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

[farfie]

Wait wait wait...what is that?

previously always told to get driver 12.X and SDK 2.X, then told get newest driver 12.6 and use it's built in SDK, is this SDK or something more?

Whatever would be able to let radeon's be detected by software fully when no display is plugged into then, as this should increase slightly the Mhash

Right now I have my main display hooked to onboard and extended the desktop with black background to one off the radeon, otherwise CGMINER doesn't see it properly gives those errors and can't auto fan tune and even MSI afterburner doesn't work

I'm not sure anyone ever recommended the newest drivers/SDK for CGMiner. I remember back when DiabloMiner came out with that update where he wanted people to start doing that, but that's it. Are you sure you're not thinking of that?

Anyway ck, I've given both 2.6.2. and 2.6.3 (using Ubuntu x64 now) a decent test run, nothing too groundbreaking in terms of testing length, but it seems pretty obvious very early on that I don't get results that can compare with 2.5.0. U with my Ubuntu host has dropped from ~847 to about ~823 over about.. oh.. 10 hours or so of testing?
I also had one of my singles start throttling on me (not related to 2.6.3), so I brought it to a Windows machine (Windows 8 actually, heh, the 'leaked" Enterprise RTM) for tuning, and decided to take the opportunity to also test 2.5.0 vs 2.6.3 on here. Again, the U from 2.6.3 is about 11 exactly, and on 2.5.0 is 11.30 on the 832 firmware which is where this single ended up.

Just here to give some experience, not throw fud around - I love the ideas being put in and hopefully we will see them through to fruition.

Perhaps the newer versions require more time to average out their shown rates?

[dishwara]

Perhaps then you have a few files from different SDKs installed. That's usually how segfaults occur. You'll have to go through and do a cleanup. The newer AMD drivers automatically install the SDK themselves.

I know, that's why I'm having the problem. But how do you get the driver to install without the SDK or at least remove the SDK that it installs? Gah, now I gotta remember how I cleaned up all these files last time...

If windows, you can select "custom" instead of "express" when installing or uninstalling.

[-ck]

That's really funny/sad/disappointing/pissing me off. Apart from being able to recover from hardware errors, it seems that there is nothing good about all the BFL fixes that went into 2.6.x so far even though 2.5.0 was littered with bugs. The only way I can imagine that the U is lower with the new code is that you are having lots of throttling episodes and it is now throwing out the work during those throttling episodes in an attempt to try and recover - this should be obvious because 2.6.3 will throw a hardware error if it does that. There really isn't anything else that should affect utility that I can think of. Perhaps it's actually keeping the device busier for more sustained periods and it throttles more as a result. Do you get any hardware errors?
EDIT: Oh and usual comment about utility being related to luck till thousands of shares have passed.

[Krak]

If windows, you can select "custom" instead of "express" when installing or uninstalling.

I'm on Ubuntu and I can select custom when I install the driver, but every option besides the Catalyst control center is grayed out.

[dave3]

I am getting a lot of "This program has stopped working and will be shutdown" with 2.6.3.  Running windows X32 7 on 13 different miner rigs with 5970, 7970, and some BFL singles.  Both the 7970 rigs and 5970 rigs are getting the error, I have reverted back to 2.6.2, and haven't had issues.  Just thought I'd share.

I compiled cgminer 2.6.3 for windows (windows 7 64 bit), and had it running for 5-6 hours and ran into the same problem.  It didn't just crash so the .bat file could restart it;  it seemed to be stuck there until I clicked "Close program."

Here's a screenshot:

[-ck]

Well I *have* seen reports of new instability with cgminer that people running certain antivirus programs ran into (?avast or something).

[420]

I am getting a lot of "This program has stopped working and will be shutdown" with 2.6.3.  Running windows X32 7 on 13 different miner rigs with 5970, 7970, and some BFL singles.  Both the 7970 rigs and 5970 rigs are getting the error, I have reverted back to 2.6.2, and haven't had issues.  Just thought I'd share.

I compiled cgminer 2.6.3 for windows (windows 7 64 bit), and had it running for 5-6 hours and ran into the same problem.  It didn't just crash so the .bat file could restart it;  it seemed to be stuck there until I clicked "Close program."

Here's a screenshot:

First off even seen your screenshot of cgminer crashing is frightening

I'm on win7 64-bit home no antivirus, 5970's running cgminer over 24-hours with no crashes

Edit/retoractive reply: the guy 'auctioneeeeer' apparently had rigs withouth BFL's and crashing, under 32-bit windows.

to clarify i'm using 2.6.3 of course

[dave3]

Well I *have* seen reports of new instability with cgminer that people running certain antivirus programs ran into (?avast or something).

I'm running AVG, but the cgminer directory is excluded.  I haven't had any other versions of cgminer crash like that before.  I went back to 2.6.2 for now.

First off even seen your screenshot of cgminer crashing is frightening

I'm on win7 64-bit home no antivirus, 5970's running cgminer over 24-hours with no crashes

This is something new with 2.6.3.  I haven't had this sort of crash with older versions.

