GUIMiner-scrypt: A GUIMiner fork for mining scrypt chains - page 29.

mantel

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Thanks for this!

I was wandering around trying to figure out how to set up a mining client and out of all the "edit litecoin.conf" and other stuff this post shone out and just let me start mining while I read up and learn about litecoin.

CryptoJunky

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Nice work TacoTime. I just put together a tutorial on Litecoin mining for beginners using it. After testing it out I'm pretty surprised at how well it work. The default settings with my 7970 worked out pretty well too. Not quite the 1 mh/s to 1 kh/s ratio but getting closer. It's faster than I've gotten playing around with Reaper and CGminer in the past. Thanks!

http://cryptojunky.com/blog/2013/03/12/absolute-beginners-guide-to-litecoin-mining/

tacotime

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Quote from: FreedomCoin on March 11, 2013, 09:47:59 PM

what would the parameters be for CPU mining? i7 specifically...

Use this miner, as I haven't implemented it for CPUs (yet) https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/scryptminer-gui-simple-gui-for-litecoin-mining-62414

FreedomCoin

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Freedom to choose

what would the parameters be for CPU mining? i7 specifically...

tacotime

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Quote from: meebs on March 11, 2013, 04:03:38 PM

Yup, it was reaper. I will download the newest version and try again.

Cool, let me know if it works okay now.

meebs

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Quote from: tacotime on March 10, 2013, 09:56:20 PM

Quote from: meebs on March 10, 2013, 09:30:26 PM

A lot of the time I can get my "tahiti 1-0" to run fine.. but then when creating a second worker for "tahiti 1-1", exact same settings.. it won't start. As in.. clicking "start" literally does nothing. Like the button is broken...

*shrugs*

That said.. this is a GREAT start so far.

I REALLY recommend that you mention the "point miners to localhost:8332" in the stratum proxy worker page. It is NOT obvious at all how it should be correctly set up and it greatly confused me until i reread the first post of the thread.

What miner? Usually the program does nothing like that if the miner for some reason throws an error. If you could dump the error from the miner here by dumping what goes out to the console, that'd be super helpful (the console logs all errors usually). To see the console, select View --> Show console.

The other thing is that if it's a reaper instance, you can check the files that the GUI creates for the miner instance by opening the guiminer folder, and looking for a folder called "reaper-yourminername". Within that folder should be reaper.exe and a bunch of other files. A dump of the contents of reaper.conf and litecoin.conf might be possible; if those are the only two files in the folder, something has gone wrong.

Additionally, if you find a reaper folder within any folder other than the guiminer folder (eg /reaper/reaper-yourminername/) something has gone wrong.

Yup, it was reaper. I will download the newest version and try again.

tacotime

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Quote from: PsychoticBoy on March 11, 2013, 12:00:26 PM

Works really great.

Question, the default setting, is it mining with reaper or cgminer?

Thanks

Think I have this bug figured out too;

Code:

external_path_ref = (data.get('external_path') or _('CGMINER'))
...
self.txt_external.SetValue(external_path_ref)

This sets the configurable external path self.txt_external (hidden in my implementation) but not the actual value that determines which miner it is, the self.external_path variable to CGMINER when no other value is given (eg when starting for the first time). I need to change self.external_path here too, so that the miner knows what miner it is before you hit the start button. When you restart the miner, it should show up as cgminer (probably why I never caught this bug, haven't deleted my settings .ini file in a while).

tacotime

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Quote from: 420 on March 11, 2013, 02:31:37 PM

it was this thread here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/nvidia-radeon-in-same-system-151636

Okay, I see the problem now.

Code:

        # Command line arguments for cgminer here:
        # -u 
        # -p 
        # -o 
        # -d 
        # -l 
        # -T 
        cmd = "%s --scrypt -u %s -p %s -o %s%s:%s -d %s --thread-concurrency %s -w %s -v %s -I %s -g %s -l 5 -T %s" % (
            path,
            self.txt_username.GetValue(),
            self.txt_pass.GetValue(),
            http_header,
            self.host_without_http_prefix,
            self.txt_port.GetValue(),
            self.device_index,
            self.txt_thrcon.GetValue(),
            self.txt_worksize.GetValue(),
            self.txt_vectors.GetValue(),
            self.txt_intensity.GetValue(),
            self.txt_gputhreads.GetValue(),
            self.txt_flags.GetValue())
        return cmd, os.path.dirname(path)

If you look in the above code, it selects for -d (device) # but not --gpu-platform #. To fix this, I just need to add the --gpu-platform platform flag, since the GUIminer code already gets this information as self.platform_index. I will update this in version 0.03 so you don't need to put the flag in any more. This is apparently a bug carried over from the original GUIminer.

