Setup: Debian|experimental fglrx etc ver 13.11-beta6 AMD64
wget
https://litecoin.org/downloads/linux/litecoin-0.8.5.1-linux.tar.xzwget -c www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd-catalyst-13.11-beta6-linux-x86.x86_64.zip
(this doesn't work for me because AMD's javascript wants a popup YMMV)
wget
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/3.1/cgminer-3.1.1.tar.bz2Installed all ok, cgminer reports scrypt is enabled, ASIC stuff is disabled.
Everthing seems to work, including mining bitcoin on the GPU, until I try to mine Litecoin.
I finally got my cgminer.conf into sort of working after I figured out that it is VERY sensitive
to whitespace around the trailing "}], in the "pools" setting.
sometimes cgminer just throws a segmentation fault, but this is the latest output:
[2013-11-20 15:19:51] Probing for an alive pool
[2013-11-20 15:19:51] Network diff set to 1.31K
[2013-11-20 15:19:51] No suitable long-poll found for
http://localhost:9432 [2013-11-20 15:19:52] Error -11: Building Program (clBuildProgram)
[2013-11-20 15:19:52] "/tmp/OCLWKsBkw.cl", line 762: error: identifier "LOOKUP_GAP" is undefined
const uint ySIZE = (1024/LOOKUP_GAP+(1024%LOOKUP_GAP>0));
^
"/tmp/OCLWKsBkw.cl", line 763: error: identifier "CONCURRENT_THREADS" is
undefined
const uint xSIZE = CONCURRENT_THREADS;
^
2 errors detected in the compilation of "/tmp/OCLWKsBkw.cl".
Internal error: clc compiler invocation failed.
[2013-11-20 15:19:52] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0
[2013-11-20 15:19:52] Restarting the GPU from the menu will not fix this.
[2013-11-20 15:19:52] Try restarting cgminer.
Press enter to continue:
I will have another hack at this - any advice is welcomed.