GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 115.

bitmunkey

newbie

Activity: 21

Merit: 8

yup, thats me on the bravo miner lol..
just waiting for a little cash before i buy myself a NEWPAC or 2.. (wedding payments come first lol)

philipma1957

legendary

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: sidehack on October 29, 2018, 10:30:53 PM

Hey, I know at least two of the other guys on that list.

I figured that Grin

I now have my

5 compacs
1 2pac
2 newpacs

all running at a total of 125gh

sidehack

legendary

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Merit: 1842

Curmudgeonly hardware guy

Hey, I know at least two of the other guys on that list.

philipma1957

legendary

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Merit: 7765

'The right to privacy matters'

My two are still running on bravo-mining

http://www.bravo-mining.com/index.php?page=statistics&action=pool

Contributor Hashrates
Rank-----User Name-------TH/s-------BTC/Day---USD/Day
1      jonnybravo........7.705.......0.000........0.0000
2      dsppage............5.110.......0.000........0.0000
3      MinerSRQ..........1.510.......0.000........0.0000
4      rkotsybar...........0.383.......0.000........0.0000
5      mofoq...............0.178.......0.000........0.0000
6      tubexc...............0.144.......0.000........0.0000

7      philipma1957......0.074.......0.000........0.0000

8      AB1042503........0.051.......0.000........0.0000
9      munkeyminer.....0.026.......0.000........0.0000
10      PhredPhrog........0.026.......0.000........0.0000
11      bugwash............0.023.......0.000........0.0000

zachj00

jr. member

Activity: 120

Merit: 2

Quote from: irritant on October 29, 2018, 05:55:37 PM

i've read somewhere it helps if you add

Code:

slub_debug=FP

to /boot/cmdline.txt

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5932931

Already got the slub_debug hack in place. Think thats for the kernel and not CGminer though.

Quote from: philipma1957 on October 29, 2018, 04:36:05 PM

try a bigger os drive (guessing)

i will get back to this in a day to see if I get your problem

https://i.imgur.com/YiMHQjp.png

Using a 16GB micro SD with plenty of space left.

irritant

sr. member

Activity: 473

Merit: 250

Sodium hypochlorite, acetone, ethanol

Quote from: zachj00 on October 29, 2018, 04:21:46 PM

Anybody on Raspian having issues with the new CGminer? I can only run CGminer for abour 24 hours before it crashes and gives me this error "corrupted size vs prev_size: 0x01b727d0

Then I get GSH 7: toggling ASIC nRST to reset, and then nothing.

i've read somewhere it helps if you add

Code:

slub_debug=FP

to /boot/cmdline.txt

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5932931

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4102

Merit: 7765

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: zachj00 on October 29, 2018, 04:21:46 PM

Anybody on Raspian having issues with the new CGminer? I can only run CGminer for abour 24 hours before it crashes and gives me this error "corrupted size vs prev_size: 0x01b727d0

Then I get GSH 7: toggling ASIC nRST to reset, and then nothing.

try a bigger os drive (guessing)

i will get back to this in a day to see if I get your problem

zachj00

jr. member

Activity: 120

Merit: 2

Anybody on Raspian having issues with the new CGminer? I can only run CGminer for abour 24 hours before it crashes and gives me this error "corrupted size vs prev_size: 0x01b727d0

Then I get GSH 7: toggling ASIC nRST to reset, and then nothing.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4102

Merit: 7765

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: sidehack on October 29, 2018, 12:23:34 PM

Quote from: vh on October 19, 2018, 10:53:01 PM

===============
=Basic Q&A / Troubleshooting=
===============

Q. How can I set a different frequency for the NewPac vs 2Pac vs the Compac?

cgminer will accept one or all three parameters for the stickminer.
--gekko-newpac-freq 200 --gekko-compac-freq 200 --gekko-2pac-freq 150

thanks

give me an hour I will fire all up.

