Topic: The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC] - page 6. (Read 166698 times)

MacMiner has been updated and it is necessary for MobileMiner users to update for that functionality to continue.

I'm also particularly interested for gridseed users to give the bfgminer included a shot as this is the latest from github.

I had to send my unit back a couple of weeks ago, so I haven't been keeping up here. My replacement arrives tomorrow, hence me sticking my nose in again.  I have a Raspberry Pi set up, but I was hoping to be more civilized this time around.

Is the Gridseed support baked into the regular release? The last one I tried was the Gridseed7 version, and I was never able to make it work.

Also I intend to update bfgminer and some other stuff today too!

I pushed a new version which updates the bfgminer but I'm not sure whether that helps with the gridseed stuff or not. I'd be interested to hear back from anyone who tests it, I think once people got up and running Scrypt mining they lost the incentive to stop for a while and test a new setup! I should have updated here, I just posted on the MacMiner forum.

Hey BitBacco,

Has there been any progress on the Gridseed 5 support?

New to this here, so please be patient with me. I downloaded MacMine Grindseed7 which I believe is the latest.

I got CPUMiner to detect my Dual Miner USB which I got to play with, but I get this in the screen, and it doesn't seem to be hashing.

[2014-03-11 18:57:15] 0: GC3355 chip mining thread started, in SINGLE mode
[2014-03-11 18:57:15] 0: Open UART device /dev/cu.usbserial-000014FAB
[2014-03-11 18:57:16] 0: Set GC3355 core frequency to 600Mhz
[2014-03-11 18:57:16] Stratum detected new block
[2014-03-11 18:57:17] 0: Dispatching new work to GC3355 LTC core
0: >>> LTC : 55aac000808080800000000001000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aac000c0c0c0c00500000001000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aaef020000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aaef3020000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aa1f2817000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aaef000500e082
0: >>> LTC : 55aa1f2816000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aa1f2817000000
0: >>> LTC : 55aa1f00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000f8ff07000019594b6 9940bc9c152fa71f3b90733768f56c38977a58ad4064619f6b2c46edd00000002d30b7dad7725d7 22c90dd6b97a4223b4970fd97bb145926c6aec512aea648f6a24544a7739e75303c291c4aec17e9 5d88e1edc534e14de93cf6e112b29bdf416531fbe791b0dd50600000000ffffffff12345678
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I am using this Manual string

--freq 600 --gc3355=/dev/cu.usbserial-000014FAB

Any help would be much appreciated.

Gotta love CNet—and if Anonymailer isn't controlling the release that they're distributing, it could be a host for the OSXCoinThief trojan.

To be clear, I'm not dissing Anonymailer, but am highly critical of Downloads.com, as that site has been a distribution point for this malware, where it's been found bundled with legit software.

Download MacMiner directly from the Fabulous Panda website.

Hey Shannon, it sounds as though cnet is distributing and old version, please get the new one from macminer.fabulouspanda.com and that should fix the problem for you

Trying to find the right place to post this:

Brand new to mining and Macminer (and this forum).  Hope I'm posting in the right place.  I'm just looking to mine for fun and to learn and downloaded Macminer from Cnet and went with the default settings.  I pasted in my bitcoin and litecoin addressses but when I click "Start" I get what I think is an error message (see below) followed by the pop-up telling me that bgminer has started and forcing me to click "Indeed".

dyld: Library not loaded: /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/lib/libblkmaker-0.1.0.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/shannon/Downloads/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/lib/libblkmaker_jansson-0.1.0.dylib
  Reason: image not found

Any idea how to resolve this?

Thanks,
Shannon

nwoolls latest is rolled in now:

http://downloads.fabulouspanda.co.uk/MacMiner-gridseed7.zip

his instructions should hopefully improve on a few of the issues with the 'CPU' miner!

Are we having fun with this yet?

For support for the GridSeed 5-chip devices, if you are feeling crazy you can try this out (Scrypt-only atm):

https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/commits/feature/gridseed-support

I give it the It Works For Me stamp of approval. Run it with -S gridseed:all and specify frequency with --set-device gridseed:clock=freq, e.g. 850 (default is 600).



Also, these should be loaded automatically but in case they aren't:

what can i do to test/confirm this?

Ah, damn, what about pre 10.9?
CDC not FTDI, right

More 2 cents from me (hope to know more later):

The 5-chip units use the Apple CDC drivers, not FTDI drivers. Only the 1-chip units seem to use FTDI.

Hi,

Unfortunately unloading the drivers did not make any difference on cgminer.

A little more troubleshooting info...

Switched to trying to GPU mine SHA-256 and it's working fine. Looks like it's just scrypt that's not working on GPU for me. Which is unfortunate, since I'm trying to mine scrypt coins :-)

OSX 10.7.4
MacMiner Version 1.5.18e (1518e)

Hey, what OS version are you running? I know GPU mining isn't working on 10.6 but CPU mining is… Also, which version of MacMiner?

Not sure where to post so hopefully this is the right place..

I'm trying to use MacMiner on a Mac Pro with Radeon 5870 to do GPU scrypt mining. My pool settings all work (tested and working with the CPU miner). When I try to use GPU, the output lists new blocks, but it doesn't seem to actually be doing any work. No mh listing and no accepted/rejected or number of threads running or anything. Also, my RAM usage spikes out of control and eats up like 8GB ram in 2 minutes and then continues on into swap, and I have to reboot to fix everything. I'm just using the recommended settings button (intensity at 4, also tried at 11, everything else auto).

Any ideas?