Great guide. helped a ton.

I had 1 problem at the end when trying to run phoenix. I kept getting

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./phoenix.py", line 123, in <module>
    miner.start(options)
  File "/home/shelbydz/phoenix-1.48/Miner.py", line 75, in start
    self.kernel = self.options.makeKernel(KernelInterface(self))
  File "./phoenix.py", line 111, in makeKernel
    kernelModule = imp.load_module(module, file, filename, smt)
  File "kernels/phatk/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    import pyopencl as cl
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyopencl-0.92-py2.7-linux-i686.egg/pyopencl/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    import pyopencl._cl as _cl
ImportError: libOpenCL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Everything built fine and installed fine. Doing research, it SEEMs that phoenix cannot find my SDK Library (which is exactly what is entered above). Any thoughts? I spent all night on this? I was able to get poclbm running (and at the same hash rate as before, so I'm pleased for now).

thanks for the great guide and the help.

http://xkcd.com/936/

nuff said
 

So, assuming the price levels out, this would be the best time to start buying :-)

Awesome. I was able to get this up and running in 10(ish)minutes. I will donate as soon as I actually have a few BTC in my wallet 

i'd like some help tuning the cards and such, but that's another post.

Here's my humble recommendations for LinuxCoin:

1. It'd be cool to have a 'List Devices' option on the Start_Miner menu
2. Maybe make the miners easily available to run from the command line w/o the menu program and w/o root

Other than that, way awesome. Thanks for this!

. . .shelbydz

When looking at hardware for a mining rig, I assume we look at 3 things, speed of the GPUs, cooling and power supply/consumption. I figure that everything else doesn't matter as much (bus speed of the motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard drive capacity, etc). These probably have a factor, but the as long as the over all system can run the card to full efficiency, you're good to go?

I ask, because I have a desktop that's just sitting around. I can easily upgrade the video card to a mine-worthy card and at least kick it off for a minimal investment. Granted, I'm not expecting huge speeds, but it's better than running just the CPU.

The other option (for an additional $350) would be a mining contract. Thoughts? I don't know if I can convince my wife of this new 'electronic money' and just dump $500 into it.

If you have a shovel, may as well start digging, right?

Thanks,

This is probably the most corner case thing ever. My password contained a special character than Linux's console didn't like. Changed that and now have 'Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC.' I assume this is because I don't have all of the blocks yet?

thx!

Hi all, I'm trying to join a mining pool. I installed the Ubuntu stuff following the instructions on the Mining How To sticky. Both programs run when I type them in the command line. I created an account at BTCGuild and am trying to connect there to get started. When I try to run either phoenic or poclbm using this syntax:
./phoenix.py -u http://worker_name:worker_password@btcguild.com:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1
or
./poclbm.py -d1 --host=btcguild.com --port=8332 --user=worker_name --pass=worker_password

I get <password> command not found at the prompt.

What am I missing.

Thanks for the help!

Hi all,

New to bitcoins. I've been reading up in the forums and trying to get my terminology straight. I have a couple of computers sitting around not doing much and figure I would let them mine for me. I don't want to invest in a new machine just for this, but there may be room for improvement on my existing systems.

I was looking at investing vs mining threads. I assume when you all say 'invest in bitcoin' you all mean buy some from the exchange and hold them. Is this correct?

Thanks!