OLD: BFGMiner 4.10.0: GBT+Stratum, RPC, Mac/Linux/Win64, Spondoolies SP30

[WBF1]

Downloaded and compiled from github this morning on ubuntu 14.04.1 32-bit. Using solely as a proxy for my ASICMiner tubes. When I try to connect, Berliner shows 100% HW errors and no work is ever done for the pool. Miner interface shows 100% rejected.

I looked on github for a related issue but nothing jumped out at me. Is it possible I screwed something up with dependencies? Any known issues that just aren't on github? Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: just realized I pulled from master. When I get home later I'll try the 4.7.0 release and see if it works.

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[BFL-Engineer]

EDIT: Regarding Linux distribution, we always use the latest. Never had problems. Are you using a normal computer or some RaspPi or Beaglebone for the Linux Setup?

Tried it on both a regular laptop and a RPi. I suspect the RPi is out of date with the drivers, but the laptop I had fully updated with ubuntu and all of the bfgminer dependencies, so I am not really sure what's up with it.

Dear Morblias,

I just asked people in the lab to create a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and clone the latest Bfgminer, just to be sure everything is work. The test passed successfully.
For your information, the computer in test was 64bit.



Thanks,
Nasser

[albysprx]

how to mine (with gpu) x11 algo?
i tried:
bfgminer.exe --X11 -S opencl:all -S zus:noauto -o stratum+tcp://stratum.nicehash.com:3336 -u 1AsLCvR43Yeka6Z8y1kURPQenwdyi7tfBp.1 -p x
but not working..... (when i open it, it's close itself)
maybe it isn't X11 the command?

[Luke-Jr]

how to mine (with gpu) x11 algo?
i tried:
bfgminer.exe --X11 -S opencl:all -S zus:noauto -o stratum+tcp://stratum.nicehash.com:3336 -u 1AsLCvR43Yeka6Z8y1kURPQenwdyi7tfBp.1 -p x
but not working..... (when i open it, it's close itself)
maybe it isn't X11 the command?

BFGMiner won't have Crypto11 ("X11") support until someone steps forward to add it.

[hurricandave]

Luke, does BFG Miner support/work with the NEW R-Box 100GH/s ?

[Luke-Jr]

Luke, does BFG Miner support/work with the NEW R-Box 100GH/s ?

I think not yet, but uncertain. Try it and let me know?

[hurricandave]

Luke, does BFG Miner support/work with the NEW R-Box 100GH/s ?

I think not yet, but uncertain. Try it and let me know?

Crossing my fingers, should have one on Friday.

[JLEATHERMAN]

Can someone show me an example of where the #xnsub flag goes:

1) stratum+tcp://miningpool.com#xnsub:3333

or

2) stratum+tcp://miningpool.com:3333#xnsub

Many Thanks!

Jim

[Luke-Jr]

NEW VERSION 4.8.0, SEPTEMBER 10 2014

Human readable changelog:

• New option --benchmark-intense for hardware manufacturers to properly test their miners can perform properly as Bitcoin grows.
• Logic to check validity and optionally benefactors of the generation transaction (GBT and Stratum only). See the new --coinbase-check-* options to configure it, or append #skipcbcheck to pool URIs to disable it.
• cointerra: New driver for the TerraMiner.
• Stratum proxy: Numerous crash conditions fixed.

Full changelog:

