OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 557.

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Quote from: Krak on June 15, 2012, 01:11:11 AM

Quote from: kano on June 15, 2012, 12:56:01 AM

The related details that may or may not help:
https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-AMD-SDK-2.4-2.6-upgrade-downgrade

Though if you know yourself what you are doing that should tell you what to look for.

I don't remember exactly, but I think those instructions are what messed up my OS in the first place.

Nope - it was you that did

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Quote from: -ck on June 15, 2012, 04:46:54 AM

cgminer supports no more than 32 pools I'm afraid. I can remove that limit in the next version if it's desired...

How do you expect people to mine with a mere 32 pool limit? No wonder no one's using this software! Grin

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Quote from: nelisky on June 15, 2012, 09:04:46 AM

With the latest master, on OpenWRT (TP-Link MR3220) I can't use ztex boards anymore. Haven't got time to properly debug this now so I thought I'd just leave this here in case it is obvious to anyone:

Code:

 [2012-06-14 14:41:10] Popping work to stage thread                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13] ZTEX 0000000001-1: Share found N0E0                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13]  Proof: 000000008f655a7694a8933c6eb9b38330a8be710c299dd2a2785220d2832b30
Target: 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
TrgVal? YES (hash < target)                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13] Pushing submit work to work thread                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13] ZTEX 0000000001-1: submitted 23c2895c 1                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13] Popping work to work thread                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13] Creating extra submit work thread                    
Bus error

It works great until a share is found, then it dies an immediate and horrible death Sad

I was hoping the code for testing if it was a block solve was fixed for openwrt so I removed the commenting out of that test. I guess it was premature and that bug still exists.

This is the commit responsible in git:
dbe9056df4db4007524af9569edc28c92827b3c4

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With the latest master, on OpenWRT (TP-Link MR3220) I can't use ztex boards anymore. Haven't got time to properly debug this now so I thought I'd just leave this here in case it is obvious to anyone:

Code:

 [2012-06-14 14:41:10] Popping work to stage thread                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13] ZTEX 0000000001-1: Share found N0E0                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13]  Proof: 000000008f655a7694a8933c6eb9b38330a8be710c299dd2a2785220d2832b30
Target: 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
TrgVal? YES (hash < target)                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13] Pushing submit work to work thread                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13] ZTEX 0000000001-1: submitted 23c2895c 1                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13] Popping work to work thread                    
 [2012-06-14 14:41:13] Creating extra submit work thread                    
Bus error

It works great until a share is found, then it dies an immediate and horrible death Sad

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Quote from: Ed on June 15, 2012, 07:35:25 AM

ckolivas excuse me, where I can download?

phatk110817Caymanbitalignv2w256long4.bin
phatk110817Cypressbitalignv2w256long4.bin
phatk110817Juniperbitalignv2w256long4.bin

it is not downloaded automatically

They're automatically generated when you run cgminer so you don't need to download them. However if you are after binaries from different SDK versions to what you have installed, you're out of luck as I stopped collecting them because it was getting too much effort to keep them all.

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ckolivas excuse me, where I can download?

phatk110817Caymanbitalignv2w256long4.bin
phatk110817Cypressbitalignv2w256long4.bin
phatk110817Juniperbitalignv2w256long4.bin

it is not downloaded automatically

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Quote from: Fuzzy on June 15, 2012, 04:44:12 AM

Does CGMINER support multiple backup/fallback pools?

I've noticed that a number of pools will be down or lagging at any given time, so I'm looking to set up 3-5 backup pools to mitigate all this downtime I'm seeing on my miners. Been using GUIminer up to now, but the 1 backup server option still leaves me running idle every now and then.

cgminer supports no more than 32 pools I'm afraid. I can remove that limit in the next version if it's desired...

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Does CGMINER support multiple backup/fallback pools?

I've noticed that a number of pools will be down or lagging at any given time, so I'm looking to set up 3-5 backup pools to mitigate all this downtime I'm seeing on my miners. Been using GUIminer up to now, but the 1 backup server option still leaves me running idle every now and then.

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Quote from: kano on June 15, 2012, 12:56:01 AM

The related details that may or may not help:
https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-AMD-SDK-2.4-2.6-upgrade-downgrade

Though if you know yourself what you are doing that should tell you what to look for.

I don't remember exactly, but I think those instructions are what messed up my OS in the first place.

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Quote from: Krak on June 14, 2012, 02:38:31 PM

Just updated to Ubuntu 12.04 and cgminer 2.4.3 and I've got good news and bad news. Good news is that I'm able to use 2 threads per GPU again and cgminer's CPU usage is way down. Bad news is that somehow it looks like SDK 2.6 got installed along the way. Lost about 60 MH/s. Undecided

Any decent guides on downgrading SDKs out there so I don't mess up my Ubuntu install again?

The related details that may or may not help:
https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-AMD-SDK-2.4-2.6-upgrade-downgrade

Though if you know yourself what you are doing that should tell you what to look for.

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Quote from: Krak on June 14, 2012, 02:38:31 PM

Just updated to Ubuntu 12.04 and cgminer 2.4.3 and I've got good news and bad news. Good news is that I'm able to use 2 threads per GPU again and cgminer's CPU usage is way down. Bad news is that somehow it looks like SDK 2.6 got installed along the way. Lost about 60 MH/s. Undecided

Any decent guides on downgrading SDKs out there so I don't mess up my Ubuntu install again?

