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

[Lucko]

*sniff* *sniff* ok, i need some hand holding. I grabbed the tarball from GIT for the latest version. I copied the files into my cgminer directory (this is 32 bit Ubuntu), over writing the existing files. I ran autogen.sh and then make. I plugged in an ASICminer USB stick. the green light is on. then i ran ./cgminer with no parameters. It started GPU mining fine, but didn't show anything about the ASICminer. Do i need to reboot with the USB stick plugged in? or is there a start parameter that i need? Please don't tell me to read the readmes, i did. and i'm terrible at searching 100s of pages of a thread.

Cgminer version? 3.2.0 has some problems... Windows parameters are  -S \\.\COM"X" ("X" beeing number of com port) for 3.1.1 not complitly sure about linux. I guess something like /dev/"something"

EDIT: I hope I pointed you in the right direction...

[bitcoindaddy]

Both 3.1.1 and 3.2.0 return this message:

[2013-06-06 15:55:12] BitForceSC detect (2:9) get details returned nothing (0:0)

What does this mean? Is the Jalapeno busted or am I missing something?


 [2013-06-06 15:58:55] Started cgminer 3.2.0
 [2013-06-06 15:58:55] Started cgminer 3.2.0
 [2013-06-06 15:58:55] USB all: found 16 devices - listing known devices
.USB dev 0: Bus 2 Device 3 ID: 10c4:ea60
  Manufacturer: 'Silicon Labs'
  Product: 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller'
.USB dev 1: Bus 2 Device 6 ID: 10c4:ea60
  Manufacturer: 'Silicon Labs'
  Product: 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller'
.USB dev 2: Bus 2 Device 7 ID: 10c4:ea60
  Manufacturer: 'Silicon Labs'
  Product: 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller'
.USB dev 3: Bus 2 Device 8 ID: 10c4:ea60
  Manufacturer: 'Silicon Labs'
  Product: 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller'
.USB dev 4: Bus 2 Device 9 ID: 0403:6014
  Manufacturer: 'Butterfly Labs'
  Product: 'BitFORCE SHA256 SC'
 [2013-06-06 15:58:55] 5 known USB devices
 [2013-06-06 15:59:00] BitForceSC detect (2:9) get details returned nothing (0:0)
 [2013-06-06 15:59:00] Need to specify at least one pool server.
Input server details.

[turtle83]

*sniff* *sniff* ok, i need some hand holding. I grabbed the tarball from GIT for the latest version. I copied the files into my cgminer directory (this is 32 bit Ubuntu), over writing the existing files. I ran autogen.sh and then make. I plugged in an ASICminer USB stick. the green light is on. then i ran ./cgminer with no parameters. It started GPU mining fine, but didn't show anything about the ASICminer. Do i need to reboot with the USB stick plugged in? or is there a start parameter that i need? Please don't tell me to read the readmes, i did. and i'm terrible at searching 100s of pages of a thread. I did the group join thing in the Readme.

stop cgminer

now unplug the USB thing
plug in the usb thing back in.

^ Not troling. im serious.

save this file https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/01-cgminer.rules as /etc/udev/rules.d/01-cgminer.rules

sudo service udev restart

download cgminer 3.1.1 (for sake of clarity into new directory)

Code:

./autogen
./configure <the arguments u normally pass> --enable-icarus
make

ls /dev/ttyUSB*
make note of the devices.

run cgminer

Code:

cgminer <arguments u normally use> --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S /dev/ttyUSB0 -S /dev/ttyUSB1  <repeat for each usb tty device>

[GoldBit89]

i keep getting Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted :stratum  from pool 0 requested work restart.

how do i resolve this? i am using same setting that never had this error before until i just started a new miner on different pool.

[Lucko]

i keep getting Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted :stratum  from pool 0 requested work restart.

how do i resolve this? i am using same setting that never had this error before until i just started a new miner on different pool.

Did you use 2.x before that? I know for some pools that have problems with 3.x... don't know why but I know it is happening and that admins are looking into this. I can't run 3.x on Bitparking and I had also some porblems with it on Slush or BtcGuild. So I went back to 2.11.4. But now that I will get ASICminer USB I will have no option to use 2.x... Or is there?

[Trongersoll]

*sniff* *sniff* ok, i need some hand holding. I grabbed the tarball from GIT for the latest version. I copied the files into my cgminer directory (this is 32 bit Ubuntu), over writing the existing files. I ran autogen.sh and then make. I plugged in an ASICminer USB stick. the green light is on. then i ran ./cgminer with no parameters. It started GPU mining fine, but didn't show anything about the ASICminer. Do i need to reboot with the USB stick plugged in? or is there a start parameter that i need? Please don't tell me to read the readmes, i did. and i'm terrible at searching 100s of pages of a thread. I did the group join thing in the Readme.

stop cgminer

now unplug the USB thing
plug in the usb thing back in.

