LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go. - page 34.

gnar1ta$

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Quote from: Jonathan Ryan Owens on July 10, 2011, 11:51:20 AM

Quote from: gnar1ta$ on July 10, 2011, 11:45:17 AM

I seem to be missing some initial step when using AMDOverdrive and aticonfig on 6950's. I can get the core clock to adjust but not mem clock or voltage or powertune. I've tried with the GUI open, with the -b command line to load a saved profile, and with aticonfig --odsc. All I get is changes to the core clock.

There's a downward adjustment range that I've come up against on my 6950s. If you set the memory too low, it defaults back to 1250. Try taking your memory clock down to 800 and see if that works, then go a bit lower.. then lower..

Thanks this worked down to 800 at 900 core, below 800 it jumps back up to 1250. Have you had any luck with voltage or powertune? Or is it set by the core clock?

Smalleyster

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As expected that post above did not work, I'll keep fumbling at it.

EDIT

This is absolutely too funny for words. I decide to go through the typing for the encryption instructions in the first post and it tells me it needs 2.5x the space available even though I have a 4gb USB and am using the 2GB persistence file.

This OS is bound and determined not to let a password get in its way. lol

TripHammer

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Again as I said, from the first post:

If you want to disable autologin edit /etc/inittab and

sudo su

vi /etc/inittab

then replace this

Code:
1:12345:respawn:/bin/login -f user /dev/tty1 2>&1

for this

Code:
1:12345:respawn:/bin/bash /dev/tty1 2>&1

and reboot

Smalleyster

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Quote from: TheVirus on June 27, 2011, 12:44:38 PM

This isn't very secure if root auto-logs in at reboot. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a user.

This is my issue.

Has anyone been able to make their USB demand a password before seeing the desktop?

I'm certainly too stupid to figure out how to do it so far.

Jonathan Ryan Owens

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Quote from: gnar1ta$ on July 10, 2011, 11:45:17 AM

I seem to be missing some initial step when using AMDOverdrive and aticonfig on 6950's. I can get the core clock to adjust but not mem clock or voltage or powertune. I've tried with the GUI open, with the -b command line to load a saved profile, and with aticonfig --odsc. All I get is changes to the core clock.

There's a downward adjustment range that I've come up against on my 6950s. If you set the memory too low, it defaults back to 1250. Try taking your memory clock down to 800 and see if that works, then go a bit lower.. then lower..

gnar1ta$

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I seem to be missing some initial step when using AMDOverdrive and aticonfig on 6950's. I can get the core clock to adjust but not mem clock or voltage or powertune. I've tried with the GUI open, with the -b command line to load a saved profile, and with aticonfig --odsc. All I get is changes to the core clock.

organofcorti

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Poor impulse control.

+1 for getting slack while mining. J.R. "Bob" Dobbs commands it.

sharky112065

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Quote from: drgr33n on July 03, 2011, 11:18:57 AM

Quote from: aerion on July 03, 2011, 11:09:40 AM

Quote from: drgr33n on July 03, 2011, 11:00:57 AM

There is no source config. It's been heavily customized by chrooting the filesystem and tweaking.

I knew it was a long shot, but was hoping you used one of those Custom LiveCD creation tools

Anyway I guess I will have to just keep trying with this dual 6990 video card problem, I will probably just come back to LinuxCoin seeing as it works out of the box Cheesy

LinuxCoin is the way Cheesy

If you do find something on your travels that will improve linuxcoin let me know and I'll add it to the next version.

I'm on the fence though. I like debian but its not my native linux distro. I use slackware and have done for years so i think to take linuxcoin to the next stage I might migrate over to slax and build the next livecd from scratch. This way I can add lots more security features and I can distribute updates etc via a package manager Cheesy

I did look into creating debs but got about two paragraphs into the documentation, rolled a fattie and logged into facebook hahaha Cheesy

These releases are far from final. To tell you the truth they were an experiment to test the water and to see if the bitcoin community was interested in a linux distro dedicated to bitcoin. I think the thread view count says it all there are lots of people interested Cheesy

I can create slackware packages with my eyes closed. I'm having a little break from linuxcoin and going to try and code up some sort of GUI for mining and some other nice bits of software.

