I just tried 2.0.2 and got the same error that I had with 2.0.1 which is as follows
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[2011-09-11 10:14:20] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0
[2011-09-11 10:14:20] The most common reason for this failure is cgminer being u
nable to read the kernel .cl files
[2011-09-11 10:14:20] Alternatively if it has failed on different GPUs, restarti
ng might help.
Press enter to continue:
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When I try to restart either GPU it crash's. When I press Q to quit the program it also crash's.
I'm back to using 2.0.0 again.
Sam
None of the initialisation code for the GPUs actually changed between 2.0 and 2.0.2. You are getting stung by random windows fuckage (this bug seems confined to windows) where you may have to restart it multiple times to get it working because it fails to build the kernels. You just happened to be lucky on the 2.0 release. However you are also in luck as there is a way around if it you already had it working in an earlier version. Copy any files from your 2.0.0 directory that have names ending in .bin into your 2.0.2 directory and try again. Yep, that worked. How far into the future will that carry me you think? Still crash's on exit. Thanks for the workaround, Sam |
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I just tried 2.0.2 and got the same error that I had with 2.0.1 which is as follows
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[2011-09-11 10:14:20] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0
[2011-09-11 10:14:20] The most common reason for this failure is cgminer being u
nable to read the kernel .cl files
[2011-09-11 10:14:20] Alternatively if it has failed on different GPUs, restarti
ng might help.
Press enter to continue:
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When I try to restart either GPU it crash's. When I press Q to quit the program it also crash's.
I'm back to using 2.0.0 again.
Sam
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Just tried 2.0.1 and get the error "Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0"
after pressing enter it shows both GPU''s disabled and trying to enable them causes a crash.
WinXP SP3
Cat 11.6
Sam
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+1 p.s. os2sam: do you really still run os/2?  I remember getting OS/2 Warp for Christmas one year when I was like 12 or 13, too bad for IBM win'95 came out that summer ;/ Well of course. Doesn't everyone? Still running OS/2 Warp 4 on a really old Thinkpad. The current versions are now called eComStation and I have that on my Personal Laptop and on a VPC on my company laptop. Having trouble finding a bitcoin miner though . Thanks for asking, Sam |
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The new GPU features are awesome! A few suggestions/requests:
3) Pressing "G" when you have more than a couple of cards makes it impossible to read the output, because the window the output is displayed to is too small unless you have a HUGE screen.
In Windoze I created a shortcut and changed the layout properties to 55 rows (Window height) instead of the default 25. Now I can see the info for both of my GPU's at once. You can also modify the pixels per character under the Fonts tab in conjunction with the layout window height to get more window realestate. Sam |
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I know the main stream thought is 300 is the sweet spot for mem, and I think this myth exists because it is the lowest point you can downclock in some early versions of software.
(in a slightly off topic but related issue, I can't clock my card, I got drivers installed and can mine, but EVERY clocking app {cgminer, overdrive, ccc (wont even start), clock tool} either doesn't run or has all sliders grayed out... nobody's helping in the technical forums D:> tried different drivers and ccc versions 11.5 thru 11.8 and it can't be messed up installs, I got frustrated and even reformatted and installed windows over and fresh installed the drivers for two of the versions .6 and .  Sorry if I'm stating the overly obvious, but in the ATI CCC did you unlock the overclocking page? When I first started messing with this stuff I looked at the overclock page a bunch of times before I realized that the lock was actually a button. I was really irritated about it being grayed out too. Sam |
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Hi Gents
Just want to report a possible bug here of some kind.
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But if I use CGMiner to clock my cards, I am getting significantly less performance
like 20 Mhash per card difference (total of 3 cards in machine)
I'm using WinXP with 11.6 and am using it to overclock a Radeon 5770 and 5830 to 950Mhz and underclock the memory to 300MHz and I verified that the settings took with GPU Shark. I could not do that with the ATI CCC. And my hash rate has improved by 60 to 70Mhs for the pair of GPU's. Sam |
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The adl include files are only needed for compiling it. I have compiled adl support into the windows binaries myself. I tried very hard to make the code work on both platforms, and even I'm surprised the windows version works as well as the linux one. There is no ADL support for any other operating systems though.