• Improve precision of total_secs used in (at least) RPC summary Elapsed
• Bump embedded libblkmaker to 0.5.0
• Bump embedded libbase58 to 0.1.1
• Remove now-unused bfg_cond_timedwait which cannot be made portable
• Spawn a new thread for cmd-idle rather than relying on problematic pthread timedwait
• README: --coinbase-check-* options
• Bugfix: Accept actual percentages for --coinbase-check-percent
• Optimise coinbase check logic by using actual script bytes everywhere possible
• Pool option #skipcbcheck to disable new coinbase checks
• pool_check_coinbase: Avoid redisabling an already misbehaving pool
• Bugfix: Keep connection active for rejecting and misbehaving pools so we can detect when they recover
• Share pool coinbase check reaction code
• Initial version of coinbase checking function for GBT and stratum
• cointerra: Ensure devlog messages cannot overflow
• Bugfix: cointerra: Defer setting USB timeout until after initialisation
• cointerra: Set configuration and claim interface
• Bugfix: cointerra: Check ep is open before trying to talk to it (crash at init failure)
• cointerra: Support for --set cta:load=N
• cointerra: Store load setting on struct cointerra_info
• cointerra: Operate within a single thread
• cointerra: Update to minerloop_queue
• cointerra: Split work packet into cointerra_queue_append function
• cointerra: Prepare for splitting work packet into cointerra_queue_append function
• cointerra: Use more fresh code for work packet
• cointerra: Use fresh code for work packet
• Bugfix: cointerra: Use bfg_cond_timedwait to avoid spinning
• cointerra: Claim and release lowlevel device
• cointerra: Propagate per-core temperatures to each processor
• cointerra: Reduce redundant stats information
• cointerra: Correctly divide up individual processors
• cointerra: Update to latest BFGMiner
• work_ntime_range helper function
• work_{get,set}_ntime inline functions
• Store a reference timeval with ntime_roll_limits
• util: min macro
• cointerra: Cleanup debugging
• cointerra: Divide up processors
• cointerra: Wait for info packet on probe
• cointerra: Dirty BFGMiner port
• lowl-usb: Cleanup dead code
• notifier_wait, notifier_wait_us, and notifier_reset functions
• Export the flush_queue function for use by drivers.
• Provide a function to discard queued work based on age.
• Export share_diff function and add flip12 macro
• Provide a copy_work_noffset function for copying a work struct but changing its ntime.
• Add api_add_int16 to API functions.
• cointerra: Remove nodev checks for now
• cointerra: Replace reset semaphore with a simple notifier
• Build cointerra driver
• cointerra: Import driver from cgminer as-is
• Silently ignore shares rejected if they were above target and only got submitted "just in case"
• Abstract put_in_parens function
• Abstract extract_reject_reason function
• Remove dead code
• Bugfix: bfg_cond_timedwait providing semantics expected for --cmd-idle implementation
• Per-processor TUI: Align columns for more-than-one proc letter
• m4/bundled_lib: Workaround bug in autoconf <2.64
• If full version is too long, try truncating it at '-'
• Bugfix: Fix CPU miner benchmarking within benchmark-intense mode
• benchmark: Detect duplicate shares within 5 minutes
• benchmark-intense: benchmark_update_interval constant in code
• benchmark-intense: Detect stale results
• benchmark-intense: Update work every second
• benchmark-intense: Simulate 250 KB generation transaction
• benchmark-intense: Generate individual work items from 2D work (tests host CPU rate of work production)
• Introduce --benchmark-intense option
• Import libbase58 for base58 encoding/decoding
• Cleanup libblkmaker bundling code to mostly live in autoconf macros
• Always check if we should switch pools when enabling one, and always enable pools we want to switch to

Full changelog (4.7.1):

• Bugfix: Reorder LDADD and such for priority
• Bugfix: bitforce: Initialise variable to NULL
• Bugfix: SSM: Use client_next member consistently when working with stratumsrv_connlist
• Bugfix: SSM: Check that a username is provided to mining.authorize
• Bugfix: SSM: When n2pad<0, release lock before returning
• Bugfix: SSM: Make buffers long enough to avoid overflows
• Bugfix: Need signed types for ntime min/max offsets
• Bugfix: rockminer: Fix processor disabling
• rockminer: Limit even unsafe frequencies to 640 MHz, since above that overflows frequency bits and triggers fan control
• tq_pop: Remove abstime argument since nothing used it and it wouldn't work anyway (uses CLOCK_REALTIME while we use CLOCK_MONOTONIC[_RAW] when possible)
• Bugfix: Check last solo generation tx against new template rather than most recent
• README: Explicitly mention automatic solo mining configuration, and stress the importance of --coinbase-sig
• Bugfix: Recheck current_pool after calling pool_died
• Bugfix: Stable pool recovery: Only care if the pool is enabled
• README.ASIC: Add a section for Gridseed
• Bugfix: benchmark: Free json_null() after use
• Bugfix: minergate: Claim socket before we initialise a cgpu for it
• Bugfix: avalonmm: Claim device before we initialise a cgpu for it
• Bugfix: switch_pools: Broadcast lp_cond outside of control_lock to avoid deadlocking
• Protect enabled_pools by a mutex in disable_pool function
• Combine reject_pool into disable_pool function, and don't allow it to override a manual disable
• Call disable_pool() at the begin of remove_pool() and combine them when appears together in the code
• Bugfix: Always call enable_pool and disable_pool to ensure consistent handling of the situations
• Remove dead CPU mining code to silence warnings

