OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 174.

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Quote from: -ck on November 12, 2013, 12:50:56 AM

Quote from: techman05 on November 11, 2013, 11:11:55 PM

Quote from: HellDiverUK on November 11, 2013, 10:15:21 AM

Just spotted a bug in 3.8.1 on Windows.

When entering server details on initial startup, if a mistake is made and characters deleted, those wrong chars and backspace control codes are saved in the cgminer.conf. On next startup the .conf is declared corrupt.

I'm pretty sure I noted that somewhere. cgminer won't allow any key stroke mistakes. I always end up going to the config file and clean the backspace charactors out and restart cgminer.

Ok wasn't aware of that issue. Will look into it at some stage, but I'm trying VERY hard to not release anything new anytime soon.

It's no big tickle, just reporting it as I saw it. Now I know about it, I can work around it by fixing the .conf manually.

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Such a pitty to see scrypt mining gone.
Majority of Alt Coins is scrypt based - would there be any plans to support it again in the future?

GPU bitcoin mining doesn't make sense for a while now and it's obviously the way to go...

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Quote from: techman05 on November 11, 2013, 11:11:55 PM

Quote from: HellDiverUK on November 11, 2013, 10:15:21 AM

Just spotted a bug in 3.8.1 on Windows.

When entering server details on initial startup, if a mistake is made and characters deleted, those wrong chars and backspace control codes are saved in the cgminer.conf. On next startup the .conf is declared corrupt.

I'm pretty sure I noted that somewhere. cgminer won't allow any key stroke mistakes. I always end up going to the config file and clean the backspace charactors out and restart cgminer.

Ok wasn't aware of that issue. Will look into it at some stage, but I'm trying VERY hard to not release anything new anytime soon.

It's been a hell of a ride getting this far with massive overhauls in the last few months, but it's all about looking to the future. Just think, pretty much 99.9% of the bitcoin network hashrate contributed to by cgminer is coming from hardware that did not even exist one year ago. All of the FPGAs should be switched off by now due to inefficiency and by early next year, 1st generation ASICs will be unprofitable to run too. By the middle of next year, 28nm technology efficiency will be the minimum requirement to be worth mining bitcoin so I have to concentrate my development efforts accordingly.

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Quote from: techman05 on November 11, 2013, 11:11:55 PM

I'm pretty sure I noted that somewhere. cgminer won't allow any key stroke mistakes. I always end up going to the config file and clean the backspace charactors out and restart cgminer.

On another note WHEN THE FUDGE DID 3.8.1 COME OUT. I was just going to post my anger with 3.7.2 with my eroupter doing the solid light thing and I see that's out on the top of the forum. I'll brb later to see if it fixes it. I'm not getting errors in cgminer but they are doing something with 3.7.2

Edit:: btw what happend to cgminer-nogpu.exe 3.8.1. doesn't have it. How many pages do I have to go back to see what new commands I need to do? I've got this post set to email on update and I'm not getting updates.

edit edit::::: Apparently I just let it run it found the config file and went. I had this bad feeling I was going to have to look for how to disable cpu mining since I thought that was one reason they were separate.

CPU mining was taken out a long time ago so you'll never have to worry about that. The reason 3.8+ no longer has a separate nogpu executable is because GPU mining was taken out.

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Quote from: HellDiverUK on November 11, 2013, 10:15:21 AM

Just spotted a bug in 3.8.1 on Windows.

When entering server details on initial startup, if a mistake is made and characters deleted, those wrong chars and backspace control codes are saved in the cgminer.conf. On next startup the .conf is declared corrupt.

I'm pretty sure I noted that somewhere. cgminer won't allow any key stroke mistakes. I always end up going to the config file and clean the backspace charactors out and restart cgminer.

On another note WHEN THE FUDGE DID 3.8.1 COME OUT. I was just going to post my anger with 3.7.2 with my eroupter doing the solid light thing and I see that's out on the top of the forum. I'll brb later to see if it fixes it. I'm not getting errors in cgminer but they are doing something with 3.7.2

Edit:: btw what happend to cgminer-nogpu.exe 3.8.1. doesn't have it. How many pages do I have to go back to see what new commands I need to do? I've got this post set to email on update and I'm not getting updates.

edit edit::::: Apparently I just let it run it found the config file and went. I had this bad feeling I was going to have to look for how to disable cpu mining since I thought that was one reason they were separate.

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Quote from: balanghai on November 11, 2013, 07:31:13 PM

So sad it's coming to its end of support. Nevertheless we enjoyed the program so much.

You do mean to refer to Alt-Coin support? Correct?

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So sad it's coming to its end of support. Nevertheless we enjoyed the program so much.

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Quote from: -ck on November 11, 2013, 06:27:29 PM

Quote from: kano on November 11, 2013, 06:17:25 PM

Quote from: xyzzy099 on November 11, 2013, 05:37:34 PM

I recently noticed that if you generate a share over 1 billion, cgminer shows it like this:

Lol, what is that ? 1 Giga-difficulty? Maybe a 'B' would be more suitable Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

Edit: FYI https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/cgminer.c#L2052

As Kano linked in the wikipedia article, that is the correct official suffix for billion, you're just not used to seeing values that large suffixed with a letter.

EDIT: Prefix/Suffix, whatever...

Damn, I was hoping the guy who suggested it stood for Googol was right, and it was a REALLY big share Wink

Ah well...

EDIT: I still think you guys have this one wrong. We are all familiar with 'G' as the prefix for a billion in the context of a "giga" of anything - but in this case there is no unit. It is just an abbreviation for (in this specific case) 1.31 billion. Talking about a share of difficulty 1.31 'gigadiff' makes no sense at all.

That being said it is obviously just a nitpick.

