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Quote from: jonnynogood on June 07, 2011, 01:29:50 AM

what do i put in for a kernel when it asks?

i am trying to start a phoenix session with a 6870 card and these flags
VECTORS BFI_INT BIT_ALIGN FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=12

i have only used the mac versions and windows GUI versions of bitcoin mining so i dont really know any of this stuff
i tried typing in phatk but that doesnt seem to do anything.

the window flashes for a second then takes me back to menu

phatk

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Quote from: organofcorti on June 06, 2011, 08:46:21 AM

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Mine's a single core 45 nm sempron, yours? Dual core sempron have been mentioned in a post somewhere (maybe the ubuntu thread?) to cause high cpu usage.

As to why, don't know why this was a problem under windows and not linux, but LinuxCoin solved it for me. I've read that sdk2.3 caused high cpu usage issues in other distros but LinuxCoin uses 2.4.

nonono.. I have a single-core Sempron. I am running LinuxCoin. CPU is high. I cannot work out what I am doing wrong..

Running 1 x GPU is fine.. running 2 at the same time causes both GPUs to drop 10%+ Mhashes.

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what do i put in for a kernel when it asks?

i am trying to start a phoenix session with a 6870 card and these flags
VECTORS BFI_INT BIT_ALIGN FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=12

i have only used the mac versions and windows GUI versions of bitcoin mining so i dont really know any of this stuff
i tried typing in phatk but that doesnt seem to do anything.

the window flashes for a second then takes me back to menu

dobitment

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On my laptop, Linuxcoin hangs after "ISOLINUX 4.02".... "Peter Anvin et al".

It doesnt even try to boot. I've tried burning 2 different CDs. I get further when I make a USB disk with unetbootin, but I still cant get to the point of loading the kernel.

I'm using a USB CDrom drive. Could that be it?

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Quote from: phathash on June 06, 2011, 02:41:08 AM

Quote from: organofcorti on May 20, 2011, 10:17:42 PM

On any miner under windows I was getting 100 cpu usage and the machine would crash after half an hour from a hot cpu. Under LinuxCoin I'm getting 1-5% cpu usage, it's running cool and not crashing. Sweet! Creating and maintaining a distro is harder than it looks, so thanks lots for sorting this.

I have LinuxCoin working with poclbm and 2 x GPUs.. however, CPU is being hogged. Any idea why?

Mine's a single core 45 nm sempron, yours? Dual core sempron have been mentioned in a post somewhere (maybe the ubuntu thread?) to cause high cpu usage.

As to why, don't know why this was a problem under windows and not linux, but LinuxCoin solved it for me. I've read that sdk2.3 caused high cpu usage issues in other distros but LinuxCoin uses 2.4.

phathash

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Quote from: organofcorti on May 20, 2011, 10:17:42 PM

On any miner under windows I was getting 100 cpu usage and the machine would crash after half an hour from a hot cpu. Under LinuxCoin I'm getting 1-5% cpu usage, it's running cool and not crashing. Sweet! Creating and maintaining a distro is harder than it looks, so thanks lots for sorting this.

I have LinuxCoin working with poclbm and 2 x GPUs.. however, CPU is being hogged. Any idea why?

phathash

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Sorry, mistype... I am using LinuxCoin = Debian.

Any idea why CPU is so sluggish with 2 x 5770s ?

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Quote from: phathash on June 05, 2011, 04:21:58 AM

I have this working with 2 x 5770s, however, Ubuntu is very sluggish. There appears to be high CPU usage (Sempron 64).

Either card alone will do 170Mhash.. however, as soon as I fire up both at the same time.. one will do 170 and the other 90-150.

CPU is high.. the mouse is sluggish.

Any ideas?

Why are you asking in a Debian thread? if you are using versions 2.2 or 2.3 of the AMD Stream SDK, consider switching to 2.4, because one of the earlier had a CPU hog problem.

bitlock

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I started a miner from X root window.

What is the best way to kill the miner/python application when logging in remotely from SSH?

I could just kill the pid, but not there to test the result, don't want the card running out of control....