These will be separate from the linuxcoin development but will be features added and also available for download to use with other linux distros.

I love Slackware. I will love you forever if you switch Linuxcoin over.

I use Slackware for my Nat/Firewall.

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Quote from: miscreanity on July 09, 2011, 01:58:47 PM

Quote from: drgr33n on July 09, 2011, 10:05:32 AM

How many people would I hear from with bricked cards hahaha Cheesy

Guaranteed! The community is small enough that most can understand and at least figure out what they're doing. As it grows, that in-depth comprehension won't be as widespread.

You could always make the BIOS flash image a separate supplemental download. It'd be great for an old 128Mb flash drive.

Agreed

Ok I might add a additional download section to this.

I've managed to make a small start on the website today.

http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk

Will be migrating everything over to php next. I just wanted to get a sudo layout on paper so to speak. Feedback is appreciated !!

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Quote from: drgr33n on July 09, 2011, 10:05:32 AM

How many people would I hear from with bricked cards hahaha Cheesy

Guaranteed! The community is small enough that most can understand and at least figure out what they're doing. As it grows, that in-depth comprehension won't be as widespread.

You could always make the BIOS flash image a separate supplemental download. It'd be great for an old 128Mb flash drive.

drgr33n

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Its not complicated for me to setup and you will have a extra boot menu option to boot into freedos with atiflash installed. I thought this might be handy for someone that has just bought a load of 6850's and want to batch unlock the shaders. You could just unlock one bios file and flash 100 in about a hour Cheesy

Just one example how this might be useful. But you do have a point Cheesy

How many people would I hear from with bricked cards hahaha Cheesy

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Quote from: drgr33n on July 09, 2011, 08:49:53 AM

To everyone else. Would you like to see freedos and the ATI flashing tools added to the PXE boot menu ? I'm on the fence on if this will be helpful.

IMHO linuxcoin should have the features and tool to mine, things like flashing the bios is something that should be done before starting full time mining, using the tools that are already available out there, no point of making linuxcoin overly complicated. Also I though with Catalyst 11.6 it allowed overclock past bios limits, so is there still advantages of flashing?

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Great news Smalleyster. There are much easier ways to keep your files Cheesy

I will add some info to the blog once it's online. Remember this OS is still being tested. The final version is expected the middle of next week Cheesy

I would ask if you are the last poster on a thread can you edit your post rather than re-posting ? It's just the more posts the harder it is for people to search through and find what they need.

To everyone else. Would you like to see freedos and the ATI flashing tools added to the PXE boot menu ? I'm on the fence on if this will be helpful.

pinjas

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This is a great blog Smalleyster. I especially loved the part where you wrote "Tomorrow I plan to re-format the USB," it was enthralling. Bravo.

Smalleyster

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Ok so I re-created my USB, booted, deleted the wallet.dat, replaced with my backup wallet.dat and lo and behold it appears it just might be working!

It is currently downloading blocks and the original transactions are showing, but greyed out. Looking forward to them actually being there.

Fingers crossed!

It took about 1 1/2 hours to re-format and install the already downloaded files on to the USB

Then on to password fun to make sure no one else can use it. (I'm dreading this part)

Smalleyster

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Well I've finally managed to find and email the wallet.dat file out for safekeeping

I am unsuccessful in deleting and/or upgrading bitcoin so far

Tomorrow I plan to re-format the USB, copy the old wallet.dat on top of the new one and hope for the best

From previous experience that will take the better part of a day or so

Smalleyster

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Did not expect this one:

We just had a power outage and when I rebooted LinuxCoin BitCoin gives an error message and does not load.

Bit coin was running confirming a payment made to it at the time of power outage. I did not have time to backup the wallet.dat file.

Do I need to re-download the bitcoin client?

TripHammer

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Roger that,

Thanks Chap

Trip

drgr33n

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Quote from: TripHammer on July 08, 2011, 05:40:34 PM

Got a rough ETA for 0.2 release?

Save me checking the forum every 30 seconds

Lol I'm waiting on something important so it's out of my hands. I would say by mid nxt week maybe sooner.

TripHammer

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Got a rough ETA for 0.2 release?

Save me checking the forum every 30 seconds

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