OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 784.

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Quote from: -ck on September 07, 2011, 01:00:04 AM

The adl include files are only needed for compiling it. I have compiled adl support into the windows binaries myself. I tried very hard to make the code work on both platforms, and even I'm surprised the windows version works as well as the linux one. There is no ADL support for any other operating systems though.

Thanks for the clarification. After updating to Catalyst 11.6 everything is working fine for me on WinXP.
Thanks again for your work,
Sam

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Quote from: Shevek on September 07, 2011, 06:29:06 AM

Quote from: miscreanity on September 06, 2011, 02:22:17 PM

As per the README: grab AMD's ADL, unzip and copy the header (*.h) files from the "include" directory to the "cgminer/ADL_SDK" directory. After that, configure should pick up card control support and it'll be available in the compiled binary.

Any other link or torrent to download ADL_SDK? I hate write down forms for AMD.

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You have the option to bypass the registration and go straight to the download.
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Quote from: PLaci1982 on September 07, 2011, 05:49:56 AM

2.0.0 works really well on Win 7, but not on Win XP....
I have a XP box with a HD 5770, and everything works well until I try to close the program by pressing Q...
After hitting Q, I get a sys msg about that cgminer.exe encountered an error, but the program still runs afterwards... Huh

Clicking X to close the window closes the program, but the OC clocks doesn't change back to original, and the memory clock does stay the same after a restart...

I get the same behavior on my WinXP system. But the program seems to work fine.

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Hi Gents

Just want to report a possible bug here of some kind.

Here is what I am running.

Windows 7 64x
Cgminer 2.0
AMD 11.8 Drivers

(I have been running cgminer since 1.5.something and I am a HUGE fan)

CGMINER 2.0 Has Same Great Mining performance as 1.6.2 if I clock the cards with my own util (Saphire Trixx or MSI Afterburner)

But if I use CGMiner to clock my cards, I am getting significantly less performance
like 20 Mhash per card difference (total of 3 cards in machine)

I am 100% positive I am using the correct syntax to clock the cards at command line
and its the same if I go into the program and use CGMiner to clock them manually

it does not matter if I have auto-tune features on or off, I know the developer is a linux guy, but has any one run into this issue yet? I would love to be able to use cgminer to clock my cards and start mining with a nice batch file (more time for madden 2012)
Any Ideas?

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Quote from: miscreanity on September 06, 2011, 02:22:17 PM

As per the README: grab AMD's ADL, unzip and copy the header (*.h) files from the "include" directory to the "cgminer/ADL_SDK" directory. After that, configure should pick up card control support and it'll be available in the compiled binary.

Any other link or torrent to download ADL_SDK? I hate write down forms for AMD.

TIA

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2.0.0 works really well on Win 7, but not on Win XP....
I have a XP box with a HD 5770, and everything works well until I try to close the program by pressing Q...
After hitting Q, I get a sys msg about that cgminer.exe encountered an error, but the program still runs afterwards... Huh

Clicking X to close the window closes the program, but the OC clocks doesn't change back to original, and the memory clock does stay the same after a restart...

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that is awesome Cheesy

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I'm guessing it's missing every 2nd card's temp because its a 5970 or 6990?

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I too confirm everything works well with the revised windows release Cheesy

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Now if this $%&##^ 100% CPU bug can be squashed I'll be laughing. Bloody AMD *shakes fist*.

-ck

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The adl include files are only needed for compiling it. I have compiled adl support into the windows binaries myself. I tried very hard to make the code work on both platforms, and even I'm surprised the windows version works as well as the linux one. There is no ADL support for any other operating systems though.

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Quote from: -ck on September 06, 2011, 06:41:31 PM

Quote from: simonk83 on September 06, 2011, 06:15:54 PM

Quote from: -ck on September 06, 2011, 05:53:07 PM

Quote from: simonk83 on September 06, 2011, 03:49:34 PM

As for it seeing cards, I need all 4 of my cards connected up and the monitors "activated" in the display settings. Once that's done and cgminer is doing it's thing, you can disable the other two monitors in display settings and it'll be fine until you need to restart cgminer.

