OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 621.

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Quote from: kano on March 11, 2012, 05:54:19 PM

Quote from: cuz0882 on March 11, 2012, 04:52:47 PM

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You answered it good enough. I can just use the older version. I would probably lose more then I would gain messing with my rig drivers.

Actually, the most likely cause is the fact that you have already messed with them.
(whether you realise it or not)

I renamed the original cgminer as a backup, and did a fresh install of the new version with a copy of the config file. I then realized the hashrate was wrong, deleted the new copy and renamed the original and its working fine again. What could have been messed up?

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Quote from: cuz0882 on March 11, 2012, 04:52:47 PM

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You answered it good enough. I can just use the older version. I would probably lose more then I would gain messing with my rig drivers.

Actually, the most likely cause is the fact that you have already messed with them.
(whether you realise it or not)

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Quote from: sharky112065 on March 11, 2012, 10:39:52 AM

Quote from: cuz0882 on March 11, 2012, 01:53:10 AM

My hash rate is about 10% lower with the newest cgminer. I should be able to use the same config file right?

I am not trying to be mean here, but do you really think anyone can answer that question when you posted so little information?

What driver version are you on?
What AMD-APP Runtime/SDK are you on?
What is the output of "cgminer -n"?
What Video cards are you using?
Did you upgrade your video driver or AMD-APP Runtime/SDK recently?
...?

Yes, you should be able to use the same config file.

You answered it good enough. I can just use the older version. I would probably lose more then I would gain messing with my rig drivers.

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Quote from: cuz0882 on March 11, 2012, 01:53:10 AM

My hash rate is about 10% lower with the newest cgminer. I should be able to use the same config file right?

I am not trying to be mean here, but do you really think anyone can answer that question when you posted so little information?

What driver version are you on?
What AMD-APP Runtime/SDK are you on?
What is the output of "cgminer -n"?
What Video cards are you using?
Did you upgrade your video driver or AMD-APP Runtime/SDK recently?
...?

Yes, you should be able to use the same config file.

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My hash rate is about 10% lower with the newest cgminer. I should be able to use the same config file right?

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Quote from: sharky112065 on March 10, 2012, 06:07:38 PM

Type "cgminer -n"

Thanks works fine now!

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Edit - RESOLVED

I had to add "export DISPLAY=:0" to the start script and now fans/temp are detected at startup.

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Regarding auto-start.... when i run this command from terminal after gui boots, everything works fine:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
sleep 60
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1;cd /opt/miners/cgminer;/usr/bin/screen -d -m -S cgminer /opt/miners/cgminer/cgminer --api-listen -o http://x.x.com -u x -p y -I 10 --gpu-engine 1200,1000,1000 --gpu-memclock 1200 --auto-fan --temp-target 70

I tried putting it in an executable file to run at boot from CRON, and everything works except switches for auto-fan, clocks etc... just default clocks but mining successfully.

I get the same result if run the script from rc.local....

But again, if I run it from CLI after it has booted, auto-fan/clocks etc work great Undecided

root@mcp:~# uname -a
Linux mcp 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 16:04:25 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

Any ideas?

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Quote from: Fanatic on March 10, 2012, 04:35:56 PM

Hi everybody! it might be stupid, but what am i doing wrong?

I have PC with i5-2500k CPU, Gigabyte p67a-d3-b3 mobo. I have my old GTX480 for gaming and 7970 for mining. GTX at upper PCI-E x16 slot and 7970 at bottom. No monitor, just TV via HDMI-out at my NVidia card. Win7 x64. NVidia is default display.

All works great on diablominer.
DiabloMiner-Windows.exe -u login -p pass -o pool -r 8332 -D 2
no lags, NVidia does it's job for entertainment, ATI's mining bitcoins.

When i start cgminer with
cgminer.exe -u login -p pass -o pool:8332 -D 0
Mining starts at GTX480

cgminer.exe -u login -p pass -o pool:8332 -D 1
it says "Command line options set a device that doesn't exist"

cgminer.exe -u login -p pass -o pool:8332 -D 2
same "Command line options set a device that doesn't exist"

What am I doing wrong? Huh

Type "cgminer -n"

Look at the output and remember the number for the 7970.

