OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 761.

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Quote from: -ck on October 13, 2011, 04:26:49 AM

Auto fan assumes the worst case scenario: that is that your GPU might actually be fucking hot when you start it, so it automatically starts at a safe 85% speed. It will eventually die down. If you happen to stop and start a miner instantly and start at a low fan it's dangerous, so I intentionally made it do that. If you don't like it you'll have to change the code. Try intensity 9, as the kernels are pretty much identical between phoenix and cgminer these days. It could just be reporting error as cgminer does not lie.

Ah, I see. Would be nice if it adjusted down quicker when the temp is so low. I get about 45-50C at start but fans take quite a while to slow down. I guess it's not a big deal as this happens usually only when the power drops out.

Tried Intensity 9. Seems really variable now. Sometimes 642 MH/s then 587 MH/s. Bounces around a lot more. If that's sounds ok then I suppose it's better. In the end what matters is what the pool says I gave them.

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Auto fan assumes the worst case scenario: that is that your GPU might actually be fucking hot when you start it, so it automatically starts at a safe 85% speed. It will eventually die down. If you happen to stop and start a miner instantly and start at a low fan it's dangerous, so I intentionally made it do that. If you don't like it you'll have to change the code. Try intensity 9, as the kernels are pretty much identical between phoenix and cgminer these days. It could just be reporting error as cgminer does not lie.

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Just trying out cgminer.

One thing I noticed is that when it starts my fans kick in full speed.
Is there some way to set it so it keeps the fans low and adjusts them as needed.

I have settings:

gpu-fan : 50-85
auto-fan : true
temp-target : 70

I've tried just setting gpu-fan : 50 but then the auto fan doesn't kick in.

It works fine after 5 minutes of high noise and the fans slowly come down but I'd much prefer if it would start slower and speed up according to heat.

I'm getting a bit less than Phoenix speed wise. Was 630 MH/s steady and now 627 MH/s with cgminer. I have Intensity set to 8 and gpu settings same as with Phoenix. Not sure why it would be slower.

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Quote from: The00Dustin on October 11, 2011, 05:05:30 AM

cgminer is so efficient you will need to turn down your OC. Try it, then notice that you STILL get better MHash/s. I actually had to turn mine down on a 1.x.x version because of this, and had to turn it down again in 2.0.6, but I'm still getting higher MHash/s now than I was with the 1.x.x version before I had to turn it down. Note that it may take a few trials to find your new sweet spot.

Lowered the oc to 945/215.Seems to be ok now.
Thanks man.

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Quote from: Seraphim401 on October 11, 2011, 04:49:16 AM

I'm a first time user of this program.Thought I would give it a try today.
It works lovely for all my gpu's except one.I have 2 5770 @960/300 -I 7,9.
2 5870 @ 950-955/215 -I 9,9.I used the same clocks with phoenix 1.6.2,never had a problem.
The miner with the 2 5870's uses an intel e-5300 cpu, which I underclocked to 1.2 Ghz to save power.
The problem I have is that the 5870 that is clocked at 950/215,always gets pronounced dead by cgminer after about 30-50 min.
I switched this particular card back to Phoenix and it's been doing it's thing for hours now.
I prefer all my cards to be on one efficient miner.Any help would be welcome!

Thanks

cgminer is so efficient you will need to turn down your OC. Try it, then notice that you STILL get better MHash/s. I actually had to turn mine down on a 1.x.x version because of this, and had to turn it down again in 2.0.6, but I'm still getting higher MHash/s now than I was with the 1.x.x version before I had to turn it down. Note that it may take a few trials to find your new sweet spot.

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I'm a first time user of this program.Thought I would give it a try today.
It works lovely for all my gpu's except one.I have 2 5770 @960/300 -I 7,9.
2 5870 @ 950-955/215 -I 9,9.I used the same clocks with phoenix 1.6.2,never had a problem.
The miner with the 2 5870's uses an intel e-5300 cpu, which I underclocked to 1.2 Ghz to save power.
The problem I have is that the 5870 that is clocked at 950/215,always gets pronounced dead by cgminer after about 30-50 min.
I switched this particular card back to Phoenix and it's been doing it's thing for hours now.
I prefer all my cards to be on one efficient miner.Any help would be welcome!

Thanks

-ck

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I build it in a windows virtual machine running xp with mingw32 installed and all the libraries as needed. It's a royal pain considering I don't use windows. I've never tried building the windows version with the ming environment on linux.

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Conman, i am trying to compile cgminer on Linux(ubuntu in my case) under mingw32 for windows. Is that what you use or cygwin?

And did you have to compile everything from curl to pdcurses under the mingw32 gcc compiler? Cause i am getting a ton of errors about missing libxt(which is installed and so is its -dev counterpart)

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Quote from: Mr.Prayer on October 10, 2011, 02:41:01 PM

Quote from: iopq on October 10, 2011, 01:45:17 PM

how do I change the intensity when CGminer's running?

