OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 262.

bo122081

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Quote from: bo122081 on August 03, 2013, 09:38:23 PM

UPDATE: tried just inputting random TC (3000) and it worked! Is there some reason its default TC (6016) is causing it to not compile?
UPDATE 2: 8192 fails, 7168 fails, 6144 fails, 5120 succeeds...
UPDATE 3: 4032 succeeds, but 4096 fails... I'm trying to find a pattern, but it just seems random so far.
UPDATE 4: Now 4032 and 5120 no longer work...I'm so confused. Please help. :[
UPDATE 5: Just tried 8196 like 5 times in a row just to see: fail, fail, fail, fail, success...what the heck?

UPDATE 6: I got it running without setting a TC, just at random luck I guess, it set it at 6016 for the default, and I'm back up and mining - but this is still a vexing issue - what is going on with this?

Any luck on anyone knowing what was/is going on with my cgminer?

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Quote from: kslavik on August 04, 2013, 09:22:49 PM

Is there a way to disable a cross-pool new block detection. I'm using cgminer for different coins where each coin is configured inside separate pool. I didn't find a an option/command to prevent cgminer from detecting new blocks over stratum from a pool which not currently mined.

line 3 or README
" Do not use on multiple block chains at the same time!"

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Is there a way to disable a cross-pool new block detection. I'm using cgminer for different coins where each coin is configured inside separate pool. I didn't find a an option/command to prevent cgminer from detecting new blocks over stratum from a pool which not currently mined.

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Quote from: Lucko on August 04, 2013, 03:51:40 AM

Now see. Now I don't fell like a number and I have a donating filing again... Is the address in first post the one if you would like to donate to this grate project in general or is also individual address?

The first post says this:

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This code is provided entirely free of charge by the programmer in his spare
time so donations would be greatly appreciated. Please consider donating to the
address below.

Con Kolivas <[email protected]>
15qSxP1SQcUX3o4nhkfdbgyoWEFMomJ4rZ

and the signature says this:

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Primary developer/maintainer for cgminer: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/official-cgminer-mining-software-thread-for-linuxwinosxmipsarmr-pi-4110-28402 148KkS2vgVi4VzUi4JcKzM2PMaMVPi3nnq

so I'd say the 15 address is for the project while donations to the 14 address could end up going toward the project but would not necessarily.

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Now see. Now I don't fell like a number and I have a donating filing again... Is the address in first post the one if you would like to donate to this grate project in general or is also individual address?

kano

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auto-gpu of course will take over the control of the GPU speed ...
You can't use 2 programs to control it at once - it will not do what you want or at worst crash the ATI driver.
If you want a gpu range then of course you must use --gpu-engine
... this is all documented in GPU-README ...

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Running a 7970, whenever i add these 2 lines to below settings it automatically makes my engine clock 925 and overrides msi afterburner and trying to change it inside cgminer to what i want still doesnt do anything. I have also tried adding specific memory and engine speeds in file but same issue.

I only need temp cutoff feature and I just cant seem to get it right

"auto-gpu" : true,
"temp-cutoff" : "76",

"intensity" : "13",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"shaders" : "2048",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "12000",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"scrypt" : true

bo122081

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UPDATE: tried just inputting random TC (3000) and it worked! Is there some reason its default TC (6016) is causing it to not compile?
UPDATE 2: 8192 fails, 7168 fails, 6144 fails, 5120 succeeds...
UPDATE 3: 4032 succeeds, but 4096 fails... I'm trying to find a pattern, but it just seems random so far.
UPDATE 4: Now 4032 and 5120 no longer work...I'm so confused. Please help. :[
UPDATE 5: Just tried 8196 like 5 times in a row just to see: fail, fail, fail, fail, success...what the heck?

UPDATE 6: I got it running without setting a TC, just at random luck I guess, it set it at 6016 for the default, and I'm back up and mining - but this is still a vexing issue - what is going on with this?

bo122081

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Been trying to learn the ins and out of tuning cgminer for a rig I'm building this month for scrypt mining.

Had some initial success, but now I'm having tons of trouble getting kernels to compile.

It will work with the default phatk, poclbm, but not diablo, diakgcn, or more importantly, sCrypt.

