OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 199.

-ck

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Quote from: xzempt on October 22, 2013, 07:31:56 PM

why doesnt cgminer support asicminer blades?

Blades have their own inbuilt ancient mining software and there is no other way to mine on them. All they do is support getwork protocol to a pool/server. If you're talking about cgminer not pretending to be pool software supporting an ancient outdated mining protocol, you're correct, it doesn't.

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Did you compile and enable it if your using it on linux? Grin

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why doesnt cgminer support asicminer blades?

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Quote from: -ck on October 22, 2013, 06:01:45 PM

To the various windows ~~victims~~ valued testers out there, I have uploaded new experimental binaries that now use windows' own low level clocks and timers to support higher resolution timeouts and hopefully be more reliable than using mingw's wrappers. I also found a bug in the windows code while working on these. For people with timeout issues on windows, please grab one of the exes from this directory and put it into your current cgminer directory:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/

My only crap out is when I unplug my ethernet plug and it take 2hrs to kick back in to see my wireless as another option (either that or cgminer got lonely). As soon as I walked out for errans it stopped working and started as soon as I came back.

Your victims thank you for cgminer being a cuddle bug.

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Hey short question if you get a chance. Did a fresh install of cgminer on a raspberry pi and its not noticing my devices. As far as I know I did the enable icarus command.

Is there a way to refresh and enable without a clean install? Just to make sure I ran the enable right. I didn't get any errors when I ran the command only one I got was that there were no gpus and that was during the autogen.sh

Thanks
...edit...
Got lucky I don't think I fudged in my cleaning. I did a make clean , set the configure file again ,make clean install and I'm good now.
Somehow it didn't stick but now its going till the pi decides otherwise. Last time I tried this I got about 4 hrs till it froze and stopped mining (not your fault the pi is weird)
.....edit2....
crap did 1 minute and 10 second. A new record [for me].

-ck

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Ruu \o/

To the various windows ~~victims~~ valued testers out there, I have uploaded new experimental binaries that now use windows' own low level clocks and timers to support higher resolution timeouts and hopefully be more reliable than using mingw's wrappers. I also found a bug in the windows code while working on these. For people with timeout issues on windows, please grab one of the exes from this directory and put it into your current cgminer directory:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/

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Quote from: Askit2 on October 22, 2013, 05:11:14 PM

Quote from: kano on October 21, 2013, 08:13:35 AM

...
The basics of RPi Arch setup:
http://www.kano-kun.net/?p=87

I apparently have the wrong version of arch. Well not version as much as wrong image dated file. Mine was 2013-7-22. The partition is kinda messing me up. I know I can't partition as you did with 3 partitions.

Code:

[root@alarmpi ~]# fdisk -ls

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00057540

        Device Boot         Start          End            Blocks       Id   System
/dev/mmcblk0p1          2048         186367       92160       c     W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2          186368     3667967     1740800    5    Extended
/dev/mmcblk0p5          188416     3667967     1739776    83   Linux
[root@alarmpi ~]#

I think but can't be sure that /dev/mmcblk0p5 is the one I want to delete and recreate. I am a little confused by the extended and Linux partitions using the same space. It looks wrong to me to have two partitions sharing space.

Yeah I never updated that did I

I actually have one of these sitting on an SD card on an RPi next to me (switched off) that I've not got around to resizing.

p5 is inside p2
Let me think ... I'm pretty sure it is:
so you need to remember both 186368 and 188416
delete them both
create a new extended p2 from 186368 to the end
then create a new Linux partition p5 from 188416 to the end
~~then continue as before.~~ Edit: no I should say, resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p5

Let me know how it goes then I'll add it to the blog.

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Quote from: kano on October 21, 2013, 08:13:35 AM

Quote from: Askit2 on October 21, 2013, 05:46:26 AM

Quote from: -ck on October 21, 2013, 04:12:26 AM

Quote from: Askit2 on October 21, 2013, 04:06:48 AM

snip

Well that definitely sounds better than it was. The only other thing I've seen suggested is using a good powered USB supply to the RPi. Perhaps a shorter, thicker cable from a USB3 slot if running off a PC, or a well powered hub if not.

