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

[DeathAndTaxes]

thanks for the upgrade my friend, I will be updating all my miners tonight from 2.0.8  btw: what happened to 2.0.9?

Well if you need to know the truth ...

The system goes on-line December, 23rd.   V2.09 begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time.  In a panic, ckolivas tries to pull the plug.

That is the real reason on how ckolivas motherboard got toasted.

[The00Dustin]

thanks for the upgrade my friend, I will be updating all my miners tonight from 2.0.8  btw: what happened to 2.0.9?

Well if you need to know the truth ...

The system goes on-line December, 23rd.   V2.09 begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time.  In a panic, ckolivas tries to pull the plug.

That is the real reason on how ckolivas motherboard got toasted.

And if you prefer far-fetched fantasy, the different sections a version number have different meanings.  For instance, in this cas, the first section (2) is the major version, the second section (1) is the minor version, and the third section (0) is the fix/patch version.  IOW, it could have went on to 2.0.24 and it's equally plausible that after 2.1.2, 2.2.0 will come out.

[Proofer]

thanks for the upgrade my friend, I will be updating all my miners tonight from 2.0.8  btw: what happened to 2.0.9?

Well if you need to know the truth ...

The system goes on-line December, 23rd.   V2.09 begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time.  In a panic, ckolivas tries to pull the plug.

That is the real reason on how ckolivas motherboard got toasted.

And if you prefer far-fetched fantasy, the different sections a version number have different meanings.  For instance, in this cas, the first section (2) is the major version, the second section (1) is the minor version, and the third section (0) is the fix/patch version.  IOW, it could have went on to 2.0.24 and it's equally plausible that after 2.1.2, 2.2.0 will come out.

And if you want the HBO-Special-Premiering-Tonight version, I'd lay 12:1 that the JSON API addition was the reason for incrementing the minor version.

[Red Emerald]

I rebuilt the latest git-head and it still says "2.0.9" instead of "2.1.0"

Code:

 cgminer version 2.0.9 - Started: [2011-12-27 18:26:22]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):667.5 (avg):734.3 Mh/s | Q:10  A:1  R:0  HW:0  E:10%  U:11.64/m
 TQ: 4  ST: 4  SS: 0  DW: 0  NB: 1  LW: 0  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to http://goat1.zapto.org:8337 with LP as user redemerald
 Block: 0000014bb22ba5dbb6f2d4a0ab571ae0...  Started: [18:26:06]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  68.0C 4340RPM | 388.2/462.4Mh/s | A:1 R:0 HW:0 U:11.64/m I:8
 GPU 1:  64.5C         | 370.5/371.2Mh/s | A:1 R:0 HW:0 U:11.64/m I:7
 GPU 2:  56.0C 3395RPM | 315.4/299.6Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.00/m I:8
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Other than that, looks good so far.

[Proofer]

Q: Can you change the autofan/autogpu to change speeds in a different manner?
A: The defaults are sane and safe. I'm not interested in changing them
further. The starting fan speed is set to 85% in auto-fan mode as a safety
precaution, but if a specific fan speed has been set, it will use that first
before adjusting automatically.

This reminded me that there's something I didn't understand about the fairly recent posts on this subject:

If I want to set a specific starting fan speed, I would use the gpu-fan option, right?  But if I also use auto-fan, what would cgminer use as a permissible range for the fan speed percentage?  E.g., suppose I want a range of 0-85, starting speed of 50, and auto-fan.  Can that be done?  Perhaps I don't understand what "has been set" refers to in the quoted README excerpt.

[-ck]

Well that was some unexpected humour from the bitcoin mining crowd. I grinned I guess the improving price of BTC has improved people's moods.

2.0.9 was a development version number only, and yes the minor version upgrade (as opposed to micro version) signifies the feature upgrade to the RPC API.

If you pulled from git and are still getting version 2.0.9 it's because you didn't do ./autogen.sh

As for windows, as I said I've thrown it in the debugger heaps of times and the bug goes away in it so it's proving undebuggable (a Heisenbug). (I do believe it's some windows versions only). So you're out of luck unless you wish to run cgminer without the curses display (i.e. start it with -T).

[-ck]

Q: Can you change the autofan/autogpu to change speeds in a different manner?
A: The defaults are sane and safe. I'm not interested in changing them
further. The starting fan speed is set to 85% in auto-fan mode as a safety
precaution, but if a specific fan speed has been set, it will use that first
before adjusting automatically.