two new pacs at freq 125 giving me 60gh

edit 2 new pacs at freq 125 giving me 56gh and 20hw

I am using a good gub with fan cooling.

going to bump to freq 150

sidehack

legendary

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Curmudgeonly hardware guy

Quote from: vh on October 19, 2018, 10:53:01 PM

===============
=Basic Q&A / Troubleshooting=
===============

Q. How can I set a different frequency for the NewPac vs 2Pac vs the Compac?

cgminer will accept one or all three parameters for the stickminer.
--gekko-newpac-freq 200 --gekko-compac-freq 200 --gekko-2pac-freq 150

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4102

Merit: 7765

'The right to privacy matters'

Code:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bravo-mining.com:3333 -u philipma1957.two --gekko-compac-freq 125 --gekko-2pac-freq 100 -p x

waiting for a better hub but I have 1 stick working!

note bat file above and please tell me how to add new stick at a freq like 150

I have a new hub coming from eyeboot and plan to mine

2 of these at freq 150
1 2pac at freq 125
5 compac at freq 150

with cooling

vh

hero member

Activity: 699

Merit: 666

Linux cgminer.exe cross-compile steps (for windows use)

Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS new install.
Default Install (+OpenSSH server)

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git autoconf autopoint bison flex gperf libtool libtool-bin python ruby scons unzip intltool p7zip-full libgtk2.0-dev


cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git

export MXE_DIR=/opt/mxe
export MXE_TARGETS='i686-w64-mingw32.static'
sudo make -j 4 -C $MXE_DIR MXE_TARGETS="$MXE_TARGETS" curl pthreads pdcurses ncurses libusb1


echo 'export PATH=/opt/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib/pkgconfig/' >> ~/.profile

export PATH=/opt/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib/pkgconfig/

cd ~
mkdir -p git/vthoang
cd git/vthoang

git clone https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer.git
cd cgminer

autoreconf -fi
CFLAGS="-O2 -msse2" ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.static --disable-shared --enable-gekko

make -j 2
strip cgminer.exe

vh

hero member

Activity: 699

Merit: 666

########################################
#GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread#
########################################

NewPac:

Terminus R606:

=================
=Thanks To The Community=
=================
Thank you to all who are following along and supporting the creation of these miners.
Your feed back and participation really goes a long way to keep the momentum and R&D moving forward.

=================
=How to get a Miner=
=================
Visit the corresponding announcement threads for up to date info.

Quote from: sidehack

MinerSupply on Amazon.com (forum user Rockmoney)
MineFarmBuy.com (forum user minefarmbuy)
419Mining.com (forum user 419mining)

Limited direct sales are also available; contact [email protected] for information.

=================
=Expected Performance=
=================
The expected performance of the NewPac is about 0.228 * MHz = GH.
At the default frequency of 100MHz, the NewPac runs at 22.8 GH.

Rough power usage and efficiency of a NewPac:

The expected performance of the R606 is about 1.368 * MHz = GH.
At the default frequency of 400MHz, the R606 runs at 547.2 GH.

=================
=How to Run=
=================
At the moment, you will need to a build of cgminer with the latest gekko driver to mine with the NewPac / R606.

The driver is under active development in an fork of ckolivas/cgminer.
A pull request will be redirected to the ckolivas/cgminer repo once the code approached a stable point.

Run syntax:

*nix [if not root level privileges, see Q&A]
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://pool.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr -p x --suggest-diff 128

Windows
cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://pool.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr -p x --suggest-diff 128

OS X
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://pool.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr -p x --suggest-diff 128

Linux cgminer build steps

Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS new install.
Default Install (+OpenSSH server)

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git autoconf automake libtool pkg-config zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev
     
mkdir -p git/vthoang; cd git/vthoang
git clone -b r606 https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer.git
cd cgminer

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko
make -j 2

#see Q&A further below for instruction to grant USB permission to non root accounts.