This is very easy, I can help you out... PM-me if you want help!

Cheers!
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Quote from: Fiyasko on June 14, 2012, 11:05:25 PM

Quote from: ancow on June 14, 2012, 09:26:03 PM

Quote from: Fiyasko on June 14, 2012, 07:24:01 PM

I think you should put in a default Enabled donation rate of .001%, And have it stated blatently that cgminer wishes to ask for a .001% hashed donation,

Search the thread: in-cgminer-donation has been tried and wasn't worth the trouble.

Awwwww that sucks Sad

The donation feature was around for many months and the total hashrate donated averaged about 200MH during that time. It also introduced some bugs of its own which penalised the very people who were donating (until I fixed the bugs). When I suggested it be enabled by default (with the ability to disable it) I got crucified in the forum so I just abandoned the donation feature entirely and hope that people will feel like donating the old fashioned way.

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Quote from: ancow on June 14, 2012, 09:26:03 PM

Quote from: Fiyasko on June 14, 2012, 07:24:01 PM

I think you should put in a default Enabled donation rate of .001%, And have it stated blatently that cgminer wishes to ask for a .001% hashed donation,

Search the thread: in-cgminer-donation has been tried and wasn't worth the trouble.

Awwwww that sucks Sad

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Quote from: Epoch on June 14, 2012, 12:18:07 PM

Quote from: hashking on June 14, 2012, 12:16:05 PM

Quote from: BitMinerN8 on June 14, 2012, 12:15:40 PM

Quote from: hashking on June 14, 2012, 12:08:50 PM

cgminer.exe -S bitforce://./COM4

Do you have a GPU on the rig as well? And did you setup a pool? (-o site:port -u worker -p pass)

Yes to both answers.

As I mentioned in the bfgminer thread, it may be worthwhile to run 2 separate instances of cgminer: one only for your GPUs and a separate one for your Single(s). I remember reading somewhere that at least one user had solved a similar problem by doing this.

Read the post above Tongue

Edit: oh joy ... Luke-jr blocked it from going into cgminer - but he's going to put it into his miner ...

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Quote from: bitpop on June 14, 2012, 02:02:21 PM

kanoi gave me a special version 2.4.2c that fixed multi bfl, not sure if change got committed into latest version tho so im waitying

Unfortunately, no it didn't get into 2.3.4 and won't until I rewrite it ... thanks to ... well read the pull request argument Tongue

https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/pull/215

It is rather interesting to note that that same pull request might? be the fix to apparent problems with the new ModMiner code on windows ...

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Quote from: Fiyasko on June 14, 2012, 07:24:01 PM

I think you should put in a default Enabled donation rate of .001%, And have it stated blatently that cgminer wishes to ask for a .001% hashed donation,

Search the thread: in-cgminer-donation has been tried and wasn't worth the trouble.

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Hey ckolivas!, Just like to say great work on CGminer!, I think you should put in a default Enabled donation rate of .001%, And have it stated blatently that cgminer wishes to ask for a .001% hashed donation, Heck, I would proboly leave it enabled if it was that low, Caused no lag, and was just.. seemingly invisible... Like if it just "stole" .001% of your submitted shares and sent them to a donar worker or etc...

I also would love to mention how CGminer literally runs my cards 4°colder than when i run my cards with GUIminer. Great work!

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I remembered that I could restore my old phatk kernel from Dropbox to use with the new version so it's at least running a bit better now. I'm able to use 2 threads and my dedicated mining GPU is running faster than ever, but my display GPU is still running about 40 MH/s too slow and only using 85% of its power. Maybe Compiz got re-enabled somewhere in the upgrade...

EDIT: ~~Wow, so I was still running in Ubuntu 2D after the update, so I tried switching to normal Ubuntu and it looks like I'm getting full speed again. Weird.~~
Never mind, display GPU is still running slow.

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Quote from: Krak on June 14, 2012, 02:38:31 PM

Just updated to Ubuntu 12.04 and cgminer 2.4.3 and I've got good news and bad news. Good news is that I'm able to use 2 threads per GPU again and cgminer's CPU usage is way down. Bad news is that somehow it looks like SDK 2.6 got installed along the way. Lost about 60 MH/s. Undecided

Any decent guides on downgrading SDKs out there so I don't mess up my Ubuntu install again?

I managed to get MH/s back on 12.04 by copying from a Gentoo system (where I forced x11-drivers/ati-drivers to <= 11.6) the phatk kernel and forcing cgminer to use it by giving it "--kernel phatk -w 256" which is the setting used on the "good" system.

As I mix 7970 and 5xxx I think there's no other way to get good hashing speeds for all cards. I don't know if there are lost MH/s still (I didn't take the time to compare the 2 systems with 2 similar cards and same settings) but you may try this hack too, cgminer complains about phatk being inefficient but as it reuses the bin file it is indeed more efficient than any other combination it can build with the drivers installed on 12.04.

Anyway if anyone has a step-by-step procedure to downgrade the ati drivers on Ubuntu 12.04, I'm interested too

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Just updated to Ubuntu 12.04 and cgminer 2.4.3 and I've got good news and bad news. Good news is that I'm able to use 2 threads per GPU again and cgminer's CPU usage is way down. Bad news is that somehow it looks like SDK 2.6 got installed along the way. Lost about 60 MH/s. Undecided

Any decent guides on downgrading SDKs out there so I don't mess up my Ubuntu install again?

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