GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread

[Gage-Miner]

what does this mean?

asic plataeu: (1/3)392.71MHz

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[os2sam]

That's part of the CGMiner autotune process.  Vh has a diagram somewhere that explains the plateau.

[mstrozier]

I need help...

@Gage-Miner   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5053833.msg50968875#msg50968875   is a set of instructions I put together for setting up a Raspberry Pi mining using the newpac's.    The only extra step you'll need to do since adding a R606 as well is to do the command  lsusb and hit enter.  This will give you some similar output as below.  The Newpacs and R606 both are the items listed as Future Technology Devices International, Ltd Bridge(I2C/SPI/UART/FIFO).   The only difference is the Newpacs will always use Bus 001 and the R606 will use Bus 004.   (Or has been for both my Pi and my Linux box so far).    So when you make your .sh file to run them, if running in one instance it would be as follows

Code:

./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://pool_address:port#  -u wallet_address -p miner_password  --usb 1:6,1:7,1:9,1:10,4:2,4:3  --gekko-newpac-freq 325 --gekko-r606-freq 550  --widescreen

Some users have had mixed results with the R606 on the Pi.  I couldn't never get it to go over 600 Mhz on a Asic Boost supported site.  And since I also have two Futurebit Moonlanders, it would screw up somewhere and lock the pi up.  Would have to do a force reset.  Without the moonlanders it worked great just at lower Mhz freq's for me.  After moving to my linux box (running Linux Mint) I have my newpacs at 425 and 1 R606 at 725 and the other at 675 running stable along with the two moonlanders.

Code:

mstrozier@Crypto-MS-7693:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0403:6015 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd Bridge(I2C/SPI/UART/FIFO)
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0403:6015 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd Bridge(I2C/SPI/UART/FIFO)
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0403:6015 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd Bridge(I2C/SPI/UART/FIFO)
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0403:6015 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd Bridge(I2C/SPI/UART/FIFO)
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a40:0201 Terminus Technology Inc. FE 2.1 7-port Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0403:6015 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd Bridge(I2C/SPI/UART/FIFO)
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0403:6015 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd Bridge(I2C/SPI/UART/FIFO)
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 011 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 010 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 010 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
mstrozier@Crypto-MS-7693:~$

So once bought the R606 pod, what were the steps to set this up and start working.

What were the altcoins, which were profitable to mine on R606.

If can pls pm also.

The first page has most of the write up on setting these units up.  If you are installing this in Linux you can follow the steps that I send Gage in the above posting. If you need further help in setting this up in Linux feel free to PM me.  I'll gladly help however I can.   As for Altcoins best suggestion is looking at whattomine site and getting a listing of what coins use SHA256.   There are quite a few crap coins that I've seen Prohashing.com will mine that uses SHA256 however not listed in whattomine's site.

Most users are bitcoin lottery mining.  If you are wanting to invest in any other coin probably the best route would be prohashing and get paid out in whatever coin of your choice.  You can find more information in the altcoin section of this web forum.

[Gage-Miner]

So I was dog tired last night but I ended up getting all 4 Newpac's and the R606 up and running.

I know that i set the Newpac to freq 525 as i had before but now they dont seem to be running the same since i added the r606

I will get stats later (at work now)

i was hitting about 450-500gh on the newpacs before the addition of the r606 so that is my reference point i am going off of.

not remembering my settings i am currently getting 1.392 th/s as of 5 mins ago i do not have the 24 avg yet of course.

[WilcoWi]

what does this mean?

asic plataeu: (1/3)392.71MHz

Somewhere around page 30 of this tread it is explained.

[House Xylander]

Code:

while [ 1 ]; do
    ./cgminer -o ....
    sleep 5
done

If cgminer stops for any reason, this will wait 5 seconds and then restart the script.  Just basically puts it into a loop.  Since the last 2 updates I haven't really noticed it restarting, at least not like it was before the May updates.   But at least this will kick them back off instead of remaining offline until you physically get back on the system to restart the script.

I tried the following but it keeps loading new instances every 5 seconds. Is there something i'm missing here?

Code:

while [ 1 ]; do
     gnome-terminal -e "/home/cgminer/cgminer -o stratum+tcp://btc.viabtc.com:3333 -u Xylander.gekko1 -p x --suggest-diff 560 --gekko-newpac-detect --gekko-newpac-freq 425"
    sleep 5
done

[kano]

No doubt it starts the terminal then goes to sleep for 5 seconds.
There's no reason for it to wait for the terminal to exit.

To simplify the one above yaws you could create a script to run cgminer so e.g.

Code:

while true ; do
    ./cgminer.sh
    sleep 5
done

Then write cgminer.sh with the commands to run cgminer (directly)

It also means that if you change cgminer.sh, you don't have to stop the loop, just press q in cgminer and it will restart with the new cgminer.sh

[House Xylander]

Thank you Kano, greatly appreciate the help.

By (directly) you mean to run the first script from inside cgminer directory? While also having the second script looking like this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://btc.viabtc.com:3333 -u Xylander.gekko1 -p x --suggest-diff 560 --gekko-newpac-detect --gekko-newpac-freq 425

pause

[K21000]

Just got a R606 miner today. All was good until i booted up cgminer and got the error message "No devices found". My mining controller is a macbook pro that runs mac os 10.12 (High sierra). cgminer version is 4.11.1. How do i get this miner to hash on mac?

[419mining]

Just got a R606 miner today. All was good until i booted up cgminer and got the error message "No devices found". My mining controller is a macbook pro that runs mac os 10.12 (High sierra). cgminer version is 4.11.1. How do i get this miner to hash on mac?