^ Not troling. im serious.

save this file https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/01-cgminer.rules as /etc/udev/rules.d/01-cgminer.rules

sudo service udev restart

download cgminer 3.1.1 (for sake of clarity into new directory)

Code:

./autogen
./configure <the arguments u normally pass> --enable-icarus
make

ls /dev/ttyUSB*
make note of the devices.

run cgminer

Code:

cgminer <arguments u normally use> --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S /dev/ttyUSB0 -S /dev/ttyUSB1  <repeat for each usb tty device>

thank you!

this seemed to work, no i just have Privilege issues on USBtty0

[edit] using sudo got around the permission issue, is there a better solution? I'M MINING!!!!!

[GoldBit89]

i keep getting Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted :stratum  from pool 0 requested work restart.

how do i resolve this? i am using same setting that never had this error before until i just started a new miner on different pool.

Did you use 2.x before that? I know for some pools that have problems with 3.x... don't know why but I know it is happening and that admins are looking into this. I can't run 3.x on Bitparking and I had also some porblems with it on Slush or BtcGuild. So I went back to 2.11.4. But now that I will get ASICminer USB I will have no option to use 2.x... Or is there?

been using 3.1 , didnt have any problems until i switched miner pools.

[Lucko]

i keep getting Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted :stratum  from pool 0 requested work restart.

how do i resolve this? i am using same setting that never had this error before until i just started a new miner on different pool.

Did you use 2.x before that? I know for some pools that have problems with 3.x... don't know why but I know it is happening and that admins are looking into this. I can't run 3.x on Bitparking and I had also some porblems with it on Slush or BtcGuild. So I went back to 2.11.4. But now that I will get ASICminer USB I will have no option to use 2.x... Or is there?

been using 3.1 , didnt have any problems until i switched miner pools.

Pool? I think it is pool related... Merged mining... There is something now in 3.x version that is different... If I put 3.x miner to Bitparking I get a lot of thous. But non if I use 2.x

[turtle83]

[edit] using sudo got around the permission issue, is there a better solution? I'M MINING!!!!!

ls -lh /dev/ttyUSB0
ull see that it likely had group permissions for dialout.

u need to add that to the user ur logged in as.

Code:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout yourusername

Then your user has permission to talk to those interfaces

[Trongersoll]

[edit] using sudo got around the permission issue, is there a better solution? I'M MINING!!!!!

ls -lh /dev/ttyUSB0
ull see that it likely had group permissions for dialout.

u need to add that to the user ur logged in as.

Code:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout yourusername

Then your user has permission to talk to those interfaces

It didn't seem to help, i saw something about not having permission woosh by but couldn't read it. I'm content using sudo until i get a chance to figure it out. I probably  need to redirect the output to a file so that i can see what it said.

Thanks again for your help!

[-ck]

i keep getting Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted :stratum  from pool 0 requested work restart.

how do i resolve this? i am using same setting that never had this error before until i just started a new miner on different pool.

That's your pool having instability. Use a different pool.

[kano]

[edit] using sudo got around the permission issue, is there a better solution? I'M MINING!!!!!

ls -lh /dev/ttyUSB0
ull see that it likely had group permissions for dialout.

u need to add that to the user ur logged in as.

Code:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout yourusername

Then your user has permission to talk to those interfaces

It didn't seem to help, i saw something about not having permission woosh by but couldn't read it. I'm content using sudo until i get a chance to figure it out. I probably  need to redirect the output to a file so that i can see what it said.

Thanks again for your help!

All versions of cgminer have documented how to deal with permission errors on linux
It varies on the version of cgminer (and devices) you are using - but it's listed in FPGA-README ...

[Lucko]

Now is now more then 3 days since I post my problem and no replays.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg2359449#msg2359449

Can you please help mi figure this out... It works on BTC even if I don't have GPUs on 99% but about 75 to 90% but it will not for LTC that GPU will soon only be good for. So can you please help me figuring out why I can't go over 8 on intensity.

Any question I will be happy to answer.

[-ck]

Now is now more then 3 days since I post my problem and no replays.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg2359449#msg2359449

Can you please help mi figure this out... It works on BTC even if I don't have GPUs on 99% but about 75 to 90% but it will not for LTC that GPU will soon only be good for. So can you please help me figuring out why I can't go over 8 on intensity.

Any question I will be happy to answer.

