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

[The00Dustin]

No problem. cgminer assumes we're operating at the highest profile, and adjusts all the profiles below to make sure the highest profile remains valid.

Good to know.  And while I'm not a programmer and I honestly don't care whether or not you change this, I believe it would make more sense from a "best practices" standpoint to only change the highest profile.  I mean, if cgminer crashes or the code to change the profiles back to defaults fails, the GPU is left running harder and hotter than it needs to be when it automatically goes back down to the lowest profile.  OTOH, some might disagree with me, being more concerned that their card might not switch to the highest profile or preferring the card not slow down if no work is available (based on the theory that the GPU and/or fan last longer when run at a constant rate).  Also, thanks for the quick response, I figured this might be something someone else could answer, but not something too many people could, so I wasn't sure I'd get an answer (much less a nearly instant one on a Saturday morning).

[bravetheheat]

The new cgminer 2.2.4 doesn't seem to work with my discrete GPU + integrated GPU (though not used for mining) setup. It keeps giving me:

Code:

[2012-02-11 21:35:02] Error: Building Program (clBuildProgram)
[2012-02-11 21:35:02] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0
[2012-02-11 21:35:02] Restarting the GPU from the menu will not fix this.
[2012-02-11 21:35:02] Try restarting cgminer.
Press enter to continue:

[Dexter770221]

... but it will accept -k diakgcn provided it is loading the kernel called diakgcn120208.cl . This will allow you to at least play with the .cl file and see if you can figure out what's wrong with it perhaps.

It accepts, but don't submits shares to pool Shows a hashrate and GPU is hot (works) but there's no info about accepted shares (as usual) and pool website also confirms that there's no worker that is mining.

[-ck]

... but it will accept -k diakgcn provided it is loading the kernel called diakgcn120208.cl . This will allow you to at least play with the .cl file and see if you can figure out what's wrong with it perhaps.

It accepts, but don't submits shares to pool Shows a hashrate and GPU is hot (works) but there's no info about accepted shares (as usual) and pool website also confirms that there's no worker that is mining.

THIS IS NOT FOR USAGE ! THIS IS FOR DEBUGGING PURPOSES BY DIAPOLO ONLY. IT DOES NOT PRODUCE SHARES.

[kano]

Firstly, I guess bravetheheat's on windows ...

List of known fixes for such and other similar problems (repeated here many times)
(Problem being that cgminer wont start coz it wont generate the *.bin files)

1) Read the README
or
2) just restart it over and over until it succeeds to generate the new *.bin
or
3) make sure you extracted all the files (including the new *.cl files)
or
4) Last resort: just rename the old *.bin files to the new names: replace 110817 with 120203 in the names

And the other repeated again and again info often needed with problems:
the full output of 'cgminer -n' and some of 'cgminer -D -T --verbose ...' (obviously not all of it if cgminer is actually running ...)
where '...' are the options you use

And when you post the output of "-D -T --verbose" put it in [code]blah blah blah[/code] - which gives:

Code:

blah blah blah

Edit: tidied up the post ...

[bulanula]

950/180  Do the math.

It doesnt work out to a nice round number. But I just tried.
5870 @ 950/300 : 432.4
5870 @ 950/180 : ~441-442
5870 @ 950/170 : ~442

Not a quantum leap, but still quite a nice boost!

So I tried another 5870 that runs at 1 GHz applying the same memory clock and same ratio and a few other speeds:

5870 @1000/300: 454.7
5870 @1000/200: ~459
5870 @1000/190: ~460
5870 @1000/180: ~460
5870 @1000/150: ~454

Smaller boost than at 950. Not too sure what to make of it, but there is nothing wrong with getting a few extra MH while consuming less power

Note these results were obtained testing just a few minutes on each setting, dont take it as gospel

Have to try this tweak and 2.2.4 version. Can memory go lower than 150 MHz ?

Thanks !

[Dexter770221]

... but it will accept -k diakgcn provided it is loading the kernel called diakgcn120208.cl . This will allow you to at least play with the .cl file and see if you can figure out what's wrong with it perhaps.

It accepts, but don't submits shares to pool Shows a hashrate and GPU is hot (works) but there's no info about accepted shares (as usual) and pool website also confirms that there's no worker that is mining.

THIS IS NOT FOR USAGE ! THIS IS FOR DEBUGGING PURPOSES BY DIAPOLO ONLY. IT DOES NOT PRODUCE SHARES.

So what's the point of placing this into official package? It's confusing only!

[bulanula]

... but it will accept -k diakgcn provided it is loading the kernel called diakgcn120208.cl . This will allow you to at least play with the .cl file and see if you can figure out what's wrong with it perhaps.

It accepts, but don't submits shares to pool Shows a hashrate and GPU is hot (works) but there's no info about accepted shares (as usual) and pool website also confirms that there's no worker that is mining.

THIS IS NOT FOR USAGE ! THIS IS FOR DEBUGGING PURPOSES BY DIAPOLO ONLY. IT DOES NOT PRODUCE SHARES.

