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

[os2sam]

Heh, the more things change, the more they stay the same   Nuff said.

Anyway unfortunately for some (one?), I'm not dead and was not going to abandon cgminer, but family comes first. Things are still bad there but I'm finding my feet again.

I'll look at the stratum protocol at some stage soon.

Thanks for checking in.  Look forward to your return, when you are ready and not before.

Hopefully the pissing contest will have died down by then.
Take Care,
Sam

[crazyates]

Heh, the more things change, the more they stay the same   Nuff said.

Anyway unfortunately for some (one?), I'm not dead and was not going to abandon cgminer, but family comes first. Things are still bad there but I'm finding my feet again.

I'll look at the stratum protocol at some stage soon.

Thanks for checking in.  Look forward to your return, when you are ready and not before.

Hopefully the pissing contest will have died down by then.
Take Care,
Sam

+1

Glad to hear from you.

[PandaMiner]

Other possibilities I can think of are:
1) Some problem with your curses library
2) Some default cgminer.conf file setting some unexpected setting
3) Different version of windows
Otherwise - no idea.

Thanks kano...

Okay, I spent all night reading the other thread that started the bounty to get ckolivas working on scrypt support for cgminer. I also read the cgminer readme twice. I learned a lot of stuff, and do not know what the problem could be yet.  

I haven't made too many changes, but I fear it could be that solo mining on secondary computers are glitchy, or there is something awry with my computer.

I will post what my current configuration on my machine is.  I just hope I can revert when I make any changes. I admit, some things in that other thread went over my head.

My everyday work/media computer:

• Windows Home Premium x64, SP1
• AMD Phenom II x4 955 black edition, 3.2 ghz
• 8 GB memory
• GPU (device) 0: PCIex16 - Sapphire Radeon HD 6790 - 2 monitors (HDMI [#1], DVI [#3])
• GPU (device) 1: AGP  - ATi Radeon HD 46xx - 1 monitor (DVI [#2]) - my "main display"
• Mainboard: MSI  (MS-7599) - two USB3 channels, but 1 gets disabled with my PCIex16 GUP

My AMD VISION Engine Control Center reports:

• Driver Packaging Version: 8.92-111109a-129966C-ATI
• Catalyst Version: 11.12
• 2D Driver Version: 8.01.01.1215
• Direct3D Version: 7.14.10.0879
• OpenGL Version: 6.14.10.11318
• Vendor: 1002
• Memory: 1024 MB
• Core Clock: 840 mhz
• Mem Clock: 1050 mhz
• Total Mem Bandwidth: 134.4 GB/s

My batch file: (all on one line)

Code:

cgminer --scrypt --device 0 -I 12 --shaders 800
-o http://192.168.1.27:9332 -u panda -p miner
-o http://notroll.in:6332 -u Panda47.failsafe -p 12345

The verbose dump:

Code:

 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] Started cgminer 2.6.4
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP (831.4)
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] Platform 0 devices: 2
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] 	0	Barts
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] 	1	ATI RV730
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] GPU 0 iAdapterIndex 0 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_673E&SUBSYS_174B174B&REV_00_4&7E682FB&0&0010A iBusNumber 1 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series 
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] GPU 1 iAdapterIndex 3 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_9498&SUBSYS_22691787&REV_00_4&2B0E28C7&0&0020A iBusNumber 2 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series 
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series hardware monitoring enabled
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] GPU 1 ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series hardware monitoring enabled
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] Failed to ADL_Overdrive5_FanSpeedInfo_Get
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] FTD2XX.DLL failed to load, not using FTDI bitforce autodetect

There is no cgminer.conf file.
I don't know what other info to provide.

I know I can upgrade the Catalyst to 12.8 but not sure if it doesn't work out, how to get back to 11.12 (which I know works for BTC mining).
But how do I know what SDK I have? What are curses?
To recap my problem... cgMiner is running Solo mining, but from a different computer on the same home network, but it does not "show" the header, and does not update the window. However it DOES hash as confirmed with the pool I try it with by itself.

ckolivas, titiez, if you can read this, what is going on? I would like your input, even if it's "I dunno". Thanks.

