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April 12, 2013, 06:23:56 AM |
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Here's an odd one I'm running into today after re-burning my USB stick's linux image from a clean copy, pulling in the latest git, compiling and firing up cgminer...
cgminer's interface ignores all normal menu keystrokes (p, g, and so on), UNLESS I neglect to specify a pool in the config file, in which case it works normally because it had to accept keyboard input to allow me to set the pool credentials. I can use ctl-c to kill it and get back to a prompt, no problem. I just can't adjust settings while cgminer is running.
This is latest git pull as of "Thu Apr 11 13:31:17 2013 +1000".
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April 12, 2013, 11:42:23 AM |
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Hi Everyone
I have tried quite a few settings, but I cannot get cgminer to stop dropping the clock speed on one of the cores on my ATI 5970 dual GPU card.
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From what you describe later on it's probably the driver doing it, not cgminer. If you see that, you better start clocking your core down: if the driver is protecting the card by clocking its core down automatically it means you are slowly damaging the hardware: you'll fry the VRM eventually. |
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April 12, 2013, 12:56:46 PM |
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Got my first Debian Linux (squeeze) based rig online and working, so I have a completely Microsoft-free system now. :) Materials I found helpful: - the starting post of this thread - this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3359.msg47174#msg47174The hardest part for me personally, as it was mostly undocumented, was understanding that I need to start "cgminer" as a regular user (not root) and issue the commands from a local X session (not SSH). Before that, I was vainly trying to understand why the following error occurred: Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)
clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable
All devices disabled, cannot mine! As soon as I changed to user instead of root, and local console instead of SSH, all the things which should have, started working. |
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April 12, 2013, 02:15:25 PM |
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You didn't read linux-usb-cgminer ...
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April 12, 2013, 02:53:35 PM |
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Hi,
I switched from GUIminer to cgminer on my win7 based rig two days ago. I have two issues though that I can't seem to find the answers using the board search or google...
- The guiminer output does not show GPU temps and fanspeeds. I watch it via RDP. I noticed that I saw temps & fanspeeds once when initially configuring the box having a display connected to one of the cards. This is not a cgminer specific problem, as I have the same issue with other programs like GPUz. No clock, temp, fanspeed displayed.
- Tweaking GPU/mem clocks does not make any difference. Is this due to having CCC running in the background? Might that be related to my first problem as well?
thx
Manfred
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April 12, 2013, 04:38:59 PM |
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You didn't read linux-usb-cgminer ...
Nope. Unfortunately I didn't know about it yesterday, and besides, this particular mining rig will have to host other applications too, so perhaps a standard Debian is better for it too. Thanks for pointing it out, however -- on the next machine which is basically nothing but a PSU, mainboard and 5850 GPU (once I get a spare 5850), I'll definitely try this approach, a bootable USB stick sounds like a sensible way to reduce power consumption. :) |
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April 12, 2013, 06:00:07 PM |
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Hi,
I switched from GUIminer to cgminer on my win7 based rig two days ago. I have two issues though that I can't seem to find the answers using the board search or google...
- The guiminer output does not show GPU temps and fanspeeds. I watch it via RDP. I noticed that I saw temps & fanspeeds once when initially configuring the box having a display connected to one of the cards. This is not a cgminer specific problem, as I have the same issue with other programs like GPUz. No clock, temp, fanspeed displayed.
- Tweaking GPU/mem clocks does not make any difference. Is this due to having CCC running in the background? Might that be related to my first problem as well?
thx
Manfred
Running RDP to the mining rig kills the GPU and crash's CGMiner and requires a reboot of the whole mess. That's been my experience anyway. |
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April 12, 2013, 07:56:20 PM |
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me with my problem posted here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=174091.0Basically my second gpu is being detected, but I can't get temps or overclock with cgminer. |
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April 12, 2013, 09:44:11 PM |
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Server is being DDoSed so download links are broken again till it's over. Looks like DDoS is the new black.
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April 12, 2013, 09:55:54 PM |
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I got a question API requests are persistent? So if I reopen cgminer it will use default config arguments? Or will it use the ones I used on via API (Anubis front end)?
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April 12, 2013, 10:31:04 PM
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I was going to paste a link to my site but don't want that DDoSed  So this should work better - 2.11.4 for Windows in 7zip format --> http://www.sendspace.com/file/s14bk2 |
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April 12, 2013, 10:34:45 PM |
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Thank you. Just what I was looking for |
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April 12, 2013, 10:48:20 PM |
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April 12, 2013, 11:37:14 PM |
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Server is being DDoSed so download links are broken again till it's over. Looks like DDoS is the new black.
Anyway you can add some of these files to a mirror? I'd love to get my hands on the latest linux .tar.bz2! |
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April 12, 2013, 11:52:49 PM |
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is there a way to set a minimum desired intesity and a maximum one?
on windows 8 x64 (ati hd 5850) it seems to stick to the min (8?) one all the time :|
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April 12, 2013, 11:55:37 PM |
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You didn't read linux-usb-cgminer ...
Nope. Unfortunately I didn't know about it yesterday, and besides, this particular mining rig will have to host other applications too, so perhaps a standard Debian is better for it too. Thanks for pointing it out, however -- on the next machine which is basically nothing but a PSU, mainboard and 5850 GPU (once I get a spare 5850), I'll definitely try this approach, a bootable USB stick sounds like a sensible way to reduce power consumption.  I meant it has all the info needed to install cgminer on USB or HDD with an older OS (Xubuntu 11.04) Looking through there would have answered your problem about SSH since it is in there also. |
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April 12, 2013, 11:58:01 PM |
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I got a question API requests are persistent? So if I reopen cgminer it will use default config arguments? Or will it use the ones I used on via API (Anubis front end)?
cgminer settings are what you tell cgminer. If you change the settings in cgminer via the API or screen, you must save them via the screen or API. |
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April 13, 2013, 12:40:38 AM |
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Hi,
I switched from GUIminer to cgminer on my win7 based rig two days ago. I have two issues though that I can't seem to find the answers using the board search or google...
- The guiminer output does not show GPU temps and fanspeeds. I watch it via RDP. I noticed that I saw temps & fanspeeds once when initially configuring the box having a display connected to one of the cards. This is not a cgminer specific problem, as I have the same issue with other programs like GPUz. No clock, temp, fanspeed displayed.
- Tweaking GPU/mem clocks does not make any difference. Is this due to having CCC running in the background? Might that be related to my first problem as well?
thx
Manfred
Running RDP to the mining rig kills the GPU and crash's CGMiner and requires a reboot of the whole mess. That's been my experience anyway. Same experience here. RDP is awful for mining. I've also found tightvnc works best for win 7. M |
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-ck (OP)
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April 13, 2013, 01:42:50 AM |
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Running RDP to the mining rig kills the GPU and crash's CGMiner and requires a reboot of the whole mess. That's been my experience anyway.
Same experience here. RDP is awful for mining. I've also found tightvnc works best for win 7. Does monitoring work via tightvnc? |
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