So what's the point of placing this into official package? It's confusing only!

LOL. Some of the windblows and noobs on this board really make me laugh hard. It is 5 posts above clearly said : DOES NOT SUBMIT VALID SHARES !

The point ? You have the option to test the hashrate without actually generating shares etc. for future improvement.

RTFM.

[Diapolo]

Well ... as I said, I have no IDE setup, so currently I can't compile a version for myself. If you don't have the time to fiddle around with my commits, then I really need help in setting up an IDE in Windows. Have you got this in a readme, wiki or can you give me a brief explanation in how to do this? I worked with MS VC++ Express as a hobby some time ago ...

Dia. Grab the windows binary for 2.2.4. It is undocumented, but it will accept -k diakgcn provided it is loading the kernel called diakgcn120208.cl . This will allow you to at least play with the .cl file and see if you can figure out what's wrong with it perhaps.

NORMAL USERS DO NOT USE THIS. IT IS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND DEBUGGING. IT DOES NOT PRODUCE SHARES.

Thanks Con, I will try the last version!

Dia

[bravetheheat]

Firstly, I guess bravetheheat's on windows ...

List of known fixes for such and other similar problems (repeated here many times)

1) Read the README
or
2) just restart it over and over until it succeeds to generate the new *.bin
or
3) make sure you extracted all the files (including the new *.cl files)
or
4) Last resort: just rename the old *.bin files to the new names: replace 110817 with 120203 in the names

Edit: and the other repeated again and again info often need with problems:
the full output of 'cgminer -n' and some of 'cgminer -D -T' (obviously not all of it if cgminer is actually running ...)

First of all, I'm not on Windows I'm on Xubuntu 11.10 and I compiled both the source release and the git repo (so no fear of not extracting all the files). And I restarted over and over... AND I renamed the old .bin files. Still not working.  Sorry for not posting the output of the debug flags, though. That was something that I forgot to do.

Results of ./cgminer -D -T (with pool, user, and pass, of course) Might be a tad bit long:

Code:

[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Started cgminer 2.2.4                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] CL Platform 0 name: ATI Stream                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.0 ATI-Stream-v2.1 (145)                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Platform 0 devices: 1                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] CL Platform 1 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] CL Platform 1 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] CL Platform 1 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.5 (793.1)                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Platform 1 devices: 1                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] GPU 0 iAdapterIndex 0 strUDID 296:38676:4098:53248:5208 iBusNumber 1 iDeviceNumber 5 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 4098 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 4290                     
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] GPU 1 iAdapterIndex 2 strUDID 512:26808:4098:8663:5208 iBusNumber 2 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 4098 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series                     
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] ADL found more devices than opencl!                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] There is possibly at least one GPU that doesn't support OpenCL                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] WARNING: Number of OpenCL and ADL devices does not match!                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] GPU 0 ATI Radeon HD 4290 hardware monitoring enabled                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Failed to ADL_Overdrive5_ODPerformanceLevels_Get                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Failed to ADL_Overdrive5_FanSpeedInfo_Get                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Popping work to work thread                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Popping work to stage thread                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Probing for an alive pool                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Testing pool http://goat1.zapto.org:8337                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Successfully retrieved and deciphered work from pool 0 http://goat1.zapto.org:8337                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Pushing pooltest work to base pool                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Pushing work to getwork queue                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Popping work to stage thread                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Pool 0 http://goat1.zapto.org:8337 active                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Pushing ping to longpoll thread                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Pushing ping to thread 0                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Init GPU thread 0 GPU 0 virtual GPU 0                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Long-polling activated for http://goat1.zapto.org:8337/LP                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] CL Platform name: ATI Stream                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.0 ATI-Stream-v2.1 (145)                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] List of devices:                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] 	0	Juniper                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Selected 0: Juniper                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Preferred vector width reported 4                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Max work group size reported 256                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] No binary found, generating from source                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Setting worksize to 128                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Patched source to suit 2 vectors                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] cl_amd_media_ops found, setting BITALIGN                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] BFI_INT patch requiring device found, patched source with BFI_INT                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] CompilerOptions: -D WORKSIZE=128 -D VECTORS2 -D BITALIGN -D BFI_INT                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Error: Building Program (clBuildProgram)                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] sh: /bin/x86_64/clc: not found
                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Restarting the GPU from the menu will not fix this.                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Try restarting cgminer.                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Init GPU thread 1 GPU 0 virtual GPU 0                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] CL Platform name: ATI Stream                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.0 ATI-Stream-v2.1 (145)                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] List of devices:                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] 	0	Juniper                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Selected 0: Juniper                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Preferred vector width reported 4                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Max work group size reported 256                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] No binary found, generating from source                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Setting worksize to 128                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Patched source to suit 2 vectors                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] cl_amd_media_ops found, setting BITALIGN                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] BFI_INT patch requiring device found, patched source with BFI_INT                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] CompilerOptions: -D WORKSIZE=128 -D VECTORS2 -D BITALIGN -D BFI_INT                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Error: Building Program (clBuildProgram)                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] sh: /bin/x86_64/clc: not found
                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Failed to init GPU thread 1, disabling device 0                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] 2 gpu miner threads started                    
Segmentation fault

EDIT: Btw, I compiled and used cgminer 2.2.3 with the exact same setup, but no errors ever came up.
EDIT 2: Copied over ./bin files in the AMD Stream 2.1 SDK to /bin/ I wonder why it wasn't documented and I only encountered it this time... Anyway, now there's a different error...

