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

[mdude77]

if someone hasn't announced this cgminer 2.6.4 works great with windows 8 pro RTM build 9200 x64.

I'm testing right now to see if its stable long term.

I'm using driver version drivers 9.00-120612a unofficial beta.

Getting around 7% better Mh/s than win 7 using same configs on a 5770 card.

Anyone working in IT that hasn't used WIN 8 its going to be a nightmare doing end user training.

I'm getting slightly less on my 7970s on win 8.

The UI on win 8 is AWFUL.  I can't believe I had to google how to shut it down because I couldn't find the power button...  <facepalm>

M

[RandomQ]

if someone hasn't announced this cgminer 2.6.4 works great with windows 8 pro RTM build 9200 x64.

I'm testing right now to see if its stable long term.

I'm using driver version drivers 9.00-120612a unofficial beta.

Getting around 7% better Mh/s than win 7 using same configs on a 5770 card.

Anyone working in IT that hasn't used WIN 8 its going to be a nightmare doing end user training.

I'm getting slightly less on my 7970s on win 8.

The UI on win 8 is AWFUL.  I can't believe I had to google how to shut it down because I couldn't find the power button...  <facepalm>

M

I know the UI is designed for tablets and seems out of place on a desktop.

I had the same problem, I was like WTF how do I restart this stupid thing. They are making it so the default is to sleep the machine and not turn it off.

[Nite69]

Hi!

Testing version 2.6.4 on Ubuntu 12.04, found a (minor) bug, but I think it could be an older one. Yesterday I configured my system to use the onboard GPU (3300) for display and the PCIe card (5770) for mining only. Unfortunately, ADL and CL GPU mapping does not seem to work.

Even when using gpu-map, I cannot see the GPU temp, fan speed etccorrectly. Cgminer gets the values from onboard card and displays them for PCIe card. If I configure gpu-map, the initial *setting* of GPUfreq, voltage etc seems to work,but I still cannot see the measurements. And of course, auto adjustments does not work.
Debug log shows that cgminer sets (or tries to set) the initial values for *both* cards.

Here are my configurations and log files:
cgminer.conf (partially):
-------------
"device" : "0",
"gpu-memclock" : "450",
"gpu-engine" : "600-900",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.025",
"gpu-fan" : "80",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "21",
"failover-only" : true,
"intensity" : "12",
"gpu-map" : "0:1"
-------------

Corresponding debug log:
--------------------------
[2012-08-09 11:49:09] Started cgminer 2.6.4
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Loaded configuration file /home/xxxx/.cgminer/cgminer.conf
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (937.2)
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Platform 0 devices: 1
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09]    0   Juniper
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] GPU 0 iAdapterIndex 0 strUDID 296:38420:4098:33613:4163 iBusNumber 1 iDeviceNumber 5 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 40
98 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] GPU 1 iAdapterIndex 2 strUDID 512:26808:4098:9539:4098 iBusNumber 2 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 409
8 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] ADL found more devices than opencl!
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] There is possibly at least one GPU that doesn't support OpenCL
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Use the gpu map feature to reliably map OpenCL to ADL
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Mapping OpenCL device 0 to ADL device 1
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] WARNING: Number of OpenCL and ADL devices did not match!
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] GPU 0 ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics hardware monitoring enabled
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Failed to ADL_Overdrive5_ODPerformanceLevels_Get
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Setting GPU 0 engine clock to 900
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Setting GPU 0 memory clock to 450
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Setting GPU 0 voltage to 1.025
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Failed to ADL_Overdrive5_FanSpeedInfo_Get
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] GPU 0 doesn't support rpm or percent write
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] GPU 1 ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series hardware monitoring enabled
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Setting GPU 1 engine clock to 900
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Setting GPU 1 memory clock to 450
 [2012-08-09 11:49:09] Setting GPU 1 voltage to 1.025
------------------------
:::These values are from the on-board card (temp,voltage and rpm not valid), should be PCIe GPU:
 [2012-08-09 11:49:54] [thread 0: 805306368 hashes, 92701.7 khash/sec]
 [2012-08-09 11:49:54] -1.0 C  F: -1%(-1RPM)  E: 497MHz  M: 667Mhz  V: 0.000V  A: 7%  P: 0%
 [2012-08-09 11:49:55] [thread 1: 536870912 hashes, 92702.8 khash/sec]
 [2012-08-09 11:49:55] (5s):203.9 (avg):197.0 Mh/s | Q:3  A:0  R:0  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.0/m
 [2012-08-09 11:49:57] -1.0 C  F: -1%(-1RPM)  E: 497MHz  M: 667Mhz  V: 0.000V  A: 7%  P: 0%
 [2012-08-09 11:50:00] [thread 0: 536870912 hashes, 92704.3 khash/sec]
 [2012-08-09 11:50:00] -1.0 C  F: -1%(-1RPM)  E: 497MHz  M: 667Mhz  V: 0.000V  A: 7%  P: 0%
 [2012-08-09 11:50:01] [thread 1: 536870912 hashes, 92708.9 khash/sec]
 [2012-08-09 11:50:01] (5s):197.1 (avg):195.7 Mh/s | Q:3  A:0  R:0  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.0/m
 [2012-08-09 11:50:03] -1.0 C  F: -1%(-1RPM)  E: 497MHz  M: 667Mhz  V: 0.000V  A: 7%  P: 0%
 [2012-08-09 11:50:06] [thread 0: 536870912 hashes, 92693.9 khash/sec]
 [2012-08-09 11:50:06] -1.0 C  F: -1%(-1RPM)  E: 497MHz  M: 667Mhz  V: 0.000V  A: 7%  P: 0%
 [2012-08-09 11:50:07] [thread 1: 536870912 hashes, 92697.1 khash/sec]
 [2012-08-09 11:50:07] (5s):192.8 (avg):194.7 Mh/s | Q:3  A:0  R:0  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.0/m

