Hey gigavps I saw in the cgminer thread you got this mostly working?? Would you mind sharing what was needed for BAMT + cgminer + BFL? (given there was bounty, no would be a perfectly reasonable answer here)
Hi gnar1ta$, The bounty has gone to lodcrappo (the creator of BAMT) as he was able to log into my rig and figure out what was needed to get the debian OS to recognize the single. There kernel mod was there but not enabled and there were a couple other things he did to get it working. Lodcrappo created fix #7 for BAMT 0.5 to distribute this to the masses. I now have the single plugged into a BAMT rig and cgminer recognizes it and runs it. Unfortunately, the gpumon and mgpumon tools are based on gpus and not devices and the cgminer api call "devs" does not return the BFL device, so no monitoring. We are close.... I can smell it.  |
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Kano & Conman, I have my BFL single running on BAMT with cgminer but it would seem that the API call "devs" does not report back about the BFL single. Here is the output from the "devs" call. STATUS=S
,Code=9
,Msg=2 GPU(s)
,Description=cgminer 2.2.7
|GPU=0,Enabled=Y,Status=Alive,Temperature=73.50,Fan Speed=2355,Fan Percent=48,GPU Clock=895,Memory Clock=1000,GPU Voltage=1.100,GPU Activity=99,Powertune=0,MHS av=364.64,MHS 5s=368.09,Accepted=81,Rejected=0,Hardware Errors=0,Utility=4.87,Intensity=9,Last Share Pool=0,Last Share Time=1330436872
|GPU=1,Enabled=Y,Status=Alive,Temperature=73.50,Fan Speed=1892,Fan Percent=42,GPU Clock=895,Memory Clock=1000,GPU Voltage=1.100,GPU Activity=99,Powertune=0,MHS av=363.33,MHS 5s=367.82,Accepted=73,Rejected=0,Hardware Errors=0,Utility=4.38,Intensity=9,Last Share Pool=0,Last Share Time=1330436857
So the devs call is missing all BFL info. |
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Thanks for the help. I have determined that BAMT does not contain the proper serial support needed to create the ttyUSB* files. Moving on to ubuntu this evening....
I am interested to know how this was "determined" ? By my non existent linux skills..... hence the bounty for some help. |
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gigavps, I'm not familiar with BAMT, but assuming it is a typical Linux distro try this to narrow down the problem: 1) ensure that you have common module usbserial installed: should display usbserial 2) post output of shortly after you plugged in the BitForce. should contain 'ttyUSBx' 3) post output of 4) ensure that your cgminer supports FPGAs: ./cgminer -h | grep Built | grep bitforce If any of those fail, you'll have to try with a standard Ubuntu and cgminer built with BitForce support. Thanks for the help. I have determined that BAMT does not contain the proper serial support needed to create the ttyUSB* files. Moving on to ubuntu this evening.... |
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lodcrappo,
Would BAMT somehow keep ftdi_sio from writing new devices it finds to the /dev folder?
Thanks,
gigavps
Upon further inspection of BAMT, it looks like the kernel mod ftdi_sio does not exist. According to luke-jr, this kmod is needed to allow the kernel to write /dev/ttyUSB* files when new USB devices are found. |
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lodcrappo,
Would BAMT somehow keep ftdi_sio from writing new devices it finds to the /dev folder?
Thanks,
gigavps
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Had a try at this over the weekend but nothing yet.... Found this post from BFL stating that they find BFL singles with ttyUSB* in the /dev folder in linux. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg692304#msg692304I am guessing my problem is that BAMT doesn't have any ttyUSB* files in the /dev folder. Can anyone elaborate how this can be fixed? Looks like I have the following tty files... tty* ttyS* |
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For those that insist on the term 'proxy', at least consider the more informative 'proxy pool' moniker. It recognizes both the pooled nature of pools like ABCPool and the fact that they forward (part of the) hashpower.
Interesting. So you do mine some of your own blocks with your own bitcoind (or equivalent)? We have our own bitcoind in the mix too, which comes up with a block now and then. Interesting how the story is evasive and constantly changing. Most of my disgust with abcpool.co up to this point has been the fact that you guys are really good at typing explanations that mean nothing. Why not just be honest and upfront from the get go? Why evade answering direct questions when asked? |
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I have been watching this thread and want to thank everyone who has participated lately. It's great to see discussion about if/how to improve the BFL code and firmware without all of the BFL bashing going on.
