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

[The Mafia]

Yes, scrypt. and I have tried so many settings that my eyes bled. Low difficulty, different TC, lookup gap, threads, etc.

I have tried millions of combinations. Then I started to change bioses, and drivers.

Some worked, some don't.

Right now I have a machine with 1 x 7970, and 1 x 7950, and the 7950 likes to die after about an hour of hashing happily at no matter what clock.

If you try to restart, it sprays out hardware errors until a reboot.

[The Mafia]

Sorry, not having a go at you about any of this, but it is very complicated to get things working.

Also, this same rig - the 7970 is happy with a TC of 8192. Anything more and it throws HW errors.

The 7950 can take all the way up to 24,000. Its happy at 16384.

Why such a large difference for the same type of card?

[seocrow]

Im having a problem with an installation on Debian. The cards are HD5870 and HD5970 cards. Normally I work with HD7950 cards and never see these obscure problems with older cards. I removed the HD5970 so now only have HD5870's installed while testing.

OS Version
user@bamt-miner:~/miner32/cgminer-3.0.0$ uname -a
Linux bamt-miner 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 16:04:25 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

I have installed 32 bit Open CL drivers and also compiled CgMiner 32 bit version for scrypt but I keep getting these errors. Cgminer compiled for bitcoin works ok on this machine but Im having a major issue getting Litecoin to work.


user@bamt-miner:~/miner32/cgminer-3.0.0$ ./cgminer -n
 [2013-05-21 11:11:01] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-05-21 11:11:01] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-05-21 11:11:01] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1113.2)
 [2013-05-21 11:11:01] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)
 [2013-05-21 11:11:01] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable
 [2013-05-21 11:11:01] 0 GPU devices max detected


All cards are detected

user@bamt-miner:~/miner32/cgminer-3.0.0$ sudo aticonfig --lsa
* 0. 01:00.0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
  1. 0a:00.0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
  2. 09:00.0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
  3. 06:00.0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
  4. 05:00.0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

* - Default adapter


user@bamt-miner:~/miner32/cgminer-3.0.0$ lspci|grep ATI
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress)
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress)
05:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress)
06:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress)
09:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress)
0a:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]

Any advice would be very useful. I have tried various SDK's and drivers with no joy.

[collapse]

It's printed  "BLOCK!" before or after share submission?  Because I saw "BLOCK!", and after "stratum disconnect lost ..."
Can cgminer send the found block to failover pool, or disapears?

[kano]

It's printed  "BLOCK!" before or after share submission?  Because I saw "BLOCK!", and after "stratum disconnect lost ..."
Can cgminer send the found block to failover pool, or disapears?

Work from a pool can't go to a different pool.
On the line that says BLOCK! it will have the front of the hash like 00000123
If that is the network block at the time you got it then yep it made it back to the pool.
If not, then nope it was either an orphan or didn't make it back to the pool it came from.

[HellDiverUK]

Windows 7 x64 Pro
AMD FX8320
Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX
HD7850 (Asus)
HD6970 (Powercolor)
HD5870 (Powercolor)

When I try and run CGMiner, it just brings up the "CGMINER.EXE has stopped working.

I've also tried GUIMiner, it just starts and quits. (Not a problem for this thread, but thought it might be worth throwing out there too).

I've tried 12.10 drivers, I've tried 13.4 drivers.  Neither make any odds.

I've cleared out all the .ini and config files out of the profile, etc, and re-downloaded a fresh version of cgminer (3.1.1).

I was able to Scrypt mine with the 13.4 miners using Reaper, but in trying to solve the CGMiner issues, now it won't even run.  All the cards ran OK using cgminer in a different machine, but not all at the same time (it was a uATX Celeron machine).

Any ideas?

[arklan]

so, in prepartion for the pending arrival of ASICMINER usb miners, i was finally switching over to cgminer.

this has been unsuccessful...

i have both an amd radeon 6870 AND an nvidia geforce 560 in my system. i want to just use the amd card to mine, but i can't get that working.

i've got a pool (ozcoin) set up in the config file, and nothing else. on startup, cgminer throws an error talking about ADL and CL devices not matching. after reading through the gpu-faq, the cloest to a solution i found was to use the --gpu-platform attribute. well, i tried that, with numbers 1, 2 and 0. 0's the nvidia, 1 SHOULD be the amd, but is only getting maybe 5 mhash, where in guiminer it's 270.

any ideas? or am i being stupid and missing something obvious? note: running windows 7.

here's the output when i run cgminer with -n

Code:

D:\Downloads\cgminer1>cgminer.exe -n
 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] CL Platform 0 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] CL Platform 0 name: NVIDIA CUDA
 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 CUDA 4.2.1

 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] Platform 0 devices: 1
 [2013-05-21 07:01:01]  0       GeForce GTX 560
 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] CL Platform 1 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] CL Platform 1 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] CL Platform 1 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)

 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] Platform 1 devices: 1
 [2013-05-21 07:01:01]  0       Barts
 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1

 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1

 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1

 [2013-05-21 07:01:01] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1

 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1

 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1

 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1

 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1

 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] ADL found less devices than opencl!
 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] There is possibly more than one display attached to a GPU

 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] Use the gpu map feature to reliably map OpenCL to ADL

 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] WARNING: Number of OpenCL and ADL devices did not match!

