OLD: BFGMiner 3.10.0: modular ASIC+FPGA, GBT+Strtm, RPC, Mac/Lnx/W64, AntU1, DRB

[Cassey]

Any suggested or required parameters for running bfgminer in the background, launched by the system startup scripts?

Normally I run with the ncurses library and monitor temps and whatnot, but if my monitoring PC dies, so do the windows.  When I travel, I'd like to go ahead and launch in backgroups, to break that dependancy.  Just launching with & seems to work, sometimes, but often my pools report one or more of the machines missing.

I was thinking of "--text-only --quiet --syslog" and maybe even "--cmd-sick /sbin/reboot --cmd-dead /sbin/reboot"

Thoughts?

Cassey

[Cassey]

Trying out --quiet --syslog --text-only as above and seeing a LOT of these in the log:

Feb 21 07:29:16 miner2 bfgminer[23705]: Testing pool stratum+tcp://yacc.westlist.com:3777
Feb 21 07:29:16 miner2 bfgminer[23705]: HTTP request failed: Protocol stratum+tcp not supported or disabled in libcurl

The pools I connect to are all reporting my miners present and accepting work, so I'm confused.

[BFL87]

Hi guys i had two miners that now i use with cgminer, but i want do the same thing with bfgminer.
The miners are 1 Technobit Hex16A2 and 1 BitBurner 52GH/s
How i can find the drivers to use them in BFGminer?

[Luke-Jr]

Hi guys i had two miners that now i use with cgminer, but i want do the same thing with bfgminer.
The miners are 1 Technobit Hex16A2 and 1 BitBurner 52GH/s
How i can find the drivers to use them in BFGminer?

TechnoBit HEX16A2: For some reason, these are incompatible with Linux's USB CDC/ACM drivers, so I have been unable to complete a driver for them; while I've tried to get Linux developers involved to fix it, they just don't seem interested. In lieu of that, I recently shipped the sample unit to nwoolls, who does his development on Mac/Windows, and will be sending him my notes and incomplete driver code so he can complete it.

BitBurner: No contact, docs, or samples from this vendor. Support is not planned at this time. Please contact the manufacturer and/or vendors to recommend they get in touch.

[HellDiverUK]

Hi guys i had two miners that now i use with cgminer, but i want do the same thing with bfgminer.
The miners are 1 Technobit Hex16A2 and 1 BitBurner 52GH/s
How i can find the drivers to use them in BFGminer?

TechnoBit HEX16A2: For some reason, these are incompatible with Linux's USB CDC/ACM drivers, so I have been unable to complete a driver for them; while I've tried to get Linux developers involved to fix it, they just don't seem interested. In lieu of that, I recently shipped the sample unit to nwoolls, who does his development on Mac/Windows, and will be sending him my notes and incomplete driver code so he can complete it.

BitBurner: No contact, docs, or samples from this vendor. Support is not planned at this time. Please contact the manufacturer and/or vendors to recommend they get in touch.

Shame.

The HEX16A2 is a good little board, and seem very popular.  I've got 5 of them now, running off TechnoBit's OpenWRT firmware for the TL3020.  Oddly, they run better at a lower clock rate/voltage. I'm getting 20GH solid from them at 1300MHz/1030mV compared to 18-21GH at 1500MHz/1100mV.  The 5 of them are using 300W LESS at basically the same hashrate by taking the voltage and frequency down.  Also I can run the fans at 5V instead of OMG LOUD 12v.

The BitBurner Fury is a nice board, too.  I've had a solid 50GH out of mine, running off a self-compiled cgminer running off a BeagleBone Black.  Only cooled by an 80mm Arctic M8 fan (the really cheap one).    It seems to be Avalon protocol, but of course doesn't act like a proper Avalon... 

Shame the devs are so unforthcoming with helping to get BFG support.  Hopefully nwoolls can sort out drivers for the HEX16A2.

[suprastan]

14 Antminer U1's on Raspberry Pi arent being detected with BFGMINER Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have 14 AM U1's connected with 2 powered usb hubs, connected to the 2 R Pi's 2 usb ports (Not piggy backing). When I run BGMiner it says there are no connected devices. Maybe someone could give me the exact code to run? I am currently running this:

sudo ./bfgminer -S antminer:all -o stratum+tcp://east-us.megamultipool.com:5000 -u suprastan.1 -p password

When I try to run this:

sudo ./bfgminer -S antminer:all -o stratum+tcp://east-us.megamultipool.com:5000 -u suprastan.1 -p password –-set-device antminer:clock=x0781

I get:

Unexpected extra commandline arguments


I followed this guide: http://ubuntuhak.blogspot.com/2014/01/raspberry-pi-as-controller-for-bitcoin.html

The only thing I changed was downloading the latest version of BFG 3.10.0

[Blackbird0]

Query: are your USB hubs 2.0 or 3.0? 3.0 USB hubs have some problems on the Pi's.

