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Never mined before. i bought a machine with a 1gb ATI gpu. it is not high end. i've installed linux mint 15 and i installed the gldcoin client and have managed to get it running. now i am confused as to how to start mining with my gpu. I intend to mine GLD because it has a low network hashrate and i feel like it would be perfect match for my old graphics card. a great learning tool for me to learn to mine.

I've downloaded both Cgminer and Cudaminer and have no idea how to get started with either. additionally the only tutorials i can find for scrypt based coins are all for windows. there is barely a sentence made about linux. would anyone care to help me get started mining for the first time?

Thanks In advance

r3wt

Try here for a good example http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/ (http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/)

Even after they banned you from their forum?  ::)

based on your reputation and your number of post, i conclude this is a f****ng joke



yeah, im such a genius LOL

god i hope your being sarcastic, but with the quality of the audience here i kinda doubt it.

thanks super G. i'm on a desktop distro though, linux mint 15. i've done all the steps up to installing the ati drivers. i don't know how to do that and get  cgminer running from in the desktop. i wont be needing open ssh or any of that. can anyone provide me any help?

Installing drivers : http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1316  (this is AMD/Intel, so it should work regardless of your system)

Installing cgminer :

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config automake yasm

Get cgminer

git clone git://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer.git cgminer

Install ADL SDK 5.0

NOTE: This will allow cgminer adjustments of such things as your GPU’s clocking, voltage and fan speed.

Special Note: Download ADL_SDK_5.0.ZIP from http://developer.amd.com/amd-license-agreement/?f=ADL_SDK_5.0.zip. You might want to check if 5.0 is still the most current version first, and download whatever is most current. Modify the commands below according to the version you’re going to download.

mkdir ADL_SDK
cd ADL_SDK
mv ~/Downloads/ADL_SDK_5.0.zip .
unzip ADL_SDK_5.0.zip
cp include/* ~/cgminer/ADL_SDK
cd ~/cgminer
./autogen.sh
Special Note: After running the autogen.sh command, you should see a summary similar to this one:

Configuration Options Summary:
curses.TUI...........: FOUND: -lncurses
OpenCL...............: FOUND. GPU mining support enabled
scrypt...............: Disabled
ADL..................: SDK found, GPU monitoring support enabled

BFL.ASICs............: Disabled
BitForce.FPGAs.......: Disabled
Icarus.FPGAs.........: Disabled
ModMiner.FPGAs.......: Disabled
Ztex.FPGAs...........: Disabled

Compilation............: make (or gmake)
CPPFLAGS.............:
CFLAGS...............: -g -O2
LDFLAGS..............: -lpthread
LDADD................: -ldl -lcurl compat/jansson/libjansson.a -lpthread -L/opt/AMDAPP/lib/x86 -lOpenCL -lm
Installation...........: make install (as root if needed, with 'su' or 'sudo')
prefix...............: /usr/local

Continue with the next command (You are still in Terminal, in your cgminer folder):

make

Testing

export DISPLAY=:0
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
./cgminer -n

Starting cgminer: Once you’re registered on a mining pool, you can simply run the following basic Terminal command in your cgminer folder:

cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password
Where
http://pool:port
is the URL the pool requires you point your miner to.

Where username is the worker username you created on the pool. See your pool’s instructions.
Where password is the worker password (not your pool account password) you created on the pool. See your pool’s instructions.

Running cgminer with a configuration script

Once I experimented a bit with cgminer settings, I created a configuration script as shown on Complete Guide to Mine Bitcoin on Xubuntu 12.04.

To make your first cgminer configuration script, you simply cut and paste the following into a text document and save it in your cgminer folder as cg.sh. Don’t forget to add your pool credentials.

#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
cd /home/worker1/cgminer
./cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password --api-listen --api-network -I 9 --gpu-reorder --auto-fan --gpu-powertune 20 --gpu-engine 920,920,920,1125 --gpu-memclock 795,795,795,975
Once the file is saved, update it with:

chmod +x cg.sh
Then, start cgminer:

./cg.sh
That’s it. This should get you running. If you have a HD 7950, you might want to tweak the cgminer settings a bit to get more hashing power, adjust the fan speed etc.


(info taken from http://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/bitcoin-mining-with-ubuntu-12-04-lts-and-cgminer/ , but installing & running cgminer should be the same :) )

come on if you are legit - this is hillarious - you smashed Ant not that long ago -

and you are going to mine ? what?

ha ha i guess you might find some things out later then.

you pledged a whole bunch of currency to Ant - did you buy them ?

um yeah? i got them sitting in my cryptsy account?

ok i'm stuck on the autogen.sh

i get this message in terminal when i run it:


also i'm mining a scrypt coin and have no idea how to get that setup with cgminer. fuck, i hate windows, but maybe i should just go back to it. seems like it'd be much less of a pain in the ass then this has proven to be.