Add "--gpu-platform #" (where # = the number of the platform you want to use) to your command line.

Here is my output of "cgminer -n". I use 1 as the platform.

D:\cgminer-2.3.1-2.Self.Compiled>cgminer -n
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] CL Platform 0 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] CL Platform 0 name: NVIDIA CUDA
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 CUDA 4.1.1
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] Platform 0 devices: 1
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] CL Platform 1 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] CL Platform 1 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] CL Platform 1 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.5 (793.1)

[2012-03-10 14:05:18] Platform 1 devices: 1
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] GPU 0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series hardware monitoring enable
d
[2012-03-10 14:05:18] 1 GPU devices max detected

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Hi everybody! it might be stupid, but what am i doing wrong?

I have PC with i5-2500k CPU, Gigabyte p67a-d3-b3 mobo. I have my old GTX480 for gaming and 7970 for mining. GTX at upper PCI-E x16 slot and 7970 at bottom. No monitor, just TV via HDMI-out at my NVidia card. Win7 x64. NVidia is default display.

All works great on diablominer.
DiabloMiner-Windows.exe -u login -p pass -o pool -r 8332 -D 2
no lags, NVidia does it's job for entertainment, ATI's mining bitcoins.

When i start cgminer with
cgminer.exe -u login -p pass -o pool:8332 -D 0
Mining starts at GTX480

cgminer.exe -u login -p pass -o pool:8332 -D 1
it says "Command line options set a device that doesn't exist"

cgminer.exe -u login -p pass -o pool:8332 -D 2
same "Command line options set a device that doesn't exist"

What am I doing wrong? Huh

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Quote from: -ck on March 10, 2012, 03:04:41 AM

Quote from: cablepair on March 05, 2012, 10:20:16 PM

ckvolias:using latest cgminer 2.3.1-2 win7 64x

after awhile I loose temps and fan speed displays both on screen and from API - a cgminer reboot fixes the issue

Windows driver ATI Display Library fsckage. I can't do anything about it. Does restarting cgminer fix it or rebooting the machine fix it? I could probably try working around the former by detecting "losing adl support" and re-initialising it.

Restarting cgminer always fixes it, no need to restart the whole box.

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Dropping in once a week and answering all unanswered questions is much better for my sanity than what I was doing before Cheesy

-ck

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Quote from: os2sam on March 04, 2012, 10:23:06 PM

Quote from: os2sam on March 01, 2012, 11:58:36 AM

Quote from: cablepair on March 01, 2012, 11:36:58 AM

sam: install 11.9 if your using win7 with 5xxx series cards - it does not get better than that and believe me I have done the testing

Well, I'll run it up the flagpole and see what happens.
Thanks,
Sam

I just ran it up the flag pole. Catalyst 11.9 which has SDK 2.5 still has the 100% CPU utilization bug, which was what I kind of thought. I'll do some benchmarking to compare with what I was getting with the 11.6 and 100% CPU Utilization.
Sam

Win7 and WinXP (and vista lol) had different magic combinations of catalyst driver to not cause the 100% CPU bug. The 100% CPU bug is never the SDK.

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Quote from: outsidefactor on March 05, 2012, 08:22:09 PM

Not sure if this has been covered in previous posts, but MAN, 227 pages of posts to read, and searches don't turn up anything, so what the hey.

Just went from 2.2.6 to 2.3.1 and went from mid 500s on each 7970 and dropped to... 25.

At first I assumed it was to do with the new GPU interval setting it was annoying me about, but after wasting an hour playing with that to no avail I started looking for other causes. The first thing I noticed was it seemed to be taking 99% of each GPU to turn up 25 Mhash/sec. I tried phatk and went to 150 per GPU. POCLBM came in first with 552 at 12 intensity (I don't want the fans offensively loud).

