Solo ck seems to have some problem with ddos. (Kano had the same ) So my stick cant mine.
Kano's is under attack again now, so my S3+ (that I just turned on 20 min ago) fail-over to the club donation on the regular main solo. So solo main is up for now. |
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It's time for a block guys. Start eating that magic chicken  It's in the oven now.... probably another 15min and it's good to go... |
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Two s3's powered with two chickens This should do it. Notice the quartz crystal. Full voodoo  Well, it is Wednesday and around here, Mr. Chicken has their Wednesday chicken diner special. Looks like I've got to make a chicken run...... LOL |
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Bitmain's BM1384 chart notes 325MHz at 750mV, so running 350MHz is pretty decent. And 350MHz should average you 19.25GH. Which by my estimates would be about WU 268. So it sounds like you're pretty much right on target. Most people can't get sticks too far past 400MHz at 800mV. Recall the S5 "defaults" to 800mV (from a 12V source, assuming balanced nodes) and its stock clock is 350MHz.
Whether you set voltage and increase clock or set clock and decrease voltage really depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want the most hashrate for a given power output, or just the absolute most hashrate, will have different strategies.
I want to beat the Gekkoscience stick hashrate (Gh/s on 24hr average) world record, everything else is secondary... Max does not count ...cheers Do I smell a challenge??  I can break out my setup, add my RPi and just run two sticks on a hub, I bet I can get 437 (or maybe 450MHz muahahaha). What's the current record? Don't think it's the record, but I did 435MHz in the compac solo pool club's 24 hour stock stick over-clock contest that won (I actually let it run for 60 hours before I shut it down). As for a challenge, I see where there may be a another contest coming up... |
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Awesome! The group thanks you (hopefully it hits ) +1 |
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Just happened to be checking on my Gekko-Compac's at the time. Congratulations n200ug...  |
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Trying again by moving from raspberry to (finally!) uefi installed Ubuntu 15.10 on Win 8.1 PC.
However when loading libjannson-dev it says E: unable to locate the package libjannson-dev
Why/ is this really needed?
should I go ahead trying to build cgminer without this package and why it could be unavailable?
EDIT: tried to load the same package in raspbian-no go as well
Can someone independently test if this (libjannson-dev) went missing for some reason?
It's libjansson-dev |
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433MHz at 0.8V is probably about 3A per stick, so your hub is pushing 30W internally. Try setting the sticks to about 740mV and 300MHz, which should draw something like 6.8W per stick; four would then be about 27W total. See if it'll keep up. If you can, plug up first one stick, then two, then three, then four; after each stick, measure the 5V coming out of the hub ports and see if it's starting to drop. If you don't have an inline meter, use the meter you use to check core voltage and measure across the outside two pins on the USB plug.
Awesome! Thanks Sidehack, I'll keep trying and see if I can find the magic combo. ^+1^
What kind of hub?
Sounds like some kind of limit on the power. 2 sticks is not drawing enough to trip the limit, but 4 sticks hit's the limit and some kind of protection cut's the power down (?, just guessing).
It's an Orico 10 port 12V 3A USB 3.0, just like this one on amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CBEVTKI?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00Maybe it distributes the power per-port so using only four I can't utilize all of the available power?? I didn't see anything on Amazon (even looked around on Orico site) about the power "output" for either per port or hub total. Did see something about 12V 2.5A power brick, so kind of leaning towards the hub not supplying enough power and they tried to fix it by going with a 12V 3A brick. So I would do like sidehack said. Just start adding 1 stick at a time at 300MHz and see what it does. |
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^+1^
What kind of hub?
Sounds like some kind of limit on the power. 2 sticks is not drawing enough to trip the limit, but 4 sticks hit's the limit and some kind of protection cut's the power down (?, just guessing).
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I'm in for a ticket or 2.
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I smell a BLOCK COMING!!!
See if the chicken Alfredo (?) does the trick! LOL |
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Partially OT, but in pursuit of running a stick: wasted all my free time today trying to make a double boot Windows 8.1/Debian Jessie machine and so far could not. Live Debian works, but when I install full version either using DVD OR making USB from netinstall, everything works peachy until grub2 does not show up and system instead boots into Windows. I followed a dozen leads, looked into BIOS, tried to make advised changes to boot process, NOTHING.
