Linux Driver for Blockchain Compute 17.30.1029

[ronnylov]

AMDGPU-PRO Beta Mining Driver 17.40 is released.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2285186.0

Is it possible to get this working on a downgraded laptop with Ubuntu 14.04? I have a very limited install just for Mining. I don't care if I won't get much out of it, i just want to see what I am able to accomplish with it. Specifically for xmr-stak-amd or xmr-stak-cpu miner... Any help would be appreciated guys  thank you

No ubuntu 14.04 is not supported by the driver.

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[hozerdev]

amdgpu-pro 17.40 is a disaster, at least on my 16.04.3 machine.

Hi, I've got 9x MSI Armor RX580 8G recently. The cards by itself not really great maybe because of Hynix memory.
I was able to tune them from 21Mhs ETH stock (single mode) to 29.5/930 ETH/Dcr (dual-mode) under Win10, 110/75W GpuChip/GpuCore, 1500W from the wall for 8x cards and 1200W in single mode. The problem with Win10 and Blockchain driver I can't really change the core voltage, whatever I set in bios, the driver sets it to 931, and most importantly Win10 doesn't boot with 9th card.

Anyways, I gave a try to Ubuntu 16.04.2 TLS and the latest AMDGPU-PRO Driver for Linux 17.40 and setup everything as per their manual.
a) It boots with 7xGPUs but with 8x I get 'the system is running in low-graphics mode' and nothing really helps.
b) It gives 23Mhs ETH for a single mode and draws 110/130W, around 250W per GPU, which is really bad. Setting the voltages int Claymore looks like doesn't work, it draws the same from the wall.

Is the previous driver 17.30 better then 17.40?
Are you able to mine on Linux with similar results (+-1/Mgh) as in Win 10? If yes, what drivers do you use, how do you undervolt, any information will be much appreciated.

[heavyarms1912]

amdgpu-pro 17.40 is a disaster, at least on my 16.04.3 machine.

Hi, I've got 9x MSI Armor RX580 8G recently. The cards by itself not really great maybe because of Hynix memory.
I was able to tune them from 21Mhs ETH stock (single mode) to 29.5/930 ETH/Dcr (dual-mode) under Win10, 110/75W GpuChip/GpuCore, 1500W from the wall for 8x cards and 1200W in single mode. The problem with Win10 and Blockchain driver I can't really change the core voltage, whatever I set in bios, the driver sets it to 931, and most importantly Win10 doesn't boot with 9th card.

Anyways, I gave a try to Ubuntu 16.04.2 TLS and the latest AMDGPU-PRO Driver for Linux 17.40 and setup everything as per their manual.
a) It boots with 7xGPUs but with 8x I get 'the system is running in low-graphics mode' and nothing really helps.
b) It gives 23Mhs ETH for a single mode and draws 110/130W, around 250W per GPU, which is really bad. Setting the voltages int Claymore looks like doesn't work, it draws the same from the wall.

Is the previous driver 17.30 better then 17.40?
Are you able to mine on Linux with similar results (+-1/Mgh) as in Win 10? If yes, what drivers do you use, how do you undervolt, any information will be much appreciated.

17.40 works fine for me.  I use Xubuntu 16.04.3 LTS with rocm kernel.  You also need to set fragment size to 9 the below,

Edit /etc/default/grub as root and modify GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in order to add "amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9" (without the quotes). The line may look something like this after the change:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9"
Update grub and reboot as root:
update-grub;reboot

[hozerdev]

17.40 works fine for me.  I use Xubuntu 16.04.3 LTS with rocm kernel.  You also need to set fragment size to 9 the below,

Edit /etc/default/grub as root and modify GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in order to add "amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9" (without the quotes). The line may look something like this after the change:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9"
Update grub and reboot as root:
update-grub;reboot

Hm, exactly like a did, except I had Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS upgraded and updated. Wondering if Xubuntu is different someway... Did you follow the guide from github: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm ?

[londreshomme]

Does this work if you only have a Celeron CPU? I went to the ROCm site and under system requirements it mentioned a more powerful CPU. Has anyone got this working with a Celeron?

Also, if I install the ROCm kernel and make the mentioned GRUB change... can I still select Ubuntu 16 and have it work like before if this ROCm kernel does not work for me?

