Topic: Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 Mining Guide / HOWTO - page 10. (Read 281466 times)
Need more info. Try installing from aptitude? You might just be missing some dependencies.
when i try to start it it says missing some library, install the drivers, or something along those lines
inaba great guide, any chance youll add the few steps to get amdoverdrivectrl to work?
thanks!
thanks!
What are you having trouble with?
I don't use or know anything about amdoverdrivectl. I will try to take a look at it soon, super busy with getting my pool up and running at the moment, but I should have some time this coming week.
inaba great guide, any chance youll add the few steps to get amdoverdrivectrl to work?
thanks!
thanks!
I'm not really following you? You aren't following the guide at all if you are doing this as root and using aptitude instead of apt-get.
Some of these steps should NOT be compiled and/or installed as root as it will break things and/or cause problems in later steps. What ever you have done here is not part of the guide and people should NOT go down that path unless they know what they are doing. If they know what they are doing, they probably are not reading this guide anyway.
Some of these steps should NOT be compiled and/or installed as root as it will break things and/or cause problems in later steps. What ever you have done here is not part of the guide and people should NOT go down that path unless they know what they are doing. If they know what they are doing, they probably are not reading this guide anyway.
At the moment I'm configuring system according to guide for SDK 2.4 on fresh Ubuntu Server 11.04.
Few notes:
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- Also had problems installing fglrx
Maybe it will be useful for anybody else...
Few notes:
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29. cd ~
throws me to root home folder, had to return to sudoer user home- Also had problems installing fglrx
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root@miner1:/home/plangus# aptitude install fglrx vim openssh-server g++ libboost-all-dev subversion git-core python-numpy
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fglrx fglrx-amdcccle{a}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/28.0 MB of archives. After unpacking 79.9 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Selecting previously deselected package fglrx.
(Reading database ... 64190 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fglrx (from .../fglrx_2%3a8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package fglrx-amdcccle.
Unpacking fglrx-amdcccle (from .../fglrx-amdcccle_2%3a8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up fglrx (2:8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/fglrx_drv: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing fglrx (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fglrx-amdcccle:
fglrx-amdcccle depends on fglrx; however:
Package fglrx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fglrx-amdcccle (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
fglrx
fglrx-amdcccle
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up fglrx (2:8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/fglrx_drv: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing fglrx (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fglrx-amdcccle:
fglrx-amdcccle depends on fglrx; however:
Package fglrx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fglrx-amdcccle (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
fglrx
fglrx-amdcccle
Solved it by creating folder /usr/lib/xorg/modules/driversThe following NEW packages will be installed:
fglrx fglrx-amdcccle{a}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/28.0 MB of archives. After unpacking 79.9 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Selecting previously deselected package fglrx.
(Reading database ... 64190 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fglrx (from .../fglrx_2%3a8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package fglrx-amdcccle.
Unpacking fglrx-amdcccle (from .../fglrx-amdcccle_2%3a8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up fglrx (2:8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/fglrx_drv: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing fglrx (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fglrx-amdcccle:
fglrx-amdcccle depends on fglrx; however:
Package fglrx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fglrx-amdcccle (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
fglrx
fglrx-amdcccle
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up fglrx (2:8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/fglrx_drv: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing fglrx (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fglrx-amdcccle:
fglrx-amdcccle depends on fglrx; however:
Package fglrx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fglrx-amdcccle (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
fglrx
fglrx-amdcccle
Maybe it will be useful for anybody else...
could u include a step by step guide to get amdoverdrivectrl to work aswell? i tried installing the catalyst drivers after doing your guide, but that seemed to fuck up everything and now poclbm dosnt work, and still couldnt get amdoverdrivectrl to work(might have done something wrong here gonna try again) says missing catalyst driver bla bla
great guide, linux mining is finally working for me (donated what i mined yesterday on windows 
)
still have few problems (im a windows man since they made 3.11, never used too much of linux)
i googled that to run startup script
must be executed, so i came up with that
but that script is not executed (yes, i used chmod, i guess it starts too soon and some magic with priorities must be done)
so what i'm doing now is using ssh and with the obvious drawback
is there somewhere part two to this guide?
i would love to set each core in separate terminals, preferably accessible via ssh (or xrdp to keep it simple)
that looks cool http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16548.0 but is not finished yet...
