Hi, and welcome to the forum! Also nice to see a fellow miner.
I can't help you with your particular problem, but one thing that caught my eye: Are you saying you are going to start GPU-mining now? Even though you already have 2 USB erupters? As I understand it the 5970 gives about 750 Mh/s at 300 Watts (that's 2.5 Mh/W). The USB erupters are 336 Mh/s at 2.6 Watts (134 Mh/W). Why not just buy 9 USB erupters and get the same 3 GH? And save some electricity?
Topic: Hello! I'm new and have issues! Mining issues mostly. (Read 419 times)
Hi all! I am fairly new to the bitcoin mining world. Been lurking in the shadows for a few months, and finally decided to join the forum. My interest in BTC it more for the idea than to get rich. I was given a couple of the USB erupters a while back, and set them up with my Pi. Novel and cute. Went together without a hitch. Not a speed freak, but works well.
So with the little Pi running, it got me thinking if I had enough parts around to build a dedicated machine. Went into the closet and pulled out a decent setup. Asus board, AMD chip, couple gigs of ram. Nothing wild, but very serviceable. I am planning on running 4 5970's and will migrate the two USB erupters as well as any other mining devices I get in the future. Or at least that is the plan.
So here's where I'm at. I finally got Xubuntu 13.04, ATI drivers, SDK, and cgminer installed. Everything seems good to go, but when I try and start cgminer, it hangs with most all parameters. I can run it just as a command, point it to the pool, give it my credentials, and it connects. I have had it connect twice to my pool, but with very low hash rates (.5/sec kind of thing). I've tried disabling the first graphics card (onboard) with -I d,9,9 and when I do that, it goes back to a blank screen and have to reboot to get out of it.
I have scoured through the online help files as well as all the tutorials on how to setup cgminer on Xubuntu. Still can't get it going.
aticonfig sees all the cards as does cgminer. Just can't seem to get them to go.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Mine-on!
So with the little Pi running, it got me thinking if I had enough parts around to build a dedicated machine. Went into the closet and pulled out a decent setup. Asus board, AMD chip, couple gigs of ram. Nothing wild, but very serviceable. I am planning on running 4 5970's and will migrate the two USB erupters as well as any other mining devices I get in the future. Or at least that is the plan.
So here's where I'm at. I finally got Xubuntu 13.04, ATI drivers, SDK, and cgminer installed. Everything seems good to go, but when I try and start cgminer, it hangs with most all parameters. I can run it just as a command, point it to the pool, give it my credentials, and it connects. I have had it connect twice to my pool, but with very low hash rates (.5/sec kind of thing). I've tried disabling the first graphics card (onboard) with -I d,9,9 and when I do that, it goes back to a blank screen and have to reboot to get out of it.
I have scoured through the online help files as well as all the tutorials on how to setup cgminer on Xubuntu. Still can't get it going.
aticonfig sees all the cards as does cgminer. Just can't seem to get them to go.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Mine-on!
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