Thanks

Here is the solution:
The new ROCm Kernel works great, my hashrate went from 155 > 167Mhs/s with 6*RX470 with Ubuntu 16.4

#Install new ROCm Kernel:

wget -qO - http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/rocm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/ xenial main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rocm

#edit grub
sudo nano  /etc/default/grub
#2MB fragments for Ellesmere are enabled with a grub option:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9"

sudo update-grub
sudo reboot

choose new Kernel and its done!

Thx to gstoner from ROCm Github.


Feel free to donate if you happy ;-)

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Greetz

It's work! (ubuntu 16.04)
Thank you

[CoinsIn]

wget -qO - http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/rocm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/ xenial main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rocm

I knew I was missing something..
Thanks.  I'll try it today.

[heavyarms1912]

Does this work if you only have a Celeron CPU? I went to the ROCm site and under system requirements it mentioned a more powerful CPU. Has anyone got this working with a Celeron?

Also, if I install the ROCm kernel and make the mentioned GRUB change... can I still select Ubuntu 16 and have it work like before if this ROCm kernel does not work for me?

Thanks

Yes, it works with Celeron. 
Yes, you can revert back to older kernel.  In fact you can choose to boot with specific kernel in linux.

[degenerate17]

Does this work if you only have a Celeron CPU? I went to the ROCm site and under system requirements it mentioned a more powerful CPU. Has anyone got this working with a Celeron?

Also, if I install the ROCm kernel and make the mentioned GRUB change... can I still select Ubuntu 16 and have it work like before if this ROCm kernel does not work for me?

Thanks

Yes, it works with Celeron.  
Yes, you can revert back to older kernel.  In fact you can choose to boot with specific kernel in linux.

Are you sure on this?  I tried this out since currently my cards are running around ~25 Mh/z, and haven't really seen the expected increase.  Boot is also unpredictable/takes a long time to display after installation.  After going to the full installation documentation I saw that Pentiums aren't supported...oops.  Since I'm using a Biostar TB250-BTC 6x with a Intel Pentium G4400 Skylake it looks like that's the issue.  Would switching to a Celeron be a viable fix, since I don't see it explicitly supported on the installation guide: http://rocm-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Installation-Guide.html?  

[heavyarms1912]

Does this work if you only have a Celeron CPU? I went to the ROCm site and under system requirements it mentioned a more powerful CPU. Has anyone got this working with a Celeron?

Also, if I install the ROCm kernel and make the mentioned GRUB change... can I still select Ubuntu 16 and have it work like before if this ROCm kernel does not work for me?

Thanks

Yes, it works with Celeron.  
Yes, you can revert back to older kernel.  In fact you can choose to boot with specific kernel in linux.

Are you sure on this?  I tried this out since currently my cards are running around ~25 Mh/z, and haven't really seen the expected increase.  Boot is also unpredictable/takes a long time to display after installation.  After going to the full installation documentation I saw that Pentiums aren't supported...oops.  Since I'm using a Biostar TB250-BTC 6x with a Intel Pentium G4400 Skylake it looks like that's the issue.  Would switching to a Celeron be a viable fix, since I don't see it explicitly supported on the installation guide: http://rocm-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Installation-Guide.html?  

I missed the only part there.  If you check my response I meant it also works on Celeron.  In fact I run on G3900 with 9 gpus and linux 16.04.03 LTS.  i don't think there should be an issue with Skylake cpus.

[Rickirs]

I have been directed to this thread as trying to configure Asus Dual RX580 O8G (Here is thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2567650.0 )

Since this thread is little old, out of box without modding and proper driver, I can only get ~22MH/s only on my RX580

I found that using AMDGPU-Pro beta mining (amdgpu-pro-17.40-483984) and current stable AMDGPUR-Pro (amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261) gives me same result stock ie. ~22 MHs

1. Have enabled large page support
2. Have installed ROCm kernel already

I suppose without bios modding I should be able to get ~25 Mhz .

And where can I get good settings for my gpu bios ?

[walec51]

Did these drivers sudden stopped doing the trick?

My hashrate droped today from 28 MH/s to 22 fo my RX 470 cards.

[terrainparser]

Did these drivers sudden stopped doing the trick?

My hashrate droped today from 28 MH/s to 22 fo my RX 470 cards.

This is not because of the drivers themselves,  but because of updating linux-image and linux-headers through package manager. Un install them as shown in the following link

https://askubuntu.com/questions/995541/ethereum-mining-on-ubuntu-16-04-dropped-hashrates-significantly-on-amd-block-cha