Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 601. (Read 5806103 times)
April 17, 2012, 07:16:50 PM
Why must CPU mining be in cgminer? It is easier to just use Pooler's fork of jgarzik's miner, since it is fast and purpose built.
April 17, 2012, 07:12:09 PM
ckolivas! please put the option to use CPU mining back in cgminer! I will donate all my coins! Many of my friends and I REALLY need this option.
One of the main reasons I stopped including it was the lack of adequate donations. I have earned about .2BTC from people donating for CPU mining, and approximately 1000 times that for GPU mining development. How much are you offering? I doubt you'll be able to offer me enough to make me interested, but if you do, sure, I'll build you a binary and make it available for everyone to download (I don't do things in secrecy).Given the effort required to deal with bug reports and the inevitability of being associated with antivirus software by re-enabling CPU mining, it's not worth it for 2BTC. I'll pass.
I said I wouldn't do any of this in secrecy yet I only got a response in private message as follows, which I quote here for the record:
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ill pay you 2btc up front and continue to donate a lot more through the btc that i make through this. also, if you could make it so it retains desktop interactivity like with the gpu mining that would be a huge plus. why would antiviruses be a problem just because u added the cpu mining feature?? what price were you looking for for all of that?
I would maintain CPU mining for maybe 2 BTC per week donations on top of this. Assuming you donated 1% of your total hashrate from CPU mining for this, you would need to earn 200 BTC per week. Assuming an average PC gets 10mhash/s you would need to be running about 5000 PCs to be able to donate just 2 BTC per week.
April 17, 2012, 07:01:45 PM
Thank's you are now on my donation list (with the guy who wrote the CGminer USB tutorial) once I have some spare BTC 
April 17, 2012, 06:57:14 PM
I have amazing result after figuring how to OC memory and GPU clock. I will wait all night to make sure it is stable and tomorow I may try overvolting.
I have read that I can damage my card. Is it like a lottery or if I get past the limit my card will burn?
Provided you do not overvolt and your temperatures are still safe, you cannot damage your cards just by changing the clocks. Overvolting is not worth it as your power consumption rises much more than the hashrate does. Try undervolting instead. See how low you can go while keeping your overclock speeds. I have read that I can damage my card. Is it like a lottery or if I get past the limit my card will burn?
April 17, 2012, 06:51:48 PM
I have amazing result after figuring how to OC memory and GPU clock. I will wait all night to make sure it is stable and tomorow I may try overvolting.
My 5870 is now at 1400/1020 temp:65C and 5850 at 1125/775 temp:58C with stock voltage.
I have read that I can damage my card by overvolting. Is it like a lottery or if I get past the limit my card will burn?
My 5870 is now at 1400/1020 temp:65C and 5850 at 1125/775 temp:58C with stock voltage.
I have read that I can damage my card by overvolting. Is it like a lottery or if I get past the limit my card will burn?
April 17, 2012, 05:29:11 PM
ckolivas! please put the option to use CPU mining back in cgminer! I will donate all my coins! Many of my friends and I REALLY need this option.
One of the main reasons I stopped including it was the lack of adequate donations. I have earned about .2BTC from people donating for CPU mining, and approximately 1000 times that for GPU mining development. How much are you offering? I doubt you'll be able to offer me enough to make me interested, but if you do, sure, I'll build you a binary and make it available for everyone to download (I don't do things in secrecy).Given the effort required to deal with bug reports and the inevitability of being associated with antivirus software by re-enabling CPU mining, it's not worth it for 2BTC. I'll pass.
April 17, 2012, 05:13:36 PM
ckolivas! please put the option to use CPU mining back in cgminer! I will donate all my coins! Many of my friends and I REALLY need this option.
One of the main reasons I stopped including it was the lack of adequate donations. I have earned about .2BTC from people donating for CPU mining, and approximately 1000 times that for GPU mining development. How much are you offering? I doubt you'll be able to offer me enough to make me interested, but if you do, sure, I'll build you a binary and make it available for everyone to download (I don't do things in secrecy).
April 17, 2012, 04:20:00 PM
Love this miner and just posting to follow the news on it.
April 17, 2012, 04:10:32 PM
ckolivas! please put the option to use CPU mining back in cgminer! I will donate all my coins! Many of my friends and I REALLY need this option.
One of the main reasons I stopped including it was the lack of adequate donations. I have earned about .2BTC from people donating for CPU mining, and approximately 1000 times that for GPU mining development. How much are you offering? I doubt you'll be able to offer me enough to make me interested, but if you do, sure, I'll build you a binary and make it available for everyone to download (I don't do things in secrecy). 
April 17, 2012, 03:48:31 PM
ckolivas! please put the option to use CPU mining back in cgminer! I will donate all my coins! Many of my friends and I REALLY need this option.
Something smells fishy right here.
Can you say botnet
I knew that people were selling a version of cgminer branded as "iMiner" with both CPU and GPU mining ability.
Pretty sad thing to steal ckolivas' work and brand it as a botnet miner for $10.
April 17, 2012, 03:46:14 PM
ckolivas! please put the option to use CPU mining back in cgminer! I will donate all my coins! Many of my friends and I REALLY need this option.
