Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 32. (Read 61923 times)
July 19, 2020, 08:12:23 PM
I guess what I'm saying is I want my target to be as high as possible. Is there a harm to setting the frequency and power to it's highest setting and then backing down? I don't want to burn anything out. What is the highest frequency? If I increase the power all the way and just let it autotune, will that do it? Sorry to be so dense.
July 19, 2020, 07:46:08 PM
Is there a reason that I should just start at the highest power and frequency and then just back up from there? I'm using a Bitmain power supply from my old L3 so that should have plenty of power.
The miners will peak at a certain power level and frequency combination. You usually want to achieve your target hash at the lowest power consumption possible. It's good to use a power meter as well. If you start at the high end you will be consuming more power than necessary for a given hash rate.
July 19, 2020, 05:46:00 PM
Is there a reason that I should just start at the highest power and frequency and then just back up from there? I'm using a Bitmain power supply from my old L3 so that should have plenty of power.
July 19, 2020, 08:27:06 AM
Both. First at Power Level 4 set your frequency target to, say 725Mhz, and see what it autotunes to. Then bump it up to Voltage Level 5 and start over, repeat until you find the sweet spot you want to run at. You need to make sure you have a power supply that can support that though. The 8Amp block can't supply power to the level of what the unit can do, most likely. I use an ATX P/S to power my units.
Glad you got everything up and running.
Glad you got everything up and running.
July 19, 2020, 08:15:43 AM
I got my new R606, plugged it into my new ubuntu install on my laptop, and WHAM, running at 781GB with just the defaults.
Next question: I believe after reading the posts that the current version of cgminer autotunes. Does that mean I just need to increase the vCore using the buttons on the R606 to increase the rate? Or do I need to use the settings for cgminer to set the frequency? Or both?
Next question: I believe after reading the posts that the current version of cgminer autotunes. Does that mean I just need to increase the vCore using the buttons on the R606 to increase the rate? Or do I need to use the settings for cgminer to set the frequency? Or both?
July 17, 2020, 11:17:54 AM
Just what the light codes might be telling you on the device.
Sounds like you need to contact your supplier.
Sounds like you need to contact your supplier.
July 17, 2020, 09:36:09 AM
I've installed ubuntu on an old laptop. It was, as expected, a piece of cake, following the directions on page 1. I didn't do anything else after building cgminer.
However, I get exactly the same results. Sounds like a bad device. I assume there isn't any additional tools I can use to see if it's something else.
However, I get exactly the same results. Sounds like a bad device. I assume there isn't any additional tools I can use to see if it's something else.
July 17, 2020, 05:14:42 AM
The pi instructions above were spot on for my pi4. Worked a treat straight away.
July 16, 2020, 06:04:13 PM
Are you sure you have the WinUSB driver loaded correctly? Recheck it with zadig. What are your lights doing? Sounds like you may need to contact your reseller for some help/suggestions/trouble shooting.
Success with Win10 means you can mine. Rarely will it do the 750Ghs stock rate. Also there is no ckpool.org anymore so I don't know what you would have been mining to.
Edit: pool.ckpool redirects to the solo pool
Edit 2: Here are mstrozier's instructions on how to install on a Pi. They can easily be adapted to a Linux machine too. Also review the instructions on the top post.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.50968875
Success with Win10 means you can mine. Rarely will it do the 750Ghs stock rate. Also there is no ckpool.org anymore so I don't know what you would have been mining to.
Edit: pool.ckpool redirects to the solo pool
Edit 2: Here are mstrozier's instructions on how to install on a Pi. They can easily be adapted to a Linux machine too. Also review the instructions on the top post.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.50968875
July 16, 2020, 05:09:44 PM
Yeah, I've read the posts that Win10 sucks. But I've also seen users with success. So...I was hoping...Building a ubuntu Linux machine is more than I wanted to bite off but if I was so inclined, does one of the beginning posts have the complete steps to follow? Assume I know nothing about Linux (although I have ancient experience in Unix).
To answer some of your questions anyway:
1. I tried both using my current Power Supply which has ample bandwidth, and a left over Bitmain power supply from my L3.
2. Will try - Just tried. No luck
3. Will try - Just tried. No luck
4. I've tried both solo.ckpool and pool.ckpool
5. Will try - Just tried. No luck
I guess I'm just surprised that ANY of these settings would prevent cgminer from seeing any chips.
To answer some of your questions anyway:
1. I tried both using my current Power Supply which has ample bandwidth, and a left over Bitmain power supply from my L3.
2. Will try - Just tried. No luck
3. Will try - Just tried. No luck
4. I've tried both solo.ckpool and pool.ckpool
5. Will try - Just tried. No luck
I guess I'm just surprised that ANY of these settings would prevent cgminer from seeing any chips.
