OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 275.

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Quote from: Anime4000 on July 14, 2013, 05:24:07 PM

Quote from: kano on July 14, 2013, 04:37:55 PM

I think the more relevant question is why on earth would you mine on that hardware.
You will get more BTC if you just simply buy BTC.

With the FASTEST 4600 GPU you can buy, it can only do 40MH/s and that will at current difficulty take 1300 days mining to make 1BTC
Of course it will never actually make 1BTC due to difficulty rising.
i.e. you are wasting everyone's time asking.

The problem is 99% likely to be your choice of drivers and SDK ... so spend a few hours getting that right ... and those few hours spent on it is probably worth more than the card will make mining for 10 years.

I have another system run,

This old system can not be waste or throwing, so I make this old system to working, I testing the possibility, this old hardware can not do Dedicated OpenCL.

But the more important question ...
Why Yozora

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What GPU is in the system? Also have you tried the GPU-README or the SCRYPT-README?

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Simple question, I hope. If I knew my way around *nix/BSD I might not have to ask it.

Running cgminer to mine litecoins. Upon launch it tells me no GPUs can be detected. The display tells me that new blocks are being detected, but the miner is sitting at zero hashes per second.

I suspect that somewhere once upon a time I did something to disable GPU mining.

Is there a flag or something I can include when launching cgminer that will enable it to find the GPUs and use them?

(I've done a search through the thread using search terms, but didn't come up with anything helpful--I hope I'm not asking a FAQ, and I apologize if I am!)

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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Quote from: kano on July 14, 2013, 04:37:55 PM

I think the more relevant question is why on earth would you mine on that hardware.
You will get more BTC if you just simply buy BTC.

With the FASTEST 4600 GPU you can buy, it can only do 40MH/s and that will at current difficulty take 1300 days mining to make 1BTC
Of course it will never actually make 1BTC due to difficulty rising.
i.e. you are wasting everyone's time asking.

The problem is 99% likely to be your choice of drivers and SDK ... so spend a few hours getting that right ... and those few hours spent on it is probably worth more than the card will make mining for 10 years.

I have another system run,

This old system can not be waste or throwing, so I make this old system to working, I testing the possibility, this old hardware can not do Dedicated OpenCL.

kano

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Quote from: Anime4000 on July 14, 2013, 04:29:05 PM

Quote from: os2sam on July 14, 2013, 07:48:28 AM

Quote from: Anime4000 on July 14, 2013, 03:24:41 AM

I try enable onboard GPU for Display output, so my HD4670 have 100% available resources, basically become Dedicated OpenCL. but...

when enable onboard GPU, AMD OpenCL become unavailable... =(

Did you try putting a monitor or dummy plug on it?

Yes I did, even try 2 monitor in different GPU's, just AMD GPU dont have display, (since I set BIOS to initialize onboard GPU first)

I think the more relevant question is why on earth would you mine on that hardware.
You will get more BTC if you just simply buy BTC.

With the FASTEST 4600 GPU you can buy, it can only do 40MH/s and that will at current difficulty take 1300 days mining to make 1BTC
Of course it will never actually make 1BTC due to difficulty rising.
i.e. you are wasting everyone's time asking.

The problem is 99% likely to be your choice of drivers and SDK ... so spend a few hours getting that right ... and those few hours spent on it is probably worth more than the card will make mining for 10 years.

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Quote from: os2sam on July 14, 2013, 07:48:28 AM

Quote from: Anime4000 on July 14, 2013, 03:24:41 AM

I try enable onboard GPU for Display output, so my HD4670 have 100% available resources, basically become Dedicated OpenCL. but...

when enable onboard GPU, AMD OpenCL become unavailable... =(

Did you try putting a monitor or dummy plug on it?

Yes I did, even try 2 monitor in different GPU's, just AMD GPU dont have display, (since I set BIOS to initialize onboard GPU first)

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Quote from: -ck on July 14, 2013, 11:41:14 AM

Quote from: micalith on July 14, 2013, 10:35:46 AM

Hi, I've finally given up on trying to find out what I'm doing wrong with connecting to 50btc. Here's my cgminer.conf file. It's an exact copy of another one that works fine, just with btcoxygen in stead of 50btc. Running on Raspbian with USB Erupters

Code:

                "pass" : "xxx*"

I just get the same error:
[2013-07-14 15:33:16] ./cgminer: --config: JSON decode of file '/home/pi/cgminer-3.1.1/cgminer.conf' failed
'}' expected near '*'

I hope someone can help. Thanks

Your password is confusing the conf file reader with the asterisk (*) there. Change your password to something without an asterisk or learn how to escape the asterisk in a json compatible way.

That's just a hasty typo. I meant to just fill it in with xxxx. My password isn't really xxx*. Although, the * is actually the last character on the password. That was lucky! Grin

Maybe this explains my having a similar problem with Btcmp, where the password includes ?#[ characters, and Eclipse if fine with no special characters.

