Topic: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread - page 109. (Read 268015 times)

cgminer basically does Zadig for you automatically on Linux. It's still ugly behind the scenes.

I have been meaning to get a raspi for mining and messi g around with, do you not need to install drivers on ubuntu? I put the zip file for the cg miner on the comp but i dont get how to run it lol.

Glad to hear it's working.  Not all USB ports are equal.  This is why a nice powered hub is nice to have you know what electricity it has.

With windows moving also might have did something with drivers and helped.  The zadig drivers in windows is why I like linux so much.  If your doing it long term look into RPI with a powered hub. Not only is it easy to setup but it cost almost nothing to run.

Err: Asked to memcpy 0 byets from util.c parse_notify <>:2077

getting this  alot, only at about 800MH/s - 1000MH/s

*Edit*

DAMN, moved USB ports blamzo, 8-10Ghash.

Working!!

I should spend some time to get it going on linux though..

I'm not very skilled with linux.. I have an ubuntu box though lol.

easy fix  go to this link

http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/


download  4.9.2 windows 7   drag  the 1 file you need.


while you are on the pages download

 zadig  on the bottom

See if you can get the .dll from the regular CGMiner.  It should be in there if it is missing.

Honestly Linux is the way to go with these.  So much easier.  Even a RPI is very nice and easy to use.

Running on windows I get "The program can't start because zlib1.dll is missing. 

Yes it can be used on Ubuntu.  The instructions might be a tad different then the Debian ones.  But it will be very close.

Basically forget about Icurus.  Install the compac-cgminer and run it.   So you will need to install it and use it for best results.

Can this be ran on unbuntu?

Also the "new rbox" is using Icurus :S .. (On my windows PC, nothing running on my ubuntu)

I would agree with using cgminer-gekko.  Using BFG I can understand if someone was use to it.  But Novak did a amazing job with cgminer-gekko and it just works.

So I would take easy route.  Also it's nice and easy to change freq with numbers.

Software-controlled voltage would be nice, but the added cost and complexity was ruled out for the design. If we build another one with a new chip in the future we'll probably put that on there since we'll have already worked out most of the specifics for other things and because since a fair amount of the overall design would transfer directly from the existing version of the Compac to a new one, which means I won't have to start from scratch with the dev of literally every piece of the thing next time.

All our sticks get tested with cgminer-gekko so I know it works. BFG is out of our hands.

The latest BfgMiner it will but my experience with it was satisfactory.  Just use Cgminer-gekko and it works flawlessly.

Are any of these for sale yet that will work with BFG Miner (and MultiMiner)? I read that the sample ones do not and the ones one vendor had in stock a couple weeks ago do not. I'd love to pick up a couple of these. I wish the voltage was also software controlled - would make playing with them remotely easier.

Cross posting this information as it is directly applicable to this thread.  Maybe insert it into the first post as well?  At least until bfg 5.4.0 is released.


edit - I have been unable to produce successful results with the revised cbm command, my sticks still hash at default frequency.

http://aperiodic.net/screen/start


if you don't want it to auto load


get http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html   putty ..

Then SSH into the PI

type

sudo apt-get install screen  sometimes it is not installed

screen bash

CD to the directly of CG or BFG miner something like this


CD bfgminer or CD / cgminer-gekko  whatever and were ever you happen to put it, then type

 ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://yoururl  -u USER  -p x --compac-freq 150
 ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://yoururl -u USER -p x --set compac:clock=x0b83


then type once it loads if you need to turn off that PC and let the PI do it''s thing .
CTRL + A D then again D that should close out that window .

to check it either type

screen -list gives a list of all running screens detached or not

or type

screen -r  in most case that shows the running screen then runs it .

type
CTRL + A D to detach it then type D again to close it out .

if want to do it the manual way .

Just seen this.

You need to install "screen" (to be able to see the cgminer display window, either in terminal on the Pi or in putty from another computer).

Then just add lines into the "/etc/rc.local" file, just above the "exit 0" line,

"sleep 10s" (just gives the pi time to get everything up and running, can be longer/shorter)
"cd /home/"your-user/cgminer" (or what ever you called the 1 for pre-production ones)
"screen -dmS cgminer sudo ./cgminer -o (and the rest, just as if you were starting it the command line)"
"sleep 10s" (again just to give time for the above to start)
"cd home/"your-user"/cgminer-gekko" (or what ever for production ones)
screen -dmS cgminer sudo ./cgminer -o (and the rest)", then save, reboot and see if it works.

If it works, in a terminal "sudo screen -x cgminer", it should give you a message that has 2 "#'s.cgminer" listed, once you get the #'s, do the "sudo screen -r #'s.cgminer" to bring up 1 of the cgminer's, open a second terminal use the other #'s.cgminer for the second cgminer.

That should start the Pi mining as soon as it boots/reboots for any reason and use "screen" to see the cgminer's.

EDIT: Forgot the production sticks work with the regular cgminer, so you should put the cgminer-gekko to start first so it finds the production sticks (don't know if you need to use the --usb :#of production sticks in the -o pool line) or not) and then start the regular cgminer.

I tried the minera Edonkey made and it works good, but I still prefer the raspbian/cgminer.

Right now, I'm trying out 2015-04-06-ubuntu-trusty on a Pi 2. Going to let it run for 24 hrs and see how it runs the compac's. but just playing around with getting it setup and everything, it seems a little bit faster (it doesn't have the desktop or all the other unneeded things), so will see.

And I should clarify I meant nothing bad about his image. I think it is awesome he did it, and great for the community he saved many people time.

I use the raspbian OS as I have 2 types of miners running.  It allows me to control them, and I don't mind controlling by terminal.   But for most the GUI with minera Edonkey did chances are will be like by more people then what I'm doing.