July 16, 2020, 04:46:40 PM
Well if you read many posts then you should know you need to forget about Win10. It SUCKS as it really screws up USB communication.
In the meantime:
1. What Power Supply are you using?
2. Set your frequency to 550Mhz.
3. Set your voltage to 4 or 5.
4. You don't say what pool your using, but use solo.ckpool.org for testing purposes with Bitcoin mining.
5. Use the --gekko-noboost or --gekko-lowboost options which were for trying to get Win10 to function.
Aside from that you need to setup a Ubuntu Linux machine or get a Pi 4 with raspian Linux.
Good Luck
In the meantime:
1. What Power Supply are you using?
2. Set your frequency to 550Mhz.
3. Set your voltage to 4 or 5.
4. You don't say what pool your using, but use solo.ckpool.org for testing purposes with Bitcoin mining.
5. Use the --gekko-noboost or --gekko-lowboost options which were for trying to get Win10 to function.
Aside from that you need to setup a Ubuntu Linux machine or get a Pi 4 with raspian Linux.
Good Luck
July 16, 2020, 04:27:34 PM
I've looked through as many of the posts as I can, and haven't really found the information I need. Sorry if this is redundant.
I just received my first R606. I have a Windows 10 machine, and went through the steps to plug it in, including updating the drivers. When I start cgminer, it says it's resetting the device over and over and then fails saying that it didn't find any chips. I've tried on two different machines to ensure that it wasn't just a single machine.
Is it a bad unit? Is there anything else I can do to check before I ask for a replacement?
Thank you.
I just received my first R606. I have a Windows 10 machine, and went through the steps to plug it in, including updating the drivers. When I start cgminer, it says it's resetting the device over and over and then fails saying that it didn't find any chips. I've tried on two different machines to ensure that it wasn't just a single machine.
Is it a bad unit? Is there anything else I can do to check before I ask for a replacement?
Thank you.
July 15, 2020, 10:08:49 AM
Has anyone running on rockpro64? Seems to be a popular node setup for node enthusiasts lately.
July 13, 2020, 05:41:26 PM
now I just have to figure out a better os - the one it came with stinks - out of 6 different nodes I tried only one has worked. So gotta look at how to ditch the sd card and just run it off the 2 tb external ssd I have.
i rebooted the pi and am now getting an error -- I found the issue in the Q&A but it doesnt work for me
my guess is the whole cd ~/git because it returns unknown directory.
it was working fine but now it doesnt? just because I rebooted?
when I run lsusb - it shows the miner
edit ---- it was the permissions - it somehow got set back to "only owner" once I changed it to "Anyone" and rebooted it was working smh.
i rebooted the pi and am now getting an error -- I found the issue in the Q&A but it doesnt work for me
Q. How to get past "USB init, open device failed" ... "you don't have privilege to access" error.
cd ~/git/vthoang/cgminer/
sudo usermod -G plugdev -a `whoami`
sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo reboot
cd ~/git/vthoang/cgminer/
sudo usermod -G plugdev -a `whoami`
sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo reboot
my guess is the whole cd ~/git because it returns unknown directory.
it was working fine but now it doesnt? just because I rebooted?
when I run lsusb - it shows the miner
edit ---- it was the permissions - it somehow got set back to "only owner" once I changed it to "Anyone" and rebooted it was working smh.
July 13, 2020, 05:11:16 PM
Yep, Linux does make the difference. And the Pi 4 Hardware is really neat and nifty. I like it.
July 13, 2020, 07:43:48 AM
yes. miner went from 750 gh avg to 925 gh avg with no other changes than switching it over to the pi.
July 13, 2020, 04:27:30 AM
miner is hashing away now to see if it will actually perform better than it did on windows.
Did you get the Pi 4?
July 12, 2020, 11:17:43 PM
ok I am a total rpi noob here ---
i did the following:
and I see a folder called git/vthoang/cgminer - its has a few other folders and dozens of files. Unless I am missing it - I cannot find the one I need to configure to mine. Am I missing something else here?
edit - I found it - had to find the post that talked about creating the .sh file and then i was good to go. miner is hashing away now to see if it will actually perform better than it did on windows.
i did the following:
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
and I see a folder called git/vthoang/cgminer - its has a few other folders and dozens of files. Unless I am missing it - I cannot find the one I need to configure to mine. Am I missing something else here?
edit - I found it - had to find the post that talked about creating the .sh file and then i was good to go. miner is hashing away now to see if it will actually perform better than it did on windows.
July 12, 2020, 12:10:27 AM
Also it's like a million degrees in my shop right now so it's hard to get motivated. The list of things that I need to do but can't from inside the one air-conditioned room here is growing.
July 11, 2020, 02:09:21 PM
We exchange emails fairly regularly. He been super busy working on a local project and gs gear of course.
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