@turtle83 thanks for that. Must neater in deed

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Quote from: micalith on July 14, 2013, 10:35:46 AM

but every time I try to run cgminer:
./cgminer -S /dev/ttyUSB0 -S /dev/ttyUSB1 -S /dev/ttyUSB2 -S /dev/ttyUSB3 -S /dev/ttyUSB4 -S /dev/ttyUSB5 -S /dev/ttyUSB6 -S /dev/ttyUSB7 -S /dev/ttyUSB8 -S /dev/ttyUSB9 --config /home/pi/cgminer-3.1.1/cgminer.conf

unrelated to your issue, but instead of those -S arguments, adding the following to the config will do the same thing, just neater...

Code:

"scan-serial": [
    "/dev/ttyUSB0",
    "/dev/ttyUSB1",
    "/dev/ttyUSB2",
    "/dev/ttyUSB3",
    "/dev/ttyUSB4",
    "/dev/ttyUSB5",
    "/dev/ttyUSB6",
    "/dev/ttyUSB7",
    "/dev/ttyUSB8",
    "/dev/ttyUSB9"
],

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Quote from: micalith on July 14, 2013, 10:35:46 AM

Hi, I've finally given up on trying to find out what I'm doing wrong with connecting to 50btc. Here's my cgminer.conf file. It's an exact copy of another one that works fine, just with btcoxygen in stead of 50btc. Running on Raspbian with USB Erupters

Code:

                "pass" : "xxx*"

I just get the same error:
[2013-07-14 15:33:16] ./cgminer: --config: JSON decode of file '/home/pi/cgminer-3.1.1/cgminer.conf' failed
'}' expected near '*'

I hope someone can help. Thanks

Your password is confusing the conf file reader with the asterisk (*) there. Change your password to something without an asterisk or learn how to escape the asterisk in a json compatible way.

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Hi, I've finally given up on trying to find out what I'm doing wrong with connecting to 50btc. Here's my cgminer.conf file. It's an exact copy of another one that works fine, just with btcoxygen in stead of 50btc. Running on Raspbian with USB Erupters

Code:

{
"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "mint.bitminter.com:8332",
                "user" : "xxx",
                "pass" : "xxx"
        },


        {
                "url" : "stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333",
                "user" : "xxx",
                "pass" : "xxx"
        },

        {
                "url" : "de.50btc.com:8332",
                "user" : "[email protected]_myworker",
                "pass" : "xxx*"
        }


]
,
        "balance" : true,
        "api-listen" : true,
        "api-port" : "4028",
        "expiry" : "120",
        "log" : "5",
        "no-pool-disable" : true,
        "queue" : "2",
        "scan-time" : "60",
        "worktime" : true,
        "shares" : "0",
        "kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin",
        "api-allow" : "0/0",
        "icarus-options" : "115200:1:1",
        "icarus-timing" : "3.0=100"
}

for the url I've tried each of these: de.50btc.com:8332, pool.50btc.com:8332, http://pool.50btc.com:8332
and for the user: [email protected]_myworker, myworker, [email protected]

but every time I try to run cgminer:
./cgminer -S /dev/ttyUSB0 -S /dev/ttyUSB1 -S /dev/ttyUSB2 -S /dev/ttyUSB3 -S /dev/ttyUSB4 -S /dev/ttyUSB5 -S /dev/ttyUSB6 -S /dev/ttyUSB7 -S /dev/ttyUSB8 -S /dev/ttyUSB9 --config /home/pi/cgminer-3.1.1/cgminer.conf

I just get the same error:
[2013-07-14 15:33:16] ./cgminer: --config: JSON decode of file '/home/pi/cgminer-3.1.1/cgminer.conf' failed
'}' expected near '*'

I hope someone can help. Thanks

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Quote from: Anime4000 on July 14, 2013, 03:24:41 AM

I try enable onboard GPU for Display output, so my HD4670 have 100% available resources, basically become Dedicated OpenCL. but...

when enable onboard GPU, AMD OpenCL become unavailable... =(

Did you try putting a monitor or dummy plug on it?

Anime4000

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I try enable onboard GPU for Display output, so my HD4670 have 100% available resources, basically become Dedicated OpenCL. but...
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=3531948
when enable onboard GPU, AMD OpenCL become unavailable... =(

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Quote from: fasmax on July 13, 2013, 04:33:45 PM

Will the driver and configuration options for the Klondike be included in cgminer anytime soon?
Thanks!

I've been waiting 5 days for a reply from KnC about their status ... doesn't look good ...

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Quote from: lucasjkr on July 13, 2013, 09:32:58 PM

I thought the 570 pages of relies in this cgminer thread meant people were discussing how to use it for various tasks?

. Seems like its a cgminer issue since it launches with no problem when mining one thing yet complains it can't even find a USB device if I change what pool it's aimed at?

Well that thought may well be plausible. But at the moment the developer is on vacation so it may be a while before he chimes in on the subject. He should be back in about 5 weeks.

In the meantime did you try posting in the coinotron thread, the alt currencies forum or read the readme's? This is the Bitcoin forum so the main subject of discussion is CGMiner with Bitcoins.