I used the -D -T options and logged to file, resulting in:

Code:

 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] Started cgminer 3.3.1
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1124.2)
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] Platform 0 devices: 1
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] 	0	Juniper
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] GPU 0 iAdapterIndex 0 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_68BA&SUBSYS_31501682&REV_00_4&20E2AD45&0&0010A iBusNumber 1 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series 
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series hardware monitoring enabled
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] Init GPU thread 0 GPU 0 virtual GPU 0
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] Popping work to stage thread
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1124.2)
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] List of devices:
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] 	0	Juniper
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] Selected 0: Juniper
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] Preferred vector width reported 4
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] Max work group size reported 256
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] Max mem alloc size is 803209216
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] Selecting scrypt kernel
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] GPU 0: selecting lookup gap of 2
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] GPU 0: selecting thread concurrency of 6016
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] No binary found, generating from source
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] Setting worksize to 256
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] cl_amd_media_ops found, setting BITALIGN
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] BFI_INT patch requiring device found, patched source with BFI_INT
 [2013-08-03 21:17:27] CompilerOptions: -D LOOKUP_GAP=2 -D CONCURRENT_THREADS=6016 -D WORKSIZE=256 -D BITALIGN -D BFI_INT -D GOFFSET

I've been trying the latest CCC drivers (13.4), which afaik don't require separate OpenCL SDK anymore?

I have a Radeon HD 6770 (XFX), 12Gb system RAM, Phenom II X4 BE 955.

I've run the AMD cleanup util and ONLY have the CCC driver installed right now, as noted, phatk, poclbm compile, scrypt, diablo and diakgcn do not.

Any clues what I need to fix? Is the 13.4 driver the issue? What is the latest working driver?

(Also, are there any issues when building a dedicated mulit-card system with CG I should be aware of fixing while I'm building my dedicated rig? Planning on going with 7850s and 7950s depending on which ones I win on eBay...)

Sometimes is says

Code:

 [2013-08-03 21:54:21] Binary size for gpu 0 found in binary slot 0: 669372

 [2013-08-03 21:54:21]  [2013-08-03 21:54:21] Binary size for gpu 0 found in binary slot 0: 669372
At 06a951cf (4290307341 rem. bytes), to begin patching

right before it crashes, but it doesn't save that to the logfile.

-ck

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Quote from: Lucko on August 03, 2013, 05:00:36 PM

OK so add to ASIC readme:

In same cases you need to restart a computer. (don't know what was so special in my case so that is why I'm adding in same cases)

And that other bug.

If you have more then 5 GPUs it can happen that you are unable to increase intensity over 8. No idea why... When I had 5 in a miner it worked but when I added 3 more I could not. All GPUs were hashing at the speed of the slowest. But if you increase difficulty from 4 to 10 or more you could... So that was my workaround...

Or is that wrong way of submitting problems?

Thanks

Will add the first piece of advice to the readme.

The second I suspect is entirely your hardware combination since others do not reproduce said bug. I can't include what every possible unique hardware issue people encounter because trust me, GPU mining is far far far from trivial and ever remotely does precisely what you expect. The readme is hard enough to read as it is, otherwise, it would be 10 times longer and even more people would complain about how hard it is to read. (That and the fact that GPU mining is basically going to be deprecated one day).

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Agree about GPU especially since this is only in case of SHA mining... Scrypt is always difficulty above 10 so it works OK...

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Quote from: Lucko on August 03, 2013, 05:00:36 PM

OK so add to ASIC readme:

In same cases you need to restart a computer

And that other bug.

If you have more then 5 GPUs it can happen that you are unable to increase intensity over 8. No idea why... When I had 5 in a miner it worked but when I added 3 more I could not. All GPUs were hashing at the speed of the slowest. But if you increase difficulty from 4 to 10 or more you could... So that was my workaround...

Or is that wrong way of submitting problems?

Thank you for making an effort. The general procedure goes like this:
1. Fork this repo: https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer
2. Make you changes
3. Submit a pull request for your changes

You can easily make the README change yourself. Unless you are a programmer, you probably can't track down the other bug to fix it. For that one, you could try the IRC channel and ask if one of the developers there has the hardware and is willing to look at the problem. However, I doubt GPU related code is very high priority at this point since GPU miners are a dying breed.