)still have few problems (im a windows man since they made 3.11, never used too much of linux)
i googled that to run startup script
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update-rc.d mining.sh defaults
must be executed, so i came up with that
but that script is not executed (yes, i used chmod, i guess it starts too soon and some magic with priorities must be done)
so what i'm doing now is using ssh and
Code:
screen ./mining.sh
is there somewhere part two to this guide?
i would love to set each core in separate terminals, preferably accessible via ssh (or xrdp to keep it simple)
that looks cool http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16548.0 but is not finished yet...
m4rkiz: What card types are you trying to set. If you have two 5970's, you can't set 0.1, you have to set 0.1 as 0.1 doesn't have a fan, since it's just the 2nd GPU of the card.
is there a line missing
i am a complete linux newbie and i can't set fan at 100% on my second card...
also, any recommendation on how to monitor workers if pool don't support it? saw some thread about some script recently but i can't find it now...
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If you have multiple cores, you'll need to export a different display variable to access the different cores, like this:
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Show fan speed on 2nd card:
export DISPLAY=:0.1; aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get fanspeed 0"
export DISPLAY=:0.1; aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get fanspeed 0"
i am a complete linux newbie and i can't set fan at 100% on my second card...
Code:
Last login: Fri Jun 17 19:17:31 2011 from user-pc
user@miner:~$ aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!
user@miner:~$ aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 1 100"
PPLIB command execution has failed!
ati_pplib_cmd: execute "set" failed!
user@miner:~$ export DISPLAY=:0.1; aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get fanspeed 0"
PPLIB command execution has failed!
ati_pplib_cmd: execute "get" failed!
user@miner:~$
also, any recommendation on how to monitor workers if pool don't support it? saw some thread about some script recently but i can't find it now...
try either:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/files/deb%20binaries/amdoverdrivectrl_1.1.4_amd64.deb/download
or
or run the gui debian installer (or synaptic or whatever), search for AMD and click on AMDOverdriveCtrl.
Good luck.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/files/deb%20binaries/amdoverdrivectrl_1.1.4_amd64.deb/download
or
Code:
sudo apt-get install amdoverdrivectrl
or run the gui debian installer (or synaptic or whatever), search for AMD and click on AMDOverdriveCtrl.
Good luck.
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i think i have 32bit, it dont say that its 64.. my ubuntu is 64bit.. but when i try to download amdoverdrivectrl 64bit i get some kind of error from the site. do you know where i can download amdoverdrivectrl from a legit site?
thanks.
thanks.
Dev at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/
i know, but i get this message when i click download:
Unable to find any mirror information for the "/C++ sources/AMDOverdriveCtrl.1.2.0.tar.bz2" file. Please select another file.
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i think i have 32bit, it dont say that its 64.. my ubuntu is 64bit.. but when i try to download amdoverdrivectrl 64bit i get some kind of error from the site. do you know where i can download amdoverdrivectrl from a legit site?
thanks.
thanks.
Dev at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/
darkpandora,
Try using the GUI to re-edit and save your 6990 config. Seems like it might be exploding when it tries to load it - maybe a stray > or some other character somewhere?
Also - can you set the values you want for your 6990 with aticonfig? If the values are a bit wonky, I'd imagine AMDOverDriveCtrl might take a dive trying to set them.
SchizophreniX,
Double check your arguments. poclbm and phoenix have *VERY* different ways of defining username, password and host. Did you possibly fat finger the phoenix line? It should be something along the lines of -u http://username:[email protected]:8332
poclbm lets you use the --user, --pass, --server, --port method.
Try using the GUI to re-edit and save your 6990 config. Seems like it might be exploding when it tries to load it - maybe a stray > or some other character somewhere?
Also - can you set the values you want for your 6990 with aticonfig? If the values are a bit wonky, I'd imagine AMDOverDriveCtrl might take a dive trying to set them.
SchizophreniX,
Double check your arguments. poclbm and phoenix have *VERY* different ways of defining username, password and host. Did you possibly fat finger the phoenix line? It should be something along the lines of -u http://username:[email protected]:8332
poclbm lets you use the --user, --pass, --server, --port method.
i cannot re edit in the GUI because the 4870x2 is on pci-e slot 1 and 6990 is on pci-e slot 4. when i run amdoverdriverctrl gui i can only see and edit 4870x2 profile.
