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

[itsjustme]

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 :|

[kano]

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.

[kano]

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.

[mdude77]

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

[-ck]

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?

[af_newbie]

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?

Yes. ADL works via tightvnc.

RDP causes CCC to crash and ADL calls fail for any aplications using them.

[JWU42]

Con was kind enough to send a linux source tarball and a binary...

For now the following will work:


Linux Binary - http://www.sendspace.com/file/71oid5
Linux Source - http://www.sendspace.com/file/e3e6w8
Windows Binary - http://www.sendspace.com/file/s14bk2

[bcminer9]

Con was kind enough to send a linux source tarball and a binary...

For now the following will work:


Linux Binary - http://www.sendspace.com/file/71oid5
Linux Source - http://www.sendspace.com/file/e3e6w8
Windows Binary - http://www.sendspace.com/file/s14bk2

There's a Trojan in there...

Type:  Trojan
Systems Affected:  Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000

Trojan.ADH.2 is a detection technology designed to detect entirely new malware threats without traditional signatures. This technology is aimed at detecting malicious software that has been intentionally mutated or morphed by attackers.


EDIT: just read the first post, kinda sucks diablominer doesn't have a "Trojan", and it works great aside from stratum. ugh :\

EDIT2: Just tried cgminer... had to allow it in Norton internet security, and it still won't work...

[Subo1977]

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?

Yes. ADL works via tightvnc.

RDP causes CCC to crash and ADL calls fail for any aplications using them.

Or try teamviewer.
It's for Win and *nix and Mac

[nathanrees19]

Norton internet security

That's the real trojan.

[ImI]

Does cgminer overrule the fan/voltage/etc settings i have done with the MSI-afterburner?

[-ck]

Does cgminer overrule the fan/voltage/etc settings i have done with the MSI-afterburner?

Only if you give it parameters to change any of the settings, otherwise all it does is monitor the values.

[SebastianJu]

Im not sure why but i tried bfgminer now. It has the same error when trying bfgminer -n but its hashing fine where cgminer gives a black screen. I dont know the reason but at least i can check the hashrates of my gpu now.

[JWU42]

Norton internet security

That's the real trojan.

+1000

[Kapz786]

Using guiminer w/ cgminer - The ambient temp gets really hot where I live in the afternoon and im normally at work - what is the best way to maintain a target temp.

Can I just put "--auto-gpu 75" into the flags section in guiminer to adjust to temp? Is that how it works?

[SebastianJu]

Using guiminer w/ cgminer - The ambient temp gets really hot where I live in the afternoon and im normally at work - what is the best way to maintain a target temp.

Can I just put "--auto-gpu 75" into the flags section in guiminer to adjust to temp? Is that how it works?

--auto-gpu doesnt have a value. You should check the normal readme for temperature settings.

[crazyates]

Using guiminer w/ cgminer - The ambient temp gets really hot where I live in the afternoon and im normally at work - what is the best way to maintain a target temp.

Can I just put "--auto-gpu 75" into the flags section in guiminer to adjust to temp? Is that how it works?

I don't know why I"m giving you this when I should be telling you to read the README

--auto-fan --auto-gpu --temp-target 75 --gpu-fan 25-100 --gpu-engine 400-XXX (XXX= whatever your overclock is)

Then if you're using 5xxx cards: --gpu-memclock 300
If you're using 6xxx or 7xxx cards: --gpu-memdiff -150

[os2sam]

Using guiminer w/ cgminer - The ambient temp gets really hot where I live in the afternoon and im normally at work - what is the best way to maintain a target temp.

Can I just put "--auto-gpu 75" into the flags section in guiminer to adjust to temp? Is that how it works?

The top post of this thread has all of the information plus the examples you need to do what you want.  Just look at the executive summary section.

[inh]

I installed cgminer on arch, but it's segfaulting when I start. I'm using the latest catalyst packages with the xorg113 repo and v2.5 of the SDK.

Any ideas?

[Zxian]

I'm having a bit of trouble getting cgminer to play nicely with my 7950 and 5830 under Ubuntu 12.04. I understand that mixing 7000 series and 5000 series cards is unsupported and can cause issues with the different SDK revisions, but I'd like to see if it's at all possible to get things working.

I have tried using the pre-built version as well as building from the latest git source.

My Linux is a little rusty, so forgive me if I've made a simple mistake.

I installed the AMD APP SDK v2.5 first (extracted using tar, ran the install script), and then installed v2.7. Did I overwrite the 2.5 install by doing this? Do I need to manually install each SDK and link them myself before building cgminer?

Then I followed the readme instructions to build cgminer. When I run ./cgminer -n I get the following:

Code:

zxian@zxian-bitcoin:~/cgminer/cgminer-build$ ./cgminer -n
 [2013-04-13 11:55:07] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-04-13 11:55:07] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-04-13 11:55:07] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (923.1)
 [2013-04-13 11:55:07] Platform 0 devices: 2
 [2013-04-13 11:55:07]  0       Tahiti
 [2013-04-13 11:55:07]  1       Tahiti
 [2013-04-13 11:55:07] ADL Initialisation Error! Error -1!
 [2013-04-13 11:55:07] 2 GPU devices max detected

There's clearly two things wrong here. First off, the 5830 is not a Tahiti card. Secondly, the ADL seems to fail to initialize (although I do see temperature sensors and fan sensors when I run cgminer).

I think the mis-identification of the second card is leading to my issues when I try to actually mine with it. When I run cgminer, the second card is listed, and I can check all the hardware status. However, the second card activity is zero, but the hash rate seems to be split between the two cards (the 7950 normally gets ~550Mh/s at these settings):

Code:

cgminer version 2.11.4 - Started: [2013-04-13 11:59:02]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):553.1M (avg):549.9Mh/s | A:11  R:0  HW:0  U:5.7/m  WU:5.7/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 1  LW: 53  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to stratum.bitcoin.cz diff 1 with stratum as user xXxXxXx
 Block: 011f15f979755f29...  Diff:7.67M  Started: [11:59:02]  Best share: 180
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  73.0C 1069RPM | 276.1M/276.7Mh/s | A:5 R:0 HW:0 U: 2.60/m I: 7
 GPU 1:  29.0C  978RPM | 277.0M/276.8Mh/s | A:6 R:0 HW:0 U: 3.12/m I: 7
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Even when I disable the second card, the hash rate is split between the two:

Code:

cgminer version 2.11.4 - Started: [2013-04-13 11:59:02]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):553.2M (avg):552.3Mh/s | A:39  R:0  HW:0  U:6.3/m  WU:6.3/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 1  LW: 107  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to stratum.bitcoin.cz diff 1 with stratum as user xXxXxXx
 Block: 011f15f979755f29...  Diff:7.67M  Started: [11:59:02]  Best share: 180
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  72.0C 2304RPM | 553.1M/316.8Mh/s | A:16 R:0 HW:0 U: 2.59/m I: 7
 GPU 1:  30.5C  983RPM | OFF   /240.8Mh/s | A:23 R:0 HW:0 U: 3.72/m I: 7
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Could anyone point me in the right direction to get the 5830 properly recognized? Do I need to manually install the v2.5 SDK somewhere and build a second version of cgminer to use with it? Any help would be much appreciated. Like I said, my Linux is rusty, but give me instructions and I can follow them.