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

[-ck]

First off, LOVE cgminer, amazing, thank you.. please never stop development!!

Card order/sorting...

Is there any way to get CGMiner to indicate the card type it has assigned to "CARD 0", "CARD 1" etc, or at least check it against the "list-adapters" list?

Case in point, what the ATI driver indicates as card 0,1,2 is backwards from what CG miner chooses... has bit me more than once.

Example?

[root@miners]# DISPLAY=:0 aticonfig --list-adapters
* 0. 08:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
  1. 04:00.0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

* - Default adapter

but cgminer has the 5800 series as GPU 0, and 6900 Series as Card 1

GPU 0: 398.9 / 392.2 Mh/s | A:371  R:0  HW:0  U:5.29/m  I:9
80.0 C  F: 42% (1801 RPM)  E: 960 MHz  M: 300 Mhz  V: 1.088V  A: 99% P: 0%

GPU 1: 364.2 / 366.1 Mh/s | A:361  R:1  HW:0  U:5.15/m  I:9
78.0 C  F: 52% (2888 RPM)  E: 900 MHz  M: 1250 Mhz  V: 1.100V  A: 99% P: 0%

(now that I'm posting this, I'm wondering whether my DISPLAY order in xorg.conf doesn't match the adapter list, order wise, and whether I could fix it that way... but it would still be nice to see cgminer identify the card matching GPU)

AMD/ATI have been a bunch of fsking morons with their drivers and the driver returns a different set of values to the ATI display library and all I can do is enumerate them in the order they appear in each library and hope they're one and the same. It usually correlates with PCI slot but even then, mobo manufacturers don't enumerate them always in order either.... sigh

The 6990 / dual GPU cards also are special cases in point and while the ADL library does give tiny hints about how they're related, I can't poke and prod around them to find what the values mean because I don't own one.

i.e. unfortunately not.

[mmortal03]

Yes there is a Windoze equivalent, its called VNC.  VNC works for me, usually, but it can be a little flaky.

Thanks, I've got it working now over TigerVNC, but with a really major VNC crashing bug occurring (which is probably not caused by CGMINER, unless the issue is indirectly caused somehow by mining overloading the VNC video hook on my system, but I think I've ruled out anything like that).

So, the issue I'm experiencing is simply this: Whenever I'm logged in through a client session and click on the "All Programs" item in the Start Menu, the server process invariably crashes. This seems almost completely bonkers that that would be all it takes, but it is completely reproducible. Crashes of the server process also occur at other times, but clicking on "All Programs" definitely does it every time. I've tried two different VNC clients and gotten the same results, so I would suspect it is some kind of issue with the winvnc4.exe server process of TigerVNC, but I just can't imagine what it could be. (FYI, I'm running the TigerVNC server on Windows 7 Professional 32-bit).  I don't want to hijack this thread, so please PM me if you have any insight.

[kano]

Yes there is a Windoze equivalent, its called VNC.  VNC works for me, usually, but it can be a little flaky.

Thanks, I've got it working now over TigerVNC, but with a really major VNC crashing bug occurring (which is probably not caused by CGMINER, unless the issue is indirectly caused somehow by mining overloading the VNC video hook on my system, but I think I've ruled out anything like that).

So, the issue I'm experiencing is simply this: Whenever I'm logged in through a client session and click on the "All Programs" item in the Start Menu, the server process invariably crashes. This seems almost completely bonkers that that would be all it takes, but it is completely reproducible. Crashes of the server process also occur at other times, but clicking on "All Programs" definitely does it every time. I've tried two different VNC clients and gotten the same results, so I would suspect it is some kind of issue with the winvnc4.exe server process of TigerVNC, but I just can't imagine what it could be. (FYI, I'm running the TigerVNC server on Windows 7 Professional 32-bit).  I don't want to hijack this thread, so please PM me if you have any insight.

TightVNC ...

[meti]

Your build failure is due to the new api code. I'll have to refer this to kano for him to fix the build problems in osx. 2.0.8 may be the last version that compiles on osx for now.

Hm couldn't get to finish 2.0.8 either. But thanks for your reply! Maybe a future version will support osx again.

Try building 2.0.8 but without yasm installed. It looks like it's dying on the (useless) CPU mining assembly code. That is unless you want to do CPU mining...

Thanks! I removed everything from macports and installed libcurl, yasm and so on with fink. I didn't manage to make it either (2.0..

