Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 440. (Read 5805983 times)

LOL! I know, I know. The more I've used windoze the more I've grown to hate it, but unfortunately it's all I know how to use in any kind of computer savvy way - I just can't get my head around Linux, and I've tried, believe me, but all those algebraic commands and stuff just confuse the hell out of me! Maybe I'm a dyslexic or something, but give me a gui and I'm good to go.

As for the user thing you mentioned, there's only one on my PC & the RIG, so that's not the issue I think. The cards are your standard run-of-the-mill HD5970 & HD5870's so are compatible with pretty much every mobo & software you can stick'em in.

ANYWAYS. Good ish news, I've been saved by the Trixx. Gave up trying to configure cgminer to control my cards but wanted to keep using it as my miner due to it's excellent and steady mining capabilities, so I deleted the config & bin files, installed Trixx to control the memclocks, gpuclocks, volts & fans (It recognised all my gpu's instantly & accurately by the way), restarted cgminer ignoring the errors and was able to set the intensities, vectors, workrates and kernels in the new config file and left everything else on "0". restarted cgminer and hay bloody presto!! I now have full control of everything again, it's mining steadily and the performance is very good indeedy.

It's a shame that I had to use another windows program to do what cgminer was supposed to do for me - indeed the reason I wanted to use cgminer was not just because it is a very efficient miner, but that it also can control your gpu's - or not, as the case may be. So in this case, a bit of windoze "fuckage" has come to the rescue - eh wot? (had to sneak that one in - sorry)

So yeah, great miner guys, but there still seems to be some compatibility issues that need to be ironed out as far as the windoze side is concerned me thinks, but I don't blame you for not bothering too much about it, seeing as we all love windows so much. Next time I switch on my Netbook I'll boot into Ubuntu for the first time in months and have another play with it, but only until my head starts hurting......2 mins max.

Goodbye guiminer, hello cgminer. Just about. 

are your cards single-screen or multi-screen cards? (I don't mean one HD port and 1 SVGA port, but 2 HD ports or more)

-- Smoov

Good old random windows fuckage. Not getting adl access also happens when you log in as one user and switch to another.

Hi Smoovious,

Yeah, all as it should be. Plus it was written by cgminer anyway, so it should be right, I just changed a few values. Problem is with the startup errors.....it's just not reading my cards right.....

cgminer has a particular format for its conf file. Do you have the syntax all proper? Commas and { }'s all in the right places?

-- Smoov

Well, after over three days of trying to get cgminer working on both my headless rig and my PC I think I'm gonna give it a pass, it's just not playing right. I finally managed to get it running on my rig but still with the errors on start, and I have no control over temps, fan, memclock, engine or anything else, despite having them in my config file that it says it's read. GPU-z sees everything as stock. I've tried multiple driver versions, multiple re-installs, dummy plugs, crossfire, different gfx cards....everything.

Back to shitty old guiminer with a 20+% DOA/stale rate for me I'm afraid.

Shame, cos when it worked as it should the very first time I was impressed, hash rate up & stale rate,temps,memclock & power draw all down. It's just getting it to work that lets it down.....

Good luck with the project, maybe I'll try it again after a few more updates, it might not be so "fussy" by then.

Regards.

I was just kidding about the way I was showing public support for Graet's pool. 

Sure, I'll pledge an unknown amount of my unknown earnings from my unknown gear that I may receive, or not, so the story goes.  I'm sure ckolivas and graet can really plan allot for the future based on that.

I'll count my chickens after they hatch and go from there.

Hi again rav3n,

Yup, done that three times now. Custom uninstall from Catalyst install manager - everything, Reboot. Driver sweeper for AMD display. Reboot. CCleaner scan. Reboot. Install AMD 12.10 without CCC. Reboot. Same problem. Tried AMD 11.12 with 2.1 SDK also, same problem.

Just can't see it being a driver issue, as it worked fine the very first time I used it - until I switched off once, then it never worked again.

What's this gpu map option? I read in the readme this sometimes happens, albeit rarely, maybe this could be the issue. But it does say not to use it unless you know what you're doing - which I don't......lol

Thanks again for your help rav3n.

Looks to me as some driver failure.
Try:
- uninstall all ATI sforware from control panel
- reboot, do not install video drivers when windoze ask for it
- use driver sweeper to celan all ATI residues http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html
- reboot
- use ccleaner to celan registry http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner
- reboot
- get & install latest ATI drivers http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
- reboot, wait 5 mins, play some 3d game ;]
- run cgminer again

Hi Rav3n_pl.

THANKS!! That was the answer I was looking for - I'd forgotten about the handy "open command here" feature in windoze. OK, cgminer detects all four of my cypress GPU's (1 x 5970 & 2 x 5870), but underneath I get:

failed to ADL_Adaptor_ID_Get. error -5
failed to ADL_Adaptor_ID_Get. error -5
failed to ADL_Adaptor_ID_Get. error -5
failed to ADL_Adaptor_ID_Get. error -5
failed to ADL_Adaptor_ID_Get. error -5
failed to ADL_Adaptor_ID_Get. error -5
failed to ADL_Adaptor_ID_Get. error -5
failed to ADL_Adaptor_ID_Get. error -5

8 lines, so I presume there's some kind of correlation with this and my 4 GPU's? What do you think?

Seems like I'm getting somewhere now, thanks for that, I know it must be a real pain to have to help us noobs out - but hey, we all gotta start somewhere eh?

Many thanks, greatly appreciated.

People should start pledging amounts earned from when they receive their new gear.

3.0 btc here.

j/k

Good to know
Thanks ckolivas 

Most pools are in the process of implementing it. Of the other ones that already have it, ozcoin is my favourite, but emc also does it (though with too unstable a variable difficulty IMO).

The semi-official Bitcoin Pool Comparison Chart only shows 2 stratum pools, BTCGuild and Slush's.  Are there others?

It rotates through them one by one. However recently it sends one work request each minute to see if pools are still up, and that's due to trying find a way to keep gbt pools meaningfully current in case we switch to one, and those work items are sneaking through increasing the amount going to backup pools. Try to find yourself a good stratum pool and then you will never leak work to the backup pools.

I've always run with 1 main pool and 1 backup.  Today I tried with 3 total (1 main and 2 backup).

I understand that there might be some work leakage if the main pool is slow but I don't understand how cgminer picks which backup pool to leak to.
What I'm seeing is the main pool is priority 0 but the leakage is going to the priority 2 pool instead of the priority 1 pool.

- Run cmd
- navigate to cgminer directory
- run "cgminer.exe -n"
It shows you opencl devices it see.
- backup/delete cgminer.conf
- run "cgminer.exe"
- input pool address/user/pass
- after it start working press keys: S W to save config
If it crash somewhere at this point copy output form cmd window and post it.

OK, this is new.

Done the driver thing, still the same. The only way I could get the miner window to stay open was by not inputting any pool server in the config file so that it asked me, then I can read the message:.......if only I knew how to upload a capture I'd show you........damn these newfangled computerthingys.

It says:

ADL found less devices than opencl
There are possibly more than one display attached to a GPU  (there isn't)
Use the gnu map feature to reliably match ADL to open cl
WARNING: Number of open cl and ADL devices do not match!


Why this all of a sudden? And what does it mean? Where and who am I?

Confused. Mightily.

Help?

EDIT: Time for sleep - it's 6am here - been up all night with this.........answers gratefully accepted for breakfast in a few hours.....lol manana peeps