I am sure there are some links for this, and while I have done some looking, I have not scoured every corner of the internet.
First of all I have downloaded Litecoin 0.6.3c. After I started it, it downloaded about 1.5 GB (yikes), which I assume or the past blocks. I am trying to do simple mining (baby steps first), and that function seems to be incorporated into the gui, but when I select "start mining" nothing happens (well I do get a timestamp which says "solo mining started," but since the cpu is still completely idle, I am going to disregard that).
Can anyone explain why it is not working?
I assume people have favorites as far as programs used for mining. Does anyone have suggestions (must run on linux)?
Also, can someone mining on linux explain the tools necessary to use the gpu? I do have at least opencl installed:
ls -al /usr/lib64/libnvidia-*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-cfg.so -> libnvidia-cfg.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-cfg.so.1 -> libnvidia-cfg.so.313.30*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 148960 2013-04-30 10:05:57 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-cfg.so.313.30*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-compiler.so -> libnvidia-compiler.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2013-04-30 10:06:05 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-compiler.so.1 -> libnvidia-compiler.so.313.30*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27749808 2013-04-30 10:05:59 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-compiler.so.313.30*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-encode.so -> libnvidia-encode.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-encode.so.1 -> libnvidia-encode.so.313.30*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 135648 2013-04-30 10:05:57 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-encode.so.313.30*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-glcore.so -> libnvidia-glcore.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-glcore.so.1 -> libnvidia-glcore.so.313.30*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36607440 2013-04-30 10:05:59 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-glcore.so.313.30*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2013-04-30 10:06:03 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-ml.so -> libnvidia-ml.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2013-04-30 10:06:05 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-ml.so.1 -> libnvidia-ml.so.313.30*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 394280 2013-04-30 10:05:59 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-ml.so.313.30*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-opencl.so -> libnvidia-opencl.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-opencl.so.1 -> libnvidia-opencl.so.313.30*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8612212 2013-04-30 10:05:59 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-opencl.so.313.30*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-tls.so -> libnvidia-tls.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2013-04-30 10:06:04 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-tls.so.1 -> libnvidia-tls.so.313.30*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11728 2013-04-30 10:05:59 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-tls.so.313.30*
Is that enough (at least with specific mining programs), or do I actually need the toolkit or sdk?
Thank you in advance for your help.