Code:

noname:cgminer-2.0.8 Matthias$ make
make  all-recursive
Making all in lib
  GEN    signal.h
  GEN    stdint.h
  GEN    string.h
make  all-recursive
  CC     memmem.o
  AR     libgnu.a
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: libgnu.a(dummy.o) has no symbols
ranlib: file: libgnu.a(dummy.o) has no symbols
Making all in compat
Making all in jansson
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
Making all in ccan
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in x86_64
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
  CC     cgminer-main.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-util.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-ocl.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-findnonce.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-sha256_generic.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-sha256_4way.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-sha256_via.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-sha256_cryptopp.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-sha256_sse2_amd64.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-sha256_sse4_amd64.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-sha256_sse2_i386.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-sha256_altivec_4way.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CC     cgminer-sha2.o
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -lpthread: linker input file unused because linking not done
  CCLD   cgminer
ld: warning: ignoring file x86_64/libx8664.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_sha256_sse2_64_new", referenced from:
      _scanhash_sse2_64 in cgminer-sha256_sse2_amd64.o
  "_CalcSha256_x64_sse4", referenced from:
      _scanhash_sse4_64 in cgminer-sha256_sse4_amd64.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [cgminer] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Then i removed yasm and it finished fine and works now.

Thanks for your help!!

[sharky112065]

Woot! 2.1.2 is out. Yes I noticed 


Edit:

WTF? On my mixed GPU rig (Windows 7) it created both cypress and caymen bin files on the first launch. Either you fixed something or the gods were smiling on me.

[KaptainBlaZzed]

Got an update from Symantec Antivirus last night and it told me cgmimer was a trojan. 

Anybody else have this experience.

[DeathAndTaxes]

Got an update from Symantec Antivirus last night and it told me cgmimer was a trojan. 

Anybody else have this experience.

No but I use a real anti-virus.  You do have a virus on your system though ... Symantec.

No false + with Avast.

[mmortal03]

TightVNC ...

Good advice.

[mc_lovin]

i wonder if someone could please help me set up cgminer with ubuntu.

i'm a total linux n00b, but i'm pretty clever, and i'm at a wall right now which is extremely frustrating because i'm like moments away from success.

so i followed this tutorial:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg426741#msg426741

FANTASTIC tutorial, seriously, I haven't used linux EVER and after downloading the ISO, booting from USB, bam.  good to go.

i got the ATI drivers installed, OpenCL installed, good to go.

now step 13: is sorta like.. easy to understand if you are a linux pro, but i had a hard enough time changing directories in the terminal. 

so i..

sudo apt-get install curl

and then it installs that.

i got the linux binary

and then its a random file compression thing ive never heard of.  i assume i put this somewhere? so i create a folder called mining, put it in there, take the files out of the subfolder it created and put them right in the /mining/ folder.

and so if i right click on "mining" and tell it to open a terminal here, pops up a terminal, and then i type ./cgminer -n and it says "1 GPU Device found"

great, so then can i start mining now?  i dont know exactly what command string to use.  in the 1st post there are some examples there, let's try...

cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password

so i change it to

cgminer -o http://us.eclipsemc.com:8337 -u username -p password

^ and i changed username to be the worker name, right?

and i get the error

CGMINER: command not found.

PLEASE help, shed a little light, im moments away from success!  i anxiously await reply.

[rjk]

PLEASE help, shed a little light, im moments away from success!  i anxiously await reply.

Instead of

Code:

cgminer -o http://us.eclipsemc.com:8337 -u username -p password

use

Code:

./cgminer -o http://us.eclipsemc.com:8337 -u username -p password

The ./ means look in the current folder (which it does not do by default, unlike Windows).

[mc_lovin]

PLEASE help, shed a little light, im moments away from success!  i anxiously await reply.

Instead of

Code:

cgminer -o http://us.eclipsemc.com:8337 -u username -p password

use

Code:

./cgminer -o http://us.eclipsemc.com:8337 -u username -p password

The ./ means look in the current folder (which it does not do by default, unlike Windows).

do i have to install the cgminer, or just leave it in the folder? in the instructions there was something about a 'make' command.

i tried with the ./ in front and got the same error.

[rjk]

do i have to install the cgminer, or just leave it in the folder? in the instructions there was something about a 'make' command.

i tried with the ./ in front and got the same error.

