Autominer - very handy.

I have 4x XFX 5870 clocked @ 960Mhz Core and 300Mhz Memory = 4x437Mhash/s = 1748Mhash/s absolutely stable speed.

Check my rig - http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7216.msg324521#msg324521

I think it is quite cost-effective

Cards are clocked @ 960Mhz Core and 300Mhz Memory = 4x441Mhash/s = 1764Mhash/s


Custom made wooden box/case with Neoprene Rubber strip where the cards are resting on the plank as to absorb vibration.

Hm, good question.

I closed the VNC Viewer window and then put the machine to sleep.
But this morning I found 2 vnc processes in the Task Manager, which apparently did not close. Would that matter when the machine is sleeping? Is it still maintaining a connection to the Ubuntu machine?

Also when using putty and after screen -x amm -p 0 how do I get back to the terminal so I can write commands?

Also is this a bug with Putty, screen or your script?
It was fine 2 minutes ago, but now it does not show the temp of the 4th card.

Do you think you can help with THIS?

I left my machine running during the night using your script and when I woke up it has stopped mining.
I tried connecting using VNC but I couldn't, so I connected via SSH and did sudo reboot.
So the machine was responsive, but it stopped mining for some reason.

Any ideas?

So I just started mining using:
4x XFX 5870 @ 960Mhz Core = 434 Mhash/s = 70 degrees maximum temp.
Gigabyte GA-770T-D3L, AMD 770, AM3
AMD Athlon II X2 250
Ubuntu 11.04 32bit
SDK 2.1
Latest Phoenix using phatk kernel

I left the machine mining at 5am and went to bed.
When I woke up it wasn't mining so I tried to connect unsuccessfully using VNC. I then connected using SSH successfully and did sudo reboot.
I checked the logs after the reboot they indicated that it stopped 2 hours earlier.

Here are the kern.log and syslog

Is this normal?


If you need any other logs please ask.

How can I find out why it stopped mining?

Is it Ctrl + A + Number all simultaneously
or
Ctrl + A then release and press the number

Btw I'm going for a shower and something to eat after that. If you are still around later on I will write again

Thank you again for being so helpful

This SSH thing is driving me crazy, maybe I should stick with running it locally using Gnome even if it eats some resources.

It does not want to connect + Ctrl+A + numbers works erratically or just using Ctrl+A switches between 2 screens.

Ok, got the fancy screen under SSH, but it does not connect + F7-F8 doesn not work so how do I change screens?

cyper@Woody:~/Autominer$ screen -ls
No Sockets found in /var/run/screen/S-cyper.

Also this is my attempt at running it via SSH:



I connect, enter my username, then password and then I can change directories, so I'm definitely connected.

screen -x amm -p 0 will produce There is no screen to be attached matching amm and I can hear the machine does not start mining.

I did that and my machine started mining without the fancy window popping out.

then screen -x amm -p 0 said:

There is no screen to be attached matching amm

On a second attempt it connected immediately.

Here is what I mean by missing GPUs (the black line at the bottom):



and cycling through the screens does not show the missing GPUs.

Yes I have successfully connected to the machine.

And yes the xmlRPC was enabled and working, apart from not showing all GPUs screens, but it was correctly showing the total speed.

I just restarted and it tries to connect to dropbox to check for newer version but as the site is down it won't. Will it start mining in that case?

I'll try these commands next time I can't stop it.

I haven't forgotten 'screen -x amm -p 0 but it says:
There is no screen to be attached matching amm.

The first command does not work, cause I can hear when it starts mining

Locally everything works great apart from the information row where it does not display all GPUs.

Well I got it working and now I'm fighting the SSH thing.

Also I managed to start it and then running stopmining.sh does not seem to kill all instances - one card continued working no matter how many times and executed the stopmining script.

Regarding SSH am I supposed to see the same fancy window as when ran locally?

I ran: sudo DISPLAY=:0 ./startmining.sh /home/cyper/Autominer

And get this:
Autominer Initialization...
Starting in /home/cyper/Autominer
If this is the wrong directory, run "./startmining /path/to/Autominer" instead!
If the script fails, check the log file (default: /var/log/Autominer.log) for details of why.
Most likely, you haven't configured Autominer correctly.
If you can't work it out, don't give up, post at http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19861.0 and I'll try to help!

Well I fixed it and now it does not want to start mining:





Latest cards.lib file: http://paste.ubuntu.com/636058/

Also which part of the GUI/Desktop Environment do I need to stop when using SSH? Is it Gnome and then I just login in the console?

Ok I got them working then I closed the console, but they continued working. Well I used stopmining.sh which worked. Is that the only way to stop them?

And the main problem - the speeds are half of what I should get. ~210 Mhash/s compared to 435 Mhash/s

I just found out phoenixQueueSize[0]="256" and I'm absolutely certain I pressed 1 as default during setup.

Additionally on my initial setup I answer 0 to this question:


But now when I though about it I think it should be 1, as phoenix sees my CPU as device 0 and my 4 cards as 1,2,3,4

Wow that you for your quick replies. I'm make sure to send you some coins when I mine some

Btw is this relevant to me? My rig will be in the next room in headless mode (no monitor) and I'll control it using Ubuntu Remote Desktop + Windows VNC Viewer.