Phoenix - Efficient, fast, modular miner

[legoman786]

Hello,

I'm new here. Found Bitcoins off a forum I frequent. I know the answer I'm looking for is here, but after almost an hour of searching for it, I can't seem to find it.

I have m0mchil’s miner, and got that running. However, I heard that people are getting better results with the Phoenix miner. Thing is... I can't get it running >______<

As I said, I know the answer is here, but I seem to have missed it.

How do I get the Phoenix miner running in a Windows 7 64-bit environment?

ATI 4850, BTW.

[bitjet]

In windows if you don't want to use a dummy plug you can just switch the monitor cable from the primary to the secondary and the secondary card should then be immediately visible to OpenCL apps. I would build a dummy cable cause I'm lazy and don't want to be flippin cables....

Not working on Windows 7 and catalyst 11.4. The desktop is becoming blanj and you wont be able to start any program.

Odd. Then again I tried it with 11.3 - works fine. What happens when I switch the cable to the secondary card is I get a windows desktop. The catalyst drivers should
 detect the secondary display and create a secondary desktop. If not you may have to manually create a desktop. Also bear in mind this is WITHOUT crossfire enabled. Crossfire may introduce additional details into the picture.

Yes if you can cross fire those cards the 3rd gpu will become visable to the system.

[qed]

Hey guys!

I've been using the GUI created by Kiv and I heard Phoenix is faster, so naturally I'm trying this, despite having no experience with cmd prompts.
As expected, I can't seem to figure out how to launch it  

This is what I've got so far (some mix between this thread and a guide for m0mchil's software):

Code:

start /DC:\Bitcoin phoenix -u http://"mymail@site.com:password"@deepbit.net:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP AGGRESSION=7

It tries to launch, but tells me that it "failed to patch kernel"

I've tried a couple of variations thereof, but it doesn't seem to work.

Any idea what's wrong?

Did you try to add a "cd C:\Bitcoin" on top of that?

[B!0HaZard]

Hey guys!

I've been using the GUI created by Kiv and I heard Phoenix is faster, so naturally I'm trying this, despite having no experience with cmd prompts.
As expected, I can't seem to figure out how to launch it  

This is what I've got so far (some mix between this thread and a guide for m0mchil's software):

Code:

start /DC:\Bitcoin phoenix -u http://"mymail@site.com:password"@deepbit.net:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP AGGRESSION=7

It tries to launch, but tells me that it "failed to patch kernel"

I've tried a couple of variations thereof, but it doesn't seem to work.

Any idea what's wrong?

Did you try to add a "cd C:\Bitcoin" on top of that?

How do you mean?

Like this?

Code:

cd C:\Bitcoin phoenix -u http://"mymail@site.com:password"@deepbit.net:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP AGGRESSION=7[/code

[legoman786]

I got it to work. I forgot to define the device. rofl.

[qed]

Hey guys!

I've been using the GUI created by Kiv and I heard Phoenix is faster, so naturally I'm trying this, despite having no experience with cmd prompts.
As expected, I can't seem to figure out how to launch it  

This is what I've got so far (some mix between this thread and a guide for m0mchil's software):

Code:

start /DC:\Bitcoin phoenix -u http://"mymail@site.com:password"@deepbit.net:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP AGGRESSION=7

It tries to launch, but tells me that it "failed to patch kernel"

I've tried a couple of variations thereof, but it doesn't seem to work.

Any idea what's wrong?

Did you try to add a "cd C:\Bitcoin" on top of that?

How do you mean?

Like this?

Code:

cd C:\Bitcoin phoenix -u http://"mymail@site.com:password"@deepbit.net:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP AGGRESSION=7[/code

I meant:

Code:

cd C:\Bitcoin
C:\Bitcoin phoenix -u http://"mymail@site.com:password"@deepbit.net:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP AGGRESSION=7

[B!0HaZard]

Well, that seemed to fix one issue (the window that told me that the kernel wasn't patched would disappear immediately), but I'm still getting "Failed to patch kernel".

[tripper22]

It seems like if a pool goes down for over 15 minutes or so, phoenix stops trying to reconnect. Is there anything I can do about that? (bitcoinpool.com had some trouble tonight)

Shouldn't the miners always be trying to connect to the pool or server? Can you guys provide a fix for this please? Thanks and keep up the good work.

[Inaba]

So I'm trying to run this on one of my Windows boxes and it's giving me the error "Could not locate the specified kernel!"  how do I specify where it should be looking and what do I need in the directory?

You need to open the command line window and change the directory to the folder you have phoenix in. Then just type in the commands and flags posted above for the pool you are using and your video card.

That's what I was doing.  Removing the -k poclbm seems to have solved the problem.  If you try to specify the kernel in the windows version, even if it's the default one, it will fail.  Letting it default to poclbm seems to work fine though.

[jedi95]

Well, that seemed to fix one issue (the window that told me that the kernel wasn't patched would disappear immediately), but I'm still getting "Failed to patch kernel".