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Quote from: kano on November 11, 2013, 06:17:25 PM

Quote from: xyzzy099 on November 11, 2013, 05:37:34 PM

I recently noticed that if you generate a share over 1 billion, cgminer shows it like this:

Lol, what is that ? 1 Giga-difficulty? Maybe a 'B' would be more suitable Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

Edit: FYI https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/cgminer.c#L2052

As Kano linked in the wikipedia article, that is the correct official suffix for billion, you're just not used to seeing values that large suffixed with a letter.

EDIT: Prefix/Suffix, whatever...

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Quote from: xyzzy099 on November 11, 2013, 05:37:34 PM

I recently noticed that if you generate a share over 1 billion, cgminer shows it like this:

Lol, what is that ? 1 Giga-difficulty? Maybe a 'B' would be more suitable Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

Edit: FYI https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/cgminer.c#L2052

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Quote from: Krak on November 11, 2013, 06:01:01 PM

Quote from: xyzzy099 on November 11, 2013, 05:37:34 PM

I recently noticed that if you generate a share over 1 billion, cgminer shows it like this:

Lol, what is that ? 1 Giga-difficulty? Maybe a 'B' would be more suitable Wink

I think it's a googol. Tongue

Wowsers that's a large share. Grats!

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Quote from: xyzzy099 on November 11, 2013, 05:37:34 PM

I recently noticed that if you generate a share over 1 billion, cgminer shows it like this:

Lol, what is that ? 1 Giga-difficulty? Maybe a 'B' would be more suitable Wink

I think it's a googol. Tongue

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I recently noticed that if you generate a share over 1 billion, cgminer shows it like this:

Lol, what is that ? 1 Giga-difficulty? Maybe a 'B' would be more suitable Wink

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It's funny that example.conf included in 3.8.1 is for GPU mining Grin

Long Live Scrypt Mining !!!

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Just spotted a bug in 3.8.1 on Windows.

When entering server details on initial startup, if a mistake is made and characters deleted, those wrong chars and backspace control codes are saved in the cgminer.conf. On next startup the .conf is declared corrupt.

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Quote from: Sampey on November 10, 2013, 02:38:57 PM

Quote from: os2sam on November 10, 2013, 02:15:24 PM

Quote from: Sampey on November 10, 2013, 02:09:18 PM

But i want to tell "What To Use", no "To use what is in not in use".
When i plug the 6USB Erupter, CGMiner stops work if i'm working with the Bitburner.

Well like my daddy always used to say "want in one hand and crap in the other and see what fills up first"

Check the advanced USB options and see if there is a --usb command that does it the way you want it to. I tell my instances what I don't want them to use and how many of the devices that I do want them to use.

To tell it to use 6 BE's use
"--usb ICA:6,:1"

I don't know the bitburner interface type/drivername.

Ok! Thank you so much.

The BitBurner Avalon and Bitfury is handled by the AVA driver.
So to say don't use them you'd use --usb AVA:0

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My cgminer-binaries git at github: https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries

3.8.1a/3.8.1bab 3.8.1 recompiled on:
Fedora 18
64 bit xubuntu 11.04 (should also work on Fedora 16 and 17)
RPi 32bit Arch
RPi 32bit Raspbian

e.g. to get the 64 bit xubuntu 11.04 binary:
wget https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/raw/master/Ubuntu_11.04_x86_64/cgminer-3.8.1a
chmod +x cgminer-3.8.1a

The 5 others are:
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/raw/master/Fedora18_x86_64/cgminer-3.8.1a
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/raw/master/RPi_Arch/cgminer-3.8.1a
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/raw/master/RPi_Arch/cgminer-3.8.1bab
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/raw/master/RPi_Raspbian/cgminer-3.8.1a
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/raw/master/RPi_Raspbian/cgminer-3.8.1bab

All 3.8.1a are all USB only:
CFLAGS="-g -W -Wall" ./autogen.sh --enable-bflsc --enable-icarus --enable-bitforce --enable-modminer --enable-avalon --enable-bitfury --enable-klondike --enable-hashfast

All RPi 3.8.1bab are BlackArrow Bitfury GPIO only:
CFLAGS="-g -W -Wall" ./autogen.sh --enable-bab

The -g (instead of -O2) means it's a debug build so if anyone finds a problem and has core dumps enabled, it will dump a much more useful debug core.

Note I have binary folders of ckolivas official release files in my binaries git also, for if you can't get to his downloads
To get them you select the folder (e.g. 3.8.1) then click on the file you want then right-click save-as the "View Raw" link.
Also note that the 3.8.1 folder has a linux 3.8.0 release since there is no difference in the linux code, between 3.8.0 and 3.8.1

Important: Read README, ASIC-README or FPGA-README about USB configuration on linux and windows

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Quote from: -ck on November 10, 2013, 04:49:30 PM

Thanks very much for your quick testing guys. Posting a hotfix 3.8.1 release for windows users. Linux/osx users should be unaffected.

Gulp - 3.8.1 reported four zombies after an unattended run of about 11 hours.

Edit: Update - another four hour unattended run yielded five zombies. This is with the Windows 3.8.1 executable running on Win7 64. The machine had become pretty stable at around 3.7.2.

Edit: Update - a new six hour run (still going) with no zombies and no problems. Nothing changed.

Edit: Update - that run eventually went for 18 hours. Somewhere along the way it got two zombies. The recovery pattern was different from previous versions, fwiw. I unplugged the hub USB line and all AMUs reported zombie status, as expected. I replugged the line and none of them recovered. I'm pretty sure that the pre-3.8.1 versions would have recovered. However, it looked like the hash rates were starting to climb and that the units might in fact be recovering, just not reporting it. In any case, I used "Q" and a restart and everything looks normal again.

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