Sorry to hear what occured Inaba, according to the logs (both mine and yours), I wasn't even mining at the time, my CM1's were not operational for a few days. So I doubt I got anything extra (mines all on auto payout) however I have upped my donation % anyway.

Btw that guy who knows he's got the gains of a bug, knows it was and just basically tells you to suck it up; he is permamently on my **** list. Won't deal with anyone like that.

btw your pool usually averages over 1000Gh/s, so you probably could update thread title.

I know it won't be easy to convience you otherwise of your view. How ever I will do my best to try.

Quick turn around, they are using the same chips and a similar design than what is already been done. However the made it a bit bigger, using 4 chips. Enterpoint are veterans in the market of making FPGA's, but relatively new to bitcoins, it was their first board. They made it from scratch quicker than any other manufactor, so I got to give them credit there. They had lots of people interested in seeing this as a development board, even if it meant us making the bitstream, so they went ahead with it.

A fully working bitstream was not the problem it should of been, it was a oops in the complication of combining 4 of these chips. It was a calculated risk and hasn't turned out that bad. If I had made orders with another manufacter, I know it would of cost me more, also I'd paid in advance for most of them (not all) and many of them I'd still be waiting for my product in hand. To me, I've come out better off for it. I don't like waiting 3+ months for an item, I certainly don't like waiting that long for an item I already bought. Enterpoint delivered what I expected.

Enterpoint (Yohan) and his team with the CM1, it allowed us to be mining on a development board, which we knew about in advance when we order at a lower than normal price. We saved money buying hardware and only paid when it was ready to ship.

As a programmer/developer this does not bother me, sure there are a few frustrating moments, that is part of being a programmer, you get little irratiable when debugging a problem. Many in this thread are also very technical people, that is the target whom jumped in early before a bitstream was fully ready. The FPGA market is filled with people just like me, so it does make business sense, it did work, he sold quiet a lot of them.

Average Joe, sure this might not be ideal for you, unless you prepared to start learning all what it takes to get a FPGA to work. It's not plug and play, anything more advance than a GUIminer is not, so it should come to no suprise that these won't be.

My 5 btc to this cause, is simple. I'd want the CM1 to be working to it's fullest potential quick as possible. While also ensuring if I'm paying this bounty, I'm keeping this an open source project. It would be more, but that is all I have in btc right now.

Aslong as a bitstream exist that is open source, uses all 4 cores and does within ~90% of what many of us expected the CM1 to do (800Mh/s) without any outside infulences. It doesn't bother me, if enterpoint makes use of, or even pays in this case Glasswalker.

I am part of the community that cares about results, the means of those results I am not too fussed by. It allows the community at large to make use of the bitstream, aswell as see the bitstream be improved in an open source way that has work so well with other projects so far.

Glasswalker will probably win the bounty, but whom ever it is, is soon to get a long of bitcoins, as their is a lot of interest in seeing these full operational that is for sure.

I went from a Win7 (64) Llano APU laptop, that had a usb port for each CM1 I have.
- It was unstable and would be lucky to last 1-2 hours before com ports disappeared and it stopped mining.

I changed over to a Ubuntu 12.04 Open case Intel Atom, that had to use a 4 port hub (no seperate power) to operate them, due to low number of unused usb ports.
- It has been stable for 24 hours+ first attempt. It's still mining and has been no hassle since.

So the things that changed;
- I changed the OS (Win -> Linux), this obviously effected the system it worked it alot, aswell the drivers.
- I went from a Laptop to a more traditional PC board. It is a lot less powerful of a system, but for the first 12 hours was dedicated to just mining. Later it proved it didn't need to be dedicated, since it still worked fine multiple times to play films, music etc fine while also mining.
- Direct Usb cable to usb port to having a usb hub (this should of been a negative), but appears to had no effect. However their is only 2, maybe the effect would of been worse had I had more on this hub and it not having it's own power source.

For me, It worked moving to linux. For others it works to change their usb cables etc, that was all they needed to do.
Cgminer team has actually made a guide or two on this, if your unsure what or how to do it, check the software subforum.

Using all this hardware and software to mine bitcoins, is not easy or simple once you start moving away from GPU's and guiminer.
Sure It could be easier, but It also slows down progress as things change and need improving.
The key to remember, it's not impossible, others are doing it, so nothing is stopping you from doing it.
I do mean nothing, if you think their is something, it's you. You choose not to.

It is very rewarding, when you do these more difficult tasks and I don't mean in any finiancial way.
I find it great to look at it and just go, I did that. It works and it was damn hard to get working.