Otherwise 2.6.4 seems to work ok. One note thought; I think fan speed setting should have a tolerance for 'target' value also. Optimally, the algorihtm should find a stable speed for the fan RPM and keep it. Currently the temperature and fan speed varies during normal operation (auto-adjustments worked before I started to use onboard card also). Ie. It would be better to have 77 degrees and 61% speed all the time vs temp varying 74-76 and RPM varying 58-62.

If someone is interested, I can make a more detailed instructions on how to configure the system to use onboard card for display and PCIe GPU for mining.

Edit: Versions:
-Ubuntu 12.04
-Some 4 core AMD64 cpu
- Catalyst 12.6 Legacy (not the beta version, which did not support 3300..)
- AMD SDK 2.7
- cgminer 2.6.4

I do not seem to get all the power from 5770, but have not yet been able to optimize it. Actually, even window manager seems to affect the speed, ie Unity vs LXDE.

[Luke-Jr]

The crash in libcurl was tracked down with the help of Kano. Interestingly this bug was always there but because previous versions queued so much extra, the number of "curls" in existence never dropped low enough to hit the bug.

Of course, despite being credited to Kano, this was debugged by me, and actually originally fixed in BFGMiner 2.6.3:

Code:

commit 1946c806922a66935856c32b6ca12d10db033b07
Author: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Date:   Sun Aug 5 22:50:24 2012 +0000

    Bugfix: Check list_empty in pop_curl_entry after condition wait
    
    pthread_cond_signal wakes AT LEAST one thread, so it's possible the freed up curl has already been taken

lulz - it was the one you copied:
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/c7bcad653b79ee54429aec4964f4aa80e49db1d1
to here:
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c7bcad653b79ee54429aec4964f4aa80e49db1d1
(see the same commit numbers ...)

Is this the first time you expressed your absolute ignorance of how git works in public?
...

Hmm, when was the last one ... oh yeah I remember ... about 2 weeks ago ...
"I'm not a git export" ...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg1055547#msg1055547

That was sarcasm, since you very well knew you were stealing credit for this fix. Or are you going to claim it's just coincidence that you found it and fixed it a few days after BFGMiner, and did so in practically the same way? Just like you "found and fixed" the JSON string encode error that you just submitted a fix to CGMiner for under your own name only hours after I wrote a nearly identical fix for BFGMiner and mentioned it on the forum?

[P_Shep]

Get over it Luke.

Simple problems are going be solved in the same simple way. There's nothing novel or unique about the code you write. It's all straight forward and intuitive.

Neither of these two examples have the same, copied solution. They were both solved independently in similar ways as they are both soving the same problem. It's no suprise the timing is also similar as these issue are being found at the same time.

You are not a coding god. Anyone can come up with the same ideas as you.

[Luke-Jr]

Neither of these two examples have the same, copied solution. They were both solved independently in similar ways as they are both soving the same problem. It's no suprise the timing is also similar as these issue are being found at the same time.

I don't know why you're defending his obvious theft. They do have the same copied solution, even if Kano made a poor effort to obfuscate it; while the first one might have only had one or two ways it could be fixed, this last one has numerous possible solutions (the most obvious being significantly better than the one I ended up taking except for making merging from cgminer harder if cgminer hadn't adopted it too); yet in both cases Kano used the exact same solution - only trivial/non-substantial changes to the syntax/names were made.