What happens when you type in:

Code:

bfgminer -S all -d?

[suprastan]

[2014-02-21 20:30:54] Started bfgminer 3.10.0
 [2014-02-21 20:30:54] Devices detected:
0 devices listed

This was working on my PC, but wanted to migrate it to a dedicated PI instead of being in my office...

[Blackbird0]

[2014-02-21 20:30:54] Started bfgminer 3.10.0
 [2014-02-21 20:30:54] Devices detected:
0 devices listed

This was working on my PC, but wanted to migrate it to a dedicated PI instead of being in my office...

Did you install all the necessary libraries?

Code:

sudo aptitude install autoconf libtool libncurses-dev yasm curl libcurl4-openssl-dev libjansson-dev pkg-config libudev-dev

[suprastan]

Like I said I followed those Install Docs.. Installing again now.. Lets see if this changes..

EDIT: Still no go..

[Blackbird0]

Like I said I followed those Install Docs.. Installing again now.. Lets see if this changes..

EDIT: Still no go..

Is driver-antminer.c in your compiled version?

[suprastan]

Like I said I followed those Install Docs.. Installing again now.. Lets see if this changes..

EDIT: Still no go..

Is driver-antminer.c in your compiled version?

How do I check?

[Blackbird0]

Like I said I followed those Install Docs.. Installing again now.. Lets see if this changes..

EDIT: Still no go..

Is driver-antminer.c in your compiled version?

How do I check?

It should be in the folder into which you extracted BFG.

[suprastan]

I got this:

bfgminer-driver-antminer.o     

[Blackbird0]

I got this:

bfgminer-driver-antminer.o     

No driver-antminer.c ?

[Cassey]

When you build the github source, and do the .configure line, you should get final output that looks something like this:

Enabled..Drivers.....: antminer avalon bifury bigpic bitforce bitforce:uio bitfury_gpio cairnsmore drillbit erupter hashbusterusb hashfast icarus klondike littlefury modminer proxy proxy:stratum twinfury x6500 ztex

Note the antminer at the front of that list.  Your list may vary of course, depending on what options you passed configure.

[Cassey]

Getting several of these a second now:

Feb 21 16:38:46 miner2 bfgminer[29929]: Testing pool stratum+tcp://multicoin.zapto.org:3320
Feb 21 16:38:46 miner2 bfgminer[29929]: HTTP request failed: Protocol stratum+tcp not supported or disabled in libcurl
Feb 21 16:38:46 miner2 bfgminer[29929]: Testing pool stratum+tcp://multicoin.zapto.org:3320
Feb 21 16:38:46 miner2 bfgminer[29929]: HTTP request failed: Protocol stratum+tcp not supported or disabled in libcurl
Feb 21 16:38:46 miner2 bfgminer[29929]: Testing pool stratum+tcp://multicoin.zapto.org:3320
Feb 21 16:38:46 miner2 bfgminer[29929]: HTTP request failed: Protocol stratum+tcp not supported or disabled in libcurl
^C
miner2 local.d # 20s: 7.13 avg:11.29 u:11.81 Gh/s | A:19 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none 

As you can see from the last line, bfgminer is connecting and doing work with the pool.

Any way to quiet it up?

From "ps ax":  29929 pts/0    Sl     0:00 ./bfgminer -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981 --text-only --real-quiet --syslog --cmd-sick /sbin/reboot --cmd-dead /sbin/reboot --balance -o stratum+tcp://us-east.multipool.us:8888 -O Cassey.miner2am:x -o stratum+tcp://multicoin.zapto.org:3320 -O Cassey.miner2am:x

[BFL87]

Hi guys i had two miners that now i use with cgminer, but i want do the same thing with bfgminer.
The miners are 1 Technobit Hex16A2 and 1 BitBurner 52GH/s
How i can find the drivers to use them in BFGminer?

