OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 650.

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on February 15, 2012, 05:42:44 PM

Quote from: rjk on February 15, 2012, 05:35:54 PM

Well I wondered that, but I thought that newer drivers refused to support older SDKs. I guess I'll try it again soon.

I don't think so but with so many combinations of hardware, OS, drivers, and SDK YMMV.

Well, I got it working, but my 5870s at 950/160 are producing 370mhash now. Huh

That is suspiciously similar to stock, wonder if OC settings aren't being applied by cgminer? brb checking

EDIT: When I hit G then C then 0 and enter then E and typed 950 and hit enter and then Y, cgminer told me that the driver accepted the voltages, but that I should "check the values below". It didn't seem to actually OC the cards.

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Quote from: kano on February 15, 2012, 08:05:02 PM

On Linux: when you install 2.6 you should do it manually.

Thanks for the heads up, that isn't the only danger with relying on the crappy installation script.
ATI always sucked where any coding was involved and AMD just kept ATI staff...

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On Linux: when you install 2.6 you should do it manually.
It copies 2 libraries over the OS installed ones if you do it with the ATI install script.

Everything else is the similar to the cgminer README
(so is easy as long as you understand how to extract tgz files ...)

The 2 OS libraries are: libaticalcl.so libaticalrt.so
So you need to save the old links (e.g. rename them: mv libaticalcl.so libaticalcl.so.old )
If you don't want to try mess with removing and reinstalling the fglrx packages later to go back to an earlier 2.x

Hmm maybe I'll write up the steps to go forward AND back later ...

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes

You can install driver & SDK independently.

So you can install driver 11.12 to get the no CPU bug and then SDK 2.1 to maximize performance of 5000 series cards. Be sure to delete any existing bins and run cgminer to compile bins with SDK 2.1.

Know how to do this on Linux ?

Or shall I just stick with 11.6 and 2.1 ?

Have you tested the difference between 2.4 and 2.1 on your 5970s ? Is it really that much better compared with 2.4/2.5 ?

I have 5870s only.

Thanks !

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Quote from: rjk on February 15, 2012, 05:35:54 PM

Well I wondered that, but I thought that newer drivers refused to support older SDKs. I guess I'll try it again soon.

I don't think so but with so many combinations of hardware, OS, drivers, and SDK YMMV.

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on February 15, 2012, 05:33:43 PM

Quote from: rjk on February 15, 2012, 05:24:57 PM

Damn, I thought that was the version that removed that necessity. I'll try something newer I guess.

Any particular reason you want an ancient driver?

You can install driver & SDK independently.

So you can install driver 11.12 to get the no CPU bug and then SDK 2.1 to maximize performance of 5000 series cards. Be sure to delete any existing bins and run cgminer to compile bins with SDK 2.1.

Well I wondered that, but I thought that newer drivers refused to support older SDKs. I guess I'll try it again soon.

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Quote from: rjk on February 15, 2012, 05:24:57 PM

Damn, I thought that was the version that removed that necessity. I'll try something newer I guess.

Any particular reason you want an ancient driver?

You can install driver & SDK independently.

So you can install driver 11.12 to get the no CPU bug and then SDK 2.1 to maximize performance of 5000 series cards. Be sure to delete any existing bins and run cgminer to compile bins with SDK 2.1.

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Quote from: -ck on February 15, 2012, 05:23:30 PM

Quote from: rjk on February 15, 2012, 05:04:49 PM

Quote from: rjk on February 15, 2012, 12:02:53 PM

Just installed 11.6 on 64-bit windows 7, and cgminer 2.2.3 was only showing 1 GPU. I updated to cgminer 2.2.6, and now I get this:

Code:

Too many values passed to set temp cutoff

Do I need dummy plugs for the cards, or is there some other issue? Should I just suck it up and install the latest drivers?

No monitors or dummy plugs are connected. I also tried the SDK 2.4 standalone installer, and get the same results.

11.6 needs dummy plugs on windows. You need a later driver but beware of SDK fuckage.

Damn, I thought that was the version that removed that necessity. I'll try something newer I guess.

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Quote from: rjk on February 15, 2012, 05:04:49 PM

Quote from: rjk on February 15, 2012, 12:02:53 PM

Just installed 11.6 on 64-bit windows 7, and cgminer 2.2.3 was only showing 1 GPU. I updated to cgminer 2.2.6, and now I get this:

Code:

Too many values passed to set temp cutoff

Do I need dummy plugs for the cards, or is there some other issue? Should I just suck it up and install the latest drivers?

No monitors or dummy plugs are connected. I also tried the SDK 2.4 standalone installer, and get the same results.

11.6 needs dummy plugs on windows. You need a later driver but beware of SDK fuckage.

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Quote from: rjk on February 15, 2012, 12:02:53 PM

Just installed 11.6 on 64-bit windows 7, and cgminer 2.2.3 was only showing 1 GPU. I updated to cgminer 2.2.6, and now I get this:

Code:

Too many values passed to set temp cutoff

Do I need dummy plugs for the cards, or is there some other issue? Should I just suck it up and install the latest drivers?