Neither of these bugs were in fact found in cgminer: the curlring issue was one I experienced myself personally, spent hours debugging, and finally identified a solution for; the only way Kano would have even known it existed was by reading BFGMiner's commit log; the JSON escaping issue only really affect BFGMiner because its compiled-in prefix on Windows uses backslashes.

[P_Shep]

Neither of these bugs were in fact found in cgminer: the curlring issue was one I experienced myself personally, spent hours debugging, and finally identified a solution for; the only way Kano would have even known it existed was by reading BFGMiner's commit log; the JSON escaping issue only really affect BFGMiner because its compiled-in prefix on Windows uses backslashes.

Maybe Kano is just better than you then?

There were a number of bug reports posted here in this thread pointing to libcurl being the source of locking up. Shortly after that, the fix was made. It's not a giant leap to assume that, in fact, they solved the problem.

[streetuff]

Neither of these two examples have the same, copied solution. They were both solved independently in similar ways as they are both soving the same problem. It's no suprise the timing is also similar as these issue are being found at the same time.

I don't know why you're defending his obvious theft. They do have the same copied solution, even if Kano made a poor effort to obfuscate it; while the first one might have only had one or two ways it could be fixed, this last one has numerous possible solutions (the most obvious being significantly better than the one I ended up taking except for making merging from cgminer harder if cgminer hadn't adopted it too); yet in both cases Kano used the exact same solution - only trivial/non-substantial changes to the syntax/names were made.

Neither of these bugs were in fact found in cgminer: the curlring issue was one I experienced myself personally, spent hours debugging, and finally identified a solution for; the only way Kano would have even known it existed was by reading BFGMiner's commit log; the JSON escaping issue only really affect BFGMiner because its compiled-in prefix on Windows uses backslashes.

you have been told to get the fuck out of this thread several times. i'm no mod here but i have something to complain about... most of BigFuckingCunt miner is based on conmans work...

[muqali]

Aren't most of what people are arguing about code-wise GPL or similar open licenses? If so, copying is a non-issue and is to be applauded. It benefits the greater good.

[Luke-Jr]

Neither of these two examples have the same, copied solution. They were both solved independently in similar ways as they are both soving the same problem. It's no suprise the timing is also similar as these issue are being found at the same time.

I don't know why you're defending his obvious theft. They do have the same copied solution, even if Kano made a poor effort to obfuscate it; while the first one might have only had one or two ways it could be fixed, this last one has numerous possible solutions (the most obvious being significantly better than the one I ended up taking except for making merging from cgminer harder if cgminer hadn't adopted it too); yet in both cases Kano used the exact same solution - only trivial/non-substantial changes to the syntax/names were made.

Neither of these bugs were in fact found in cgminer: the curlring issue was one I experienced myself personally, spent hours debugging, and finally identified a solution for; the only way Kano would have even known it existed was by reading BFGMiner's commit log; the JSON escaping issue only really affect BFGMiner because its compiled-in prefix on Windows uses backslashes.

you have been told to get the fuck out of this thread several times. i'm no mod here but i have something to complain about... most of BigFuckingCunt miner is based on conmans work...

Go troll elsewhere. CGMiner was based on Garzik's work in the same way: Con added GPU support, and I added FPGA support. Until ASICs were announced, Con had nothing to do with FPGA support.

Aren't most of what people are arguing about code-wise GPL or similar open licenses? If so, copying is a non-issue and is to be applauded. It benefits the greater good.

Copying is not the issue. The issue is Con and Kano passing off others' work as their own.

[P_Shep]

A bit like taking some header files and removing the author/copywrite info?

[Luke-Jr]

A bit like taking some header files and removing the author/copywrite info?

Please don't make implied accusations that aren't true, kthx.

[muqali]

Neither of these two examples have the same, copied solution. They were both solved independently in similar ways as they are both soving the same problem. It's no suprise the timing is also similar as these issue are being found at the same time.

I don't know why you're defending his obvious theft. They do have the same copied solution, even if Kano made a poor effort to obfuscate it; while the first one might have only had one or two ways it could be fixed, this last one has numerous possible solutions (the most obvious being significantly better than the one I ended up taking except for making merging from cgminer harder if cgminer hadn't adopted it too); yet in both cases Kano used the exact same solution - only trivial/non-substantial changes to the syntax/names were made.