If anybody had problems with this that they overcame-I am all ears.
that said, a bunch of sticks work fine on rasp pi, i just wanted to try on debian since i have one hub that does not work with pi and i don't want to bother with drivers on windows- i will, of course, if it comes to that.
Yea, some times it can be a pain.... try the the free version of EasyBCD in Windows to edit the boot to add debian, it makes it so much easier. https://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/ |
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what are you guys running your sticks on? laptop raspberry etc??
Raspberry Pi 2-B. |
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Same one for me. Haven't found anything bad yet with it. |
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One thing more we'd need to know, what cgminer version you are using and what compile flags you used (--enable-icarus, --enable-gekko, etc).
I think I used just the 'enable gekko' command. I ran through the thorough instructions that Novak gave on the first page of this thread. I'll quote everything he posted : Here's what you'd do to get cgminer on linux going: 1. Open a terminal. 2. wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz 3. tar -xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz This extracts the files. which are compressed (like a zip file for linux) 4. cd cgminer-gekko Enters the cgminer-gekko folder you just extracted. 5. sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool You need to install the dependencies for cgminer. 6. ./autogen.sh This will generate a configure script for you which will set up compiling for your system. 7. ./configure --enable-gekko This will configure the build. This is the most likely place to have anything go wrong, if it does, let me know exactly what's up. Odds are it would be some package that you should have installed. 8. make Performs the build. If you get an error there- again, let me know details. The steps from around the first page was missing a few things (unless novak edited them in). From updated steps posted later on: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.msg12468048#msg12468048First things first, open terminal sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade (this will update the the system) it will ask do you want to continue y/n hit y and enter. After it updates, sudo reboot (to be sure updates are active). Then in terminal window again sudo apt-get install autoconf libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev (you may get a message saying you need other package's installed to install some of the above, if you do, just add it to the above) Again y/n hit y enter After it's done, wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gztar xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz cd cgminer-gekko ./autogen.sh ./configure --enable-gekko --disable-libcurl (cgminer doesn't need it, but linux does to build) sudo make install (you don't have to do the install) While still in the cgminer-gekko dir, sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ (if it does not copy, sudo su enter then cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ ) sudo usermod -G plugdev -a whoami (whoami= your user name you setup) sudo reboot After it restarts open terminal cd cgminer-gekko sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://whateverpool:XXXX -u poolusername.andworkerifyouwant --compac-freq XXX These should get you up and running. You, my friend, are a saint. Thank you so much. So one more question. I have two of them plugged in right now. If I were to shutdown the mining, and plugged in another, would i need to change any of my info again? or just retype the cgminer server and username info and start it right up? Hot-plug it in (just plug it in) and cgminer will/should just add it, without shutting anything down. But if you do shut down, just start it normally (no need to change anything). |
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how are you running them at different speeds ? different cgminers or different rigs ?