April 17, 2012, 03:45:20 PM
Got another feature request for the API. 2 in fact:
1) be able to read the worker name of a pool over the API
When using multiple workers for things like GPUmax, its currently impossible to distinguish between them. I can understand password being hidden, but the username is even visible on the screen, so why not expose at least the worker name over the API when calling the "pools" command ?
2) ability to delete pools over the API.
This has been discussed before, but its possible to do it in the CLI, it would be great if this were enabled over the API too; its one of the last things an alternate GUI using the API cant do.
Ill pledge 2.5 BTC for each feature if they make it into the mainline.
1) be able to read the worker name of a pool over the API
When using multiple workers for things like GPUmax, its currently impossible to distinguish between them. I can understand password being hidden, but the username is even visible on the screen, so why not expose at least the worker name over the API when calling the "pools" command ?
2) ability to delete pools over the API.
This has been discussed before, but its possible to do it in the CLI, it would be great if this were enabled over the API too; its one of the last things an alternate GUI using the API cant do.
Ill pledge 2.5 BTC for each feature if they make it into the mainline.
April 17, 2012, 03:34:12 PM
These link might help you some with the OC, you will need to get 11.6 Drivers at least to be able to OC on Ubuntu 11.04 with Cgminer. Otherwise you have to do a Bios flash.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ubuntu-1104-natty-64bit-headless-bitcoin-mining-with-ati-115-binary-driver-9239 Shows how to properly add drivers in Ubuntu for Ati.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/radeonvolt-hd5850-reference-voltage-tweaking-and-vrm-temp-display-for-linux-10228 The might help for over volting if your card supports it.
Cgminer wouldn't over volt mine however the radeonvolt did, got my 5850 stable at 396mash.
Sorry for off-topic.
... my sig 
(which also happens to be included with cgminer ...)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ubuntu-1104-natty-64bit-headless-bitcoin-mining-with-ati-115-binary-driver-9239 Shows how to properly add drivers in Ubuntu for Ati.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/radeonvolt-hd5850-reference-voltage-tweaking-and-vrm-temp-display-for-linux-10228 The might help for over volting if your card supports it.
Cgminer wouldn't over volt mine however the radeonvolt did, got my 5850 stable at 396mash.
Thank you very much! Best miner I tried so far!
Setup on Xubuntu 11.04 was easy. Now I need to figure how to optimise my miner.
Xubuntu can be installed on usb stick?Setup on Xubuntu 11.04 was easy. Now I need to figure how to optimise my miner.
Sorry for off-topic.
(which also happens to be included with cgminer ...)
April 17, 2012, 02:59:08 PM
Q: What happened to CPU mining?
A: Being increasingly irrelevant for most users, and a maintenance issue, it is
no longer under active development and will not be supported unless someone
steps up to help maintain it. No binary builds supporting CPU mining will be
released but CPU mining can be built into cgminer when it is compiled.
FOUND IT!
A: Being increasingly irrelevant for most users, and a maintenance issue, it is
no longer under active development and will not be supported unless someone
steps up to help maintain it. No binary builds supporting CPU mining will be
released but CPU mining can be built into cgminer when it is compiled.
FOUND IT!
anyways. how can i compile cpu mining into cgminer???
April 17, 2012, 02:57:50 PM
Q: What happened to CPU mining?
A: Being increasingly irrelevant for most users, and a maintenance issue, it is
no longer under active development and will not be supported unless someone
steps up to help maintain it. No binary builds supporting CPU mining will be
released but CPU mining can be built into cgminer when it is compiled.
FOUND IT!
A: Being increasingly irrelevant for most users, and a maintenance issue, it is
no longer under active development and will not be supported unless someone
steps up to help maintain it. No binary builds supporting CPU mining will be
released but CPU mining can be built into cgminer when it is compiled.
FOUND IT!
April 17, 2012, 02:56:32 PM
when i try to enable cpu mining i always get this error "[2012-04-17 12:47:23] 2 9: -C: unrecognized option" same thing happens when i try the --enable-cpu param. Any suggestions?
Read the included README carefully and with great attention...
I just did. Can you give me a hint? a quote maybe? sorry for my noobiness
i just can't figure this outCPU mining is no longer included.
Does this forum have a facepalm icon
? April 17, 2012, 02:55:03 PM
when i try to enable cpu mining i always get this error "[2012-04-17 12:47:23] 2 9: -C: unrecognized option" same thing happens when i try the --enable-cpu param. Any suggestions?
Read the included README carefully and with great attention...
I just did. Can you give me a hint? a quote maybe? sorry for my noobiness
i just can't figure this out April 17, 2012, 02:46:31 PM
when i try to enable cpu mining i always get this error "[2012-04-17 12:47:23] 2 9: -C: unrecognized option" same thing happens when i try the --enable-cpu param. Any suggestions?
Read the included README carefully and with great attention...
April 17, 2012, 01:52:17 PM
when i try to enable cpu mining i always get this error "[2012-04-17 12:47:23] 2 9: -C: unrecognized option" same thing happens when i try the --enable-cpu param. Any suggestions?
April 17, 2012, 11:01:23 AM
Thanks, guys! Don't want to waste my 1.5 tb hdd for dedicated miner. Only one issue remains is a working undervolting app for 6xxx cards under linux.
If you find anything let me know. I had to resort to reflashing the BIOS for undervolting/underclocking for my 6990s. After mucking about I found some stable values (and greatly reduced power consumption), but would have much preferred a software solution.
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