I compile it for bitforce support only, so it won't require any special graphics drivers, since I'm only using it for 2 BFL singles.

[-ck]

Well I *have* seen reports of new instability with cgminer that people running certain antivirus programs ran into (?avast or something).

I'm running AVG, but the cgminer directory is excluded.  I haven't had any other versions of cgminer crash like that before.  I went back to 2.6.2 for now.

Just telling you what I've seen, and different versions get a different response from the same antivirus software. Quite sure AVG was mentioned and only gets better with a full uninstall, but it's up to you how to tackle it. I only recommend microsoft security essentials, but I'm not a windows person by nature. Even games like HL2 have the same issues... https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9402-MKEN-1517

[BitMinerN8]

I am getting a lot of "This program has stopped working and will be shutdown" with 2.6.3.  Running windows X32 7 on 13 different miner rigs with 5970, 7970, and some BFL singles.  Both the 7970 rigs and 5970 rigs are getting the error, I have reverted back to 2.6.2, and haven't had issues.  Just thought I'd share.

I had this happen as well on a 2.6.3 test rig, Win 7 x64: (Was running 2.5.0 prior without issue.)

Code:

Faulting application name: cgminer.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x501e265c
Faulting module name: libcurl-4.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f460f95
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000061c7
Faulting process id: 0x4050
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd73772469323e
Faulting application path: C:\cgminer-2.6.3-win32\cgminer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\cgminer-2.6.3-win32\libcurl-4.dll
Report Id: 9abfd399-dfc4-11e1-b5d9-bcaec569c129

[auctioneeeeer]

It happened on my BFL rig last night, same error as before, it had uptime of about 1.5 days before.  Now all 13 of my rigs have done this, back on 2.5 and everything is stable.

[dave3]

I found this in the event log, too (from the 2.6.3 crash):

Code:

Faulting application name: cgminer.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x501f5dba
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0002dfe4
Faulting process id: 0x1d0
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd7399902a3c50
Faulting application path: C:\cgminer\cgminer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll

[auctioneeeeer]

Here is my log as well from the crash from one of my rigs:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          8/6/2012 3:43:22 AM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      spklsf4
Description:
Faulting application name: cgminer.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x501e265c
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0002dfe4
Faulting process id: 0x107c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd73311a165c2a
Faulting application path: C:\Users\jensen\Desktop\cgminer-2.6.3-win32\cgminer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll

[misternoodle]

So I've tried setting up scrypt in CGminer but regardless of what pool I use it hangs on Longpoll activated.  

http://imgur.com/LumIV

Am I missing something?

I've tried this on 2 of my systems and it's the same.

[muqali]

So I've tried setting up scrypt in CGminer but regardless of what pool I use it hangs on Longpoll activated.  

http://imgur.com/LumIV

Am I missing something?

I've tried this on 2 of my systems and it's the same.

I'm using W7 x64 and having no issues with scrypt on what is my initial run with it. 24 hours and going now.

[cyberlync]

Faulting application name: cgminer.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x501e265c
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b60
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00052c39
Faulting process id: 0x210
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd737050196b5f
Faulting application path: C:\Users\1\Desktop\cgminer-2.6.3-win32\cgminer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll

edit: Running on win7 32bit, no bfl's, just gpu's, 58xx series.

[nitrox]

windows 7 x64
driver 12.06
SDK 2.7
cgminer 2.6.3 - crash every 5 - 6 hours
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          06.08.2012 00:18:45
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      MINER
Description:
Faulting application name: cgminer.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x501e265c
Faulting module name: libcurl-4.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f460f95
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000147d8
Faulting process id: 0x4f0
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd7344c2481a40
Faulting application path: D:\mining\cgminer\cgminer.exe
Faulting module path: D:\mining\cgminer\libcurl-4.dll
Report Id: 234bd240-df43-11e1-8745-001d60c3d47b
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

back to cgminer 2.6.2

[Luke-Jr]

If you guys install DrMingw, you'll get a Debug button on crashes that will dump a stack trace, which is usually much more useful than Windows's crash info.

[nitrox]

If you guys install DrMingw, you'll get a Debug button on crashes that will dump a stack trace, which is usually much more useful than Windows's crash info.

with the previous version no problems.
I prefer to use something workable.

[jddebug]

I am getting a lot of "This program has stopped working and will be shutdown" with 2.6.3.  Running windows X32 7 on 13 different miner rigs with 5970, 7970, and some BFL singles.  Both the 7970 rigs and 5970 rigs are getting the error, I have reverted back to 2.6.2, and haven't had issues.  Just thought I'd share.

I compiled cgminer 2.6.3 for windows (windows 7 64 bit), and had it running for 5-6 hours and ran into the same problem.  It didn't just crash so the .bat file could restart it;  it seemed to be stuck there until I clicked "Close program."

Here's a screenshot:

I get this on any of my bfl rigs running newest cgminer. Sometimes theres not even a error, I just see my desktop and no cgminer window.