But I'm sure there are a few lurking here that may be more knowledgeable with what you are trying to do. Maybe they will chime in.

Just trying to make useful suggestions since your not getting any movement on your issue.

Good Luck,
Sam

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Quote from: mdude77 on July 13, 2013, 08:14:55 PM

Quote from: lucasjkr on July 13, 2013, 07:05:19 PM

Question:

I'm running a BFL Jalapeno; it's connected to a Centos-KVM session running Ubuntu. When i mine with CGMiner pointed towards Bitminters servers, it runs like a champ, though about 10% slower than it did when it was running on a Mac Mini. But bitminter's java app on the mac kept crashing every couple of days, so i'd rather give it a try this way, lose 10% of the performance (5 GH rather than 5.5 GH) but hopefully not come home and see a frozen java app sitting on my screen.

Now, my question is this: it runs fine when pointed at bitminter and generating bitcoins. When I attempt to point it at coinotron's servers in order to miner ppcoins, I just get stuck at the opening screen, saying it can't find any hotplug USB devices. But the same exact command, pointed towards bitminter finds the Jalapeno just fine and starts mining away.

Anyone have a clue as to that? Can a Jalapeno be used to mine other SHA coins if I use another miner besides cgminer? Or is it trully that specific that it'll only mine bitcoin's version of SHA (which i thought was more or less the same on all the other SHA coins?

wouldn't this be better asked in the bitminter forum?

M

Cgminer works fine with my jalapeño on bitminter

The issue arises when using cgminer to miner any other SHA crypto currency. I thought the 570 pages of relies in this cgminer thread meant people were discussing how to use it for various tasks?

. Seems like its a cgminer issue since it launches with no problem when mining one thing yet complains it can't even find a USB device if I change what pool it's aimed at?

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Quote from: lucasjkr on July 13, 2013, 07:05:19 PM

Question:

I'm running a BFL Jalapeno; it's connected to a Centos-KVM session running Ubuntu. When i mine with CGMiner pointed towards Bitminters servers, it runs like a champ, though about 10% slower than it did when it was running on a Mac Mini. But bitminter's java app on the mac kept crashing every couple of days, so i'd rather give it a try this way, lose 10% of the performance (5 GH rather than 5.5 GH) but hopefully not come home and see a frozen java app sitting on my screen.

Now, my question is this: it runs fine when pointed at bitminter and generating bitcoins. When I attempt to point it at coinotron's servers in order to miner ppcoins, I just get stuck at the opening screen, saying it can't find any hotplug USB devices. But the same exact command, pointed towards bitminter finds the Jalapeno just fine and starts mining away.

Anyone have a clue as to that? Can a Jalapeno be used to mine other SHA coins if I use another miner besides cgminer? Or is it trully that specific that it'll only mine bitcoin's version of SHA (which i thought was more or less the same on all the other SHA coins?

wouldn't this be better asked in the bitminter forum?

M

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Question:

I'm running a BFL Jalapeno; it's connected to a Centos-KVM session running Ubuntu. When i mine with CGMiner pointed towards Bitminters servers, it runs like a champ, though about 10% slower than it did when it was running on a Mac Mini. But bitminter's java app on the mac kept crashing every couple of days, so i'd rather give it a try this way, lose 10% of the performance (5 GH rather than 5.5 GH) but hopefully not come home and see a frozen java app sitting on my screen.

Now, my question is this: it runs fine when pointed at bitminter and generating bitcoins. When I attempt to point it at coinotron's servers in order to miner ppcoins, I just get stuck at the opening screen, saying it can't find any hotplug USB devices. But the same exact command, pointed towards bitminter finds the Jalapeno just fine and starts mining away.

Anyone have a clue as to that? Can a Jalapeno be used to mine other SHA coins if I use another miner besides cgminer? Or is it trully that specific that it'll only mine bitcoin's version of SHA (which i thought was more or less the same on all the other SHA coins?

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Will the driver and configuration options for the Klondike be included in cgminer anytime soon?
Thanks!

-ck

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Older SDKs no longer produce valid shares with newer drivers.

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Quote from: SkySurfer on July 12, 2013, 07:11:04 PM

Quote from: -ck on July 12, 2013, 12:08:27 PM

Quote from: SkySurfer on July 12, 2013, 09:21:05 AM

Hi

I used CGMINER 3.1.1 with an radeon hd 5870 on RedHat EL 6.4 and all worked fine.
After upgrading to 3.3.1 I only get HWs but no shares. What has changed since 3.1.1?

Thx

You changed your driver.

See GPU-README. It's even in UPPERCASE, screaming out to be read.

I read the files and did not find any hint. The driver is still the same.
I tried the old 3.1.1 one and it still works.

The 3.1.1 .bin files may have been from a previous Catalys/OpenCL combination that worked better. To check that, back up the 3.1.1 .bin files, delete the ones in the running directory and re run CGMiner and let it build new ones and see if your performance is the same or not.

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