People are willing to help if you are polite and ask specific questions.
Their are also a fair amount of instructions and step-by-step guides for most of it out their.
It does sound very technical, but don't be afraid to ask questions. Google is a great asset also.

However their are many ways to make your mark in bitcoin, as has already been mentioned.
Keep learning it is possible for anyway, given enough time and patience to learn;
how to use Linux, how to compile a program and to command line start a program with specific prompts.

It was stable all night, lasted a good 8 hours. Something that is a good 4x longer than was ever acheived in windows.
I think it was Ubuntu that made the difference, I will do my best to answer any queries in this.

Good problem, I saw it over in the bounty thread first.

I've finally got my little Ubuntu atom computer running these now.
We'll see if windows was the cause of the stability issues or not.
It's only been 10-15 minutes so tomorrow morning will tell me weither it worked or not.
However it's was always going to end up here, so it's good to get it setup eventually.

Take ages to get it sorted, I only use this as my HTPC (via XBMC), so it only has a wireless mouse.
On-screen keyboards suck when you actually got a lot of typing to do.

Thanks to spiccioli, your earlier posts proved quiet useful in getting it working under linux.

Glad we got people like Glasswalker working on this.

Thank you!

I agree with most of that.
Open source would have to be part of the deal, I'd gladly put some bitcoins towards that.
Don't care who makes it, could even be enterpoint themselves, might encourage them to speed up the process.

It's best to stop when you are ahead. The house always wins.

If you do win, you've beaten the odds, so get out before it gets a chance to win it back.

I am not anywhere near an airport. I am however near a cell phone tower it's just 200-300 yards away.
I swear If I'm just moved house (last week) right next to a place that is making it impossible for my new hardware to work reliably I'll be pissed.
I haven't had the time to work on getting it working in linux yet, had a major development project sitting on me past few weeks.

Hey, I'd just be happy to get this working reliably, I'm far more familar with Windows than I am Linux (apart from Centos). I'm not that familar with Ubuntu and Debian which are far more prefered for personal computer Linux OS.
Most of my experience with Linux is with servers, running it for high load game servers, not using Linux as a personal computer, so It's a slightly different aspect of linux for me to learn.

I'm glad multiple people are trying to get a bitstream together. It's not easy and I am also one of them, how ever I'm still in the learning stages of figuring the hardware itself. Until I do, and know what I'm working with it makes it harder to software design for it.

I can certain see some potential ways to improve the bitstream, but I do have my concerns that if I can't get it to work stable like others can, I could be adding too many variables and won't know what to blame if I add another (my own bitstream). So If I move my running of the CM1's over to linux, If it solves my issues of stability, then I'll be happy to start building a bitstream.
Stability is key, It's no fun seeing it only up for 1-2 hours, I can't watch it like a hawk, else I'd get no work done.

I will actually give it a go. Thanks.

Think that might be a keypoint to stability issues, I have noticed a lot with the worst problems with stability use windows.
Guess I really need to get my arse into gear and get cgminer working on linux.

Can you share how you managed to get it stable for that long, since many are not yet.
What settings and that do you use in CGminer?

Personally I've always prefered to use the conf file for this stuff.
However page 1 (front page) of the CGminer thread, does give an example of how to do multiple pools.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0

Multiple pool, dedicated miner:

Do you think any involved want to be left holding this hot potato?
No, of course not. Everyone is trying to run, if they they can, before that hot potato is thrown in their direction.

From what genjix said, I think he means the original team, own it right now, but they all quit or was fired...

Thanks Yohan. This helps move my code forward quiet a bit.

An upgrade to the motherboard, usually helps to just replace the exact same socket and general spec. This avoids any unnecessary cost upgrading other parts. However after a bit of research in the US market, it's not very cost effective to buy these older motherboards. Most are used, or still very expensive for the spec you'd need to replace it with. Newer motherboards are more cost effective.

So buy new and replace the motherboard, cpu and ram, does look like it could be cheaper. I'm not overly familar with the best places to buy in the US, so I'll leave that to someone else.

So you need a motherboard which uses a 939 socket, not a AM2 socket? I get confused by all the similar named processors, that use different sockets. If it's an 939, they came out 7 years ago, might be a little tricky to still get them, since it was quickly replaced by AM2 socket.

When looking around at a place I use that stores literally anything here in the England (and does much of europe), there is a real shortage of good stuff using the 939 socket. There is one or two, however the best one still only has the one PCI-E x16 and one PCI-E x1 slot, so not an ideal candidate.

Also what country do you live in and budget would you like to work with, so we can suggest reasonable websites to look at for you.