This reminded me that there's something I didn't understand about the fairly recent posts on this subject:

If I want to set a specific starting fan speed, I would use the gpu-fan option, right?  But if I also use auto-fan, what would cgminer use as a permissible range for the fan speed percentage?  E.g., suppose I want a range of 0-85, starting speed of 50, and auto-fan.  Can that be done?  Perhaps I don't understand what "has been set" refers to in the quoted README excerpt.

No, that's a bridge too far... You either set a single value which is the starting speed for auto-fan or it's a static value without auto-fan. Or you set a range which is used by auto-fan.

[Red Emerald]

2.0.9 was a development version number only, and yes the minor version upgrade (as opposed to micro version) signifies the feature upgrade to the RPC API.

If you pulled from git and are still getting version 2.0.9 it's because you didn't do ./autogen.sh

You are right, I forgot autogen.

Code:

 cgminer version 2.1.0 - Started: [2011-12-27 21:48:54]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):1062.4 (avg):1024.2 Mh/s | Q:13  A:10  R:0  HW:0  E:77%  U:16.64/m
 TQ: 4  ST: 4  SS: 0  DW: 0  NB: 1  LW: 0  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to http://goat1.zapto.org:8337 with LP as user redemerald
 Block: 0000038dfc371bb0c6265496d428503a...  Started: [21:48:37]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  72.0C 4223RPM | 382.2/416.4Mh/s | A:3 R:0 HW:0 U:4.99/m I:8
 GPU 1:  68.5C         | 379.2/404.3Mh/s | A:5 R:0 HW:0 U:8.32/m I:7
 GPU 2:  53.5C 3265RPM | 321.8/339.1Mh/s | A:3 R:0 HW:0 U:4.99/m I:8
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

When I quit, I get a segmentation fault.  It seems to run fine though.

[Proofer]

No, that's a bridge too far... You either set a single value which is the starting speed for auto-fan or it's a static value without auto-fan. Or you set a range which is used by auto-fan.

If I set a single value (starting speed) and auto-fan, what will be the range of speeds that auto-fan will use?

[Proofer]

Code:

[2011-12-27 14:19:26] Started cgminer 2.1.0
[2011-12-27 14:19:42] Pool 32 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid
[2011-12-27 14:19:42] Long-polling activated for http://us.eclipsemc.com:9009/LP
[2011-12-27 14:19:50] Accepted 00000000.65d7e293.179988b8 GPU 4 thread 4 pool 0
...

As noted yesterday I'm consistently seeing a pool-problem message at startup.  My request to have the problem pool identified was granted -- thank you!  Alas, now I don't know what the ID means:  32?  I have three pools specified in my config.  At least 32 is a power of two, which is always comforting.

[Red Emerald]

Code:

[2011-12-27 14:19:26] Started cgminer 2.1.0
[2011-12-27 14:19:42] Pool 32 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid
[2011-12-27 14:19:42] Long-polling activated for http://us.eclipsemc.com:9009/LP
[2011-12-27 14:19:50] Accepted 00000000.65d7e293.179988b8 GPU 4 thread 4 pool 0
...

As noted yesterday I'm consistently seeing a pool-problem message at startup.  My request to have the problem pool identified was granted -- thank you!  Alas, now I don't know what the ID means:  32?  I have three pools specified in my config.  At least 32 is a power of two, which is always comforting.

Can you post your cgminer config?

[Proofer]

Code:

[2011-12-27 14:19:26] Started cgminer 2.1.0
[2011-12-27 14:19:42] Pool 32 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid
[2011-12-27 14:19:42] Long-polling activated for http://us.eclipsemc.com:9009/LP
[2011-12-27 14:19:50] Accepted 00000000.65d7e293.179988b8 GPU 4 thread 4 pool 0
...

As noted yesterday I'm consistently seeing a pool-problem message at startup.  My request to have the problem pool identified was granted -- thank you!  Alas, now I don't know what the ID means:  32?  I have three pools specified in my config.  At least 32 is a power of two, which is always comforting.

Can you post your cgminer config?

I can!

Code:

{
"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "http://us.eclipsemc.com:9009",
                "user" : "HehHeh_0",
                "pass" : "forward"
        },
        {
                "url" : "http://us.eclipsemc.com:8337",
                "user" : "HehHeh_1",
                "pass" : "incomplete"
        },
        {
                "url" : "http://192.168.168.103:8332",
                "user" : "brec",
                "pass" : "lateral"
        }
],
"failover-only" : true,

"intensity" : "9",
"gpu-engine" : "800",
"gpu-memclock" : "190",
"gpu-fan" : "0-85",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"auto-fan" : true,

"donation" : "0.625",
"kernel-path" : "/home/brec/miners/cgminer"
}

[ancow]

When I quit, I get a segmentation fault.  It seems to run fine though.

