Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 Mining Guide / HOWTO - page 21.

voxobscuro

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Quote from: befuddled on June 02, 2011, 11:02:28 PM

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No idea what "Barts" is...but I'm going to try mining with it!

"Barts" is the ATI codename for the 6800 chipset. "Cayman" is the 6900 series.

As far as permission denied: yeah either your user doesn't have permissions or the file isn't executable, e.g. "chmod a+x phoenix.py" & cetera.

Hey, the issue was that I had done several of the steps from the howto as root ( as opposed to using sudo ). I chown'd all the poclbm.py and other python files and its working now. Cool

Its pulling 247000 khash/s...which is well over 4 times what the imac is doing....not sure if thats good or not, but I'm going to sleep regardless.

Sideways

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Quote from: Jobbernowl on May 22, 2011, 09:54:58 AM

Unfortunately I still don't seem able to using aticonfig to read temperatures without a monitor plugged in. I get the following error:

ERROR - X needs to be running to perform ATI Overdrive(TM) commands

This doesn't make sense because obviously X is running because the system automatically logs on to my Unity desktop. When I can get physical access to the machine again I'll try plugging a null monitor connector onto the graphics card output to see if that helps - but I'd appreciate any other suggestions about what could causing this.

I'm having the same problem as Jabbernowl here, when I try the commands from a ssh session, it give me errors about The X Server not running, or having to run aticonfig as root; even though I can look over my shoulder and see the gfx desktop running. My intention is to have this box running completely headless, with only a cat5 cable and power going to it... and this is kinda getting in the way =] I haven't tried his suggestion of adding "xhost +" yet, as I have just read though the thread to see if anyone else had asked these questions. I see his, but not any solutions. I imagine it must be possible, because thought the guide there's talk of doing everything from a ssh session so I must be missing something. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanx for the great guide!

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No idea what "Barts" is...but I'm going to try mining with it!

"Barts" is the ATI codename for the 6800 chipset. "Cayman" is the 6900 series.

As far as permission denied: yeah either your user doesn't have permissions or the file isn't executable, e.g. "chmod a+x phoenix.py" & cetera.

SchizophrenicX

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

Hi Inaba. Does not running a desktop and have everything in command help reduce power consumption? I'm currently using LinuxCoin and it boots into desktop, after I have all my miners set up I just unplug the monitor. I'd like to know if there is certain advantage to 'not' running a desktop. I'm still trying to grasp what is SSH . Could u point me in the right directioN?

Inaba

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Why are you using Teamviewer if you can use SSH? Just do everything from SSH, running a desktop is kind of pointless on a mining box. Is there some reason you want to maintain access to the desktop?

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Quote from: Inaba on June 02, 2011, 10:24:47 AM

Quote from: Internet151 on June 02, 2011, 06:31:48 AM

After tinkering with this for dozens of hours, I finally got this working on a USB flash drive. Yet after running through the 32-step configuration and restarting, my remote desktop client (Teamviewer) only shows me a black screen for this computer. Would any of you happen to know what's causing this and/or how to fix it?

Can you SSH into the box?

Quote from: chungenhung on June 02, 2011, 10:05:53 AM

Can anyone do a quick guide on how to make it work with Phoenix miner?
Would I be able to simply download the Phoenix miner and start running or does it needs to be compiled?
Sorry, I am a noob when it comes to Linux.

Phoenix is downloaded as a part of this guide. You use it in the phoenix directory.

Yes, and I can still see the mouse move on the Ubuntu machine and left/right click still works through Teamviewer's black screen.

voxobscuro

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I do have the AMD drivers installed. I did that bit last night when I installed Ubuntu. Good thought though....I had to double check to make sure I had done that.

Weird enough, now that I'm logged into the front end, I get this:

Code:

No device specified or device not found, use -d to specify one of the following

[0]     Barts
[1]     AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
$

No idea what "Barts" is...but I'm going to try mining with it!

Edit: nope. Same "permission denied" error message. I wonder if I messed up some ownership somewhere...

befuddled

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Well one thing I did before following the instructions that's not explicitly there in the instructions, as mentioned in my post above, is I installed the proprietary ATI drivers. On the "Ubuntu Software Center", there was a package for the proprietary ATI fglrx driver. The ATI-APP-SDK 2.4 installation notes says that it requires these in order to work. If you don't install those first, don't you just get the default open-source "radeon" driver? Maybe that's why those who don't see their GPUs as available devices aren't detecting them. The OpenCL stack needs the proprietary ATI driver. I don't know for sure. Maybe someone who knows can confirm or deny.

voxobscuro

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Hey there, I think I've about got everything sorted but I've got one last hangup. poclbm.py doesn't list the graphics card.
I installed SDK 2.4, but other than that I followed the 64bit portion of the guide. Well written too, thanks a lot.