Further to this, when I do "cgminer.exe -n", I get:

Code:

[2012-02-15 16:35:43] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (650.9)
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] Platform 0 devices: 1
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] ADL found more devices than opencl!
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] There is possibly at least one GPU that doesn't support OpenCL
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] WARNING: Number of OpenCL and ADL devices does not match!
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] GPU 0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series hardware monitoring enabled
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] Setting GPU 0 engine clock to 950
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] Setting GPU 0 memory clock to 160
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] Setting GPU 0 voltage to 1.180
[2012-02-15 16:35:43] 1 GPU devices max detected

No monitors or dummy plugs are connected. I also tried the SDK 2.4 standalone installer, and get the same results.

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Quote from: cablepair on February 15, 2012, 04:11:32 PM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on February 15, 2012, 03:47:38 PM

Quote from: Frizz23 on February 12, 2012, 07:09:29 AM

It just has no effect at all on Windows systems (confirmed by AMD). You could as well set MITT_ROMNEY_IS_A_DICKHEAD = 1 ... would have the same effect Wink

You jerk. I set the MITT_ROMNEY_IS_A_DICKHEAD = 1 flag and within minutes I had some Jehovah's witnesses at my door trying to convert me. I am never going to do that again.

you sure they weren't Mormons? Tongue

ahahahaha, I could understand that happening if you set the flag to 0, but when set to 1 you get prohibitionist Mormons armed with choir recordings.

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on February 15, 2012, 03:47:38 PM

Quote from: Frizz23 on February 12, 2012, 07:09:29 AM

It just has no effect at all on Windows systems (confirmed by AMD). You could as well set MITT_ROMNEY_IS_A_DICKHEAD = 1 ... would have the same effect Wink

You jerk. I set the MITT_ROMNEY_IS_A_DICKHEAD = 1 flag and within minutes I had some Jehovah's witnesses at my door trying to convert me. I am never going to do that again.

you sure they weren't Mormons? Tongue

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Quote from: Frizz23 on February 12, 2012, 07:09:29 AM

It just has no effect at all on Windows systems (confirmed by AMD). You could as well set MITT_ROMNEY_IS_A_DICKHEAD = 1 ... would have the same effect Wink

You jerk. I set the MITT_ROMNEY_IS_A_DICKHEAD = 1 flag and within minutes I had some Jehovah's witnesses at my door trying to convert me. I am never going to do that again.

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Quote from: jjiimm_64 on February 15, 2012, 02:16:10 PM

Quote from: psychok9 on February 15, 2012, 12:54:30 PM

Quote from: -ck on February 11, 2012, 06:03:04 PM

On windows, you can also specify "export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS = 1"
Only way is different, "Computer> System Properties> Advanced system settings> system environment> create a new variable" GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS ", the value of the variable is -" 1 "

Thanks!
This fixed my high cpu usage on Catalyst 12.2.

Just tried this.... does not work on my win7 64 rig with 5x7970. tried in the bat file and in the environment vars...

Quote from: Frizz23 on February 12, 2012, 07:09:29 AM

It just has no effect at all on Windows systems (confirmed by AMD). You could as well set MITT_ROMNEY_IS_A_DICKHEAD = 1 ... would have the same effect Wink

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Quote from: psychok9 on February 15, 2012, 12:54:30 PM

Quote from: -ck on February 11, 2012, 06:03:04 PM

On windows, you can also specify "export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS = 1"
Only way is different, "Computer> System Properties> Advanced system settings> system environment> create a new variable" GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS ", the value of the variable is -" 1 "

Thanks!
This fixed my high cpu usage on Catalyst 12.2.

Just tried this.... does not work on my win7 64 rig with 5x7970. tried in the bat file and in the environment vars...

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Quote from: -ck on February 11, 2012, 06:03:04 PM

On windows, you can also specify "export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS = 1"
Only way is different, "Computer> System Properties> Advanced system settings> system environment> create a new variable" GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS ", the value of the variable is -" 1 "

Thanks!
This fixed my high cpu usage on Catalyst 12.2.

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on February 15, 2012, 10:03:11 AM

Quote from: minero1 on February 15, 2012, 09:33:54 AM

Hi CK, have you found the problem causing the high % of rejected shares? i set it to -I 9 and still having way to many rejects, it starts very ugly but with time appears to get better, my current run shows (A:35107 R:2059), less than with dynamic set but still.
I'm running 2.2.4 i didn't notice that in 2.0.8

What pool, what card, what clocks?
Does problem go away at lower intensity?
Does problem go away at lower clock?

nothing wrong with the pool or rig, it was ok until i upgraded to 2.2.4. Anyway, i installed 2.2.6 and the reject rate dropped as promised by CK (good work, thanks), less than 1% this time with a short run thou, i'll report if it goes bad again. what is the proper method to downgrade to SDK 2.less than 6?

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Just installed 11.6 on 64-bit windows 7, and cgminer 2.2.3 was only showing 1 GPU. I updated to cgminer 2.2.6, and now I get this:

Code:

Too many values passed to set temp cutoff

Do I need dummy plugs for the cards, or is there some other issue? Should I just suck it up and install the latest drivers?

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Quote from: kentrolla on February 15, 2012, 11:08:25 AM

you should just add all the opencl.dll files in there and have cgminer choose the best one. its getting confusing which opencl.dll works the best with what card.

Since ck is busy enough and has stated he won't respond to posts others can respond to, I'll step in here and point out that he can't do this due to licensing restrictions. I suppose he could have folders where you could choose to drop opencl.dll files in yourself, but I don't see most users dealing with that, so it would probably be wasted programming effort.

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you should just add all the opencl.dll files in there and have cgminer choose the best one. its getting confusing which opencl.dll works the best with what card.

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