This is actually a common problem on mac thats discussed in the first post Q/A section, you need to remove your VCP drivers.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5053833.msg50638400#msg50638400

[K21000]

My newpacs work fine though and they use the same chip. Is this a R606 specific problem?

Also is there a way to reinstall VCP drivers once you remove them?

[419mining]

ok, maybe I am mistaken, but I though VH corrected the mac cgminer to work with R606's but now I cant find the details...

[vh]

I haven't gotten around to adjusting the parts needed for the R606 to run on macOS yet.

If you want it to try to run it there, you'll need to make an adjustment to use the R606 branch:

Code:

curl -o cgminer.rb "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vthoang/homebrew-cgminer/master/cgminer.rb"

edit the cgminer.rb file and change branch from 'master' to 'r606'

followed with:

Code:

brew install --build-from-source ./cgminer.rb

I'll get around to testing that when the branch gets merged back.   At which point it should mostly fix itself.

[K21000]

When mac support is ready will the new version be pushed to the homebrew repo listed on the front page of this thread?

[Loop8178]

Hi Guys,
So i have a question.. A Noob here
So i have been using the gekko 2pac for a bit and everything seem to be working fine
I get 2 new NewPac and i am starting to get
Device Reported nonce

Code:

 cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2019-06-27 18:06:52.360]                                                            ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                    
 (5s):181.9G (1m):181.3G (5m):158.3G (15m):92.38G (avg):167.8Gh/s                                                       
 A:65536  R:0  HW:0  WU:2345.4/m | ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 1  LW: 82055  GF: 0  RF: 0                                        
  Connected to us.multipool.us diff 65.5K with stratum as user   Block: 2e28be74...  Diff:272G  Started: [18:06:52.361]  Best share: 129K                                                                   
 0: GSD 10022705: BM1384:02  200/200/200 (195/118/195) [oo]      |  92.7% WU: 94% | 19.57G / 20.67Gh/s WU:288.7/m A:6553 
1: GSD 10022729: BM1384:02  200/200/200 (195/118/195) [oo]      |  95.5% WU: 94% | 27.11G / 20.69Gh/s WU:289.1/m A:     
2: GSH 10032075: BM1387:02  294/400/231 (16/39/64) [oo]         |  96.9% WU:^79% | 72.99G / 52.59Gh/s WU:734.8/m A:     
3: GSH 10032077: BM1387:02  306/400/242 (15/39/62) [oo]         |  87.4% WU:^79% | 63.21G / 55.20Gh/s WU:771.4/m A:     
7: GSD 10018569: BM1384:02  200/200/200 (195/118/195) [oo]      | 100.0% WU:100% | 28.75G / 21.82Gh/s WU:304.9/m A:    0 R:0 HW:0------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                     
[2019-06-27 18:18:45.485] 3: GSH 1 - RX0: 21:BD:91:81:00:07:98                                                         
 [2019-06-27 18:18:45.485] 3: GSH 1 - Device reported nonce: 21bd9181 @ 07 (0)                                          
 [2019-06-27 18:18:45.485] GSH 1: Share above target                                                                    
 [2019-06-27 18:18:45.490] 2: GSH 0 - RX0: C5:C5:A7:F8:02:71:86                                                        
  [2019-06-27 18:18:45.490] 2: GSH 0 - Device reported nonce: c5c5a7f8 @ 71 (0)                                        
   [2019-06-27 18:18:45.490] GSH 0: Share above target                                                              
      [2019-06-27 18:18:45.538] 2: GSH 0 - RX0: B7:16:84:CD:00:72:8A                                                       
   [2019-06-27 18:18:45.538] 2: GSH 0 - Device reported nonce: b71684cd @ 72 (4)                                       
    [2019-06-27 18:18:45.538] GSH 0: Share above target                                                                   
  [2019-06-27 18:18:45.549] 3: GSH 1 - RX0: CD:15:4C:CE:00:08:90                                                          
[2019-06-27 18:18:45.549] 3: GSH 1 - Device reported nonce: cd154cce @ 08 (0)                                         
  [2019-06-27 18:18:45.549] GSH 1: Share above target                                                                     
[2019-06-27 18:18:45.555] 2: GSH 0 - RX0: 9B:B1:EA:0A:00:73:93                                                         
 [2019-06-27 18:18:45.555] 2: GSH 0 - Device reported nonce: 9bb1ea0a @ 73 (0)                                           
[2019-06-27 18:18:45.555] GSH 0: Share above target

Does everything look to be working correct?
If not can someone point me in the correct direction please

Thank you

Chris

[WilcoWi]

what hub are u using?
often problems occur when hub and/or powersupply can't meet the demands.

Keep in mind u have to cool when using freq > 100 Mhz

Also look @ pages 25-35 for previous questions about same topic

[gt_addict]

How long were the newpacs running for? They have ramped up but not quite to the freq you set. The rest looks ok, however as said if the hub you have cant provide the power you wont get to the freq you set.

[Fruitman]

Why is the Voltage Factory setting at 830mV ?
The Table at bitshopper says 1,26V is the lowest Voltage -  

And at 250MHz 1,4V is the lowest - so should i set it to 1,4V when i Run it at 250Mhz?

[sidehack]

Because you're looking at 2Pac tables. If the NewPac were capable of being set at 1.26V it would pretty much immediately burst into flames.

[Fruitman]

Because you're looking at 2Pac tables. If the NewPac were capable of being set at 1.26V it would pretty much immediately burst into flames.

ok thats wired... The Table is listed under Newpac setup: https://www.bitshopper.de/support/instructions/newpac/newpac-setup-linux-raspberry-pi/?lang=en
so maybe someone have the right table ?