That's a very interesting observation. I may be able to code a workaround for that next version.

That'd be awesome if possible. It's a PITA at the moment, but it's been like that for a fair while (I was using MSI Afterburner prior to this and the same problem existed).

Love the new version by the way, you're a smart cookie

Well if you could quickly test this version (drop the .exe in place of your existing one) and tell me if it works, that would be helpful:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/cgminer.exe

(it's otherwise identical to 2.0)

Yes, new exe file worked fine for me too! Thank you, ckolivas!

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Quote from: os2sam on September 06, 2011, 03:04:03 PM

Quote from: miscreanity on September 06, 2011, 02:53:18 PM

Quote from: johnj on September 06, 2011, 02:43:58 PM

Yep, still not working. Followed the readme, got the .h's in the right place, libcurl pkgconfig and mingw in (i think) the right places. CGMiner runs, just doesn't recognize the AMD_ADL

Ah, Windows. That's become the red-headed step-child platform for cgminer. Earlier ckolivas mentioned that the command in Linux is simple, but he isn't sure what to do to get the ADL SDK in Windows to pay attention to multiple cards.

I'd stick with existing tools in Windows for now.

So, the ADL/Auto mode support isn't supported in Windoze?
Sam

I'm still more than a little confused about the need for adding the ADL files vs. not. But anyway I had been using the Catalyst 10.9 drivers because anytime I tried using a more current version with Win7 32 bit all I got was a BSOD.

But I recently went back to WinXP and just updated to Catalyst 11.6 and sucessfully now all is working great. I can use the Auto modes and have overclocked my two GPU's, 5770 and 5830, and underclocked the memory and it is keeping the GPU's below 75c. I am finally getting 500+ Mhs.

So was the intent to recompile the Windoze executables or is the ADL support included in the newer catalyst driver sets?
Thanks,
Sam

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Quote from: c_k on September 06, 2011, 08:58:53 PM

With 11.8 drivers dummy plugs and extra monitors weren't needed, plus you can now have 8 GPU's.

Hopefully the revised version works with 11.8 when I test in 6 hours.

Nice work Con!

I am actually on 11.8, but it seems it still wanted the monitors to be activated. I know it's not supposed to need dummy plugs, but (for me at least) it still does. Doesn't matter anymore now

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Quote from: c_k on September 06, 2011, 08:58:53 PM

With 11.8 drivers dummy plugs and extra monitors weren't needed, plus you can now have 8 HPU's.

Hopefully the revised version works with 11.8 when I test in 6 hours.

Nice work Con!

HPUs! w00t, one better than GPUs! Cheesy

Thanks

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With 11.8 drivers dummy plugs and extra monitors weren't needed, plus you can now have 8 GPU's.

Hopefully the revised version works with 11.8 when I test in 6 hours.

Nice work Con!

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I've updated the source tarballs and linux binaries as well. No new version, just new archive name. Links in top post.

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Quote from: -ck on September 06, 2011, 05:53:07 PM

Quote from: simonk83 on September 06, 2011, 03:49:34 PM

As for it seeing cards, I need all 4 of my cards connected up and the monitors "activated" in the display settings. Once that's done and cgminer is doing it's thing, you can disable the other two monitors in display settings and it'll be fine until you need to restart cgminer.

That's a very interesting observation. I may be able to code a workaround for that next version.

Yeah, that's the thing with Windows, even with the dummy plugs, the monitors must be "activated" in the display settings. That would be awesome if you could integrate into the software some way to automate that on startup, that is, if no one knows of a better way (outside of switching to Linux!)

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Quote from: simonk83 on September 06, 2011, 07:05:35 PM

Quote from: -ck on September 06, 2011, 05:53:07 PM

Well if you could quickly test this version (drop the .exe in place of your existing one) and tell me if it works, that would be helpful:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/cgminer.exe

(it's otherwise identical to 2.0)

Sure, I'll do that now. Just to clarify, I should do this with the "extra" monitors disabled right?

EDIT: Brilliant, that worked Cheesy

Great Job!

Wow, you're too fast!

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