Try opening two new guis for for the 6990 gpus from cli. In your case, this is:
Code:
AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 4
AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 9
Each command opens a new gui for each gpu on the 6990. You can then edit the profile/s via the gui and save it/them. I keep two profiles for mine since one gpu runs hotter than the other.
i think i have 32bit, it dont say that its 64.. my ubuntu is 64bit.. but when i try to download amdoverdrivectrl 64bit i get some kind of error from the site. do you know where i can download amdoverdrivectrl from a legit site?
thanks.
darkpandora,
Try using the GUI to re-edit and save your 6990 config. Seems like it might be exploding when it tries to load it - maybe a stray > or some other character somewhere?
Also - can you set the values you want for your 6990 with aticonfig? If the values are a bit wonky, I'd imagine AMDOverDriveCtrl might take a dive trying to set them.
SchizophreniX,
Double check your arguments. poclbm and phoenix have *VERY* different ways of defining username, password and host. Did you possibly fat finger the phoenix line? It should be something along the lines of -u http://username:[email protected]:8332
poclbm lets you use the --user, --pass, --server, --port method.
Try using the GUI to re-edit and save your 6990 config. Seems like it might be exploding when it tries to load it - maybe a stray > or some other character somewhere?
Also - can you set the values you want for your 6990 with aticonfig? If the values are a bit wonky, I'd imagine AMDOverDriveCtrl might take a dive trying to set them.
SchizophreniX,
Double check your arguments. poclbm and phoenix have *VERY* different ways of defining username, password and host. Did you possibly fat finger the phoenix line? It should be something along the lines of -u http://username:[email protected]:8332
poclbm lets you use the --user, --pass, --server, --port method.
i cannot re edit in the GUI because the 4870x2 is on pci-e slot 1 and 6990 is on pci-e slot 4. when i run amdoverdriverctrl gui i can only see and edit 4870x2 profile.
Try opening two new guis for for the 6990 gpus from cli. In your case, this is:
Code:
AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 4
AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 9
Each command opens a new gui for each gpu on the 6990. You can then edit the profile/s via the gui and save it/them. I keep two profiles for mine since one gpu runs hotter than the other.
I'm using a very similar command line as the previous poster but for deepBit. I have a dual 6990 setup and used this Ubuntu write-up which worked out great. The only problem is, I get really low Mhash/s (200 Mhash/s) when using Phoenix. If I switch to poclbm (poclbm.py), things go up to normal. (330 Mhash/s per GPU core)
Any thoughts? I have SDK 2.4 installed and followed the guide in the OP.
Any thoughts? I have SDK 2.4 installed and followed the guide in the OP.
no I double checked. in fact I've been checking everytime I type it wondering if it was something so stupid.
./phoenix.py -u http://username.workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 WORKSIZE=256 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7
for slush's pool
&
./phoenix.py -u http://[email protected]_workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 WORKSIZE=256 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7
for tycho's pool
I just kept getting fail to connect retrying. there is no reason for this to fail if poclbm is able to connect properly no?
*Anyway I'm still wondering about the underclocking for memory
EDIT:
./phoenix.py -u http://username.workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 WORKSIZE=256 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7
for slush's pool
&
./phoenix.py -u http://[email protected]_workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 WORKSIZE=256 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7
for tycho's pool
I just kept getting fail to connect retrying. there is no reason for this to fail if poclbm is able to connect properly no?
*Anyway I'm still wondering about the underclocking for memory
EDIT:
Code:
me@ubuntu:~/poclbm$ ./poclbm.py
No device specified or device not found, use -d to specify one of the following
[0] AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 B55 Processor
[1] Cypress
[2] Cypress
[3] Cypress
[4] Cypress
[5] Cypress
me@ubuntu:~/poclbm$ cd ../phoenix
me@ubuntu:~/phoenix$ ./phoenix.py -u http://username.workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=7
[15/06/2011 01:47:29] Phoenix r101 starting...
[15/06/2011 01:47:30] Failed to connect, retrying...