Code:

[2012-02-11 23:24:04] Error: Building Program (clBuildProgram)                    
[2012-02-11 23:24:04] /tmp/OCLDOCSn7.cl(177): warning: variable "t1" was set but never used
  	u t1;
  	  ^

[Dexter770221]

... but it will accept -k diakgcn provided it is loading the kernel called diakgcn120208.cl . This will allow you to at least play with the .cl file and see if you can figure out what's wrong with it perhaps.

It accepts, but don't submits shares to pool Shows a hashrate and GPU is hot (works) but there's no info about accepted shares (as usual) and pool website also confirms that there's no worker that is mining.

THIS IS NOT FOR USAGE ! THIS IS FOR DEBUGGING PURPOSES BY DIAPOLO ONLY. IT DOES NOT PRODUCE SHARES.

So what's the point of placing this into official package? It's confusing only!

LOL. Some of the windblows and noobs on this board really make me laugh hard. It is 5 posts above clearly said : DOES NOT SUBMIT VALID SHARES !

The point ? You have the option to test the hashrate without actually generating shares etc. for future improvement.

RTFM.

Noob? LOL. First program I've wrote 20 years ago. Reading 190 pages to find info is also not fun. It costs an author 30 sec to put line of code that will display "for test only". Ckolivas editet post after my post, thats why its 5 posts higher. You have only right in one thing- RTFM. It is on first page.

[kano]

...
This will allow you to at least play with the .cl file and see if you can figure out what's wrong with it perhaps.
...

THAT was always there in his post.

[kano]

...                
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] No binary found, generating from source                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Setting worksize to 128                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Patched source to suit 2 vectors                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] cl_amd_media_ops found, setting BITALIGN                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] BFI_INT patch requiring device found, patched source with BFI_INT                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] CompilerOptions: -D WORKSIZE=128 -D VECTORS2 -D BITALIGN -D BFI_INT                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Error: Building Program (clBuildProgram)                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] sh: /bin/x86_64/clc: not found
...

Looks like you messed up the libraries - did you 'ldconfig' or reboot and thus fix it that way?
Were you running a beta driver maybe and then downgraded?

/bin/x86_64/clc definitely doesn't exist on my xubu 11.04 / SDK 2.4

[os2sam]

Just installed 2.2.4 on WinXP Catalyst 11.6.

It did not generate the .bin files for me.  I tried multiple times with different command line options and rebooted and tried again.

I copied my renamed .bin files over from the previous install and am working now.
Thanks,
Sam

[bulanula]

Just installed 2.2.4 on WinXP Catalyst 11.6.

It did not generate the .bin files for me.  I tried multiple times with different command line options and rebooted and tried again.

I copied my renamed .bin files over from the previous install and am working now.
Thanks,
Sam

So are you saying that cgminer 2.2.4 does not work with catalyst 11.6

Thanks !

[os2sam]

Just installed 2.2.4 on WinXP Catalyst 11.6.

It did not generate the .bin files for me.  I tried multiple times with different command line options and rebooted and tried again.

I copied my renamed .bin files over from the previous install and am working now.
Thanks,
Sam

So are you saying that cgminer 2.2.4 does not work with catalyst 11.6

Thanks !

NO!

I'm saying that this version didn't generate the .bin files when I ran it.  This has been an ongoing annoyance for me.  I have copied the .bin files from a previous instance of CGMiner and 2.2.4 IS working with Catalyst 11.6.

I just posted my report for informational purposes.
Sam

[Diapolo]

Con, I don't have any success in editing the .cl file for DiaKGCN, it only generates HW errors. Tried a forced submitting of these shares with --submit-stale, but that seems to not trigger a forwarding to the pool. Is there any change to output the nonce or hash that DiaKGCN produces and which is considered a HW error?

This makes me crazy, because in Phoenix it's a healthy kernel ... dunno how to cure it for CGMINER currently :-(.

Thanks,
Dia

[DeathAndTaxes]

What is "P in cgminer?

GPU 1: 378.3 / 377.7 Mh/s | A:21  R:0  HW:0  U:6.20/m  I:9
72.0 C  E: 820 MHz  M: 300 Mhz  V: 1.050V  A: 99% P: 0%
Last initialised: [2012-02-11 18:58:53]
Intensity: 9
Thread 1: 188.0 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 7: 199.3 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE

[gnar1ta$]

What is "P in cgminer?

Powertune.

[DeathAndTaxes]

What is "P in cgminer?

Powertune.

Thanks it isn't in the docs.  I ended up finding it in the source.  Was coming back to answer my own question.  I got only 5000 series so they are always 0%.