You can do multiple cgminers pretty easy. Then you can specify the usb spot for each miner. Having 2 would not be to bad to do. I actually ran 2 on for a while as I had these that have the nice gekko-cgminer, but I had some prototypes and europe one I ran as Icarus. Yes, just add "--usb :#" to the comand line, on 1 of my Pi-2's, my rc.local file looks similar to this sleep 8s cd /cgminer-gekko sudo ./cgminer -o pool:3333 -u XXXXX --usb :1 --compac-freq 250 --suggest-freq 8 --widescreen --worktime -o pool:3333 -u XXXXXXX sleep 8s sudo ./cgminer -o pool:3333 -u XXXXX --usb :4 --compac-freq 250 --suggest-freq 24 --widescreen --worktime -o pool:3333 -u XXXXXXX sleep 8s sudo ./cgminer -o pool:3333 -u XXXXX --usb :5 --compac-freq 350 --suggest-freq 50 --widescreen --worktime -o pool:3333 -u XXXXXXX --usb :1 finds and runs only 1 stick, --usb :4 finds and runs only 4 sticks, and --usb :5 finds and runs only 5 sticks (I don't really need the --usb :5 on the last one, it would just find how ever many sticks that's left not running and use them). By the way, the "sleep 8s" is just an 8 second pause between booting up and between cgminer starts, just a little extra time to be fully booted and each cgminer to be started. And because it's in the rc.local file, as soon as the Pi boots, it starts mining. |
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Hello All, Just wanted to report that I'm running The GekkoScience Stickminer with the official Minera (0.6.2) using cgminer and did not do any other options or settings and all is working great. I did have an issue with one of the stickminers but a small tweek to the voltage regulator/control fixed the issue. one thing is the identifier of the GekkoScience Stickminers is given as "AU30" and "AU31". I'm new to all this so I don't know if this is correct or not. I'm now getting an average of 12 GH/s per stick which is the average of what everyone is getting (right). Thanks to all. yea they show up as au3 nothing bad though it happened to my minera installation
With just the plain cgminer the sticks list as au3's. With cgminer-gekko they list as compac's. As for hash rate, it all depends on what freq their running at. But for just plugging them in, 12GH/s is good. I've got some running freq 310 @ ~ 17GH/s and some at freq250 @ ~ 13.7GH/s. You can push them up to over 20GH/s with the right set-up (which I still need to get around to for "all" the stick's, 1 of these days). |
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One thing more we'd need to know, what cgminer version you are using and what compile flags you used (--enable-icarus, --enable-gekko, etc).
I think I used just the 'enable gekko' command. I ran through the thorough instructions that Novak gave on the first page of this thread. I'll quote everything he posted : Here's what you'd do to get cgminer on linux going: 1. Open a terminal. 2. wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz 3. tar -xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz This extracts the files. which are compressed (like a zip file for linux) 4. cd cgminer-gekko Enters the cgminer-gekko folder you just extracted. 5. sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool You need to install the dependencies for cgminer. 6. ./autogen.sh This will generate a configure script for you which will set up compiling for your system. 7. ./configure --enable-gekko This will configure the build. This is the most likely place to have anything go wrong, if it does, let me know exactly what's up. Odds are it would be some package that you should have installed. 8. make Performs the build. If you get an error there- again, let me know details. The steps from around the first page was missing a few things (unless novak edited them in). From updated steps posted later on: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.msg12468048#msg12468048First things first, open terminal sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade (this will update the the system) it will ask do you want to continue y/n hit y and enter. After it updates, sudo reboot (to be sure updates are active). Then in terminal window again sudo apt-get install autoconf libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev (you may get a message saying you need other package's installed to install some of the above, if you do, just add it to the above) Again y/n hit y enter After it's done, wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gztar xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz cd cgminer-gekko ./autogen.sh ./configure --enable-gekko --disable-libcurl (cgminer doesn't need it, but linux does to build) sudo make install (you don't have to do the install) While still in the cgminer-gekko dir, sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ (if it does not copy, sudo su enter then cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ ) sudo usermod -G plugdev -a whoami (whoami= your user name you setup) sudo reboot After it restarts open terminal cd cgminer-gekko sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://whateverpool:XXXX -u poolusername.andworkerifyouwant --compac-freq XXX These should get you up and running. |
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Alright guys. So yes, I'm a little late into the game. But having a few issues and i'm(hopefully) trying to get some support. My software skills are pretty minimal. I recently been experimenting with Ubuntu, and super new to it. So I purchased 3 of these bad boys, and im trying to get these working. So i followed the exact setup for the terminal. Got everything setup for CGminer. It is actually searching for the Gekkoscience miners. But when I plug them up, CGminer does not detect them. I tried plugging them directly to the computer, and I have tried plugging them to a powered USB hub. Nothing. I'm hoping to get some help. Thanks guys! If you need any more info please let me know.
One thing more we'd need to know, what cgminer version you are using and what compile flags you used (--enable-icarus, --enable-gekko, etc).
Also, which steps did you follow? So we can see if maybe a step was missing, maybe had a bad step, or had a step for different hardware. |
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