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Hmm, interesting. I did run across that AMD thread when I ran into a similar problem with my 5970. The system blue screened while I was trying to load a youtube video from within facebook. At the time I was running 11.2. What I did was run driver cleaner and install 11.3 after and update flash, turn off gpu acceleration - so far no crashes. Not sure if it was 11.3 that fixed it or what, but I do think this problem can happen with 5970 too. Has anyone else had this with the 5970 or am I the only one? (win 7 64)
I was using a 5970 until I got this 6990 on Monday, and I upgraded my drivers every month, through 11.3, on Win 7 64. No crashes. The only problem I had (which started long ago) was that with GPU acceleration turned on in Flash, the image on my second monitor would jump up momentarily when a video started (actually not the entire image; there would be a black bar about 1/4 of the way up the screen about 50 pixels tall, and the image above that bar would jump up and back down). Other people had the same problem. I simply turned off GPU acceleration months ago and forgot about it. Edit: The 6990 does not have that problem, which is nice. I see. So the crash was most likely caused by something else and not necessarily related to this issue the 6990s are having. I was messing around with the mem clock and fan speed very frequently before the system blue screened. I had the fan locked at 60% and I kept on lowering and raising and lowering the mem clock - trying to find if lowering mem clock affected hashing performance and if there is a "sweet spot" . But anyways, I hope AMD comes out with a fix, and most of all I hope it's not something that is hardware related.
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April 15, 2011, 03:58:57 AM |
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April 15, 2011, 04:00:51 AM Last edit: April 15, 2011, 05:27:10 PM by mrb |
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The 6990 is not supported under Linux yet, even with the 11.4b hotfix. Probably will be fairly soon; all other 6900 series cards are.
Not true. I mine happily with multiple 6990s with the catalyst 11.411.3 driver on Linux. To my surprise, even the older 11.311.2 works, if you write the xorg.conf manually. That said I do use a custom CAL miner, as opposed to OpenCL, so perhaps the problems preventing you guys from using the 6990 only affect OpenCL miners. Edited to fix catalyst version numbers.
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April 15, 2011, 04:19:34 AM |
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The 6990 is not supported under Linux yet, even with the 11.4b hotfix. Probably will be fairly soon; all other 6900 series cards are.
Not true. I mine happily with multiple 6990s with the catalyst 11.4 driver on Linux. To my surprise, even the older 11.3 works, if you write the xorg.conf manually. That said I do use a custom CAL miner, as opposed to OpenCL, so perhaps the problems preventing you guys from using the 6990 only affect OpenCL miners. Would love a copy of that, but at that price I don't think I'd ever break even with the cost of 6990s and the insane cost of electricity in California. At least not without a six figure investment in hardware capacity.
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RIP BTC Guild, April 2011 - June 2015
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April 15, 2011, 11:56:23 AM |
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I could plug both cards(5850 & 5770) and now they work perfectly with dummy plug, thank you TenthReality. It's better mining than have a card useless.
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Syke
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April 15, 2011, 05:21:51 PM |
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Not true. I mine happily with multiple 6990s with the catalyst 11.4 driver on Linux. To my surprise, even the older 11.3 works, if you write the xorg.conf manually. That said I do use a custom CAL miner, as opposed to OpenCL, so perhaps the problems preventing you guys from using the 6990 only affect OpenCL miners. What catalyst 11.4 Linux driver?
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Buy & Hold
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mrb
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April 15, 2011, 05:26:06 PM |
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What catalyst 11.4 Linux driver?
Oops I meant 11.3. And it works with 11.2 if you write the xorg.conf manually. Single HD6990 mining with CAL 1.4.1332 (Catalyst 11.3) on Linux
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April 15, 2011, 06:21:16 PM |
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What catalyst 11.4 Linux driver?
There is this one, right?
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April 16, 2011, 09:28:26 PM |
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The 11.4b linux driver seems not ready for prime time yet, i only get 250-301(averaging ~220) mhps per gpu on 6990, my setting is -v -f 0 -w 128.
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Syke
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April 16, 2011, 11:37:26 PM |
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The 11.4b linux driver seems not ready for prime time yet, i only get 250-301(averaging ~220) mhps per gpu on 6990, my setting is -v -f 0 -w 128.
Yes, very disappointing. I get about 275 per gpu with both 11.3 and 11.4b on my 6990s using DiabloMiner, all stock clocks/etc. I hoping for something more like 350.
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mrb
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April 17, 2011, 03:57:57 AM |
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Have you guys tried poclbm? So far, the best performance numbers I have heard about on the 6990 (with bios switch at position 2 = 830MHz) are: o 683 Mhash/s using hdminero 550 Mhash/s using DiabloMiner (reported by Syke) o ? Mhash/s using poclbm
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April 17, 2011, 02:38:54 PM |
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LMGTFY
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April 17, 2011, 02:41:10 PM |
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April 17, 2011, 02:41:46 PM |
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sorry ... my bad
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