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OK so add to ASIC readme:

In same cases you need to restart a computer. (don't know what was so special in my case so that is why I'm adding in same cases)

And that other bug.

If you have more then 5 GPUs it can happen that you are unable to increase intensity over 8. No idea why... When I had 5 in a miner it worked but when I added 3 more I could not. All GPUs were hashing at the speed of the slowest. But if you increase difficulty from 4 to 10 or more you could... So that was my workaround...

Or is that wrong way of submitting problems?

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Quote from: Lucko on August 03, 2013, 04:32:40 PM

Quote from: notme on August 03, 2013, 03:05:37 PM

It's been less than 18 hours since your first post. I'm sorry our FREE TECH SUPPORT was not quick enough for you.

It wouldn't be free if it would be TECH SUPPORT(ok it would be but you would get a donation as I stetted)... 2 times I needed help and the bug reported first time is still in cgminer... And that time when I was reporting it I was told it not a bug it is is you or your system(but it is not since I found workaround)... This time it was read readme that didn't work... Needed to do something that was not in README...

Exactly. Normally you would be have to pay people to help you. But instead you come here begging for advice and then get pissy when people try to help you. I get it, all you know how to do is complain. cgminer is open source. If you have a bugfix or a documentation update, please submit a pull request. Until then, be happy that thousands of hours have been spent by other people building the FREE software you are taking for granted.

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Quote from: notme on August 03, 2013, 03:05:37 PM

It's been less than 18 hours since your first post. I'm sorry our FREE TECH SUPPORT was not quick enough for you.

It wouldn't be free if it would be TECH SUPPORT(ok it would be but you would get a donation as I stetted)... 2 times I needed help and the bug reported first time is still in cgminer... And that time when I was reporting it I was told it not a bug it is is you or your system(but it is not since I found workaround)... This time it was read readme that didn't work... Needed to do something that was not in README...

notme

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Quote from: Lucko on August 03, 2013, 02:46:24 PM

Quote from: notme on August 03, 2013, 08:13:11 AM

Are you saying you have installed zadig and used it to install the WinUSB driver for your hardware?

Your original post seems to indicate you were looking for the driver:

Quote from: Lucko on August 02, 2013, 04:42:05 AM

Where do I get that driver?

I am trying to understand the situation in order to help you. Please drop the attitude. You are not describing your issue clearly enough for anyone to solve your problem for you.

How come this is not clear... When I needed help there was none now all of you are looking to help...

Quote from: Lucko on August 02, 2013, 09:13:24 AM

Figure it out... Readme is missing restart computer...

If it is not clear from that I solved it...

It's been less than 18 hours since your first post. I'm sorry our FREE TECH SUPPORT was not quick enough for you.

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Quote from: notme on August 03, 2013, 08:13:11 AM

Are you saying you have installed zadig and used it to install the WinUSB driver for your hardware?

Your original post seems to indicate you were looking for the driver:

Quote from: Lucko on August 02, 2013, 04:42:05 AM

Where do I get that driver?

I am trying to understand the situation in order to help you. Please drop the attitude. You are not describing your issue clearly enough for anyone to solve your problem for you.

How come this is not clear... When I needed help there was none now all of you are looking to help...

Quote from: Lucko on August 02, 2013, 09:13:24 AM

Figure it out... Readme is missing restart computer...

If it is not clear from that I solved it...

kano

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Please read my comment before.
Filling up this thread with more of the READMEs is pointless.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2853463

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Are you saying you have installed zadig and used it to install the WinUSB driver for your hardware?

Your original post seems to indicate you were looking for the driver:

Quote from: Lucko on August 02, 2013, 04:42:05 AM

Where do I get that driver?

I am trying to understand the situation in order to help you. Please drop the attitude. You are not describing your issue clearly enough for anyone to solve your problem for you.

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Quote from: notme on August 03, 2013, 04:43:19 AM

Your answer is contained in the first 48 lines of the ASIC-README file.

And it didn't work... So don't send me to read if you can't

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