What hardware are you running? The "Failed to patch kernel" error means that applying the BFI_INT patch failed. (likely because you are using unsupported hardware)

[dishwara]

Hey guys!

I've been using the GUI created by Kiv and I heard Phoenix is faster, so naturally I'm trying this, despite having no experience with cmd prompts.
As expected, I can't seem to figure out how to launch it  

This is what I've got so far (some mix between this thread and a guide for m0mchil's software):

Code:

start /DC:\Bitcoin phoenix -u http://"mymail@site.com:password"@deepbit.net:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP AGGRESSION=7

It tries to launch, but tells me that it "failed to patch kernel"

I've tried a couple of variations thereof, but it doesn't seem to work.

Any idea what's wrong?

Remove QUOTATION ""  phoenix -u http://mymail@site.com:password@deepbit.net...................

[CFSworks]

Shouldn't the miners always be trying to connect to the pool or server? Can you guys provide a fix for this please? Thanks and keep up the good work.

Bah, that was an oversight on my part. Sorry.
I have fixed it and the next release won't have that problem anymore.

[slurch]

For what it's worth, this absolutely garners this noob's seal of approval. Went from 260 to 285 MHash (give or take) on my 5830 using:

;askrate=10 -k poclbm VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP AGGRESSION=7 DEVICE=1 on Slush's Pool.

Clocked at 950/400 on my actual computer (not a dedicated rig). Way to go!

[slurch]

I got it to work. I forgot to define the device. rofl.

I did the same thing, and the command box popped up so fast I couldn't see what the issue was...has to manually go and launch the program.

[TheShoura]

need help w/ performance

phoenix.exe PLATFORM=1 DEVICE=0 -u http://xxx@gmail.com:xxx@deepbit.net:8332 -k poclbm VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=8 WORKSIZE=256

I'm maxing out at 290 Mhash/s where as poclbm was doing 290-305...

I tried increasing aggression but my pc locks up instantly.

poclbm also crashes my system but i think it was heat related the 1 time it happened, im still testing

[CFSworks]

I got it to work. I forgot to define the device. rofl.

I did the same thing, and the command box popped up so fast I couldn't see what the issue was...has to manually go and launch the program.

Hmm... Sage advice: If you use .bat or .cmd scripts, put the word pause at the bottom, on a line by itself.
That way it waits for a keypress before closing the window on you.
jedi95 should probably put that in the first post.

[slurch]

I got it to work. I forgot to define the device. rofl.

I did the same thing, and the command box popped up so fast I couldn't see what the issue was...has to manually go and launch the program.

Hmm... Sage advice: If you use .bat or .cmd scripts, put the word pause at the bottom, on a line by itself.
That way it waits for a keypress before closing the window on you.
jedi95 should probably put that in the first post.

Batch file modified. Noob level decreased by 1.

[JWU42]

need help w/ performance

phoenix.exe PLATFORM=1 DEVICE=0 -u http://xxx@gmail.com:xxx@deepbit.net:8332 -k poclbm VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=8 WORKSIZE=256

I'm maxing out at 290 Mhash/s where as poclbm was doing 290-305...

I tried increasing aggression but my pc locks up instantly.

poclbm also crashes my system but i think it was heat related the 1 time it happened, im still testing

Try dropping the worksize to 128 ?

What card?

[melchior]

I have been working on running the phoenix miner on a suse 11.2x86_64 and I have run into some issues.
I have been able to make phoenix run on windows systems with these worker accounts. I am able to run the poclbm client on the the suse sytem. But I was getting the IBODY error discussed earlier. Which lead me to downloading and compiling the newest version of Twisted. It installed and appears to install and work. But when I try to run phoenix-1.3 I get the following:

phoenix-1.3 # ./phoenix.py -u http://xxxxx.xxxx@xxxxx.net:xxxxxxx@deepbit.net:8332 -k poclbm DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./phoenix.py", line 29, in <module>
    import minerutil
  File "/home/bill/Downloads/phoenix-1.3/minerutil/__init__.py", line 25, in <module>
    from RPCProtocol import RPCClient
  File "/home/bill/Downloads/phoenix-1.3/minerutil/RPCProtocol.py", line 26, in <module>
    from twisted.web import http, client
ImportError: cannot import name http


Device 1 is a ati 5850 in this case and it works with pocibm client. I have looked at the RPCProtocol.py it appears to be having issue importing http and client from twisted.web. Any ideas what I am missing, was there any special options I should have set when I compiled beside:
python setup.py build install

Thank you for your any assistance you can provide,
-Melchior

[TheShoura]

need help w/ performance

phoenix.exe PLATFORM=1 DEVICE=0 -u http://xxx@gmail.com:xxx@deepbit.net:8332 -k poclbm VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=8 WORKSIZE=256

I'm maxing out at 290 Mhash/s where as poclbm was doing 290-305...

I tried increasing aggression but my pc locks up instantly.

poclbm also crashes my system but i think it was heat related the 1 time it happened, im still testing

Try dropping the worksize to 128 ?

What card?

5970 @ 800Mhz, I tried 128, it was slower