   Debian 8.7.1 new install.
   Default Install (No desktop environment, + SSH Server)
   (*do not specify root password to enable sudo)

   or Raspbian - Kernel version: 4.4 (Raspberry Pi) [*note]

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev screen libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev

mkdir -p git/vthoang; cd git/vthoang
git clone -b r606 https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer.git
cd cgminer

CFLAGS="-O2" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko
make -j 2

#see Q&A further below for instruction to grant USB permission to non root accounts.

Windows : cgminer.exe (download and extract the 7z file below)

   Cross compiling instructions can be found in the next post.

   May 26, 2019 @ 9e51f0b - cgminer-4.11.1-windows-gekko-9e51f0b.7z
   May 13, 2019 @ a62385f - cgminer-4.11.1-windows-gekko-a62385f.7z
   Apr 30, 2019 @ 0d524aa - cgminer-4.11.1-windows-gekko-0d524aa.7z
   Dec 13, 2018 @ 3339a51 - cgminer-4.11.1-windows-gekko-3339a51.7z

http://23.108.83.14/images/cgminer-4.11.1-windows-gekko-9e51f0b.7z

   Use 7zip or WinZip to extract the archive

Install the zadig generic WinUSB drivers from:

http://zadig.akeo.ie

If all is well, you can list and see the miner from cgminer.

Code:

cgminer.exe -n

Powershell check:

Code:

PS C:\> gwmi Win32_USBControllerDevice |%{[wmi]($_.Dependent)} | ? { $_.DeviceId -match "GS-" } | sort Manufacturer,Description,DeviceID | ft -groupby Manufacturer Description,Service,DeviceId -auto

Mac OSX Compiling with Homebrew (NewPac Only / R606 support on the way)

El Capitan (10.11.6)

Code:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew doctor
brew tap vthoang/cgminer
brew install cgminer

=================
=Cooling=
=================
If you run a stick miner, use a cooling fan.

Increased cooling can reduce the chip's overall power usage.

Non cooled sticks are subject to thermal runaway where heat will trigger increased amperage draw increasing heat in a cycle until the unit fails.

===============
=Basic Q&A / Troubleshooting=
===============

Q. How can I set a different frequency for the R606 vs NewPac vs 2Pac vs the Compac?

cgminer will accept a custom frequency per device type.
--gekko-r606-freq 600 --gekko-newpac-freq 200 --gekko-compac-freq 200 --gekko-2pac-freq 150

Q. Does the NewPac/R606 support AsicBoost.

Mostly.

If you receive shared rejected messages from a specific pool, you can disable asicboost with "--gekko-noboost".

AsicBoost on Win10 may not always work.

If you see the frequency drop as soon as it starts up, you can use a modified version of AsicBoost "--gekko-lowboost" or disable asicboost with the command above.

Q: What is causes message: "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."

Generated by a failure in the autogen command. Read the last few outputted lines from the command before make.
Generally seen when running make after running the autogen line with a zero instead of a "O" capital o.

Q. How to get past "USB init, open device failed" ... "you don't have privilege to access" error.

Code:

cd ~/git/vthoang/cgminer/
sudo usermod -G plugdev -a `whoami`
sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo reboot

Q. How to get past "failed to initialse (incorrect device?)" error.

Generally seen when another driver has a hold on the device.

Remove the MacOS VCP Drivers

Q. Something doesn't look correct..

Here are some of the more common ways to address issue(s):

Isolate to test only the usb stick
   Remove any usb extension cables.
   Try a single device without any other accessories drawing power (usb fan, other miners).
   Plug into a into different computer.
Check for and git the latest build of cgminer.
Look through the README.txt file for relevant notes.
Handling problems in Windows:
   Switch to linux Ubuntu or Raspbian.
   Enable High Performance in Power Options Setting.
   Confirm the WinUSB driver is attached to the device.
   Reboot the computer.
   Try one cgminer process per device with "--usb :1".
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