Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 339. (Read 5806004 times)

hi all !

help ! again ...

ok I got this icarus compatible FPGA and as instructed on the cgminer fpga I got zadig and now my board is recognised as four different FT232R. but as soon as I try the no gpu version of the cgminer it says that no devices were found... I tried the FTDI thing and nothing ... then I tried the Prolific driver installer v1.8.0 and still cgminer doesn't pic em up...

the normal cgminer only sees my GPUs ... am running Windows 7

any word of advice ?

We should NOT use 2.8?

I just thought I'd jump in in this middle of this thread and say "thank you!" for the CGMiner software.  It's clear you work hard on the software and are active in supporting it.

I was a long-time hold out from phoenix/phatk - since most of my cards are older...  I started running the software because I was tired of maintaining a stratum proxy.  Although I still run the proxy, I now have a direct backup to the stratum server.

One thing I noticed with my 5xxx and 6xxx cards, was that using phatk... I had to change my worksize and vectors to get nearly the same reported hash rate as my phoenix miners. 

Vectors went from 1 to 2 and worksize went from 128 to 256 with CGMiner.  Something I would have never thought to try... same kernel at least (phatk). 

Maybe this helps someone?

-gbx

I have no idea of what is going on with it. I will uninstall and wipe system drivers and remove the files left behind in sys32 area and start fresh but They should not be their

That is SDK 2.8. Somehow it got in there, no?

[2013-05-14 12:54:38] Started cgminer 3.1.1
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1124.2)

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Platform 0 devices: 2
[2013-05-14 12:54:39]  0       Pitcairn
[2013-05-14 12:54:39]  1       Cypress
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] GPU 0 iAdapterIndex 0 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_6818&SUBSY
_25541458&REV_00_4&2534E90F&0&0010A iBusNumber 1 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumbe
 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] GPU 1 iAdapterIndex 6 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_6898&SUBSY
_03461043&REV_00_4&2DDBB3B7&0&00A8A iBusNumber 5 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumbe
 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series hardware monitoring enabl
d
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Setting GPU 0 engine clock to 1145
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Setting GPU 0 memory clock to 600
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] GPU 0 call to fanspeed get failed
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] GPU 1 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series hardware monitoring enabl
d
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Setting GPU 1 engine clock to 920
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Setting GPU 1 memory clock to 600
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] USB scan devices: checking for BAS devices

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 1002:4397 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 1002:4399 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 1002:4397 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 1002:4397 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 1002:4396 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 1002:4396 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 1002:4396 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 045e:0748 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 046d:c31b instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 058f:6366 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BAS looking for BAS 0403:6014 but found 10f5:0231 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] USB scan devices: checking for BFL devices

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 1002:4397 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 1002:4399 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 1002:4397 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 1002:4397 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 1002:4396 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 1002:4396 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 1002:4396 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 045e:0748 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 046d:c31b instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 058f:6366 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] BFL looking for BFL 0403:6014 but found 10f5:0231 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] USB scan devices: checking for MMQ devices

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 1002:4397 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 1002:4399 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 1002:4397 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 1002:4397 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 1002:4396 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 1002:4396 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 1002:4396 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 045e:0748 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 046d:c31b instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 058f:6366 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] MMQ looking for MMQ 1fc9:0003 but found 10f5:0231 instead

[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 1002:4397
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 1002:4399
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 1002:4397
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 1002:4397
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 1002:4396
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 1002:4396
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 1002:4396
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 045e:0748
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 046d:c31b
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 058f:6366
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Not a ZTEX device 10f5:0231
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Probing for an alive pool
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Popping work to stage thread
[2013-05-14 12:54:39] Testing pool stratum+tcp://multipool.in:3333

[2013-05-14 12:54:40] JSON-RPC decode failed: [
  -1,
  "subscribe() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)",
  null

[2013-05-14 12:54:40] Failed to resume stratum, trying afresh

[2013-05-14 12:54:40] Failed to get sessionid in initiate_stratum

[2013-05-14 12:54:40] Pool 0 difficulty set to 1.000000
[2013-05-14 12:54:40] Stratum authorisation success for pool 0

[2013-05-14 12:54:40] Pool 0 stratum+tcp://multipool.in:3333 alive

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Pushing ping to thread 0
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Init GPU thread 0 GPU 0 virtual GPU 0

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1124.2)