TIA

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I have this working with 2 x 5770s, however, Ubuntu is very sluggish. There appears to be high CPU usage (Sempron 64).

Either card alone will do 170Mhash.. however, as soon as I fire up both at the same time.. one will do 170 and the other 90-150.

CPU is high.. the mouse is sluggish.

Any ideas?

aBitcoiner

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Is the Linuxcoin-v0.2a i686 compatible?

I dont have a 64bit CPU.

organofcorti

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Quote from: drgr33n on June 04, 2011, 07:26:21 AM

Quote from: organofcorti on June 03, 2011, 09:08:39 PM

I had the same (no X) problem after i installed a second card. I have a 6990 but borrowed a 6870 to try. I read somewhere that the different cards should work although I'd take a performance hit. On windows I got reduced hashrates on crossfire or switching video outs, but on LinuxCoin no X. Card in - X stops. Card out - X works. (regardless of which card I was taking in and out). I tried a fresh non persistent install, no go.

Anyone successfully running LinuxCoin with two 6990s or 6690 and a 6970? (edit)

Wouldn't have worried me except I can't get cron working with DiabloMiner because I can't figure out how to get it to find java, or which bit of java in which folder it needs in path. Groan. Gave the card back unsused as I clearly didn't have the chops to get it going.

drgr33n: any idea of what i might need to add to cron's PATH to get java running from cron?

sjohn: Maybe if you *can* get cron running on cli? Then you wouldn't need remote access or a gui maybe?

Don't run your cards in crossfire and you won't see a performance drop. LinuxCoin was tested using the same setup you have and worked fine ? Maybe something is a miss somewhere else ? If you are having problems I would ask people to list information about their hardware and any other relevant info to the issue. if its problems with X your experiencing can you pastebin the output of

Code:

lspci
lsmod
dmesg
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

this way I can take a look at exactly whats going on and make sure your hardware is working in the final version of LinuxCoin.

Quote from: sjohn on June 04, 2011, 12:11:14 AM

Well im getting about 560MH/s on my dual 5830 setup using an extra copy of win 7 that I got thru my new university. Would honestly feel better doing linux on it but no luck.

Same applies to you sjohn. If you could post the output of the above code and I will take a look. I've been really busy with work related projects the last week or two so haven't had a lot of time to read through everything. My apologies if I've missed anything !!

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately I don't have the card anymore - next one I get and next problem I get, I'll know how to report. Cheers for your hard work on the project.

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Quote from: organofcorti on June 03, 2011, 09:08:39 PM

I had the same (no X) problem after i installed a second card. I have a 6990 but borrowed a 6870 to try. I read somewhere that the different cards should work although I'd take a performance hit. On windows I got reduced hashrates on crossfire or switching video outs, but on LinuxCoin no X. Card in - X stops. Card out - X works. (regardless of which card I was taking in and out). I tried a fresh non persistent install, no go.

Anyone successfully running LinuxCoin with two 6990s or 6690 and a 6970? (edit)

Wouldn't have worried me except I can't get cron working with DiabloMiner because I can't figure out how to get it to find java, or which bit of java in which folder it needs in path. Groan. Gave the card back unsused as I clearly didn't have the chops to get it going.

drgr33n: any idea of what i might need to add to cron's PATH to get java running from cron?

sjohn: Maybe if you *can* get cron running on cli? Then you wouldn't need remote access or a gui maybe?

Don't run your cards in crossfire and you won't see a performance drop. LinuxCoin was tested using the same setup you have and worked fine ? Maybe something is a miss somewhere else ? If you are having problems I would ask people to list information about their hardware and any other relevant info to the issue. if its problems with X your experiencing can you pastebin the output of

Code:

lspci
lsmod
dmesg
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

this way I can take a look at exactly whats going on and make sure your hardware is working in the final version of LinuxCoin.

Quote from: sjohn on June 04, 2011, 12:11:14 AM

Well im getting about 560MH/s on my dual 5830 setup using an extra copy of win 7 that I got thru my new university. Would honestly feel better doing linux on it but no luck.