My Usb cable was the shortest I could find It looks like 12" it was a monster brand one. Supply is rated at 1.5A and all devices attached to raspberry pi have hubs (they are usb3...) and are powered off a 12V supply (they have an internal switch mode circuit) and will deliver 1.5A per port and only 4 ports so no internal hub on hub action. It shouldn't be a lack of power. Then again I can't be sure it isn't somehow related to power.

It could be USB 3 related but I have used these hubs since I started getting asics. My only asics are BFL and don't seem to draw power from the USB. I am expecting this will be like it used to be stable 24/7 for months at a time.

Thank You for all that you do.

The other thing to consider is Arch rather than Raspbian.
The Arch USB network driver seems to be more reliable than the Raspbian one.
As mentioned before, the network device on the RPi is actually USB.

The basics of RPi Arch setup:
http://www.kano-kun.net/?p=87

I apparently have the wrong version of arch. Well not version as much as wrong image dated file. Mine was 2013-7-22. The partition is kinda messing me up. I know I can't partition as you did with 3 partitions.

Code:

[root@alarmpi ~]# fdisk -ls

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00057540

        Device Boot         Start          End            Blocks       Id   System
/dev/mmcblk0p1          2048         186367       92160       c     W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2          186368     3667967     1740800    5    Extended
/dev/mmcblk0p5          188416     3667967     1739776    83   Linux
[root@alarmpi ~]#

I think but can't be sure that /dev/mmcblk0p5 is the one I want to delete and recreate. I am a little confused by the extended and Linux partitions using the same space. It looks wrong to me to have two partitions sharing space.

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Quote from: -ck on October 22, 2013, 03:42:37 PM

Quote from: mdude77 on October 22, 2013, 02:05:10 PM

More 3.6.4 feedback:

I moved all my USB erupters to another machine. I found cgminer doesn't see any of those plugged into my blue USB 3.0 ports. This is the same experience I had with my laptop. They work fine on the non blue ports. I'm also getting problems with devices zombifying, and the AMU write errors. I did not see any of these errors on the old PC, so it seems once again this is hardware specific. Last time it was AMU 7 that zombified.

M

Thanks M. It seems the massive rewrite I did to fix random timeouts fixed something intrinsic in libusb's own timeouts, but USB 3 slot vs USB1.1 device related issues are different again. I do know that the WinUSB driver itself is not complete with USB3 support and some hardware the devices won't even show up, so there is still hope. I will keep chipping away at whatever other internals I can on cgminer and hopefully newer versions of WinUSB come out that get better (the version on my site bundled with zadig is still the latest version).

One additional note: the cgminer-nogpu app hasn't been able to end properly for me for ages. If I press Q, it starts the shutdown routine, I see thread errors all over the place, and it doesn't end. Closing the box has always ended it however.

Until now.

Whatever was going wrong under the hood is severe enough I can't get it to end. Closing it doesn't work, q doesn't work, end task doesn't work. All the lights came back on my erupters, so it did stop mining. It just won't end. I fear this app will be with me until my next reboot. Sad

Just a reminder, this is win7x64 with all updates.

M

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Quote from: mdude77 on October 22, 2013, 02:05:10 PM

More 3.6.4 feedback:

I moved all my USB erupters to another machine. I found cgminer doesn't see any of those plugged into my blue USB 3.0 ports. This is the same experience I had with my laptop. They work fine on the non blue ports. I'm also getting problems with devices zombifying, and the AMU write errors. I did not see any of these errors on the old PC, so it seems once again this is hardware specific. Last time it was AMU 7 that zombified.

M

Thanks M. It seems the massive rewrite I did to fix random timeouts fixed something intrinsic in libusb's own timeouts, but USB 3 slot vs USB1.1 device related issues are different again. I do know that the WinUSB driver itself is not complete with USB3 support and some hardware the devices won't even show up, so there is still hope. I will keep chipping away at whatever other internals I can on cgminer and hopefully newer versions of WinUSB come out that get better (the version on my site bundled with zadig is still the latest version).

mdude77

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More 3.6.4 feedback:

I moved all my USB erupters to another machine. I found cgminer doesn't see any of those plugged into my blue USB 3.0 ports. This is the same experience I had with my laptop. They work fine on the non blue ports. I'm also getting problems with devices zombifying, and the AMU write errors. I did not see any of these errors on the old PC, so it seems once again this is hardware specific. Last time it was AMU 7 that zombified.

Code:

M

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Quote from: -ck on October 22, 2013, 08:11:07 AM

...it is always edited with the current version.

