Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 Mining Guide / HOWTO - page 11.

miningnew

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How can i connect to the SSH server?

SchizophrenicX

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"I'm not psychic; I'm just damn good"

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:

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

supa

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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.

SchizophrenicX

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"I'm not psychic; I'm just damn good"

Hi, I finally got down to getting a fresh install and followed the guide. I had to reboot, aticonfig --initial --adapter=all then reboot again. cuz the first time I have no idea it seems like it didn't get through.

Anyhow. I kept having failed to connect from phoenix and can't get poclbm to run. Anyone can give me an idea?
Also via Aticonfig I can't underclock my mem to 300. I heard this got to do with the atiocl file but I don't know how to do it. I know AMDOverdriveCtrl can go to 300 and even below but I wanna write a simple script to run my miners and OC at the start of the machine.

EDIT: poclbm can connect but phoenix keeps saying Failed to connect. -.- I don't know why poclbm had error running previously after I reboot. It runs fine.

darkpandora

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i have overclocked and configured the 4870x2 and the 6990 and saved the profile for each video card, like this 4870.ovdr and 6990.ovdr.

when i run: ~$ AMDOverdriveCtrl -b 6990.ovdr -i4

i get this message:
INF: Nr. of Adapters: 10
INF: Adapter index: 0, active, ID:12099968, ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
INF: Adapter index: 1, inact., ID:12099968, ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
INF: Adapter index: 2, active, ID:13011456, ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
INF: Adapter index: 3, inact., ID:13011456, ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
INF: Adapter index: 4, active, ID:13454064, AMD Radeon HD 6990
INF: Adapter index: 5, inact., ID:13454064, AMD Radeon HD 6990
INF: Adapter index: 6, inact., ID:13454064, AMD Radeon HD 6990
INF: Adapter index: 7, inact., ID:13454064, AMD Radeon HD 6990
INF: Adapter index: 8, inact., ID:13454064, AMD Radeon HD 6990
INF: Adapter index: 9, active, ID:15688544, AMD Radeon HD 6990
INF: Adapter index 4 choosen.
INF: Nr. of Performance Levels: 3
Segmentation fault

the profile for 4870 runs fine, but i get this error for the 6990. how do i run the profile for the 6990?
thanks

minerX

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Is it normal for AMDoverDRive ctrl to freeze at this point? I've let it go like 5 minutes...

$ AMDOverdriveCtrl -b amdconfig

INF: Nr. of Adapters: 12
INF: Adapter index: 0, active, ID:14054336, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 1, inact., ID:14054336, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 2, inact., ID:14054336, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 3, active, ID:14671328, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 4, inact., ID:14671328, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 5, inact., ID:14671328, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 6, active, ID:15239248, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 7, inact., ID:15239248, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 8, inact., ID:15239248, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 9, active, ID:15807168, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 10, inact., ID:15807168, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index: 11, inact., ID:15807168, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
INF: Adapter index 0 choosen.
INF: Nr. of Performance Levels: 3
INF: Perf Level 0: GPU 157MHz Memory 300MHz Voltage 0.968V
INF: Perf Level 1: GPU 550MHz Memory 900MHz Voltage 1.068V
INF: Perf Level 2: GPU 850MHz Memory 900MHz Voltage 1.118V
ACT: Set fan speed to default
INF: Nr. of Displays to check 4
INF: Color temp disp(3) :
INF: current 6500K default 6500K
INF: min 4000K max 10000K step 100K

minerX

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Quote from: supa on June 13, 2011, 11:54:37 AM

Quote from: minerX on June 13, 2011, 07:14:27 AM

I just spent 5 hours messing with Ubuntu on one of my rigs. Only to find out it's been fucking up because for some reason PCI_16 Extension bridges don't work.

What the fuck Sad

$400 motherboard with 7x PCI and can't even use ribbons? Fucking shenanigans.

Was this the final answer? Is that a restriction with a bridge on the mainboard that is also present in Windows or some weird incompatibility/proprietary whacky drivers/general weirdness?

Congrats on finding the issue - hope you can get it solved.

No. This was a NEW problem on a different box. I decided to install my 5th 5850 on one my ubuntu boxes. But I needed the PCI extenders for it to work. After 2 hours of reinstall / crashing I decided to test all the components one by one. Basically any time I added an extender ribbon the computer would freeze on Ubuntu startup. Which doesn't make any sense because I have 2 other computers running extender ribbons.

As for the 6950/6970 problem. I just installed windows. I have all 3 cards runnining between 400-425 mhash now. I flashed the voltage and then did the CCC unlock trick. (6xxx cannot use RBE to adjust ANY clock settings, due to RBE fault.) I'm sad that I can't use Ubuntu but there doesn't seem to be a fix.

In windows I had to turn all 4 cores on and am at 80-95% CPU. Ubuntu with 2 cores @ 10% cpu. Wacky.

supa

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Protip: Type AMDO, hit tab, hit enter.

Unless you have more than one thing that starts with AMDO..... but that's probably not likely.

darkpandora

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Quote from: darkpandora on June 13, 2011, 05:22:47 PM

Quote from: supa on June 13, 2011, 05:01:21 PM

Looks interesting!

And I think you already solved it, but AMDOverDriveCtrl -i X lets you choose card X.

yup i did

, now i will overclock my 4870x2
i use this command for my 6990:

AMDOverDriveCtrl -b 6990.ovdr -i 1

damn:(
i was able to run AMDOverDriveCtrl command when i was on ubuntu terminal. i unpluged the screen and came on my room to start mining from SSH, then i get this when i type this command:

~$ AMDOverDriveCtrl -h
AMDOverDriveCtrl: command not found

why? whats wrong with SSH or putty?

edit: lol nvm, i was running "AMDOverDriveCtrl" instead of "AMDOverdriveCtrl".
it works now.

darkpandora

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Quote from: supa on June 13, 2011, 05:01:21 PM

Looks interesting!

