OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.1

[-ck]

New version: 4.6.1, 20th September 2014

Mainly mofarch updates.


Human readable changelog:

- Fix the BFL Monarchs with their updated firmware naming not being recognised.
- Fix the BFL Monarchs' overheat throttling not working.
- Updated avalon2 driver to support nonce2 of 3 bytes' length.
- On very slow uniprocessor devices (eg RPi) some shares would appear to have "no response from pool" and then later on there will be a response from an "untracked share". This is due to the response coming in from the pool even before the share has been added to cgminer's local database. This change minimises this effect (but does not eliminate it entirely).
- Fix case sensitivity in API.java
- Fix ava2 fixed speed option not working on gen2 devices.
- Api-example fix.
- Other low level fixes.


Full changelog:

- Throttle bflsc28 devices when they hit the overheat limit
- Add whitelisting of firmware used in final bflsc28 products
- API.java - remove lowercase of all data sent
- Avalon2: Add 3 bytes nonce2 support
- Avalon2: MM needs n2size length <= 4
- Use fan min as fan speed when run with --avalon2-fixed-speed
- Clear the pool submit fail bool after adding shares to the stratum hashtable
to minimise window the share is not in the table
- api-example unlimited socket works
- Add custom strcasestr and use custom gnu type functions in bflsc
- Fix windows build of bflsc driver
- Fix possible deref in bflsc28

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[hurricandave]

Why does cgminer version 4.3.3 downloaded from Rockminer identify R-box 100GH/s as RMU, but versions downloaded from the .org\apps\cgminer directory that are run from the cmd console list it as LIR as well as averaging 4C higher temps. reporting?

[kano]

Why does cgminer version 4.3.3 downloaded from Rockminer identify R-box 100GH/s as RMU, but versions downloaded from the .org\apps\cgminer directory that are run from the cmd console list it as LIR as well as averaging 4C higher temps. reporting?

The 4.3.3 you download from them is (obviously) not the official cgminer code or driver.
" http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer " is the official source of cgminer.
That's why it's listed in the first post here ...

[hurricandave]

Version 4.4.0 - 16th June 2014

- Tidy unused rockminer variables
- Tidy rockminer defines
- Make rockminer driver compatible with other icarus drivers being present
- Import basic rbox driver
Version 4.4.2 - 17th July 2014
- rbox - add lotsa stats, tidy up a bit more
- icarus - tidy up rbox code, remove statics, and add rocketbox

Version 4.5.0 - 29th July 2014
- rockminer frequency is between 200 and 400 MHz

   There is more, but I don't want to seem like a jerk, I realize the Rockminer version is not the same as the Official CGMiner from page 1. I don't recognize another device that would equate to LIR and if the rbox driver was imported I in my limited knowledge of programming guessed wrong that the device could be identified as RMU, or misidentified as LIR, hence the reason why I asked.

   Secondly, the official build is reporting a 4c increase in reported temp. for a given Frequency as well as a significant increases in hardware errors both in the console work details and the pool, nevermind the duplicates.

   When I [Q]uit from the "Rockminer Version" the console closes immediately even with [W]ork details enabled.

   The Official Version will allow me to read the details after [Q]uit. But the two are giving me such a mix of unequal performance and functionality, making it difficult to make any comparison between them. The unit I have in the end, is only averaging 83GH/s at BTCGuild. Changing the Frequency from 270,290,320,350 Mhzs seems to have very little effect at all.

  I did not buy mine from Eyeboot but he did post a video clip and you can clearly see that he is using CGMiner Version 4.5.0 and his device unit immediately begins reporting 125GH/s + with very low hardware errors in comparison to mine for the exact time frame. But it is identified as an LIR. Once again part of what made me ask why?

 So would there be any fruit to running a debug version to see if a single chip is at fault?

[-ck]

Why does cgminer version 4.3.3 downloaded from Rockminer identify R-box 100GH/s as RMU, but versions downloaded from the .org\apps\cgminer directory that are run from the cmd console list it as LIR as well as averaging 4C higher temps. reporting?

Because there is no support for the 100GH R-Box in the official version. If it works at all it's coincidence so I would pay zero attention to how well or otherwise it works. I wrote the driver for the 32GH R-box because that was offered to me so that I would support it. The details you're quoting from the cgminer versions are all to do with the original R-Box only. Why does the unofficial version support other devices? Because they write their own drivers for it continually and never try to contribute their code back to mainline cgminer. We do accept code from other sources, it's just that they all want to do their own thing. They're free to do that, and it becomes entirely their responsibility to support their driver.

[hurricandave]

Thank You Ckolivas, is it possible to gleam anything useful from the debug? I mean with respect to selecting enable work details but the console closing when I press[Q]uit? I am afraid it may have more to do with Rockminer tinkering than not but if there was a call to add in the .bat to list work details after receiving the [Q]uit instruction and "pause?" -maybe?

[-ck]

Thank You Ckolivas, is it possible to gleam anything useful from the debug? I mean with respect to selecting enable work details but the console closing when I press[Q]uit? I am afraid it may have more to do with Rockminer tinkering than not but if there was a call to add in the .bat to list work details after receiving the [Q]uit instruction and "pause?" -maybe?

Just run it from an open command prompt window instead of clicking on the bat file?

[hurricandave]

They have something screwed up. Trying to write a .conf from within the console, crashes cmd.exe and closes the window. The other choice is to use official cgminer and its not entirely the right driver so performance is hurt more.
 Sorry, I'm feeling a bit frustrated since I usually can get the software to work but this device (Rockminer R-Box 100GH/s) just needs the gods to tweak the last bugs out. Why can't manufacturers just provide the data and let the programmers merge it properly!!!!!