Neither of these bugs were in fact found in cgminer: the curlring issue was one I experienced myself personally, spent hours debugging, and finally identified a solution for; the only way Kano would have even known it existed was by reading BFGMiner's commit log; the JSON escaping issue only really affect BFGMiner because its compiled-in prefix on Windows uses backslashes.

you have been told to get the fuck out of this thread several times. i'm no mod here but i have something to complain about... most of BigFuckingCunt miner is based on conmans work...

Go troll elsewhere. CGMiner was based on Garzik's work in the same way: Con added GPU support, and I added FPGA support. Until ASICs were announced, Con had nothing to do with FPGA support.

Aren't most of what people are arguing about code-wise GPL or similar open licenses? If so, copying is a non-issue and is to be applauded. It benefits the greater good.

Copying is not the issue. The issue is Con and Kano passing off others' work as their own.

Ah, an accrediting issue. As I know nothing about who did what I'll bow out.

[mc_lovin]

Neither of these two examples have the same, copied solution. They were both solved independently in similar ways as they are both soving the same problem. It's no suprise the timing is also similar as these issue are being found at the same time.

I don't know why you're defending his obvious theft. They do have the same copied solution, even if Kano made a poor effort to obfuscate it; while the first one might have only had one or two ways it could be fixed, this last one has numerous possible solutions (the most obvious being significantly better than the one I ended up taking except for making merging from cgminer harder if cgminer hadn't adopted it too); yet in both cases Kano used the exact same solution - only trivial/non-substantial changes to the syntax/names were made.

Neither of these bugs were in fact found in cgminer: the curlring issue was one I experienced myself personally, spent hours debugging, and finally identified a solution for; the only way Kano would have even known it existed was by reading BFGMiner's commit log; the JSON escaping issue only really affect BFGMiner because its compiled-in prefix on Windows uses backslashes.

you have been told to get the fuck out of this thread several times. i'm no mod here but i have something to complain about... most of BigFuckingCunt miner is based on conmans work...

Go troll elsewhere. CGMiner was based on Garzik's work in the same way: Con added GPU support, and I added FPGA support. Until ASICs were announced, Con had nothing to do with FPGA support.

Aren't most of what people are arguing about code-wise GPL or similar open licenses? If so, copying is a non-issue and is to be applauded. It benefits the greater good.

Copying is not the issue. The issue is Con and Kano passing off others' work as their own.

[P_Shep]

Copying is not the issue. The issue is Con and Kano passing off others' work as their own.

At the end of the day it's just your paranoid (delusional?) opinon that they took your code, changed it then submitted it themselves.

Since all this code is GPL, would the easier solution for them not simply be submit your commit, which would involve almost zero effort, rather then re-arrange your code? What is to gain? What's their motive?

[streetuff]

ignoring the ginger now. because gingers are scary!

[mc_lovin]

Copying is not the issue. The issue is Con and Kano passing off others' work as their own.

At the end of the day it's just your paranoid (delusional?) opinon that they took your code, changed it then submitted it themselves.

Since all this code is GPL, would the easier solution for them not simply be submit your commit, which would involve almost zero effort, rather then re-arrange your code? What is to gain? What's their motive?

Isn't BFG a fork of cgminer?  So he came in, added a few lines, and then now HE'S complaining about stolen code?

[Luke-Jr]

Copying is not the issue. The issue is Con and Kano passing off others' work as their own.

At the end of the day it's just your paranoid (delusional?) opinon that they took your code, changed it then submitted it themselves.

Since all this code is GPL, would the easier solution for them not simply be submit your commit, which would involve almost zero effort, rather then re-arrange your code? What is to gain? What's their motive?

Isn't BFG a fork of cgminer?  So he came in, added a few lines, and then now HE'S complaining about stolen code?

It was a fork of the original CGMiner. I rewrote a lot of code to make it possible to have other drivers (the original was CPU and GPU as mostly separate code), and added support for FPGAs. Con took that code back into CGMiner, and eventually forked his copy of it.

So in short, cpu-miner was forked to CGMiner for GPU support. CGMiner was forked to BFGMiner for FPGA support. BFGMiner was then forked back into CGMiner for political reasons.

Also, I make sure to attribute even Con and Kano's (indirect) contributions to BFGMiner.

[Luke-Jr]

Since all this code is GPL, would the easier solution for them not simply be submit your commit, which would involve almost zero effort, rather then re-arrange your code? What is to gain? What's their motive?

Detraction and trolling me is their apparent motive.

Maybe also related to this:

<conman> I don't even take his code pushes even if they're apparently bugfixes

[-ck]

People seem to not understand it is entirely possible 2 people arrive at the same solution to the same bug at different times. This complaint is now about something like a one line bugfix with exactly those circumstances. Paranoid delusions indeed.