And I think you already solved it, but AMDOverDriveCtrl -i X lets you choose card X.

yup i did

, now i will overclock my 4870x2
i use this command for my 6990:

AMDOverDriveCtrl -b 6990.ovdr -i 1

supa

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Looks interesting!

And I think you already solved it, but AMDOverDriveCtrl -i X lets you choose card X.

darkpandora

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Quote from: darkpandora on June 13, 2011, 04:41:37 PM

Quote from: supa on June 13, 2011, 04:29:19 PM

I don't usually even eff with the AMDOverDriveCtrl profiles.

You do need to make a profile and -b it. Here's a "dummy" file you can edit with a text editor, save and load. Make sure to change your values to something sane for your config.

Code:

temp_day="6500" color_temp_night="4000" transition="30"/>

I just launch it and leave it running, then use aticonfig. It's probably cleaner/easier/better to do the profile thing, but I've grown on just using aticonfig. Wink

i use SSH to start my miners.
btw, i overclocked my 6990. holy s**t.. i got 426Mhash/sec on only 1 core, i changed the settings to 1000 gpu core and 75 memory. Cheesy

but i was unable to overclock core 2. there is no option in atioverdrivectrl to chose core 2. how do i do that? thx

never mind:D i found out after google search.

this is what i ended up with

~$ aticonfig --odgc --adapter=all

Adapter 0 - AMD Radeon HD 6990
Core (MHz) Memory (MHz)
Current Clocks : 250 150
Current Peak : 1000 75
Configurable Peak Range : [500-1200] [75-1500]
GPU load : 0%

Adapter 1 - AMD Radeon HD 6990
Core (MHz) Memory (MHz)
Current Clocks : 250 150
Current Peak : 1000 75
Configurable Peak Range : [500-1200] [75-1500]
GPU load : 0%

darkpandora

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Quote from: supa on June 13, 2011, 04:29:19 PM

I don't usually even eff with the AMDOverDriveCtrl profiles.

You do need to make a profile and -b it. Here's a "dummy" file you can edit with a text editor, save and load. Make sure to change your values to something sane for your config.

Code:

temp_day="6500" color_temp_night="4000" transition="30"/>

I just launch it and leave it running, then use aticonfig. It's probably cleaner/easier/better to do the profile thing, but I've grown on just using aticonfig. Wink

i use SSH to start my miners.
btw, i overclocked my 6990. holy s**t.. i got 426Mhash/sec on only 1 core, i changed the settings to 1000 gpu core and 75 memory. Cheesy

but i was unable to overclock core 2. there is no option in atioverdrivectrl to chose core 2. how do i do that? thx

supa

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I don't usually even eff with the AMDOverDriveCtrl profiles.

You do need to make a profile and -b it. Here's a "dummy" file you can edit with a text editor, save and load. Make sure to change your values to something sane for your config.

Code:

temp_day="6500" color_temp_night="4000" transition="30"/>

I just launch it and leave it running, then use aticonfig. It's probably cleaner/easier/better to do the profile thing, but I've grown on just using aticonfig. Wink

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Quote from: Dusty on June 13, 2011, 03:47:44 PM

Quote from: darkpandora on June 13, 2011, 03:09:32 PM

i have 6990, i cannot overclock the other core.
and when i set memory to lower then 1250mhz i get this error:

Invalid settings
The chosen overdrive settings are not valid.
Frequency settings must follow the rule:
low level <= mid level <= high level

As the error explains, you have to first lower the clocks on the mid level, and then the settings on the high one.

There are three profiles: low, mid and high. Each higher profile MUST be faster (or equal) to the lower one.
So for example if you have 1250 Mhz clock on mid level you can't set it to less in the high one.

thanks so much man.. i will definitely donate to you if it works Cheesy

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Quote from: darkpandora on June 13, 2011, 03:09:32 PM

i have 6990, i cannot overclock the other core.
and when i set memory to lower then 1250mhz i get this error:

Invalid settings
The chosen overdrive settings are not valid.
Frequency settings must follow the rule:
low level <= mid level <= high level

As the error explains, you have to first lower the clocks on the mid level, and then the settings on the high one.

There are three profiles: low, mid and high. Each higher profile MUST be faster (or equal) to the lower one.
So for example if you have 1250 Mhz clock on mid level you can't set it to less in the high one.

darkpandora

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Quote from: Dusty on June 13, 2011, 02:52:53 PM

Quote from: darkpandora on June 13, 2011, 01:48:44 PM

so how do i run amdoverdrivectrl from SSH and downclock memory and overclock gpu?

Open the program from the console, set everything, save the configuration to file.

Then from the commandline do:
export DISPLAY=:0
AMDOverdriveCtrl -b

i have 6990, i cannot overclock the other core.
and when i set memory to lower then 1250mhz i get this error:

Invalid settings
The chosen overdrive settings are not valid.
Frequency settings must follow the rule:
low level <= mid level <= high level

Dusty

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Quote from: darkpandora on June 13, 2011, 01:48:44 PM

so how do i run amdoverdrivectrl from SSH and downclock memory and overclock gpu?

Open the program from the console, set everything, save the configuration to file.

Then from the commandline do:
export DISPLAY=:0
AMDOverdriveCtrl -b

darkpandora

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Quote from: supa on June 13, 2011, 01:34:35 PM

Delete and redownload it. Something went seriously wrong. Wink

thanks, worked Cheesy

so how do i run amdoverdrivectrl from SSH and downclock memory and overclock gpu?
thanks very much.

supa

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Delete and redownload it. Something went seriously wrong. Wink

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