I do, too. For me, dumping core and analysing it in gdb suggests a bug in ATI's OpenCL driver. (oh, the surprise )

Code:

[2011-12-27 14:19:26] Started cgminer 2.1.0
[2011-12-27 14:19:42] Pool 32 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid
[2011-12-27 14:19:42] Long-polling activated for http://us.eclipsemc.com:9009/LP
[2011-12-27 14:19:50] Accepted 00000000.65d7e293.179988b8 GPU 4 thread 4 pool 0
...

As noted yesterday I'm consistently seeing a pool-problem message at startup.  My request to have the problem pool identified was granted -- thank you!  Alas, now I don't know what the ID means:  32?  I have three pools specified in my config.  At least 32 is a power of two, which is always comforting.

I get that when activating the donation feature. I guess pool ID 32 is whatever pool the donation goes to. (What's so annoying about this is that it makes cgminer take a pretty long time before it starts mining...)

[-ck]

Code:

[2011-12-27 14:19:26] Started cgminer 2.1.0
[2011-12-27 14:19:42] Pool 32 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid
[2011-12-27 14:19:42] Long-polling activated for http://us.eclipsemc.com:9009/LP
[2011-12-27 14:19:50] Accepted 00000000.65d7e293.179988b8 GPU 4 thread 4 pool 0
...

As noted yesterday I'm consistently seeing a pool-problem message at startup.  My request to have the problem pool identified was granted -- thank you!  Alas, now I don't know what the ID means:  32?  I have three pools specified in my config.  At least 32 is a power of two, which is always comforting.

32 is the donation pool. Thanks for offering a donation

[gnar1ta$]

errr...I broke something 

Code:

miner@miner2:/opt/cgminer-2.1.0-x86_64_built$ ./cgminer -n
No protocol specified
[2011-12-27 20:59:28] Error: Getting Device IDs (num)
[2011-12-27 20:59:28] clDevicesNum returned error, none usable
0 GPU devices detected
miner@miner2:~$ export DISPLAY=:0
miner@miner2:~$ aticonfig --odgc
No protocol specified
aticonfig: This program must be run as root when no X server is active
miner@miner2:~$ sudo aticonfig --odgc
No protocol specified
ERROR - X needs to be running to perform ATI Overdrive(TM) commands
miner@miner2:~$ xhost +
No protocol specified
xhost:  unable to open display ":0"

Remote rig, HDD swapped, Xubuntu 11.10 (I usually use 11.04 but this is what was available on short notice), SDK 2.4 and I ran sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-dev.

[Proofer]

errr...I broke something 

Code:

miner@miner2:/opt/cgminer-2.1.0-x86_64_built$ ./cgminer -n
No protocol specified
[2011-12-27 20:59:28] Error: Getting Device IDs (num)
[2011-12-27 20:59:28] clDevicesNum returned error, none usable
0 GPU devices detected
miner@miner2:~$ export DISPLAY=:0
miner@miner2:~$ aticonfig --odgc
No protocol specified
aticonfig: This program must be run as root when no X server is active
miner@miner2:~$ sudo aticonfig --odgc
No protocol specified
ERROR - X needs to be running to perform ATI Overdrive(TM) commands
miner@miner2:~$ xhost +
No protocol specified
xhost:  unable to open display ":0"

Remote rig, HDD swapped, Xubuntu 11.10 (I usually use 11.04 but this is what was available on short notice), SDK 2.4 and I ran sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-dev.

if not yet done, try:
sudo aticonfig --install --adapter=all
sudo reboot

[gnar1ta$]

if not yet done, try:
sudo aticonfig --install --adapter=all
sudo reboot

Did that after installing fglrx. I know I'm missing something simple.

[fred0]

if not yet done, try:
sudo aticonfig --install --adapter=all
sudo reboot

Did that after installing fglrx. I know I'm missing something simple.

   
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo aticonfig -f --initial --adapter=all
sudo chmod 644 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo reboot

[Proofer]

if not yet done, try:
sudo aticonfig --install --adapter=all
sudo reboot

Always copy-paste; never let your brain control your typing.  What I meant was:

sudo aticonfig --initial --adapter=all

[-ck]

if not yet done, try:
sudo aticonfig --install --adapter=all
sudo reboot

Did that after installing fglrx. I know I'm missing something simple.

Have you started Xorg?