From the post: "But again, the core developers think it’s not worth implementing this fix."

Do you believe that the core developers just do not want to implement the two changes you suggest? Or would they block someone else making those changes and incorporating them?

For your bet specifics would be a good idea.  e.g. "US Inflation rate as measured by the CPI being above X% for Y quarters beginning on Z date."    Or "Bankruptcies for individuals/corporations/whatever running at a rate of X% at this <time period>."    :-)

By the way, I agree that QEInfinity is not a good thing and had seen the Reuters article.  My hope is that the system does not collapse but competition from non-inflationary assets/currencies etc puts pressure on the countries of the world to reform their crazy policies before it is too late.  Bitcoin, gold and other pm's are reasonable hedges.  If the policies are not reformed, it won't be pretty, but I do not believe that the power-hungry statists will see the need to reform things in time to avoid a lot of pain.

Game theory in practice.  ;-)

They view it as their's by default and you are allowed to keep a portion as they allow.

Thanks for the update - sorry you are going through this although I know that doesn't help much.  Please keep us updated, and I would still be interested in where you ended up (once you feel it is prudent to let us know the location of course).

 The power-hungry politicians are after power and money everywhere.

I don't use it for anything else either.  I will bump it up to 14 to see how that goes. 

Rebooting fixed the GUI although I am just sshing in still.

If I have time in a bit, I'll try to re-work the instructions in those two spots.  I was just re-arranging the order there I believe and correcting that one typo.

Thanks!

Hi,
I think I would prefer to run it as a dedicated user vs root  (I didn't run cgminer using sudo yet, but will try it).

It is mining with your test now, so you should see some coins.  I need to adjust the aggressiveness a bit.

It does appear that the GUI is not working right now, but I'm okay with that.  ;-)  I'm not messing with things at the moment.

1. One thing I'd emphasize by the yum update section is to not do any GUI updates either.

2. The only issue I am having now is that if I am running as the user "miner" e.g.:
su -l miner 

Then it is not working.

If I am running as root with your example here (to say thanks):
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1NQc6tCtRmT8zBeLKNpboFaUBMLcxDwUm6 -p x0 -I 9 --per-device-stats 2>logfile.txt

then it is mining.

So the only remaining hitch is to figure out why it is running okay as root, but not as the miner user:


-rwxrwxr-x.  1 miner miner 1010558 May 28 14:15 cgminer



So, if others have problems, here are two things to try:
sudo DISPLAY=:0 fglrxinfo

And as root try running cgminer.

e.g.
cd /home/miner/cgminer
./cgminer  -n



Thanks for the tips.

j.
lsmod | grep fglrx
fglrx                2763401  225

I did this:
sudo DISPLAY=:0 fglrxinfo


And NOW I got this:

cgminer -n
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] Platform 0 devices: 6                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54]    0   Cayman                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54]    1   Cayman                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54]    2   Cayman                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54]    3   Cayman                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54]    4   Cayman                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54]    5   Cayman                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 1 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 2 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 3 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 4 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 5 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled                   
 [2013-05-28 14:56:54] 6 GPU devices max detected   


Fingers crossed that I can mine now.  ;-)

1. After going through it again, perhaps just moving this to the later section after the git command would be enough:

cp /home/miner/miningpacks/ADL-SDK-3point0-temp/include/*.h /home/miner/cgminer/ADL_SDK
rm -rf /home/miner/ADL-SDK-3point0-temp


2. I did reinstall it all from the live CD, and no luck.  I made sure there were no updates by from yum at all.  

a. Now the kernels look identical to yours:
yum list installed | grep kernel-*
dracut-kernel.noarch                004-32.el6                         installed
kernel.x86_64                       2.6.32-71.el6                      installed
kernel-devel.x86_64                 2.6.32-71.el6                      @base    
kernel-devel.x86_64                 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6                 @updates
kernel-firmware.noarch              2.6.32-71.el6                      installed
kernel-headers.x86_64               2.6.32-71.29.1.el6                 @updates


b.
aticonfig --list-adapters
* 0. 13:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
  1. 12:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
  2. 0b:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
  3. 0a:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
  4. 07:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
  5. 06:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990

c.
ps aux | grep X
root      3417  3.6 16.9 216720 314916 tty1    Ss+  14:04   0:47 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-4iMIIH/database -nolisten tcp vt1

d. locate fglrx64
looks identical to yours

e. uname -r
2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64


f.  lspci -nn | grep VGA
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]
0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]
13:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]

g.
env DISPLAY=:0.0 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!
(and the fan revs up)

h.
glxgears
44174 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8834.614 FPS
44441 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8888.093 FPS

i.
export DISPLAY=:0
./cgminer -n
No protocol specified
 [2013-05-28 14:39:08] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                    
 [2013-05-28 14:39:08] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing                    
 [2013-05-28 14:39:08] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)                    
 [2013-05-28 14:39:08] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)                    
 [2013-05-28 14:39:08] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable                    
 [2013-05-28 14:39:08] 0 GPU devices max detected        

Yeah, just bizarre. I believe I did, but did it twice.  I will re-try one more time.  ;-)


$ ./cgminer -n
No protocol specified
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                   
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing                   
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)                   
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)                   
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable                   
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] 0 GPU devices max detected 
 

Hi,
I am ssh'ing in right now, but can go to it if needed.  It has been running nicely for about 2 years now until I decided to "upgrade" on Friday.  3 AMD Radeon HD 6990s.  2 GB RAM.  500GB HDD.