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] List of devices:
[2013-05-14 12:54:41]  0       Pitcairn
[2013-05-14 12:54:41]  1       Cypress
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Selected 0: Pitcairn
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Preferred vector width reported 1
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Max work group size reported 256
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Max mem alloc size is 536870912
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Selecting phatk kernel
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Loaded binary image phatk121016Pitcairnv1w256l4.bin

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Initialising kernel phatk121016.cl with bitalign, 1 vecto
s and worksize 256
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] initCl() finished. Found Pitcairn
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Pushing ping to thread 1
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Popping ping in miner thread
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Popping work from get queue to get work

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Init GPU thread 1 GPU 1 virtual GPU 1

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1124.2)

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] List of devices:
[2013-05-14 12:54:41]  0       Pitcairn
[2013-05-14 12:54:41]  1       Cypress
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Selected 1: Cypress
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Preferred vector width reported 4
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Max work group size reported 256
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Max mem alloc size is 536870912
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Selecting phatk kernel
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] No binary found, generating from source

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Setting worksize to 256
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] Patched source to suit 2 vectors
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] cl_amd_media_ops found, setting BITALIGN

[2013-05-14 12:54:41] BFI_INT patch requiring device found, patched source with
BFI_INT
[2013-05-14 12:54:41] CompilerOptions: -D WORKSIZE=256 -D VECTORS2 -D WORKVEC=5
2 -D BITALIGN -D BFI_INT
[2013-05-14 12:54:42] Binary size for gpu 1 found in binary slot 0: 556196

[2013-05-14 12:54:42] At 07dfa496 (4290041902 rem. bytes), to begin patching

After trying the follow you said to do I get the following above.

Make sure you copy all the dll's from the new binary (in case any changed/missing)
Otherwise - try: cgminer -n
and of course: cgminer -D -T --verbose (if it doesn't actually fail to execute)

Nothing has changed I am using skd 2.6 and cat 12.8 I am using windows 7 x64 and multi GPUS and auto update is disabled on driver to prevent pop up or update

2 minutes ago i got attacked, when i opened cgminer 3.1.1

virus name spr\bitcoin.g in cgminer 3.1.0, avira blocked it, but is this program really safe?

--temp-cutoff Temperature where a device will be automatically disabled, one value or comma separated list (default: 95)

--temp-cutoff shutdown Windows or off GPU?

The display layout tools in use for this text interface (curses) are awkward in the extreme, which is why it's easy to make a window with too many devices and crash, and remove a device and try to change the layout size and crash, and add a device line and crash, and try to set a window larger than the console size and crash, and...  I've spent a lot of time trying to minimise the harm the text layout tools do but in the process there are limits to how flexible I can make it. It is not a tool for more than half a dozen GPUs. You seriously need a GUI for what you're asking.

EDIT: Or at best some kind of text submenu list that didn't have separate "windows".

Was afraid of that, it means the aticonfig tool doesn't work

Other tools will report back your setting, but not the actual value; that's why cgminer asks the device for the actual value and goes to the effort of waiting one second after you change any setting and reports it back, meaning it is telling you the actual value.

It could be useful if we could see the devices in groups. I'm mostly interested in the ones that are OFF or too many errors.

Lovely, undocumented features

I think I managed to do it using aticonfig --od-enable, aticonfig --odgc and aticonfig --odsc=core,mem now. At least the aticonfig tool says so, and AMDOverdriveCtrl says so too, but cgminer is still reporting the unchanged value, so now I have no idea what my mem clocks are :/

It pokes around in the driver using features that AMD never give us documentation for, whereas cgminer uses the ATI Display Library that AMD provides us. See GPU-README for

There is a limit to how much you can put on screen... that display was never designed with so many devices in mind - better to use the API and some external monitor like the php file included in cgminer. You can also enable --compact mode to not show the devices and just show the summary since you can't see them all on screen anyway; that's what compact was designed for.

I have a question on setting memory speed for a 7970 and linux.

When running my rig on Windows, I wasn't able to set the memory for the 7970 to anything low (100-300) in cgminer, while the MSI afterburner tool managed to do that. However on Linux, there is no MSI afterburner to help me out.

I'm trying to figure out what it is doing, that cgminer doesn't do, does anyone know?

I have a small issue with how cgminer displays the miners:

Too many mining devices will go out of screen and I cannot see them. Do you think that you could reformat these somehow?

our testing rig, small window:


same rig, taller window: