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Tutorial for mining darkcoin on ubuntu 13.10 using ATI/AMD GPUs
After installing Ubuntu 13.10, download and install the latest AMD driver. Then enter the following at the terminal:
After installing Ubuntu 13.10, download and install the latest AMD driver. Then enter the following at the terminal:
Code:
sudo apt-get install build-essential git libcurl4-gnutls-dev ncurses-dev git autoconf libtool curl libncurses-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev -y
download linux opencl driver:
http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/heterogeneous-computing/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/downloads/
(scroll down to AMD-APP-SDK-v2.9-lnx64.tgz
cd ~/Downloads
tar -xvf AMD-APP-SDK-v2.9-lnx64.tgz
./Install-AMD-APP.sh
download the ADL SDK:
http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/graphics-development/display-library-adl-sdk/
cd ~/Downloads/
mkdir adl
mv ADL_SDK_6.0.zip adl
cd adl
unzip ADL_SDK_6.0.zip
cp include/*.h ~/sph-sgminer/ADL_SDK
[reboot]
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/prettyhatemachine/sph-sgminer.git
cd sph-sgminer/
autoreconf -i
CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native"
./configure
make
./sgminer -k darkcoin -o stratum+tcp://yourpool.com:1234 -u username -p password -I 18 -w 128 --thread-concurrency 12800 -g 1
Hi mate, I returned my graphics card, I bought A Radeon 6670, installed in along with the drivers. I tried to follow your commands but I get an error message saying: cp: cannot stat ‘include/*.h’: No such file or directory
Any idea what's wrong?
I just want to say, and let me tell you, I've done it myself, you will never mine enough coins to pay for that card. I bought 2 antminers 2 months ago when I first dove into cryptos, and I'll never see my money back on those, LOL. Now, you might be like me and want to learn above all else, that's cool too! But if you want to make an investment, buy some bitcoin, then buy darkcoin, it will be a better investment, but if you're a gamer, the card can be used for that as well, so it's cool.
Finally, please someone correct me if I'm wrong, think you still need a 64 bit system to mine dark???
Otherwise, after the above post, another user added this info:
If you run encrypted root, you'll be prompted with a framebuffer screen to input your password. Once you install these drivers, framebuffer will fail. It'll just be a blank screen and you'll wonder exactly how fucked you are because nothing is happening. Type your password blind, hit enter, everything is just fine...
Sorry, I forgot to note who that was
I'm currently mining DRK with my Radeon 6670 (not the fastest but it works)
I'll tell you in the morning how many coins I mine with it, I have a funny feeling it may take a while to get the £70 for my card back, lol. I didn't buy it to earm money, I bought it to learn how to mine, as I like to set challenges for myself, this one did make me scratch my head too.
I'm currently getting 350Kh with it,not sure if that is good?