So, not sure what's changed. I have not tried other kernels in the past so I can't tell if phatk has always sucked or, like Diablo, has just started sucking.

Anyway, I hope this helps anyone else with a 7970 confused by a sudden performance hit after an update!

outsidefactor

Yes the diablo kernel and 79x0 only works with the latest sdk included in driver 12.2 onwards. The earlier 2.6 sdk completely and utterly does an AMD on the kernel and produces massive fail instead of good performance. If you did not specify a kernel, by default cgminer detects what sdk you are on and should be giving you my custom poclbm kernel instead for sdk 2.6, which is what you concurred gives the best performance for a 7970 Wink

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con, kano

Have you guys considered web user interface instead of console?
You are already providing a lot of the info via APIs so the switch
from console to http/html might not be that hard to do.

I'm not adding interfaces to the main cgminer code any more. As others have suggested, cgminer is for the engine side of things, not the interface side. The current interface is "enough" and the API makes it easy to add whatever interface you like. I'm not an interface designer.

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Quote from: cablepair on March 07, 2012, 04:17:05 PM

its not in the latest windows version, I have a linux binary from the git with it compiled in to show temps but it wasnt compiled with openGL - so I cant run the Bitforce on the same machine as GPUs which I need to do in this situation.

I'll be releasing a new version with the most minor of changes once my own mining rig is back online again. Smoked a PSU so I can't test anything yet again.

-ck

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Quote from: cablepair on March 05, 2012, 10:20:16 PM

ckvolias:using latest cgminer 2.3.1-2 win7 64x

after awhile I loose temps and fan speed displays both on screen and from API - a cgminer reboot fixes the issue

Windows driver ATI Display Library fsckage. I can't do anything about it. Does restarting cgminer fix it or rebooting the machine fix it? I could probably try working around the former by detecting "losing adl support" and re-initialising it.

-ck

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Quote from: localhost on March 09, 2012, 08:02:42 AM

There you go:

Code:

cgminer -n[2012-03-09 12:59:20] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP (898.1)
[2012-03-09 12:59:20] Platform 0 devices: 2

AMD APP 898.1 is the sdk 2.6 that is distributed with catalyst driver 12.2 on 64 bit windows so that explains your slowdown. You've already figured out a workaround.

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Quote from: fabrizziop on March 07, 2012, 11:18:27 AM

I don't know why did I miss this miner earlier, I started to use, it's very practical, now I don't have to use clocktweak and 4 phoenix miners. And, it's even giving me 20 MH/s more per card with 12.1 than phoenix with 12.1. I think this gem needs more advertising to newbies.

Thanks

Enjoy. What sort of advertising exactly could I possibly do to promote it?

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Quote from: The00Dustin on March 09, 2012, 09:47:19 AM

Quote from: localhost on March 09, 2012, 09:34:59 AM

Hm, alright, thanks for all this information. I grabbed the old phatk110817.cl and phatk110817Cypressbitalignv2w128long4.bin from my cgminer 2.0.6, renamed them to phatk120223.cl and phatk120223Cypressv2w128l4.bin and this did restore my hashrate.

Judging from their date, they were built either under Catalyst 11.9 or 11.10. Should I expect any additional benefit from messing with my drivers as you describe? The changelog doesn't seem to mention performance improvements, "just" tons of features, bugfixes, and tweaks for newest GPUs.

I'm surprised that worked, actually. At some point on 2.3.0 or 2.3.1, someone tried that and it didn't work at all. I thought ck subsequentsy posted that the old binaries weren't compatible with 2.3 and that was why he did the minor vesion change from 2.2.x. I guess somewhere along the way to 2.3.1-2 he did some major reverting.

Exactly. In version 2.3.1-2 the phatk kernel is identical to the much older "good" phatk kernel that was used for months; only with the new version number.

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Quote from: coblee on March 08, 2012, 07:30:52 PM

any plans to support the x6500 fpgas?

Alas no one has said they're working on support and no one has sent me one to work on to provide support. So that would be a no.

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