EDIT: I upgraded the catalyst from 11.12 to 12.6 and i can now see the "header"

[btckeeper]

Hello. I have two cars on my mining rig. How can I use them for different usernames or pools? For example 6850 on deepbit, 6950 on btcguild.

[kano]

Hello. I have two cars on my mining rig. How can I use them for different usernames or pools? For example 6850 on deepbit, 6950 on btcguild.

Run 2 cgminers - one for each card.

[kano]

Other possibilities I can think of are:
1) Some problem with your curses library
2) Some default cgminer.conf file setting some unexpected setting
3) Different version of windows
Otherwise - no idea.

Thanks kano...

Okay, I spent all night reading the other thread that started the bounty to get ckolivas working on scrypt support for cgminer. I also read the cgminer readme twice. I learned a lot of stuff, and do not know what the problem could be yet.  

...

To recap my problem... cgMiner is running Solo mining, but from a different computer on the same home network, but it does not "show" the header, and does not update the window. However it DOES hash as confirmed with the pool I try it with by itself.

ckolivas, titiez, if you can read this, what is going on? I would like your input, even if it's "I dunno". Thanks.

So basically - it sounds like a combo of 1) and 3)
For some reason curses isn't working, and when you disable curses (-T) it works fine.
When curses is enabled (no -T) mining works fine but the screen doesn't display properly.
Pointing directly as some curses problem.

However, since it is mining, if you enable the API, any tool (including miner.php with cgminer) should work fine also.

[dooferorg]

(about Luke-Jr)

His agenda is some sort of power/control of BTC (which has been going on for a long time) and he believes his religious ideals are reason for him to take control and make things only how he thinks they should be - his belief is that he is righteous.
I make this comment in all seriousness.

I have only been on these forums for a short while and interested in bitcoin only a while before that but I am starting to see that too based on his comments on different threads. Nothing is right unless sanctioned by him .. or should that be Him?

[streetuff]

(about Luke-Jr)

His agenda is some sort of power/control of BTC (which has been going on for a long time) and he believes his religious ideals are reason for him to take control and make things only how he thinks they should be - his belief is that he is righteous.
I make this comment in all seriousness.

I have only been on these forums for a short while and interested in bitcoin only a while before that but I am starting to see that too based on his comments on different threads. Nothing is right unless sanctioned by him .. or should that be Him?

amen...

[TheHarbinger]

And on the eighth day, He created Luke-Jr...

[Brunic]

Hi,

I just want to report that it seems cgminer 2.7.4 and cgminer 2.7.5 have an odd bug when used for GPU mining Litecoin with BAMT 0.5c. You cannot get more than 5-10 khash whatever the GPU is and whatever the settings are.

I've used the 2.6.1 version of cgminer, and everything went fine.

[-ck]

Okay, I spent all night reading the other thread that started the bounty to get ckolivas working on scrypt support for cgminer. I also read the cgminer readme twice. I learned a lot of stuff, and do not know what the problem could be yet.  

Code:

 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP (831.4)
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] Platform 0 devices: 2
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] 	0	Barts
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] 	1	ATI RV730
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] GPU 0 iAdapterIndex 0 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_673E&SUBSYS_174B174B&REV_00_4&7E682FB&0&0010A iBusNumber 1 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series 
 [2012-09-20 09:24:55] GPU 1 iAdapterIndex 3 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_9498&SUBSYS_22691787&REV_00_4&2B0E28C7&0&0020A iBusNumber 2 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series 

 [2012-09-20 09:25:18] GPU0                | (5s):0.0 (avg):153.3 Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.0/m I:12
 [2012-09-20 09:25:18] GPU1                | (5s):0.0 (avg):0.0 Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.0/m I:12
Shutdown signal received.

There is no cgminer.conf file.
I don't know what other info to provide.