Thanks. Apparently my window is truncating it... I see that you are completely right.

Thanks.

-ck

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...it is always edited with the current version.

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Do you always plan to edit the subject line with the new version #?
Makes it easy to see if there was a change, or if there was just a comment on the thread.

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Quote from: -ck on October 21, 2013, 03:07:43 PM

Quote from: greek_hephaestus on October 21, 2013, 01:39:07 PM

Helo CKolivas and Kano,
Do you have any plans to release a KnCMiner version of CGMiner?
Thank you very much for your contribution to Cryptocoin Mining!!!

KFC sent me a saturn unit for development. I am currently swamped with other work but will eventually get around to working on integrating support for it into master cgminer and hopefully improve on the driver too.

Thank you Very much for your answer!!!

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Quote from: wolfskill on October 21, 2013, 07:30:18 PM

Still getting the error below with 3.6.4:
Using USB 2.0 ports directly on the motherboard, restarting CGMINER seems to fix the issue. Tried different USB ports, same issue. Can happen 20 minuter or hours after CGMINER.

here the same

Code:

[2013-10-22 11:43:43] AMU11: Comms error (werr=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-22 11:43:43] AMU 0 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-22 11:43:43] AMU 8 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-22 11:43:43] AMU8: Comms error (werr=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-22 11:43:43] AMU 11 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-22 11:43:43] AMU11: Comms error (werr=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-22 11:43:43] AMU 0 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-22 11:43:44] AMU 8 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-22 11:43:44] AMU8: Comms error (werr=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-22 11:43:44] AMU 11 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-22 11:43:44] AMU11: Comms error (werr=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-22 11:43:44] AMU 0 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-22 11:43:44] AMU 8 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-22 11:43:44] AMU8: Comms error (werr=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-22 11:43:44] AMU 0 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT

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Ok, thank you for the information.

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Quote from: wolfskill on October 21, 2013, 07:30:18 PM

Still getting the error below with 3.6.4:

[2013-10-21 20:26:13] BAL0: GetResults failed no data returned (err=0 amt=0)

Using USB 2.0 ports directly on the motherboard, restarting CGMINER seems to fix the issue. Tried different USB ports, same issue. Can happen 20 minuter or hours after CGMINER.

It's possible you're having a hardware issue that only shows up after it's been under load for a while. I had this sort of failure with a bad power brick on a single.

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Still getting the error below with 3.6.4:

[2013-10-21 20:25:38] BAL0: empty result (INPROCESS:10x0aCOUN0x00) ignored
[2013-10-21 20:25:39] BAL0: Error: Get temp returned nothing (0:0)
[2013-10-21 20:25:40] BAL0: GetResults failed no data returned (err=0 amt=0)
[2013-10-21 20:25:41] BAL 0 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-21 20:25:41] BAL0: RequestResults failed (err=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-21 20:25:42] BAL 0 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-21 20:25:42] BAL0: RequestResults failed (err=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-21 20:25:44] BAL0: GetResults failed (err=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-21 20:26:06] BAL0: GetResults failed (err=-7 amt=16)
[2013-10-21 20:26:07] BAL0: GetResults failed no data returned (err=0 amt=0)
[2013-10-21 20:26:08] BAL0: GetResults failed (err=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-21 20:26:09] BAL 0 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-21 20:26:09] BAL0: RequestResults failed (err=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-21 20:26:10] BAL 0 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-21 20:26:10] BAL0: RequestResults failed (err=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-21 20:26:11] BAL 0 usb write err:(-7) LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[2013-10-21 20:26:11] BAL0: RequestResults failed (err=-7 amt=0)
[2013-10-21 20:26:13] BAL0: GetResults failed no data returned (err=0 amt=0)

Using USB 2.0 ports directly on the motherboard, restarting CGMINER seems to fix the issue. Tried different USB ports, same issue. Can happen 20 minuter or hours after CGMINER.

WolfSkill

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Quote from: greek_hephaestus on October 21, 2013, 01:39:07 PM

Helo CKolivas and Kano,
Do you have any plans to release a KnCMiner version of CGMiner?
Thank you very much for your contribution to Cryptocoin Mining!!!

KFC sent me a saturn unit for development. I am currently swamped with other work but will eventually get around to working on integrating support for it into master cgminer and hopefully improve on the driver too.

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