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March 28, 2013, 04:27:51 AM |
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I just put together a new rig with a pair of MSI Raedon 7970s, and I want to run the latest Ubuntu linux for them to mine with. But everything I've seen here shows me AMD or Saphire drivers for 7970s, and I don't have a clue how to find the right ones... The MSI site doesn't have a single instance of the word "ubuntu" in it's search results! I admit, I'm a total linux noob,  and have no idea what a sudo is... But if I could just find the right drivers and SDK to get these cards recognized in Ubuntu 12.10, I should be able to figure the rest out from some of the other directions on this forum. Thanks in advance! -Luke |
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philips
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March 28, 2013, 07:21:30 AM |
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I just put together a new rig with a pair of MSI Raedon 7970s, and I want to run the latest Ubuntu linux for them to mine with. But everything I've seen here shows me AMD or Saphire drivers for 7970s, and I don't have a clue how to find the right ones... The MSI site doesn't have a single instance of the word "ubuntu" in it's search results! I admit, I'm a total linux noob, and have no idea what a sudo is... But if I could just find the right drivers and SDK to get these cards recognized in Ubuntu 12.10, I should be able to figure the rest out from some of the other directions on this forum. Thanks in advance! -Luke
I use the very first driver that supported the 7970, aka 11.12 with 7970 hotfix:
amd-driver-installer-8.921-x86.x86_64.run
I also use SDK 2.7 which seemed the best.
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/hotfix/radeon_7900_series/amd-driver-installer-8.921-x86.x86_64.runhttp://developer.amd.com/amd-license-agreement/?f=AMD-APP-SDK-v2.7-lnx64.tgz |
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BTCLuke (OP)
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March 28, 2013, 03:31:02 PM |
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Thanks for that. It brings up two immediate questions though; I've just spent an hour scrolling through ckolivas' posts to try to figure them out but no luck so far... 1. Does he have the same MSI card I do? 2. He calls the driver "11.12" and then says he uses the amd-driver-installer-8.921-x86.x86_64.run "hotfix" with it. -So where is the "11.12"driver, and do I need to install that first, then the hotfix after? Thanks again! |
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BTCLuke (OP)
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March 28, 2013, 03:59:38 PM |
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Oh yeah, some other questions I can't find;
1. Should I use the crossfire cable to connect these two cards?
2. Will loading the driver & SDK once be all I need to get both cards recognized& loaded?
3. Finally, which version of cgminer is best for these cards?
Thanks again.
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BTCLuke (OP)
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March 28, 2013, 05:33:02 PM |
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I've decided to use the 11.12 driver just because the instructions would be similar to the Leonard Huang instructions found here. However, when I get to that point, I can download the 11.12 driver, but packaging it doesn't work. Specifically, the line that says: sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/precise
results in an immediate : sh: 0: can't open ./ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64.run Again, the step before it, (wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64.run) worked like a charm. What am I overlooking? |
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March 28, 2013, 10:45:14 PM |
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Thanks for that. It brings up two immediate questions though; I've just spent an hour scrolling through ckolivas' posts to try to figure them out but no luck so far... 1. Does he have the same MSI card I do? 2. He calls the driver "11.12" and then says he uses the amd-driver-installer-8.921-x86.x86_64.run "hotfix" with it. -So where is the "11.12"driver, and do I need to install that first, then the hotfix after? Thanks again! He gave you direct download links to them in his post...  |
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philips
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March 28, 2013, 11:02:01 PM |
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2. He calls the driver "11.12" and then says he uses the amd-driver-installer-8.921-x86.x86_64.run "hotfix" with it. -So where is the "11.12"driver, and do I need to install that first, then the hotfix after?
Thanks again!
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Catalyst_11.12AMD Catalyst Linux 11.12 driver
Revision Number: 11.12 (8.921)
Release Date: 12/13/11 |
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BTCLuke (OP)
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March 29, 2013, 08:32:42 AM |
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Thanks for you guys' help; but I'm hopping over to the Windows camp now.
I spent two days just re-installing linux 50 times after following 20 sets of instructions; but none were even CLOSE to complete.
Of course if I had the first idea of how to use linux at the terminal level I'd probably have figured it out by now.
Again, thanks for your attempts, but I know windows and more importantly, so does my motherboard and so do my 7970's!
-Luke
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philips
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March 29, 2013, 08:41:27 AM |
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So why all the hassle? Why not windows in the first place?
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BTCLuke (OP)
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March 29, 2013, 09:26:11 AM |
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So why all the hassle? Why not windows in the first place?
In my initial planning I read so much about linux mining, and about how the GUI of windows slows down the hashrates, that it scared me away from windows. It makes sense, even to a total noob, that windows would be slower, and hence you earn fewer bitcoins... But now I know that the tradeoff is likely well worth it. |
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philips
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March 29, 2013, 10:10:43 AM |
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So why all the hassle? Why not windows in the first place?
In my initial planning I read so much about linux mining, and about how the GUI of windows slows down the hashrates, that it scared me away from windows. It makes sense, even to a total noob, that windows would be slower, and hence you earn fewer bitcoins... But now I know that the tradeoff is likely well worth it. Meh, you'll be just fine with Windows  |
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March 30, 2013, 10:03:51 PM |
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This driver is better than the latest? 13.1?
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philips
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March 30, 2013, 11:40:56 PM |
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I don't know how good or bad are recent drivers. At the time I started using 7970 cards I tried all available drivers and all of them gave HW errors except this one. ( http://www2.ati.com/drivers/hotfix/radeon_7900_series/amd-driver-installer-8.921-x86.x86_64.run) After finding the best combination drivers/SDK I just left things as they were and never bothered again with updates. If ckolivas is still using that driver probably I did the right thing. (The only thing worth updating is of course cgminer, the only gains in performance since then came from cgminer, not the drivers.) |
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BTCLuke (OP)
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April 02, 2013, 05:50:25 AM |
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So are you saying that cgminer is the best software for these cards?
If so, can I use it in windows?
If so, is it hard to configure? Or do I just install the latest version and turn it on?
So far I've been using BitMinter through Java, and it's easy and clean, but I get so many stales that my actual earnings look nothing like the predicted earnings. (Less than half.)
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