Installing cgminer 3.7.2 in linux

[SleezyPet]

So I've only been mining for about a month but I've acquired 3 extra GPUs and the rest of the parts needed for a full time mining rig in that time frame.  PTS got me into it all but now I'm looking to branch out some, so of course cgminer is a must.

I'm running linux mint 16 and all was going fine with drivers, overclocks, and the clpts miner for PTS. Cgminer seems to be not wanting to go so smoothly.

From everything I have researched you need to extract the tar.gz file and then cd into the extracted directory and run

Code:

./cgminer -n

to make sure it's picking up the GPUs correctly. Only problem is I don't have that file. When I list the directory contents the closest thing to it is cgminer.c.

Edit: I'm willing to bet that all my issues would be solved if I could find out why I don't have the cgminer file in my extracted directory.

So I know it's something obvious I'm missing but it's driving me nuts. I have done the obvious google searching for this exact problem and have yet to come across any solutions or suggestions.

I also followed tried to follow this guide...
https://coinaxis.com/index.php/news/entry/how-to-configure-linux-and-build-cgminer-for-bitcoin-and-litecoin

I installed all the dependencies and I already had the AMD drivers and the SDK installed. When I got to the ADL drivers I ran into an error there as well after typing in only the second command listed (not to mention the ./audogen.sh that's suggested is again nowhere in my directory)...

Code:

$ mkdir ADL
$ mv ADL_SDK_5.0.zip ADL
mv: cannot stat 'ADL_SDK 5.0.zip': No such file or directory

It seems as if that code was getting me to extract a zip from nothing so I'm not sure what was supposed to happen there. So I just tried to skip over that to the "Build Cgminer" section. I used the exact same code listed except my SDK is in a folder labeled "AMDAPP" so I subbed out the "AMD-APP-SDK-v2.8.1.0-RC-lnx32" in the code and subbed in the correct "AMDAPP" in both neccisary places.

When I run that it seems to go through some compiling before I get back the start of the "Configuration Options Summary:" but there are only 4 lines of information listed as so...

Code:

     libcurl(GBT+getwork).: Enabled: -lcurl
     curses.TUI...................: Found: -lncurses
     OpenCL.......................: NOT FOUND. GPU mining support DISABLED
configure: error: No mining configured in

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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[roslinpl]

have you tried to install OpenCL on your own before cgm install?

[SleezyPet]

have you tried to install OpenCL on your own before cgm install?

No I have not. Maybe that's the simple thing I'm missing. Although I've been running the 290x and 270 fine with the clpts miner. Since that's a GPU specific miner, wouldn't I need OpenCL setup correctly to run as well?

[SleezyPet]

So I have yet to install OpenCL exlusivley but as I suspected, when I start clpts the first thing it notes is something about using/starting OpenCL.

So nobody has any ideas? I guess my main problem is why the heck don't I have the fabled cgminer file in my extracted directory?

[roslinpl]

So I have yet to install OpenCL exlusivley but as I suspected, when I start clpts the first thing it notes is something about using/starting OpenCL.

So nobody has any ideas? I guess my main problem is why the heck don't I have the fabled cgminer file in my extracted directory?

I am not sure ... I will try to figure it out later - strange that no one gave an answer yet

Cheers!

[SleezyPet]

Okay so after many re formats and moving over to ubuntu 13.10 I finally got the keccack version of 3.7.2 to work.

Now the last problem I encountered is the fact that cgminer was reporting 600-700kh/s on both my 290 and 290x even though they were only pulling around ~200w combined from the wall and had pretty much no load. I tried a bunch of flags from the litecoin wiki for my cards which did change the kh/s a bit but still wouldn't put a decent load on the cards.

I'm out of town until Wednesday so sadly I won't be able to investigate anymore until then.

[Colin Miner]

Now the last problem I encountered is the fact that cgminer was reporting 600-700kh/s on both my 290 and 290x even though they were only pulling around ~200w combined from the wall and had pretty much no load. I tried a bunch of flags from the litecoin wiki for my cards which did change the kh/s a bit but still wouldn't put a decent load on the cards.

Have you set your intensity high enough? I go for I:18 but that does slow the desktop.

[SleezyPet]

Now the last problem I encountered is the fact that cgminer was reporting 600-700kh/s on both my 290 and 290x even though they were only pulling around ~200w combined from the wall and had pretty much no load. I tried a bunch of flags from the litecoin wiki for my cards which did change the kh/s a bit but still wouldn't put a decent load on the cards.

Have you set your intensity high enough? I go for I:18 but that does slow the desktop.

It was on 20 but that seemed to be the general setting suggested, as noted @ https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison . Like I said I tried a large majority of those.

I was also using max on the 1gh pool for testing it. Not sure if that makes any difference.