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Title: can you mine with a laptop's graphics card?
Post by: mvmacd on July 29, 2011, 06:30:01 PM

I am on Ubuntu, and I have a Dell Inspiron 1525. It has a GM965 Express chipset. Can I mine with this?

I made an account at bitcoinpool.com.
I have tried phoenix but it doesn't work.
This is what it does:

Code:

$ ./phoenix.py -u http://mvm***:*********@bitcoinpool.com:8334 -k poclbm 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./phoenix.py", line 123, in <module>
    miner.start(options)
  File "/home/matt/bitcoin/phoenix-1.50/Miner.py", line 75, in start
    self.kernel = self.options.makeKernel(KernelInterface(self))
  File "./phoenix.py", line 112, in makeKernel
    self.kernel = kernelModule.MiningKernel(requester)
  File "kernels/poclbm/__init__.py", line 132, in __init__
    platforms = cl.get_platforms()
pyopencl.LogicError: clGetPlatformIDs failed: invalid/unknown error code

Title: Re: can you mine with a laptop's graphics card?
Post by: alemaaltevinden on July 30, 2011, 09:27:54 AM

Are you sure you updated your drivers?

Title: Re: can you mine with a laptop's graphics card?
Post by: jh1523 on July 30, 2011, 10:20:35 AM

Seriously, you are trying to mine with an integrated Intel video chip? Especially one that is as old and hardware-crippled as the 965?

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It has pixel and vertex shaders which only support Shader Model 2.0b features, and the vertex shaders are still only software-emulated.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_3000)

Besides, none of Intel's graphics chips support OpenCL. It won't work.

Title: Re: can you mine with a laptop's graphics card?
Post by: kokjo on July 30, 2011, 10:28:40 AM

Quote from: mvmacd on July 29, 2011, 06:30:01 PM

Can I mine with this?

no, your card sucks

Title: Re: can you mine with a laptop's graphics card?
Post by: fush6644 on July 30, 2011, 02:19:05 PM

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what he said, but more politely :P

Title: Re: can you mine with a laptop's graphics card?
Post by: Escalus on July 30, 2011, 03:21:49 PM

actually, nearly no mining with notebooks is getting you any cash. maybe it will, with some kind of alienware thing, for around 2000+ bucks. but yeah.. besides that.. intel GMA chips are §$%&/.

Title: Re: can you mine with a laptop's graphics card?
Post by: mvmacd on August 02, 2011, 12:46:49 AM

Ok, that's what I was trying to find out, kthxbye

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