420

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Quote from: tacotime on March 11, 2013, 02:27:24 PM

No

I'll check after and make sure that the platform is in the flags, I'd thought it was but maybe I'd made a mistake

it was this thread here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/nvidia-radeon-in-same-system-151636

tacotime

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No

I'll check after and make sure that the platform is in the flags, I'd thought it was but maybe I'd made a mistake

420

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Quote from: tacotime on March 11, 2013, 02:07:59 PM

Quote from: 420 on March 11, 2013, 02:00:32 PM

GUIMINER SCRYPT GOOD JOB!

more donation for you Cool

Thank you! Grin

If anyone spots anymore bugs please let me know sooner than later and I'll try to fix them all by the end of this week

did I leave my post about cgminer mining on my nvidia even though I selected the 1-0 cayman for my 6950?

cklovias or whatever gave me the correct flag to put to fix: --gpu-platform 1

tacotime

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Quote from: 420 on March 11, 2013, 02:00:32 PM

GUIMINER SCRYPT GOOD JOB!

more donation for you Cool

Thank you! Grin

If anyone spots anymore bugs please let me know sooner than later and I'll try to fix them all by the end of this week

420

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GUIMINER SCRYPT GOOD JOB!

more donation for you Cool

tacotime

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Quote from: matauc12 on March 11, 2013, 12:26:43 PM

cgminer doesnt work for me, in the console display it just says "started" and never goes beyond that. its a 7870 and using your settings (7870(cgminer)) to make sure. Dont know what it could be.

Something I cant seem to find is default lookup, and an option for it would be neat too.

1) If it says started (the button changes to "Stop" after pressing "Start"), it means it successfully sent the command to the shell to run the program and the program was found. Two possible issues,
i. cgminer was started but was not allowed to complete kernel building. cgminer typically takes 1-2 minutes to complete the writing of the GPU kernel.
ii. cgminer was issued incorrect arguments and has hung.

i. can be resolved by waiting, ii. can be resolved by determining the output command, seeing where it was in err, and then correcting that in the configuration/program. In the future I will be sure to include the command used to run cgminer in the console.

Let me know if waiting will allow the miner to begin. If the button stays "Start" after pressing it, then the program can not find the correct path for cgminer (should be /your-guiminer-folder/cgminer/).

2) If you mean the default lookup_gap value, 2 is always used. Because options of 1 or more than 2 for lookup_gap slow down performance with AMD cards, this was not included.

matauc12

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cgminer doesnt work for me, in the console display it just says "started" and never goes beyond that. its a 7870 and using your settings (7870(cgminer)) to make sure. Dont know what it could be.

Something I cant seem to find is default lookup, and an option for it would be neat too.

tacotime

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Quote from: PsychoticBoy on March 11, 2013, 12:00:26 PM

Works really great.

Question, the default setting, is it mining with reaper or cgminer?

Thanks

Default should be cgminer (thought I'd fixed the bug where it disappears, I'll have to look at it later tonight)
You can tell if it's cgminer if it has the "extra flags" and "use stratum" option

PsychoticBoy

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Works really great.

Question, the default setting, is it mining with reaper or cgminer?

Thanks

tacotime

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Oh, my memclock was at 600Mhz because I was used to mine BTC. Maybe it was that: boosted it up to 1300 and it goes up to 200Khash at 18 intensity. GPU clock is 880Mhz.
I won't go higher than 12 though because even at 14 it almost freezes my screen. D:
Thanks. Tongue

200 KH/s out of a 7770 is normal

Just a reminder that if you like the guiminer, please send a donation! It took about 14 hours of coding so far (partially because I'm not the greatest programmer)

tacotime

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The high usage is normal, but the low khs is not at high intensity. What do you get at intensity 18, ansd what are your card clocks?

tacotime

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Bug fixed, should be able to make multiple functional reaper tabs now.

To upgrade, delete the entire contents of your old folder (settings are saved elsewhere) and replace them with the new zip file contents.

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