It should work from any directory. Since you were able to get it to say "1 device found", that sounds like it is already compiled and should be working. Were you in the directory that contained the cgminer binary when you issued that command? It would only work from within the folder.

[mc_lovin]

do i have to install the cgminer, or just leave it in the folder? in the instructions there was something about a 'make' command.

i tried with the ./ in front and got the same error.

It should work from any directory. Since you were able to get it to say "1 device found", that sounds like it is already compiled and should be working. Were you in the directory that contained the cgminer binary when you issued that command? It would only work from within the folder.

oh from any directory, thats awesome.  i didn't.. compile anything, and i have 2 cards in the system which i thought it should be seeing.  if i go 'sudo aticonfig --lsa' it shows both the cards and the temperatures on each.

[rjk]

do i have to install the cgminer, or just leave it in the folder? in the instructions there was something about a 'make' command.

i tried with the ./ in front and got the same error.

It should work from any directory. Since you were able to get it to say "1 device found", that sounds like it is already compiled and should be working. Were you in the directory that contained the cgminer binary when you issued that command? It would only work from within the folder.

oh from any directory, thats awesome.  i didn't.. compile anything, and i have 2 cards in the system which i thought it should be seeing.  if i go 'sudo aticonfig --lsa' it shows both the cards and the temperatures on each.

Sorry!!  What I meant was, you should be able to move the binary to somewhere else, no need to "install" it as such. I was mixing 2 trains of thought there.

[mc_lovin]

ok i'll boot back into xubuntu and try it now.  is there a reason why it would only say 1 GPU is ready instead of 2?

[ancow]

do i have to install the cgminer, or just leave it in the folder? in the instructions there was something about a 'make' command.

"Installation" usually means putting the binary and support files somewhere they can be used and configuring the environment to be able to use them. Some programs, like cgminer, don't care where they are, so putting them in any old directory is an "installation". (in short: saying "installing" is just marketing)

i tried with the ./ in front and got the same error.

CGMINER: command not found.

If that error message was copy & pasted:
In Linux, case matters; make sure you don't capitalise stuff that you shouldn't.

You can launch cgminer from anywhere if you specify the whole path when running it, in you case "~/mining/cgminer <options>" should do that.

is there a reason why it would only say 1 GPU is ready instead of 2?

That probably means it can only use one.

[rjk]

In Linux, case matters; make sure you don't capitalise stuff that shouldn't be.

Good catch...

[mc_lovin]

do i have to install the cgminer, or just leave it in the folder? in the instructions there was something about a 'make' command.

"Installation" usually means putting the binary and support files somewhere they can be used and configuring the environment to be able to use them. Some programs, like cgminer, don't care where they are, so putting them in any old directory is an "installation". (in short: saying "installing" is just marketing)

i tried with the ./ in front and got the same error.

CGMINER: command not found.

If that error message was copy & pasted:
In Linux, case matters; make sure you don't capitalise stuff that you shouldn't.

You can launch cgminer from anywhere if you specify the whole path when running it, in you case "~/mining/cgminer <options>" should do that.

is there a reason why it would only say 1 GPU is ready instead of 2?

That probably means it can only use one.

thx for the heads up on the case-senstitivity of linux, i've been using it for all of a few minutes, and that's good to know. 

ok so i'm getting more success this time when i try, it keeps telling me my username/password for the pool is wrong, which means it's 99% of the way there!

here's a screen so far.  not sure why it wont accept my logon info though.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/2478/screen2hb.jpg

[mc_lovin]

1 quick google, and i found this post in this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg652180#msg652180

so now after telling it

export DISPLAY=:0

it shows 2 gpu devices, right on!


aahhhhhhhhh my password was typed in wrong!  duh!  so now it's WORKING!  this is awesome!  i can now make my computers boot from USB and i have HDD's to spare!

awesome, thx for the pointers guys, now i am playing with POWWWAAAARRRRRRR!!

[mc_lovin]

this cgminer is incredible.  it's so interactive for being a command line interface.

is it normal that my speeds are lower than what they were in windows using guiminer 8/24?  

5870 @ 910MHz I was getting around 410ish and now i'm getting 395ish MH/s, which is pretty close.  edit: y'know nevermind this is working pretty good as it is!

also: is there a way in linux to make a command string attached to a shortcut, like windows?

edit: basically i want to be able to click a button and have it do the 'export DISPLAY=:0' and then the login string all in 1 click.  possible?