I know I can upgrade the Catalyst to 12.8 but not sure if it doesn't work out, how to get back to 11.12 (which I know works for BTC mining).
But how do I know what SDK I have? What are curses?
To recap my problem... cgMiner is running Solo mining, but from a different computer on the same home network, but it does not "show" the header, and does not update the window. However it DOES hash as confirmed with the pool I try it with by itself.

ckolivas, titiez, if you can read this, what is going on? I would like your input, even if it's "I dunno". Thanks.

Since you went to the effort of really trying hard and providing lots of info, I will try my best to decipher what your problem may be. Fortunately it's a little bit more than "dunno" but not certain.

AMD/ATI in their usual wisdom decided that their SDK version number would tell you nothing about what fucking version it actually is. They did the same with the driver and the SDK

You have

Code:

CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP (831.4)

Which from memory is the pre-release of SDK 2.6 that came with the december 2011 driver (11.12). 2.6 SDK is the minimum required to do scrypt mining.

"curses" is the software component that gives you the running menu and "header" as you called it, and it's never getting to that stage.

The one thing about your setup that may be the cause of your problem is this:

Code:

1	ATI RV730

I have a suspicion that the scrypt kernel may not even run on that particular hardware in any form with the settings you are choosing.

This is what makes me suspicious:

Code:

 [2012-09-20 09:25:18] GPU0                | (5s):0.0 (avg):153.3 Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.0/m I:12
 [2012-09-20 09:25:18] GPU1                | (5s):0.0 (avg):0.0 Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.0/m I:12

You'll see that GPU1 never actually gets going. There's a good chance the code just gets stuck waiting for this device to respond and it never happens, and meanwhile the rest is already underway with GPU0.

I doubt a driver update will do anything for you, but I suggest you try mining with just GPU0 by adding something like

Code:

-d 0 --remove-disabled

(edited was -D 0 but meant to be -d 0)
and see if that gets it going. There's a good chance that GPU1 will be so bad at scrypt mining even if you do get it working that it's not worth it.

[-ck]

Hi,

I just want to report that it seems cgminer 2.7.4 and cgminer 2.7.5 have an odd bug when used for GPU mining Litecoin with BAMT 0.5c. You cannot get more than 5-10 khash whatever the GPU is and whatever the settings are.

I've used the 2.6.1 version of cgminer, and everything went fine.

BAMT has no support for later versions of cgminer and they've officially dropped support for it I believe in the next version.

[PandaMiner]

Since you went to the effort of really trying hard and providing lots of info, I will try my best to decipher what your problem may be. Fortunately it's a little bit more than "dunno" but not certain.
...snip...
You'll see that GPU1 never actually gets going. There's a good chance the code just gets stuck waiting for this device to respond and it never happens, and meanwhile the rest is already underway with GPU0.

I doubt a driver update will do anything for you, but I suggest you try mining with just GPU0 by adding something like

Code:

-D 0 --remove-disabled

and see if that gets it going. There's a good chance that GPU1 will be so bad at scrypt mining even if you do get it working that it's not worth it.

Thanks for your time, and input. I have fixed the "missing header" issue by upgrading/installing.  I did the easyone first, that didn't "fix" it... I installed something called AMD APP SDK v2.7  <embarassed>

Manual reboot (cuz i wanted to) and nothing fixed.

Then I did what I was afraid to do, I upgraded Catalyst.  I was able to find version 12.6 and installed it w/o incident.  I didn't even reboot, and cgMiner 2.6.4 (and 2.7.5) shows me the header/menu!!

Once again, I thank Kano & ckolivas for their time and troubles. I was just afraid to upgrade Catalyst and if I ultimately gave up on LTC, and wanted to mine BTC, that 12.6 was going to be a bitch to take off/downgrade. (cuz I had to do that late last year)

Incidentally, you may have missed it on my previous post, but I was manually disabling GPU 1 with --device 0 in the batch file.

But just for shits & giggles, I added that switch, and GPU 1 is not shown in the header, but when I go to change settings, it still asks me which GPU I want to make changes on, so I'll just let it "show" me the disabled card. cheers.


My next challenge, tweaking the hashrates!!