Code:

$sudo aticonfig --lsa
* 0. 01:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series

* - Default adapter
$./poclbm.py 
No protocol specified
No device specified or device not found, use -d to specify one of the following

[0]	AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
$

I also tried testing pool mining on the CPU to see if I did everything right...but I think I've missed something because this is what I get:

Code:

$ ./poclbm.py --device=0 --user=___ --pass=___ --host=btcguild.com --port=8332
No protocol specified
Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 505, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/home/vox/sources/poclbm/BitcoinMiner.py", line 272, in miningThread
    self.loadKernel()
  File "/home/vox/sources/poclbm/BitcoinMiner.py", line 373, in loadKernel
    binaryW = open(cacheName, 'wb')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '942631b5db2d61ba4bbed015ac746f71.elf'

Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC^C                   
bye

I did some searching around in the thread here, and read through much of it to solve my other problems, but nothing no this front. I appreciate any insight.

EDIT: I'm not sure if it matters. The machine currently has a monitor installed, but I did all the config remotely. I'm not planning on leaving a monitor attached to it, but I'm going to run it as a headless server/miner.

Thanks
-vox

Inaba

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Someone else should be able to help you with that. I don't use Phoenix as it's too unstable. But yes, you can open one terminal window for each instance.

chungenhung

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ok, i see.
So, how do I run multiple instances each with its own window showing the progress?
I am guessing opening up a terminal, run instance 1, open another terminal, run instance 2, etc.
Ultimately I am looking to create shortcuts on desktop where I can just double click to launch individual miners.
Could you show the code to do that?

Thanks mate, will send donations

Inaba

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Quote from: Internet151 on June 02, 2011, 06:31:48 AM

After tinkering with this for dozens of hours, I finally got this working on a USB flash drive. Yet after running through the 32-step configuration and restarting, my remote desktop client (Teamviewer) only shows me a black screen for this computer. Would any of you happen to know what's causing this and/or how to fix it?

Can you SSH into the box?

Quote from: chungenhung on June 02, 2011, 10:05:53 AM

Can anyone do a quick guide on how to make it work with Phoenix miner?
Would I be able to simply download the Phoenix miner and start running or does it needs to be compiled?
Sorry, I am a noob when it comes to Linux.

Phoenix is downloaded as a part of this guide. You use it in the phoenix directory.

chungenhung

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Can anyone do a quick guide on how to make it work with Phoenix miner?
Would I be able to simply download the Phoenix miner and start running or does it needs to be compiled?
Sorry, I am a noob when it comes to Linux.

Internet151

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After tinkering with this for dozens of hours, I finally got this working on a USB flash drive. Yet after running through the 32-step configuration and restarting, my remote desktop client (Teamviewer) only shows me a black screen for this computer. Would any of you happen to know what's causing this and/or how to fix it?

SchizophrenicX

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

Hi inaba, I'm using a USB stick Ubuntu LiveCD w/ persistence. I'll get back here to let you know if it works. I'll be doing x86 & x64 installations. Btw great guide. Theres another guide on the x86 yesterday but the commands vastly differs from yours, I'm pretty intrigue haha. Anyway let you know how things turn out.

Inaba

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No, it doesn't. It's for ATI only.

snidd111

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I feel like a n00b here, but does your guide work with nvidia chips? i read through all the pages and there's only one comment that I shouldn't use nvidia if it's onboard.

Felex

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LOL, i skip over that step. Embarrassed

Thank you very much.

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Quote from: Felex on June 01, 2011, 08:06:16 PM

I did it all again, and now it's all installed, but it has one problem:

Code:

fgdsg@dfgdsgsdgdsg:~/poclbm$ ./poclbm.py
No device specified or device not found, use -d to specify one of the following

[0]	AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor
[1]	Cypress
[2]	Cypress

What do i have to do to run it?

I wrote ./poclbm.py -d 1, but i get this:

Code:

Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC

You need to point your miner somewhere for it to work. i.e. create account+worker at btcguild and use http://www.btcguild.com/how_to_connect.php for instructions.

See also ./poclbm.py -h for help.

Felex

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I did it all again, and now it's all installed, but it has one problem:

Code:

fgdsg@dfgdsgsdgdsg:~/poclbm$ ./poclbm.py
No device specified or device not found, use -d to specify one of the following

[0]	AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor
[1]	Cypress
[2]	Cypress

What do i have to do to run it?

I wrote ./poclbm.py -d 1, but i get this:

Code:

Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC

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