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Anyone can tell me why ?


Below the output of make with just ./configure --enable-gekko prior (which works)

Code:
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko'
Making all in lib
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
  GEN    signal.h
  GEN    string.h
make  all-recursive
make[3]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
make[4]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/lib'
Making all in compat
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat'
Making all in jansson-2.6
make[3]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
make  all-recursive
make[4]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
Making all in src
make[5]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6/src'
  CC     dump.lo
  CC     error.lo
  CC     hashtable.lo
  CC     hashtable_seed.lo
  CC     load.lo
  CC     memory.lo
  CC     pack_unpack.lo
  CC     strbuffer.lo
  CC     strconv.lo
  CC     value.lo
  CCLD   libjansson.la
make[5]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6/src'
make[5]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
make[5]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/jansson-2.6'
Making all in libusb-1.0
make[3]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
make  all-recursive
make[4]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
Making all in libusb
make[5]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0/libusb'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0/libusb'
make[5]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
make[5]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat/libusb-1.0'
make[3]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/compat'
Making all in ccan
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/ccan'
  CC     opt/libccan_a-helpers.o
  CC     opt/libccan_a-opt.o
  CC     opt/libccan_a-parse.o
  CC     opt/libccan_a-usage.o
  AR     libccan.a
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko/ccan'
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko'
  CC     cgminer-cgminer.o
  CC     cgminer-util.o
  CC     cgminer-sha2.o
  CC     cgminer-api.o
  CC     cgminer-logging.o
  CC     cgminer-klist.o
  CC     cgminer-noncedup.o
  CC     cgminer-usbutils.o
  CC     cgminer-driver-gekko.o
  CCLD   cgminer
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko'
Thank you
legendary
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1. a good hub for this stick or maybe two.
I use this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JEVRXQA

I think there is a hub discussion in this thread, but you'd have to go through the posts to find it.  Or it could be in one of the following 2 threads:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/run-2-closedsidehack-stickgekkoscience-compac-official-sales-thread-1126705
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gekkoscience-bm1384-project-development-discussion-995675

2. point to a link (btctalk) that explains what needs to be done to run it.
You are in said thread.  Check the first post.

Do you have any specific questions?  Much easier to help if we know where your issues are.

fantastic, thanks
i don't have any issues yet, but i like to be prepared beforehand.
also, maybe I should use it as an opportunity to learn more about debian or linux-we shall see.
legendary
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I know that information is probably here somewhere, but can someone recommend:
1. a good hub for this stick or maybe two.
2. point to a link (btctalk) that explains what needs to be done to run it. I have both Macs and Pc (win eight), but would prefer running it on a mac, but if it is easier on win8, I would do that instead.
the word zadig does not ring any bells.

maybe it is too much to ask, but...
thanks

youtube "rbox setup"

It's almost 100% identical to setting up this stick, just use the miner program in the first post.

Also think about a RPI or run dedbian on a old desktop.  You will honestly be happy  for it.  No messing with drivers. 

Linux with the compacs just works great.  I highly recommend this route vs windows.
legendary
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1. a good hub for this stick or maybe two.
I use this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JEVRXQA

I think there is a hub discussion in this thread, but you'd have to go through the posts to find it.  Or it could be in one of the following 2 threads:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/run-2-closedsidehack-stickgekkoscience-compac-official-sales-thread-1126705
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gekkoscience-bm1384-project-development-discussion-995675

2. point to a link (btctalk) that explains what needs to be done to run it.
You are in said thread.  Check the first post.

Do you have any specific questions?  Much easier to help if we know where your issues are.
legendary
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I know that information is probably here somewhere, but can someone recommend:
1. a good hub for this stick or maybe two.
2. point to a link (btctalk) that explains what needs to be done to run it. I have both Macs and Pc (win eight), but would prefer running it on a mac, but if it is easier on win8, I would do that instead.
the word zadig does not ring any bells.

maybe it is too much to ask, but...
thanks

youtube "rbox setup"

It's almost 100% identical to setting up this stick, just use the miner program in the first post.
legendary
Activity: 3892
Merit: 4331
I know that information is probably here somewhere, but can someone recommend:
1. a good hub for this stick or maybe two.
2. point to a link (btctalk) that explains what needs to be done to run it. I have both Macs and Pc (win eight), but would prefer running it on a mac, but if it is easier on win8, I would do that instead.
the word zadig does not ring any bells.

maybe it is too much to ask, but...
thanks
legendary
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Curmudgeonly hardware guy
Yes, yes it does.
hero member
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The ASIC is darn good, but a lot of it's in the buck. We overbuilt the heck out of it, probably three times the current capacity of the next best stick miner to allow for exactly the kind of stuff y'all are doing. Adds just a bit to the cost but greatly increases the fun.

Doesn't it just give you that warm feeling of pride knowing people are enjoying and having fun with the labor you put in?
legendary
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The ASIC is darn good, but a lot of it's in the buck. We overbuilt the heck out of it, probably three times the current capacity of the next best stick miner to allow for exactly the kind of stuff y'all are doing. Adds just a bit to the cost but greatly increases the fun.
legendary
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Running my  stick at 125 mhz (waiting for some Y usb to push it) for 14 days ... 0 HW. 6.868 GH/s

Insane stick !!!

Hats off to Sidehack and Novak !

you can do 150 with no issues at all!

Nah I tried, looks like my USB doesn't like it. I tried to tweek the pot and I couldn't stabilize it.

I'm sure it's all power related with my USB port.
sr. member
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The numbers alone on the compac are pretty amazing on OC each time I am amazed wen someone goes up in 20+.   I mean 24G is insane for one stick miner.  I would love to see a comparison of how many of some of the old sticks to get to this.  

That is like 72 or so block erupters packed into one usb stick.  Looking that it's just insane what these sticks are capable of doing.  I truly enjoy playing with them fun toys to say the least.

Well get ready for more speed.... I am tinkering!
legendary
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I had an old burnt up bfl jalapeno, so I took the heat sink fan combo and mounted it onto a GS stick.

Holy cow, that looks awesome!  How warm to the touch does that massive sink get when you crank up the stick?

Not warm at all. The fan is 12v but I connected it to a usb plug 5v and it moves some good air and is also pretty much silent. The back heat sink is a little warm, I have a temp gun and will post stats when i get home from work.

{"hashrate1m": "27.6G", "hashrate5m": "26.5G", "hashrate1hr": "24.5G", "hashrate1d": "12.6G", "hashrate7d": "2.55G", "workers": 1, "bestshare": 17383283.667868529}

edit: mikestang look at the last picture, i have the old GS heatsink between the usb hub and the bfl heatsink. All the weight of the heatsink is resting on that. Plus the hub has a shroud around the jack, it really didnt sag without the green heatsink but i put it there for piece of mind.... kinda how you were thinking.

The numbers alone on the compac are pretty amazing on OC each time I am amazed wen someone goes up in 20+.   I mean 24G is insane for one stick miner.  I would love to see a comparison of how many of some of the old sticks to get to this.  

That is like 72 or so block erupters packed into one usb stick.  Looking that it's just insane what these sticks are capable of doing.  I truly enjoy playing with them fun toys to say the least.
sr. member
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Running my  stick at 125 mhz (waiting for some Y usb to push it) for 14 days ... 0 HW. 6.868 GH/s

Insane stick !!!

Hats off to Sidehack and Novak !

you can do 150 with no issues at all!
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