[nwoolls]

Why can't manufacturers just provide the data and let the programmers merge it properly!!!!!

I'd love to have that answer from Rockminer, and Bitmain, and ZeusMiner, and GridSeed, and ASICMINER, and BTC Garden, and, and, and...

I've personally given up hope. Most manufacturers have proven that, once something hashes and ships, that's good enough for them.

[PatMan]

Quickie for kano - did you ever get around to fixing the p2pool problem with your S2 update image?

Peace 

[kano]

Quickie for kano - did you ever get around to fixing the p2pool problem with your S2 update image?

Peace 

No.
But now that my pool is up and running http://www.kano.is/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.0

... I'll hopefully find time this week to get the S1/S2/S3 driver sorted out and ask everyone who has one to point it at my pool

[PatMan]

Quickie for kano - did you ever get around to fixing the p2pool problem with your S2 update image?

Peace 

No.
But now that my pool is up and running http://www.kano.is/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.0

... I'll hopefully find time this week to get the S1/S2/S3 driver sorted out and ask everyone who has one to point it at my pool

That would be excellent kano - many thanks again 

[nexus99]

Hi guys - Are there any plans to put technobit Hex drivers into the main cgminer distribution?

[Buchi-88]

I think I found an error in cgminer version "3.12.0" this is the version bitmaintech is shipping with batch 8 antminer s3. might be on newer batches as well...

the json returned from the "stats" command is invalid.

Bitmain hacked the api output themselves to their custom output. We'll have a look but I suspect it's just due to their forked modified api output.

I'm having a similar issue with BTC Garden ASICs and whatever they've done to CGMiner. I've tried several times to get info from them without any response.

Basically, their ASICs respond to the DEVS RPC API call by saying "no devices".

We're the upstream code, the onus is not on us to keep forks in line with our code. Owners of the hardware should be polling the manufacturers to maintain both GPL and API compatibility with cgminer and pushing their code upstream. Bitmain have at least offered their code, whereas most forks have not. Some forks' code is unwanted or unusable too of course, but at the very least they should adhere to the license conditions of the code they're using.

I'm working on a hack of the S1 to use the hashing boards without the proprietary control unit.
Actually, using either an older CGminer or the one for U1/U2, I can have the board hashing, but at 1/4 of max speed expected.
Looks like all chips are working (hot), but I'm only getting 1/4 of results.

Edit:
I assume it's because U1/U2 are using single chain and S1 multichain

Using a newer cgminer build (starting in june or july), my interface with CP2102 is recognized as a LIX and not hashing at all.
I'm not a coder, but could you point me at what to look for the 1/4 speed issue?

Edit:
Would it work if we were using the U1/U2 Icarus code to recognize the unit, and then sending multiple chains data?

Changing the Vid/pid to match my cp2102 and compiling with bitmain support didn't help.

here is what I'm getting when changing the vendor and product id from usbutils to match m cp2102 and compiling only with enable-ants1

 USB scan devices: checking for ANT devices
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] ANT looking for and found ANT 10c4:ea60
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] USB lock BitmainAntS1 1-5
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] RES: BitmainAntS1 (1:5) lock=1
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] USB res lock BitmainAntS1 1-5
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] RES: BitmainAntS1 (1:5) lock ok=1
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] USB unlock BitmainAntS1 1-5
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] RES: BitmainAntS1 (1:5) lock=0
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] ANT looking for ANT 10c4:ea60 but found 0424:ec00 instead
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] USB res unlock BitmainAntS1 1-5
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] ANT looking for ANT 10c4:ea60 but found 0424:9512 instead
 [2014-09-18 01:33:31] ANT looking for ANT 10c4:ea60 but found 1d6b:0002 instead
 [2014-09-18 01:33:33] Discarded work
 [2014-09-18 01:33:33] Selecting pool 0 for work

Listing known devices returns this

Bus 1 Device 5 ID: 10c4:ea60 Silicon Labs CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller inactive
1 total known USB device
Hotplug interval:5
0 USB devices, 0 enabled, 0 disabled, 0 zombie

Hello,

I have the same problem with the U2, so i was returned to an older verson

greets

[X3rxis]

How to run a antminer S3 with 3G connection? which router should i get? 3G simcard + 3G Adapter + Laptop + S3 = ?

[hurricandave]

How to run a antminer S3 with 3G connection? which router should i get? 3G simcard + 3G Adapter + Laptop + S3 = ?

Search on the S3 threads, the S3 has wi-fi built in but Bitmain left the antenna off. You should be able to find several comments in one of the S3 threads that states exactly which connector to buy as well as the needed antenna.

[X3rxis]

Ok thanks

[Ntrain2k]

I currently have 10 of the original R-Boxes running on cgminer. I'm adding 2 of the new 110 GH+ r boxes as well. Is there a way to set a frequency for the original R boxes and a different one for the new ones?

Thanks.

[hurricandave]

I currently have 10 of the original R-Boxes running on cgminer. I'm adding 2 of the new 110 GH+ r boxes as well. Is there a way to set a frequency for the original R boxes and a different one for the new ones?

Thanks.

The easiest thing to do is run the new R-box ver2 on a second instance of cgminer, they will run side by side without any problems and if you need to make changes to the new ones like usual with new equipment, then you won't have to shutdown everything to do it.

[Ntrain2k]

I currently have 10 of the original R-Boxes running on cgminer. I'm adding 2 of the new 110 GH+ r boxes as well. Is there a way to set a frequency for the original R boxes and a different one for the new ones?

Thanks.

The easiest thing to do is run the new R-box ver2 on a second instance of cgminer, they will run side by side without any problems and if you need to make changes to the new ones like usual with new equipment, then you won't have to shutdown everything to do it.

There won't be a problem each of them trying to detect and run them all?