[Luke-Jr]

2) stratum+tcp://miningpool.com:3333#xnsub

This. Might need a slash too: stratum+tcp://miningpool.com:3333/#xnsub

[WBF1]

2) stratum+tcp://miningpool.com:3333#xnsub

This. Might need a slash too: stratum+tcp://miningpool.com:3333/#xnsub

Just wanted to confirm that for the life of me I couldn't get it to work until I tried a trailing slash after the port number.

[jjdacl]

Here's a simple little batch (.bat) file script to run the latest version of BFG that I thought other people might like to use.
Save this as BFG.bat in the root of all your different bfgminer version folders and it'll run the latest one.

Code:

@echo off
FOR /d %%f in (b*.*) do (
  set bfgFol=%%f
)
cd %bfgFol%
bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u jjdacl.worker1 -p password
pause

Your folder structure will look like this:

bfgminer-4.6.0-win64
bfgminer-4.7.0-win64
bfgminer-4.8.0-win64
BFG.bat

Now when a new version comes out, you can just unzip it and re-run your batch file :-)
Remember to update your bfg parameters, user/pass etc as appropriate.

[Kurvanga]

Hello Everyone,

I have a problem with BFGminer 4.8.0

https://i.imgur.com/u9dOPGA.jpg

I'm using nicehash pool which is curently working, despite the message about the dead pool it is mining as i can see on the web page, problem is that if i put any other pool as backup it automatically uses it There is also a disturping message about coibasecheck... can anyone help?

[JLEATHERMAN]

I am trying to figure out how the BFGMiner command when you have multiple devices?  I have two gridseed 5-chip orbs on com ports 78 & 79, a zeus miner on com port 77, and two opencl graphics cards.  No matter what I try for -S I either see the zeus, and the gridseeds as "Initializing ..." (forever), but the OCL's are turned off.  Just can't figure out how to get all 5 devices to work using one batch file.

Can anyone assist here?

Jim

[Ntrain2k]

Is there a way to get BFGminer to not recognize or try to use my video card while mining?

Thanks.

[WBF1]

Hello Everyone,

I have a problem with BFGminer 4.8.0



I'm using nicehash pool which is curently working, despite the message about the dead pool it is mining as i can see on the web page, problem is that if i put any other pool as backup it automatically uses it There is also a disturping message about coibasecheck... can anyone help?

Did you use #xnsub?

[Taugeran]

Is there a way to get BFGminer to not recognize or try to use my video card while mining?

Thanks.

add this to the command used to launch bfgminer

Code:

-S opencl:noauto

[Tompinara]

Is there a way to get BFGminer to not recognize or try to use my video card while mining?

 -S noauto

[Ntrain2k]

Is there a way to get BFGminer to not recognize or try to use my video card while mining?

Thanks.

add this to the command used to launch bfgminer

Code:

-S opencl:noauto

 -S noauto

Tried both of those and BFG just opens and closes immediately. Here is my current bat:

C:\Users\Main\Desktop\bfgminer-4.7.0\bfgminer.exe --scrypt -S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=830 -o stratum+tcp://us-east.multipool.us:7777 -u X -p x --no-submit-stale

[Kurvanga]

Hello Everyone,

I have a problem with BFGminer 4.8.0

https://i.imgur.com/u9dOPGA.jpg

I'm using nicehash pool which is curently working, despite the message about the dead pool it is mining as i can see on the web page, problem is that if i put any other pool as backup it automatically uses it There is also a disturping message about coibasecheck... can anyone help?

Did you use #xnsub?

Thanks, this solved the issue with switching the pool but coinbasecheck persists (maby i messed up something while i compiled it...), another thing is that i'm getting decrasing hashrate on those 4.7 and 4.8 bgminer it drops to unacceptable values like 3 Mh/s while cgminer never drops below 16 mh/s. I am using zeusminer 96 chips so it should stay at around 20+ mh/s which i am able to achive but not on multicoin pools.