[rocks]

Hi,

I am trying to install cgminer 2.7.5 on Ubuntu 12.04 to run a new BFL single, but can not get cgminer to find the BFL single. I followed the standard instructions and did:

$ CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure
$ make

If I then run this, I get:
$ ./cgminer -o [pool] -u username -p pw
All devices disabled, cannot mine!

If I try to force cgminer to scan for the device, I get the following error:
$ ./cgminer -o [pool] -u username -p pw --scan-serial
[2012-09-20 22:08:55] ./cgminer --scan-serial: unrecognized option

There must be something basic I am doing wrong, but have spent a few hours and can not figure it out.

BTW, the single is plugged in fine, running
$ lsusb
returns
"Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0403:6014 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232H Single HS USB-UART/FIFO IC"
So, I assume it is not a connection issue...

Any help or pointers would be really appreciated!

Thanks!

[Krak]

Hi,

I am trying to install cgminer 2.7.5 on Ubuntu 12.04 to run a new BFL single, but can not get cgminer to find the BFL single. I followed the standard instructions and did:

$ CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure
$ make

If I then run this, I get:
$ ./cgminer -o [pool] -u username -p pw
All devices disabled, cannot mine!

If I try to force cgminer to scan for the device, I get the following error:
$ ./cgminer -o [pool] -u username -p pw --scan-serial
[2012-09-20 22:08:55] ./cgminer --scan-serial: unrecognized option

There must be something basic I am doing wrong, but have spent a few hours and can not figure it out.

BTW, the single is plugged in fine, running
$ lsusb
returns
"Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0403:6014 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232H Single HS USB-UART/FIFO IC"
So, I assume it is not a connection issue...

Any help or pointers would be really appreciated!

Thanks!

Change this

Code:

$ CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure

to this.

Code:

$ CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure --enable-bitforce

[dlasher]

Because I don't see a link anywhere, cgminer 2.7.5 compiled under raspbian, tar'd up entire source directory (14 meg):

http://www.filedropper.com/cgminer275raspbian

(if someone can tell me the minimum required files, I can pick them out of the source tree and make a new download available)

compiled with the following options:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
cgminer 2.7.5
------------------------------------------------------------------------


Configuration Options Summary:

  curses.TUI...........: FOUND: ncurses
  OpenCL...............: NOT FOUND. GPU mining support DISABLED
  scrypt...............: Disabled (needs OpenCL)
  ADL..................: SDK NOT found, GPU monitoring support DISABLED

  BitForce.FPGAs.......: Enabled
  Icarus.FPGAs.........: Enabled
  ModMiner.FPGAs.......: Enabled
  Ztex.FPGAs...........: Enabled
  libudev.detection....: yes

  CPU Mining...........: Enabled
  ASM.(for CPU mining).: true

Compilation............: make (or gmake)
  CPPFLAGS.............:
  CFLAGS...............: -g -O2
  LDFLAGS..............:  -lpthread
  LDADD................:  -lcurl   compat/jansson/libjansson.a -lpthread     -lm -ludev -lusb-1.0

Installation...........: make install (as root if needed, with 'su' or 'sudo')
  prefix...............: /usr/local

I don't have any USB FPGA miners attached to my PI at the moment, but it's mining been CPU mining at 118K/hash for the last hour.

Feedback/PM welcomed.

[c4n10]

Can somebody give me some tips on reducing stales in my cgminer? I'm seeing about 8% - 12% stales...

[slush]

C4n10, is long polling working properly? This looks like LP issue.

[c4n10]

C4n10, is long polling working properly? This looks like LP issue.

Not sure... I have two other miners that are cpu miners running different software and their stale rates are about 1.2% so I'm pretty sure it's not the pool if that's what you are asking...

[kano]

C4n10, is long polling working properly? This looks like LP issue.

Not sure... I have two other miners that are cpu miners running different software and their stale rates are about 1.2% so I'm pretty sure it's not the pool if that's what you are asking...

CPU mining is not only most likely the cause but also a complete waste of time.
As per the README, it's not supported.