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February 24, 2017, 01:51:03 AM |
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I may have jumped the gun thinking that linux would be well supported with NVIDIA for mining. I saw Linux versions of miners... but the bespoke distros for linux (Eg: simple miner) are AMD only.
So what would you suggest I use?
I'm hoping to run from USB Flash drives. (though I can do SSDs, I have a lot of cheap USB drives) My cards are NVIDIA 1070 -- because this fits the coins I want to mine best I want to use Linux because I don't want to pay the windows tax for each rig
That's about it. I can just run with Ubuntu and set things up-- but I want to know if someone knows that a particular distribution is better supporting NVIDIA cards or if there's some derivative of BAMT still around.
Much thanks for any help!
PS-- I'm not above making my own distribution. Especially if people want to pitch in with advice. Seems it shouldn't be too hard to port SimpleMining or something over to NVIDIA using the NVIDIA miners out there.
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mirny
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February 24, 2017, 01:57:34 AM |
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You already answered to yourself, go for ubuntu, I'm running 1070's like that as well.
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groovy1962 (OP)
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February 24, 2017, 09:12:14 AM |
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Well for funsies I downloaded mint because a few months ago I had trouble with the NVIDIA driver under ubuntu.
But if I have any trouble I'm happy to switch to ubuntu. This is my first real multi-GPU rig so I'm expecting everything to go wrong and am taking my time.
Are there any particular tools - monitoring or control- for Linus I should look into? Or are the people doing custom distributions like ethOS or simpleminer writing these things from scratch?
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cryptworld
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February 24, 2017, 11:05:35 AM |
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You go for ubuntu my man. It's the best for your use
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February 24, 2017, 11:48:03 AM |
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only one rig ? go for windows you can OC and controll the fan
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djm34 facebook pageBTC: 1NENYmxwZGHsKFmyjTc5WferTn5VTFb7Ze Pledge for neoscrypt ccminer to that address: 16UoC4DmTz2pvhFvcfTQrzkPTrXkWijzXw
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February 24, 2017, 02:21:12 PM |
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You go for ubuntu my man. It's the best for your use
What you think about Linux Mint? Looks it based on Ubuntu.
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groovy1962 (OP)
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February 26, 2017, 12:24:00 PM Last edit: February 26, 2017, 08:07:20 PM by groovy1962 |
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Ubuntu 16.10 - doesn't work with mouse. Without mouse I cannot update to fix bug. 16.04- doesn't work with new nvidia cards as its driver is too old.
Stuck.
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February 26, 2017, 01:22:04 PM |
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Ubuntu 16.10 - doesn't work with mouse. Without noise I cannot update to fix bug. 16.04- doesn't work with new nvidia cards as its driver is too old.
Stuck.
use 14.04, update drivers, use coolbits, you'ready to go
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February 26, 2017, 03:25:34 PM |
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ubuntu server 14.04
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groovy1962 (OP)
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February 26, 2017, 08:09:28 PM |
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ubuntu server 14.04
For some reason 16.04 server won't boot. Just saw your message, trying 14.04. I don't really need a GUI, as these machines will never have a display again, hopefully. Thanks to you and @mirny!
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February 26, 2017, 09:32:37 PM |
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ubuntu server 14.04
For some reason 16.04 server won't boot. Just saw your message, trying 14.04. I don't really need a GUI, as these machines will never have a display again, hopefully. Thanks to you and @mirny! try KopiemTu 3.0: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=520998.0
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February 26, 2017, 09:43:22 PM |
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My vote for Ubuntu also... But I have 0 experience with NVIDIA Mining, but I guess it can't be much different than Red team...
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February 27, 2017, 01:07:04 AM |
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You already answered to yourself, go for ubuntu, I'm running 1070's like that as well.
How many gpus are you getting with on linux with nvidia?
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March 04, 2017, 01:18:04 PM |
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My vote for Ubuntu also... But I have 0 experience with NVIDIA Mining, but I guess it can't be much different than Red team...
Ok, interesting. If you use Ubuntu and one of us, from Red team, can you explain how can i manage GPU setting like core and voltage on memory and gpu? Every day I miss more and more for WattTools for Windows. By the way, KopiemTu 3.0 can do this for NVIDIA.
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March 12, 2017, 12:06:49 AM |
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Ubuntu 16.10 - doesn't work with mouse. Without noise I cannot update to fix bug. 16.04- doesn't work with new nvidia cards as its driver is too old.
Stuck.
use 14.04, update drivers, use coolbits, you'ready to go So I installed 16.04 server (I think) spent some time getting it configured and then installed drivers like this: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa sudo apt-get install nvidia-378 Now, instead of ubuntu-server somehow I seem to have ubuntu-desktop and I can't log in. I had setup ssh access to the machine. That no longer works. When I connect a display to the machine and reboot- now it shows a GUI rather than text mode. And I can't log in. My password is not accepted. I'm confused.
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March 14, 2017, 12:40:52 AM |
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I'm confused.
Found the solution-- install CUDA 8 tools from the NVIDIA CUDA site, not the gamer oriented driver.
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