Thanks for the reply, regarding your questions:

1.
$ glxgears
49458 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9891.541 FPS
49647 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9929.385 FPS
49683 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9936.522 FPS
...


2.
env DISPLAY=:0.0 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!

3.
env DISPLAY=:0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!

I do see this too:

$lspci -nn | grep VGA
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]
0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]
13:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]


$ps aux | grep X
root      3333  0.2 10.1 182620 188628 tty1    Ss+  11:42   0:06 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-BjwGpq/database -nolisten tcp vt1


sudo DISPLAY=:0 fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6990
OpenGL version string: 4.1.10666 Compatibility Profile Context



display: :0.0  screen: 1
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6990
OpenGL version string: 4.1.10666 Compatibility Profile Context



display: :0.0  screen: 2
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6990
OpenGL version string: 4.1.10666 Compatibility Profile Context



display: :0.0  screen: 3
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6990
OpenGL version string: 4.1.10666 Compatibility Profile Context



display: :0.0  screen: 4
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6990
OpenGL version string: 4.1.10666 Compatibility Profile Context



display: :0.0  screen: 5
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6990
OpenGL version string: 4.1.10666 Compatibility Profile Context

If I understand your question correctly, my understanding is that the reference client does not include block 0 in its database (e.g. the list of known transactions etc) at startup because it is structured differently than the other blocks since it is not a "normal" block.  This could be why you can not get information on that transaction with bitcoind.   

Hi,
I had a couple of comments on the guide, if you are looking for feedback.  I don't think it is my error,
but if so, my apologies!  (I was using the instructions on page 1, note later in the thread, hope that was the current one).

This has been helpful, although I am not yet successful in running it yet - I went from Ubuntu 10.10 to upgrade from getwork thinking it would not be difficult as it was not when I set up 10.10 several years ago, but this has been frustrating.  (With Ubunutu I was not having success getting the drivers etc set, so thought I'd try CentOS 6.0 ).

I'm hoping I'll have some success shortly, but am stuck right now.


=====================================================================
1.  Looks like a typo:

At one point you have "3point0" and then later reference "5point0".  Just FYI:
cp /home/miner/miningpacks/ADL-SDK-3point0-temp/include/*.h /home/miner/cgminer/ADL_SDK
rm -rf /home/miner/ADL-SDK-3point0-temp

cd /home/miner/cgminer/ADL_SDK
cp /home/miner/miningpacks/ADL-SDK-5point0-temp/include/*.h .
rm -rf /home/miner/miningpacks/ADL-SDK-5point0-temp/



=====================================================================
2.
Also in one spot, you need to add a mkdir to make:
mkdir /home/miner/cgminer/
mkdir /home/miner/cgminer/ADL_SDK

before doing this:
cp /home/miner/miningpacks/ADL-SDK-3point0-temp/include/*.h /home/miner/cgminer/ADL_SDK
rm -rf /home/miner/ADL-SDK-3point0-temp



BUT later, if you do that git will complain that the cgminer directory exists.



=====================================================================
3. Regarding the installation path for the ATI Catalyst driver install in Step 6, the default is /
Is that what you had used for the installation path?

Just notes for some others:
You want "Package Generation " and "RedHat Packages" and then "RedHat/RHEL6_64a" (you need to hit SPACE to select it in the terminal (not running it in the GUI, but ssh'd in, then return).

Then you want "Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package" (not Install Driver 8.841 on X.Org 6.9 or later 64-bit".)

         


=====================================================================
4. What I am seeing right now, I think it is the kernel issue you had mentioned about non-matching
kernels maybe, but I am attempting to figure out how to fix it:

#aticonfig --list-adapters
* 0. 13:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
  1. 12:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
  2. 0b:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
  3. 0a:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
  4. 07:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
  5. 06:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
 
 
$yum list installed | grep kernel-*
dracut-kernel.noarch                004-33.2.el6_0                     @updates
kernel.x86_64                       2.6.32-71.el6                      installed
kernel.x86_64                       2.6.32-71.29.1.el6                 @updates
kernel-devel.x86_64                 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6                 @updates
kernel-firmware.noarch              2.6.32-71.29.1.el6                 @updates
kernel-headers.x86_64               2.6.32-71.29.1.el6                 @updates

$ uname -r
2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64




$./cgminer -n
No protocol specified
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                   
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing                   
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)                   
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)                   
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable                   
 [2013-05-28 11:05:26] 0 GPU devices max detected 
 
 
 

Keep their options open with regard to the dollar and currency transactions

Miami is convenient to many latin American markets, so go for it.  At worst someone else can organize one for Rio, Tegucigalpa, or Montevideo.  

Not to mention Orlando and other areas have things going on with Bitcoin.  (e.g. Bitcoin Mag).

It would not surprise me if the country that is manufacturing most ASICs is involved now or in the not too distant future.

You are right - the problem is that a lot of women say the same thing, but do not mean it.  They are looking for a meal ticket until the kids turn 18 (or longer).

The risk to men now is much higher (due to the laws and the courts) with no commensurate increase in benefits. The risks can be minimized with a prenup to protect your assets, but nothing is 100%.

I hope you and your wife have forever together.  ;-)

Do a prenup.  It will at least protect assets. If you have kids, that will be a different issue. Someone with proper motives should have no problem signing it..