Guide for using BAMT with WePayBTCBAMT is a very simple plug'n'play Linux distribution (Debian based) which is tailored to do only one thing: mine altcoins.
It boots directly from a USB stick (4GB or more), so you don't need to do any setup, just boot and mine.
See
https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=2924.0We used Litecoin
BAMT 1.6.2 "R9 Series (Catalyst 13.12)" in this guide.
Disclaimer: We tried to make it as simple as possible. But if you run into any problems - please log a ticket on our support site and provide details.Here are the steps:
Part 1 (preparation)1. Prepare a BAMT 1.6.2 USB stick or use existing. How to do this is outside of this guide, check the
BAMT thread for instructions.
2. Boot BAMT.
3. If you are If you are using remote desktop into your BAMT, login:
User:
userLogin:
live(If you are doing this locally, obviously skip this step)
4. Once you see the desktop, go to bottom left corner and click on "BAMT Control \ Stop mining sessions".
5. Now in left top corner of Desktop, double-click on "Root Terminal". You should see this:
Part 2 (updating sgminer)6. Type the following text and press ENTER:
cd /opt/miners/sgminer-4.1.0-sph/
You should see this:
7. Type the following text and press ENTER:
git config remote.origin.url https://github.com/WePayBTC/sgminer7
You should see this:
8. Type the following text and press ENTER:
You should see this:
If you are asked for login / password or shown an error, please make sure that you typed the address correctly in step 8.
9. Type the following text and press ENTER:
You should see this:
and a few more lines. This takes a few minutes.
10. Type the following text and press ENTER:
You should see this:
This also takes a few minutes.
11. Close the "Root Terminal", we no longer need it [optional step]
Part 3 (modifying your configuration file)12.1 Double click on "File Manager" in top left corner of the desktop.
12.2 Click on "bamt"
12.3 Double click "sgminer-sph.conf"
13. Modify your sgminer configuration file. The most important items are highlighted below:
Obviously use your BTC or DRK address, not the one on the screenshot and provide your correct email address as password.
This config file is a lot simpler than the default config. That is how it is supposed to be.
Default value (if you do not specify intensity explicitly) is intensity 20, which should be good for most videocards.
Higher intensity values require more RAM on the videocard. Intensity 20 requires 512MB, intensity 21 requires 1GB, 2GB for intensity 22 and so on. If you have an old videocard, like 6950, you would need to set intensity lower to 18 (128MB GPU RAM) or 19 (256MB GPU RAM).
14. Save the file and close text editor.
Part 5 (modifying your bamt conf file)15. Double click bamt.conf in File Manager and make the changes as per screenshot below
16. Save the file and close text editor.
Part 6 (testing and tweaking)17. Select "BAMT Control \ Start mining sessions"
Theoretically, you are done! All steps below are optional, but highly recommended.
18. Let's see if sgminer is working correctly. Start Root Terminal again. Type this and then ENTER:
Now type this and ENTER:
19. See what computer prints after your previous command.
Now type below text, but
change ID to match the otput of your "screen -ls" in previous step. The number before ".sgminer" text will always be different. That is normal.
Note: if after "screen -ls" you don't get any sgminer listed, then something is wrong and your sgminer could not start. Usually this happens because you did miss one comma in sgminer-sph.conf. If you have troubles at this point and you verified your sgminer-sph.conf is correct, ask for help in this thread.
20. You should now see sgminer output similar to this:
Double-check that your login name is correct and pool is accepting shares from you.
21. [Optional] Now you might want to overclock your GPU a bit to achieve better speed.
Modify your sgminer-sph.conf and include "gpu-engine" and "gpu-memclock" values.
These values heavily depend on your hardware and it will take awhile until you find your best values. If you overclock too much, you'll get a crash / freeze either in a few minutes or in a few hours.
You might want to search on miner forums for good values. Adding about 10%-20% to your stock frequency is a good start.
For example:
22. You can monitor your rig by typing in your rig's IP address in browser:
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Finally, here are the .conf files from steps 12 and 15 in case you want to use them without editing them manually. You can just open them in your BAMT web browser (IceWeasel):
Files links:
sgminer-sph.confbamt.conf
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