G->I->[GPU Num]->[Intensity]

See - I said I needed to upgrade

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Quote from: iopq on October 10, 2011, 01:45:17 PM

how do I change the intensity when CGminer's running?

G->I->[GPU Num]->[Intensity]

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Unless something has changed in 2.0.6 ... 'S' (hmm I should upgrade Tongue

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how do I change the intensity when CGminer's running?

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Quote from: kano on October 09, 2011, 11:27:33 PM

However, for actually installing them - I'm not sure what the issue is.
Why can't you simply use apt-get?
As per my script, the system boots into X then I apt-get install the ATI driver then reboot into the new ATI driver.

I'm just not great with linux and I know Xubuntu + cgminer + catalyst11.6 works very well, and I know I screwed up a drive trying to uninstall 11.8 which wasn't working for me. I'll try apt-get and see how it turns out.

Thanks

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Quote from: gnar1ta$ on October 09, 2011, 10:04:58 PM

Thanks but that's all chinese to me. Is that how you install catalyst from apt? If so what catalyst version does it install? I'm going to be setting up another rig, and have previously manually installed 11.6 - which is a lot of work on a remote rig.

Well my same cryptic (like above) output is 8.84

Converting those numbers to ATI Windows driver numbers isn't simple (I don't know how to either)
glxinfo isn't very helpful, the docs don't seem to say anywhere in them either
From 11.7 they are supposed to use the same numbers so I'd guess there might be a jump after 8.85 to 11.x

However, for actually installing them - I'm not sure what the issue is.
Why can't you simply use apt-get?
As per my script, the system boots into X then I apt-get install the ATI driver then reboot into the new ATI driver.

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Thanks but that's all chinese to me. Is that how you install catalyst from apt? If so what catalyst version does it install? I'm going to be setting up another rig, and have previously manually installed 11.6 - which is a lot of work on a remote rig.

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What version does this intsall (from your script)?

Code:

sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-dev

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Quote from: The00Dustin on October 09, 2011, 07:35:56 PM

Quote from: AniceInovation on October 09, 2011, 07:23:17 PM

I tried tar -xvzf cgminer-2.0.6-x86_64-built.tar.lrz at ubuntu folder (where i pasted cgminer-2.0.6-x86_64-built.tar) but it says:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Without looking at the instructions I can tell you that .lrz is not a gzip file, you need to dowload the .bz2 file and use something like -xvjf instead on the tar command (because the .bz2 is not a gzip file either). Alternatively, you can unzip the .lrz file with the appropriate software, possibly mentioned in the first post (certainly mentioned somewhere, but I don't remember where).

You'd have to use lrzip on a .lrz file - which is written by ckolivas also http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/

Edit: oh ok, you're reading my xubuntu script

Yeah that command works for the .bz2 archive file (as The00Dustin said)
cgminer is there in the usual place ( http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/ ) as a .bz2 and a .lrz
Get the .bz2 one

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Quote from: AniceInovation on October 09, 2011, 07:23:17 PM

I tried tar -xvzf cgminer-2.0.6-x86_64-built.tar.lrz at ubuntu folder (where i pasted cgminer-2.0.6-x86_64-built.tar) but it says:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Without looking at the instructions I can tell you that .lrz is not a gzip file, you need to dowload the .bz2 file and use something like -xvjf instead on the tar command (because the .bz2 is not a gzip file either). Alternatively, you can unzip the .lrz file with the appropriate software, possibly mentioned in the first post (certainly mentioned somewhere, but I don't remember where).

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Interesting.

Quote from: kano on October 04, 2011, 07:01:46 PM

Quote from: AniceInovation on October 04, 2011, 09:48:59 AM

...
second, can you help me or point me up to instructions to install CGMINER on Ubuntu 11 x64?

Try my xubuntu 11.04 script in the main directory ... linux-usb-cgminer
Start from step 6)

Could you explain a bit step 13?
I tried tar -xvzf cgminer-2.0.6-x86_64-built.tar.lrz at ubuntu folder (where i pasted cgminer-2.0.6-x86_64-built.tar) but it says:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

All help is welcomed Grin

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Quote from: c_k on October 09, 2011, 01:42:55 PM

Code:

[2011-10-10 07:26:25] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0
[2011-10-10 07:26:25] Restarting the GPU from the menu is unlikely to fix this.
[2011-10-10 07:26:25] Try stopping other applications using the GPU like afterburner.
[2011-10-10 07:26:25] Then restart cgminer.

I get this when ever I start cgminer on a machine with 7 cards

It works fine on other machines with 1 or 2 cards

I have no other GPU apps running on the machine that it won't work on

Switching back to 2.0.5 works fine on the machine that it won't work on

This is the random failing to init problem due to not successfully building a kernel. Not new to 2.0.6, just lucky it struck you now. Copy the .bin files from your 2.0.5 installation into your 2.0.6 directory. No idea what causes it and none of the init code has changed from a long time ago, so no idea why it struck you now. If you restart a hundred times it will eventually go away, but copying the .bin files will save you doing it.

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