Gigavps: any tips on how I can actually order their products bro? I placed an order four days ago , sent multiple emails and calls , I can't get anyone from bfl to even talk to me, I know they must be busy but damn ... Is it that hard for them to setup an order and take my money? I don't know what to tell you. I have yet to meet the guys from BFL in person and placed my orders months before now. I am sure they are swamped with all of the orders flying. |
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I have been watching this thread and want to thank everyone who has participated lately. It's great to see discussion about if/how to improve the BFL code and firmware without all of the BFL bashing going on.
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No switch hooked to the MB and nothing is shorting it.
I have another machine that's doing it now, as well, and it works just fine with my standard USB Ubuntu install... only with BAMT does it do the reset thing. So it's definitely BAMT doing it.
The only time I have ever seen a machine reboot for no reason in my cluster is because one of the two PSUs was overloaded or the fan on the PSU had stopped working. |
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Anyone noticed why the max payout you can set to is 0.000050 BTC, but the purchase price is 0.000055? Shouldn't you be able to set it to 0.000055 and still get shares?
Grue, gpumax.com is a "for profit" venture. It is a win (miners), win (purchasers), win (pirateat40) situation. Please don't complain that you're making more than PPS. |
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i don't like? i LOVE free shares. i even tried purchased 1m shares for 0 btc, but the system just not responding to my request.  *edit did you just stopped my previous purchase? i still have ~60k shares left D: Fixed No, we didnt stop anything. It finished. Maybe the price should go up since someone now knows how to make 300% more. Maybe .000075 per share now?  |
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I have been having a lot of issues w/ cgminer & 0.5.
This is not helpful. What problems, when do they happen, what makes them happen, etc? I should never have given this image the label "0.5". It seems to be giving people the impression that there is some difference between it and the last fix for 0.4 that simply isn't there. Nothing changed? Kernel? drivers? etc? Anyways: about 30% of the time cgminer fails to start on reboot. rebooting again or starting manually has no problem. sometimes when going into gpumon and pressing 0 I get "no screen matching cgminer found" but if I quit cgminer and do a screen -r it loads just fine (and yes the screen is named "cgminer"). BAMT reporting tools (gpumon, mgpumon, web gpumon, etc) show no data from cgminer (shares, MH/s, etc are 0). Sorry I can't help more but at this point using 0.4b works flawlessly so I didn't dive deeper into it yet. Maybe next weekend. I get these same issues on 0.4 where when a gpu is dead in cgminer, i coldreboot only to come back 10 minutes later and xOrg is taking up 99% cpu. I've just worked around it up to this point because lodcrapppo has enough to do I'm sure. To be clear, this only happens on 4 out of 18 rigs. |
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I could not begin to guess.
I can see the single with the command And it is on bus 001 device 005 so I don't think it's BAMT. But what the fuck do I know.... |
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Ok. I have BAMT 0.5 setup on a single rig and it was very straight forward. Awesome!
Bad news. When I add the -scan-serial option to the cgminer config and try to restart the mining process, the start process dies. I'm assuming this is because of one of the following reasons.
- cgminer 2.2.7 does not work for some reason with BFL stuff.
- cgminer does not work with debian for some reason.
I am going to have to get with BFL to see if I can get some answers around what linux distros they have been testing with.
I'll keep you up-to-date.
I don't have anything to test with here, so hopefully they know what is needed. Maybe some module for the serial interface? At one point I thought there was a mining program that came with the BFLs, and that was their recommended client. Did this change? If not, probably should get that working before trying more. The ufasoft miner also works with BFL singles. I have cgminer 2.2.7 working with the single on windows. If you know if any modules missing from BAMT for the serial interface, it may be good to add them and I'll give it a try. |
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Ok. I have BAMT 0.5 setup on a single rig and it was very straight forward. Awesome!
Bad news. When I add the -scan-serial option to the cgminer config and try to restart the mining process, the start process dies. I'm assuming this is because of one of the following reasons.
- cgminer 2.2.7 does not work for some reason with BFL stuff.
- cgminer does not work with debian for some reason.
I am going to have to get with BFL to see if I can get some answers around what linux distros they have been testing with.
I'll keep you up-to-date.
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gigavps, I had in mind that screenshots worth nothing because they can't prove anything. Turbor, do not shout at me. You are also in my potential scammers list now. Good luck.  LOL, and with that comment you're now on my watch list. Good LUCK! Uh oh.  |
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Another update!  The image below is cgminer with the single single at ~88 hours of up time.  I have tried to highlight the important parts of the screen for the uninformed. Starting from the top going left: 1) I am running cgminer 2.2.7 2) The single is averaging 810Mh/s 3) It's efficiency is 96% 4) It's submitted 59351 accepted shares |
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- Increased pool reliability
Please call you service what it really is. - Increased PROXY reliability |
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