TechnoBit HEX16A2: For some reason, these are incompatible with Linux's USB CDC/ACM drivers, so I have been unable to complete a driver for them; while I've tried to get Linux developers involved to fix it, they just don't seem interested. In lieu of that, I recently shipped the sample unit to nwoolls, who does his development on Mac/Windows, and will be sending him my notes and incomplete driver code so he can complete it.

BitBurner: No contact, docs, or samples from this vendor. Support is not planned at this time. Please contact the manufacturer and/or vendors to recommend they get in touch.

Thanks Luke, the reason of this question is that bfgminer platform give more information than cgminer, I'm use now this OS, windows XP Professional not Linux.
I hope that future realeases had the support for these machines....

[mfread]

Hi all. Seeking guidance from the group once again.

Serendipity played a big part in me acquiring an awesome desktop PC second hand (ASRock MB with 3xPCIe slots, Intel i7 with a monster aftermarket heat sink, 8GB RAM, 210GB SSD, 2TB HDD, ATI Radeon 6970 2GB, Windows 7 Ultimate x64, lots of USB 1,2 and 3 ports, and a bunch of lesser important stuff, all housed in a tower case with around 4 fans. Cost? A$700

So I thought great, I'll use the on-board VGA or DVI as my main monitor, and set the GPU up for mining (which is what I've done).

I installed the drivers from the AMD website (it auto sensed what card I had and it downloaded and installed Catalyst etc etc etc).

http://i59.tinypic.com/xm22oz.png

Then I installed my (now) favorite miner, bfgminer 3.10.0 app (x64), kicked it into gear with a moderate intensity of 9, and it started hashing around 450MH. After 5 mins it drops to 0MH. I looked for obvious clues (well, obvious to me), but found nothing. I repeated the test 3 times and each time, around the 5 min mark, it dropped to 0MH (not a slow drop - straight to 0).

I'm mining DOGE. I have other workers in this pool (CPUminers) and they are doing just fine so I know the pool works.

I am at a loss why. Here's my CMD file:

bfgminer -S opencl:auto -o stratum+tcp://doge.pool.mn:3333 -u mfread.storm1 -p 123456 -I 9

I've also read the various TXT files, trying to decipher them, and came up with:

bfgminer -S opencl:auto -o stratum+tcp://doge.pool.mn:3333 -u mfread.storm1 -p 123456 -I 9 --auto-fan --auto-gpu --thread-concurrency 8192

I am not entirely sure what the --auto params do. Are they good or bad for the life of my GPU card?

There are no HW errors.

Note: I notice that bfgminer doesn't show me the temp of the GPU (but in the bfgminer notes it says that Radeon 69xx is supported). Is there another driver (liek the AMD SDK stuff) I should be installing?

I've search multiple forums but can't seem to get a grasp on what's going on. Ideas anyone?


As another test, I installed MultiMiner (and let it download and install bfgminer in it's subfolder). It runs but only shows the 6970 doing 19 kh/s. I've searched hi and lo in the MultiMiner app re: how to change card params (like intensity, concurrent threads etc) but to no avail.


Hmmm, now I'm thinking why is bfgminer reporting MH and not KH for a scrypt coin (with 1xGPU card)? The litecoin wiki tells me to expect around 450kh/s for a AMD HD6970 card.

So I added the 2 x setx arguments and --scrypt into my bfgminer line (as I see it in MultiMiner) and now I'm getting 48MH/s?? No HW errors. I see acceptances too. So it looks like it's behaving. After 8 mins it has climbed to 67MH/s. Is this normal? After 44 mins it is reporting 144MH/s and now HW errors. The mining pool says this worker is doing 48KH/S.

c:
cd C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\bfgminer-3.10.0-win64

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

bfgminer --scrypt -S opencl:auto -o stratum+tcp://doge.pool.mn:3333 -u mfread.storm1 -p 123456 -I 9 --auto-fan --auto-gpu --thread-concurrency 8192

pause

http://i62.tinypic.com/24156x4.png

http://i61.tinypic.com/4sjs3q.png

Do I / should I add in the 'shaders' param? If so what should it be?

Hoping some of you more experienced guys and gals can point me in the right direction.

Cheers for now.

Mark

[trojanguys]

Hi guys, anyone know and where to add command to bfgminer so that when i quit i can read the stats before the window closes?
like in my .conf file.
Thank you


i think this is it ( Summary of runtime statistics:) when i hit Q i don't get to read it window scrolls by to quickly then closes.