GPU-README and SCRYPT-README

likely you have a software+hardware setup that is ok for BTC but not for LTC. Maybe system ram or other random magic that ltc might need.

[Lucko]

Now is now more then 3 days since I post my problem and no replays.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg2359449#msg2359449

Can you please help mi figure this out... It works on BTC even if I don't have GPUs on 99% but about 75 to 90% but it will not for LTC that GPU will soon only be good for. So can you please help me figuring out why I can't go over 8 on intensity.

Any question I will be happy to answer.

GPU-README and SCRYPT-README

likely you have a software+hardware setup that is ok for BTC but not for LTC. Maybe system ram or other random magic that ltc might need.

That was not the question. I can't setup intensety over 8. If I do interesting things happened. I'm copy pasting...

Hi!

I have a question. Why I can't setup intensity in my CGminer. If I add -I 9 into command line all my cores run with about the same speed and is sub 200MH... I have 8 GPU cores and if I setup -I 9 I get only 1.1something GH... If I don't added I get 2.0something GH. It is still not full speed but much beater then with I setting. What I should be seeing is 2.6something...

If I start miner without -I setting and change it later it happens that all others cart get negative intensity setting... When I set them all I get the same as if I use config file.

This happened when I added 5970 and 5770 to my miner. With only 5 cores I didn't have problems. But I do have a mix of cards if that might be a problem. 6790, 6870, 5850, 2x5970, 5770. Running 2.11.4, but the same problem is on 3.2.0(3.x has problems with my pool. I get disconnected all the time).

Win 7 x64... I did notice that CPU is on 100%. With only 5 cores it was less then 30%. Any other data?

Thanks

EDIT: Figure out why I have 100% CPU. CCC problem... Uninstalled it at it is fine...

Interesting... I just figure another thing out. If I set -I 8 everything is ok. If I set it to 9 even on one card doesn't work... Ideas?

EDIT: I would like to setup some cards to 10 and some to 12. Is there a limit on total intensity?

[-ck]

Now is now more then 3 days since I post my problem and no replays.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg2359449#msg2359449

Can you please help mi figure this out... It works on BTC even if I don't have GPUs on 99% but about 75 to 90% but it will not for LTC that GPU will soon only be good for. So can you please help me figuring out why I can't go over 8 on intensity.

Any question I will be happy to answer.

GPU-README and SCRYPT-README

likely you have a software+hardware setup that is ok for BTC but not for LTC. Maybe system ram or other random magic that ltc might need.

That was not the question. I can't setup intensety over 8. If I do interesting things happened. I'm copy pasting...

SNIP

It's still the answer.

[Lucko]

It's still the answer.

I'm not mining LTC... So SCRYPT-README doesn't apply or am I missing something? And I don't have GPU-README. I have README and I have read it. I can't find anything. Did I miss something in it? I just glance over it again. Can't find anything relevant. The only think that might apply is RAM but I have enough of it RAM. More then 1 GB still free...

EDIT: And why do I get negative intensity if I put all in dynamic and one to setting over 9. It sounds to me like a bug...

[sLide.]

I'm experiencing a issue with CGminer.

I recently moved my XFX 6870 from my gaming machine which was used to mine when I wasn't gaming to my first rig.  I keep getting error's from windows saying it had to stop the program from running.

MoBo: msi x58A-GD45
Proc: I7 920
Memory : 2GB
Video Card: 6870 XFX HD - CCC Version - 13.4 Direct3D Version 9.14.10.0969

Not entirely sure what the problem could be.  I've tried running as admin.  Any help?  Thanks!

[Lucko]

I'm experiencing a issue with CGminer.

I recently moved my XFX 6870 from my gaming machine which was used to mine when I wasn't gaming to my first rig.  I keep getting error's from windows saying it had to stop the program from running.

MoBo: msi x58A-GD45
Proc: I7 920
Memory : 2GB
Video Card: 6870 XFX HD - CCC Version - 13.4 Direct3D Version 9.14.10.0969

Not entirely sure what the problem could be.  I've tried running as admin.  Any help?  Thanks!

I had same problem with incompatible OpenCL driver combination... Changing it might help

[xorxor]

Hi

Is there any way of disabling cashing of shares on disconnect?
with "--scrypt" Cgminer keeps crashing on internet or pool disconects.

changed mobo, GPU's,ram,risers,PSU's . it allways happens on some locations.

no problems on SHA.

using proxy did not helped.

--lowmem

thx!  testing...

nope  still crashes on random pool disconects / swiches.
same hardware ok in more stable network enviroment and on sha.


same software/driver/sdk/ stable in over 10 different rigs in 2 another locations.