On with the story... AMD graphics on Linux isn't much fun due to the mediocre drivers. After having suffered through bad driver packages, GUI glitches and poor desktop performance for a few days, a colleague of mine suggested trying PCIe-pass-trough to a VM for mining and using the trusty Intel graphics for everything else. Hmm, sounds good.
Step 0: a BIOS-Upgrade to get the required IO-MMU support. Unfortunately all I could find were links to useless Windows-only upgrade utilities. Only by guessing and probing filenames I was able to find a pure BIOS upgrade file that could be installed from an USB stick by the BIOS itself. Thank you very much, AsRock.
Step 1 to 32767: continously crash and reboot the computer for a few days until you've figured out all the necessary commands in the right order. That is: unbind the AMD graphics (and accompanying devices) and rebind to the stub driver, start the VM, log into the VM and start X, start the miner. Don't restart the VM or the miner before rebooting or the computer will lock-up immediately.
Step 32768: profit :-)
Well, actually not any more. With 0.25€/kWh and the current exchange rate and difficulty, even running the very efficient AMD 7750 will cost you more than what you'll receive. So, on to the ASICs...
PS: where did I get the impression I'd need 5 newbie posts before I could continue in the other forums? The NEWBIE README says "one post". Strange.
Topic: newbie limbo (Read 495 times)
Yeah, me too. Reminds me of Inception...
Newbie limbo lol. I'm fighting it too 
.... Good luck on your meetup and rig.
.... Good luck on your meetup and rig. All of that, I guess, plus scammers (because money may be involved) and ADHD-newbies (or has lurking before actually posting just become unfashionable?).
Anyway... more storytelling, to hopefully make the required 5 posts a bit more entertaining. As I said, I actually started with CPU-mining. Of course, in early 2013 this was utterly useless with regards to actually mining bitcoins, but at least helped me getting accustomed to building and running the software. I then pondered whether to order a miner from BFL, but chose the easier route and went with the AMD GPU instead. Lucky me.
However, getting the AMD running was quite adventurous. More about that in the next post... :-)
this is very interesting Anyway... more storytelling, to hopefully make the required 5 posts a bit more entertaining. As I said, I actually started with CPU-mining. Of course, in early 2013 this was utterly useless with regards to actually mining bitcoins, but at least helped me getting accustomed to building and running the software. I then pondered whether to order a miner from BFL, but chose the easier route and went with the AMD GPU instead. Lucky me.
However, getting the AMD running was quite adventurous. More about that in the next post... :-)
All of that, I guess, plus scammers (because money may be involved) and ADHD-newbies (or has lurking before actually posting just become unfashionable?).
Anyway... more storytelling, to hopefully make the required 5 posts a bit more entertaining. As I said, I actually started with CPU-mining. Of course, in early 2013 this was utterly useless with regards to actually mining bitcoins, but at least helped me getting accustomed to building and running the software. I then pondered whether to order a miner from BFL, but chose the easier route and went with the AMD GPU instead. Lucky me.
However, getting the AMD running was quite adventurous. More about that in the next post... :-)
Anyway... more storytelling, to hopefully make the required 5 posts a bit more entertaining. As I said, I actually started with CPU-mining. Of course, in early 2013 this was utterly useless with regards to actually mining bitcoins, but at least helped me getting accustomed to building and running the software. I then pondered whether to order a miner from BFL, but chose the easier route and went with the AMD GPU instead. Lucky me.
However, getting the AMD running was quite adventurous. More about that in the next post... :-)
Can feel you... experiencing quite the same right now.
I'm wondering whether there had been too much spam, bot-accounts, trolls that such restrictions are necessary..?!
I'm wondering whether there had been too much spam, bot-accounts, trolls that such restrictions are necessary..?!
Hello there!
I've been lurking for quite some time and just registered to ask a question about a local meetup, only to find out I'll be stuck in newbie limbo for a while.
Some information to make this post more "substantial": I'm more interested in the concepts and workings and the overall philosophy of crypto currencies rather than trying to make a ****-load of money, thus my mining-setup is very modest, consisting of a single AM BE only. Before that I had an AMD 7750 in PCIe-pass-trough mode with the software running in a VM, and before that I actually tried CPU mining. You may laugh now.
Three and a half hours to go...
I've been lurking for quite some time and just registered to ask a question about a local meetup, only to find out I'll be stuck in newbie limbo for a while.
Some information to make this post more "substantial": I'm more interested in the concepts and workings and the overall philosophy of crypto currencies rather than trying to make a ****-load of money, thus my mining-setup is very modest, consisting of a single AM BE only. Before that I had an AMD 7750 in PCIe-pass-trough mode with the software running in a VM, and before that I actually tried CPU mining. You may laugh now.
Three and a half hours to go...
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