Topic: The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC] - page 9. (Read 166698 times)

Hi Anonymailer,

Deleting the folder did the trick, i am able to start macminer again.

After entering my pool information and password, i started CG Miner and encounter the following:

2014-03-07 01:03:12] /Users/*/Documents/Temproray/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/gridcgminer3.5/bin/cgminer: -c: JSON decode of file '/Users/*/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/bfgurls.conf' failed
 unable to open /Users/*/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/bfgurls.conf: No such file or directory
 [2014-03-07 01:03:12] /Users/*/Documents/Temproray/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/gridcgminer3.5/bin/cgminer: -c: JSON decode of file '/Users/*/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/bfgurls.conf' failed
 unable to open /Users/*/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/bfgurls.conf: No such file or directory                   


Did i miss any steps?

OK, as i said earlier, i am totally new to this... so as expected, i encounter my first issue...

For the record, i am running OSX 10.9.1

VCP driver installed successfully from here - http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

After installing the driver and running ls -l /dev/cu.*

I noticed a new device was detected - crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   18,  11 Mar  6 23:48 /dev/cu.usbmodemfd1421

I am not sure whether this is the grid seed 5 miner.. but anyway, i did a test when i plug out the USB cable, it disappear.. so it must be it.   

Then I downloaded the macminer here - http://downloads.fabulouspanda.co.uk/MacMiner-gridseed2.zip

I went out and sign up a new pool from https://www.wemineltc.com and enter the following pool setting:  stratum+tcp://hk2.wemineltc.com:3336

Not sure what is the username/password, so i left it empty. 

And right after i saved, the FPGA window pop-up along with some error messages which i failed to copy down.. and then i panic.. basically i went on and start EVERY miner... and this went bad...

I can't quit the program and i have to force quite the macminer... then when i tried to start it... i got the "MacMiner Quit Unexpectedly" window

Process:         MacMiner [4575]
Path:            /Users/USER/Documents/*/MacMiner.app/Contents/MacOS/MacMiner
Identifier:      com.fabulouspanda.macminer
Version:         1.5.19gridseed2 (1519gridseed2)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [203]
Responsible:     MacMiner [4575]




What do i need to do now?

Thanks guys! The bfgminer update wasn't for the 5 chip devices unfortunately, but looking into things I think the cpuminer and cgminer I compiled for gridseed devices actually requires the same ftdi driver bfgminer does, unusually, so those may work with the bfgminer driver setup as opposed to the standard cgminer setup.

Great, my shipment just arrived today and i am going to fire it up!

Will report back!

Thanks

It occurs to me that this wasn't an update to support the Infinity Mini devices.

Sweet! Downloading now. Will report back shortly.

The version of MacMiner with the gridseed binaries is updated to nwoolls' latest version from the github pull https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/pull/409

http://downloads.fabulouspanda.co.uk/MacMiner-gridseed2.zip

Thanks for the reports on Linux! I'll take another look at the cgminer driver and see if I can figure what went wrong there.

Another update: After additional fiddling in Linux, I got dual mode working. I had to back the overclocking from 850 to 800 to get stable results on the Scrypt side, though I am seeing some "invalid nonce"warnings.

First I launch SHA-256 hashing in CGminer using:


Once that's running, I launch CPUminer in dual mode with:


I have no idea if that's helpful to you guys, but I thought I should update with my results. Still very much looking forward to doing all this with MacMIner.

Thanks to miaviator's setup guide (and some direct help), I finally figured out that modes on the 5-chip Infinity Mini are controlled by flags, rather than a switch. In CPUminer, it's:


So, running the device without a flag from CGminer does SHA-256. Running it from CPUminer without a flag is Scrypt only.  Running CGminer without a flag and CPUminer with the --dual flag gets you dual mode.

Who knew? I mean other than everyone but me?

Of course, I haven't gotten dual mode to work for me, but I'm fairly certain it's my noobish Linux ways.

Sorry for being so late on this but, yep, it works also by FQDN now, good job!

Sweet, I just bumped it up. Thanks, nwoolls.

Edit: Speed (as reported by pool) is still miserable (170kH/s) at a frequency of 850, but I went from 0.39% rejections to 0.0% rejections. Perhaps it's a coincidence.

2nd Edit: Some of my speed issues are variance—reported speed jumped to 220kH/s.  Still seeing 0.0% rejected shares.

Again, not expecting answers here, just reporting my results because these devices are new. Working with the command line tools makes me appreciate BitBacco and nwoolls all the more.

From what I have been told, 850 is completely safe. I run mine at 850 and get roughly 350 Kh/s a piece.

I was running it at 600. Just bumped up it up to 750 to see what's what. Call the fire department if you smell smoke across the pond.

Edit: That seemed to goose it to the 250k180H/s range. And the heat doesn't seem all much worse.

Remember the --freq 600 manual flag? Maybe that could help juice it up a bit, increased a little - check it doesn't start burning up though!

Whilst waiting for some proper Mac tools, I installed Ubuntu in Parallels just to get this thing running. Running it under CPUMiner, I have no idea what mode it's in but I'm getting a louse 112kH/s mining Scrypt. I'm not familiar enough with running the miners in the command line to ferret out what's what, and that includes trying to mine BTC with CGminer at the same time.

Just an update—I'm not expecting any answers here.

Right now yes, I recommend using both GPU and ASIC windows for now

Taking off the top half of the heat sink, I found a button on the logic board next to the LEDs. Is that a reset button or the mode switch? It seems curious to require the device to be partially disassembled, upside down, and running to switch modes. Plus you'd need to turn it off to reassemble it safely, unless screwing things onto a running logic board isn't an issue.

I couldn't find a switch on the Round Thing™. Where is it hiding?

Yes they have a physical switch on them to enable this. Then you run an instance of BFGMiner with the --scrypt argument and one without.