[15/06/2011 01:47:45] Failed to connect, retrying...
[0 Khash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC]^Cwenbin@Binbuntu:~/phoenix$ cd ../poclbm
wenbin@Binbuntu:~/poclbm$ ./poclbm.py -d1 -o api.bitcoin.cz -u username.workername --pass=workerpassword -v -w256 -f30
15/06/2011 01:48:39, 0b7c45c9, accepted
15/06/2011 01:48:44, f2c5f913, accepted
299841 khash/s
you have missed something, the port
it should be like this:
./phoenix.py -u http://username.workername:[email protected]:8332/ -k phatk DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=7
not this:
./phoenix.py -u http://username.workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=7
you can also use poclbm instead of phatk, i get more hash/s when im using poclbm:
./phoenix.py -u http://username.workername:[email protected]:8332/ -k poclbm Device=0 VECTORS AGGRESSION=13 WORKSIZE=128 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false
darkpandora,
Try using the GUI to re-edit and save your 6990 config. Seems like it might be exploding when it tries to load it - maybe a stray > or some other character somewhere?
Also - can you set the values you want for your 6990 with aticonfig? If the values are a bit wonky, I'd imagine AMDOverDriveCtrl might take a dive trying to set them.
SchizophreniX,
Double check your arguments. poclbm and phoenix have *VERY* different ways of defining username, password and host. Did you possibly fat finger the phoenix line? It should be something along the lines of -u http://username:[email protected]:8332
poclbm lets you use the --user, --pass, --server, --port method.
Try using the GUI to re-edit and save your 6990 config. Seems like it might be exploding when it tries to load it - maybe a stray > or some other character somewhere?
Also - can you set the values you want for your 6990 with aticonfig? If the values are a bit wonky, I'd imagine AMDOverDriveCtrl might take a dive trying to set them.
SchizophreniX,
Double check your arguments. poclbm and phoenix have *VERY* different ways of defining username, password and host. Did you possibly fat finger the phoenix line? It should be something along the lines of -u http://username:[email protected]:8332
poclbm lets you use the --user, --pass, --server, --port method.
i cannot re edit in the GUI because the 4870x2 is on pci-e slot 1 and 6990 is on pci-e slot 4. when i run amdoverdriverctrl gui i can only see and edit 4870x2 profile.
no I double checked. in fact I've been checking everytime I type it wondering if it was something so stupid.
./phoenix.py -u http://username.workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 WORKSIZE=256 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7
for slush's pool
&
./phoenix.py -u http://[email protected]_workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 WORKSIZE=256 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7
for tycho's pool
I just kept getting fail to connect retrying. there is no reason for this to fail if poclbm is able to connect properly no?
*Anyway I'm still wondering about the underclocking for memory
EDIT:
./phoenix.py -u http://username.workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 WORKSIZE=256 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7
for slush's pool
&
./phoenix.py -u http://[email protected]_workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 WORKSIZE=256 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7
for tycho's pool
I just kept getting fail to connect retrying. there is no reason for this to fail if poclbm is able to connect properly no?
*Anyway I'm still wondering about the underclocking for memory
EDIT:
Code:
me@ubuntu:~/poclbm$ ./poclbm.py
No device specified or device not found, use -d to specify one of the following
[0] AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 B55 Processor
[1] Cypress
[2] Cypress
[3] Cypress
[4] Cypress
[5] Cypress
me@ubuntu:~/poclbm$ cd ../phoenix
me@ubuntu:~/phoenix$ ./phoenix.py -u http://username.workername:[email protected] -k phatk DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=7
[15/06/2011 01:47:29] Phoenix r101 starting...
[15/06/2011 01:47:30] Failed to connect, retrying...
[15/06/2011 01:47:45] Failed to connect, retrying...
[0 Khash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC]^Cwenbin@Binbuntu:~/phoenix$ cd ../poclbm
wenbin@Binbuntu:~/poclbm$ ./poclbm.py -d1 -o api.bitcoin.cz -u username.workername --pass=workerpassword -v -w256 -f30
15/06/2011 01:48:39, 0b7c45c9, accepted
15/06/2011 01:48:44, f2c5f913, accepted
299841 khash/s
I'm using a -v and also putting a port in for phoenix. Try those.
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