 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!

 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] 1 GPU devices max detected
 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] USB all: found 9 devices - listing known devices

 [2013-05-21 07:01:02] No known USB devices

[HellDiverUK]

so, in prepartion for the pending arrival of ASICMINER usb miners, i was finally switching over to cgminer.

this has been unsuccessful...

i have both an amd radeon 6870 AND an nvidia geforce 560 in my system. i want to just use the amd card to mine, but i can't get that working.

I use GUIMiner in my work PC for running a Quadro 600 and a HD7750.  Could never get cgminer to play ball with the two different types of card.

[arklan]

so, in prepartion for the pending arrival of ASICMINER usb miners, i was finally switching over to cgminer.

this has been unsuccessful...

i have both an amd radeon 6870 AND an nvidia geforce 560 in my system. i want to just use the amd card to mine, but i can't get that working.

I use GUIMiner in my work PC for running a Quadro 600 and a HD7750.  Could never get cgminer to play ball with the two different types of card.

well, if that's the case i'll stick to guiminer for the gpu and just use cgminer for the usb guys when they get here.

[Joshwaa]

Have a question. I am playing around with the LTC mining again. When mining on a 7770  when I start CGMiner it tells me

cgminer.exe -T --scrypt --shaders 640
 --kernel: Cannot use sha256 kernel with scrypt


In my cgminer config kernel is set to scrypt. Looked in the Scrypt read me and didn't see anything. I am probably making so silly error I am just not seeing.

[-ck]

Have a question. I am playing around with the LTC mining again. When mining on a 7770  when I start CGMiner it tells me

cgminer.exe -T --scrypt --shaders 640
 --kernel: Cannot use sha256 kernel with scrypt


In my cgminer config kernel is set to scrypt. Looked in the Scrypt read me and didn't see anything. I am probably making so silly error I am just not seeing.

Don't specify a kernel at all.

[GenTarkin]

I dont know if its my rigs or what but 3.1.1 is horrible for my gpu's on both rigs.
I get random HW errors on different GPU's after restarting cgminer, even after having it rebuild the kernel files. Random HW errors...
It takes like 3-7 restarts of cgminer to not get HW errors...

I run 7 x64 w/ 11.12 drivers on my 5xxx rig and 13.4 drivers on my 7xxx rig, same phenomenon.

I revert back to cgminer 3.0.1 and rebuild the kernel files, changing no settings ... everything works fine. No unexpected HW errors...

anyone else experience this randomness?

Are you scrypt mining? Earlier scrypt kernels would unintentionally hide hardware errors at high diffs...

nope, not scrypt, diablo...btc mining

[rothorsekid]

I have a question about the API:

The values returned for MHash/s Average on the "summary" and "devs" API calls are not very usable when scrypt mining.

It would be great if the API would return these values with higher precision, like to the 5th decimal place. Is that possible? I guess I could make the changes myself if somebody would point me to the right file(s), so I won't have to read through the whole codebase.

Any help would be appreciated.

[slavix]

Hello,
Having troubles with cgminer on my Debian machine. I have ATI Radeon 2400 HD PRO and I installed drivers from the manufacturer and OpenCL drivers too.

Code:

~/bin $ cgminer -ndevs
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                    
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing                    
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1113.2)                    
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)                    
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable   
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] 0 GPU devices max detected                    

[Joshwaa]

Hello,
Having troubles with cgminer on my Debian machine. I have ATI Radeon 2400 HD PRO and I installed drivers from the manufacturer and OpenCL drivers too.

Code:

~/bin $ cgminer -ndevs
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                    
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing                    
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1113.2)                    
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)                    
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable   
 [2013-05-21 10:09:49] 0 GPU devices max detected                    

That GPU is not supported.

[slavix]

That GPU is not supported.

Can I use a different miner software or is ATI Radeon 2400 HD Pro not usable for mining at all?

[Joshwaa]

That GPU is not supported.

Can I use a different miner software or is ATI Radeon 2400 HD Pro not usable for mining at all?

HD5xxx or better for mining. You might be able to get some miner to run on it but why?

[slavix]

HD5xxx or better for mining. You might be able to get some miner to run on it but why?

This is the card I have in my desktop already and I want to do some litecoin and feathercoin mining..

[slavix]

HD5xxx or better for mining. You might be able to get some miner to run on it but why?

I am considering ordering one GPU card to replace or add to existing 2400 HD card in my Dell desktop.
I want to use it for scrypt mining (Litecoins, Feathercoins..) Which card would be the best one to get? (I can spend up to $1000) on one card that would be best for the job. Any recommendations?

[Joshwaa]

HD5xxx or better for mining. You might be able to get some miner to run on it but why?

I am considering ordering one GPU card to replace or add to existing 2400 HD card in my Dell desktop.
I want to use it for scrypt mining (Litecoins, Feathercoins..) Which card would be the best one to get? (I can spend up to $1000) on one card that would be best for the job. Any recommendations?

I am pretty sure dollar for performance the 7950's are one of the best going. However if you can only have 1 gpu the 7990 would be the king.