Thanks for the clarification. After updating to Catalyst 11.6 everything is working fine for me on WinXP. Thanks again for your work, Sam |
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As per the README: grab AMD's ADL, unzip and copy the header (*.h) files from the "include" directory to the "cgminer/ADL_SDK" directory. After that, configure should pick up card control support and it'll be available in the compiled binary. Any other link or torrent to download ADL_SDK? I hate write down forms for AMD. TIA You have the option to bypass the registration and go straight to the download. Sam |
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2.0.0 works really well on Win 7, but not on Win XP.... I have a XP box with a HD 5770, and everything works well until I try to close the program by pressing Q... After hitting Q, I get a sys msg about that cgminer.exe encountered an error, but the program still runs afterwards...  Clicking X to close the window closes the program, but the OC clocks doesn't change back to original, and the memory clock does stay the same after a restart... I get the same behavior on my WinXP system. But the program seems to work fine. |
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Yep, still not working. Followed the readme, got the .h's in the right place, libcurl pkgconfig and mingw in (i think) the right places. CGMiner runs, just doesn't recognize the AMD_ADL
Ah, Windows. That's become the red-headed step-child platform for cgminer. Earlier ckolivas mentioned that the command in Linux is simple, but he isn't sure what to do to get the ADL SDK in Windows to pay attention to multiple cards. I'd stick with existing tools in Windows for now. So, the ADL/Auto mode support isn't supported in Windoze? Sam I'm still more than a little confused about the need for adding the ADL files vs. not. But anyway I had been using the Catalyst 10.9 drivers because anytime I tried using a more current version with Win7 32 bit all I got was a BSOD. But I recently went back to WinXP and just updated to Catalyst 11.6 and sucessfully now all is working great. I can use the Auto modes and have overclocked my two GPU's, 5770 and 5830, and underclocked the memory and it is keeping the GPU's below 75c. I am finally getting 500+ Mhs. So was the intent to recompile the Windoze executables or is the ADL support included in the newer catalyst driver sets? Thanks, Sam |
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Yep, still not working. Followed the readme, got the .h's in the right place, libcurl pkgconfig and mingw in (i think) the right places. CGMiner runs, just doesn't recognize the AMD_ADL
Ah, Windows. That's become the red-headed step-child platform for cgminer. Earlier ckolivas mentioned that the command in Linux is simple, but he isn't sure what to do to get the ADL SDK in Windows to pay attention to multiple cards. I'd stick with existing tools in Windows for now. So, the ADL/Auto mode support isn't supported in Windoze? Sam |
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THE AUTHOR ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE YOU MAY CAUSE OR UNPLANNED CHILDREN THAT MAY OCCUR AS A RESULT.
Hilarious! So your the one who RTFM'd |
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Okay, turned out that I didn't have ADL files in the folder. Con, please fix the readme file in that folder as the adl_structures file isn't checked by the ./configure but doesn't compile on make. It checks for only one of the header files. I assumed that the instructions saying to Copy all the *.h files in the "include" directory into cgminer's ADL_SDK directory. were clear enough. So, the only way to make use of the ADL dependent features is to compile my own binary for windoze? Sam |
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I had noticed that too. It's really annoying. Didn't realize how much I used that link till now. Sam |
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So, to be clear.... 0.00002531254692628 is the POST FEE (FINAL) Rate currently ?
Because [Tycho] is being upfront. There's a 10% fee for PPS. As for the 'marketing ammunition', there's other PPS pools available to everyone that have lower fees and do compare to DeepBit's fees... Yet it is still the largest pool and there is a reason why. It's definitely the largest however I'm wondering what the reason why is? Maybe, because he can? |
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So they dropped that I0 coin thingy? What are all these other coinages anyway. Seems like nobody really says. Sam |
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CPU mining and BTCGuild works perfectly, but I'd like Deepbit.
It might be actually better to stay at BTCGuild or use smaller pools for CPU mining... "Why?"Because depending on the hash-rate you get on your CPUs at the current difficulty levels, there's a very high chance on the shorter rounds that you may not even get a share in and earn anything at all. Cheers, Kermee Hey Kermee, I have about 3000mhash/s, but I have 2 computers at my work which will get about 50mhash/s (CPU's). Thatswhy I'd like it I have been using the Ufasoft 0.19 for CPU mining in the same scenario your describing on Deepbit. It bugs me to see 16 CPU cores being about 2% utilized so I just pop in my USB drive and kick off my .bat file and use 14 of those cores for mining. Sam |
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Would having more than 1 miner on the same worker account cause a problem?
Nope. I do that allot. Sam |
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My hashrate went from 440MHs with 0.19 to 315MHs with 0.20. So I'm sticking with 0.19 for Windoze for now.
Sam
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