Same applies to you sjohn. If you could post the output of the above code and I will take a look. I've been really busy with work related projects the last week or two so haven't had a lot of time to read through everything. My apologies if I've missed anything !!

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Well im getting about 560MH/s on my dual 5830 setup using an extra copy of win 7 that I got thru my new university. Would honestly feel better doing linux on it but no luck.

organofcorti

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Poor impulse control.

I had the same (no X) problem after i installed a second card. I have a 6990 but borrowed a 6870 to try. I read somewhere that the different cards should work although I'd take a performance hit. On windows I got reduced hashrates on crossfire or switching video outs, but on LinuxCoin no X. Card in - X stops. Card out - X works. (regardless of which card I was taking in and out). I tried a fresh non persistent install, no go.

Anyone successfully running LinuxCoin with two 6990s or 6690 and a 6970? (edit)

Wouldn't have worried me except I can't get cron working with DiabloMiner because I can't figure out how to get it to find java, or which bit of java in which folder it needs in path. Groan. Gave the card back unsused as I clearly didn't have the chops to get it going.

drgr33n: any idea of what i might need to add to cron's PATH to get java running from cron?

sjohn: Maybe if you *can* get cron running on cli? Then you wouldn't need remote access or a gui maybe?

bitlock

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I had the video error after I booted my persistance linuxcoin on one system then took it to try on another - didn't feel like troubleshooting so just reinstalled linuxcoin on the usb stick - voila - it worked!

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Quote from: epg on June 03, 2011, 03:23:39 PM

kjj: Thanks for the response. How do I check for this/fix this issue? Do you recommend I try changing the resolution for example? I'm running it at 1280x768, with no additional modifications to any settings besides disabling the screen-saver.

Yeah, I'd try changing the resolution. Maybe look for some logs. I don't use X much, so I'm not sure where to go from here.

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Quote from: drgr33n on June 03, 2011, 08:37:41 AM

Quote from: GimEEE on June 02, 2011, 05:45:42 PM

Quote from: drgr33n on June 02, 2011, 08:28:10 AM

There's going to be a HDD installer included on the final version. The reason why I decided not to post instructions on how to install to a local HDD is because of LinuxCoin being in testing. If you really want to you could try formatting you HDD as ext4 then ...

Code:

mkdir /mnt/hdd
mount /dev/sdXX /mnt/hdd
cp --preserve -R /{bin,boot,dev,etc,home,lib,lib32,opt,root,run,sbin,selinux,srv,usr,var} /mnt/hdd
mkdir /mnt/hdd/{media,proc,sys,tmp}
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/hdd/dev
mount -t proc /proc /mnt/hdd/proc
chroot /mnt/hdd
apt-get install grub2
grub-install /dev/sdX
exit

A bit of a hacky way but I have had 100% success rate using this over the years in various situations.

chroot /mnt/hdd gives error

Code:

root@linuxcoin:/mnt/hdd# chroot /mnt/hdd
chroot: failed to run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

does it require not having a persistent file setup?

Does /mnt/hdd/bin exist ? No persistence is not necessary.

I wanted to try again with non-persistent mode running, and it didn't work again, same error as above
Yes, /mnt/hdd/bin/bash exists
Did it work for everyone else?
UPDATE -
I think it gave an error here too 'mount -t proc /proc /mnt/hdd/proc'

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kjj: Thanks for the response. How do I check for this/fix this issue? Do you recommend I try changing the resolution for example? I'm running it at 1280x768, with no additional modifications to any settings besides disabling the screen-saver.

kjj

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That's not normal. Mine doesn't do that, for example. Are you sure X isn't crashing when you hit the boundary?

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drgr33n, first off, thank you for your work.

I have quick question- is it normal for LinuxCoin/Debian Linux to log a user off by simply moving the mouse into the corner of the screen? Specifically, moving to the top-right/bottom-right corners are what causes me to completely log off. I've done this way too many times on accident and had to restart my miners. Is there an option somewhere to disable this?

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