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[spiccioli]

drgr33n,

/etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default

has

Code:

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf&

can this be the cause for xorg.conf being deleted after every reboot?

spiccioli

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[drgr33n]

drgr33n,

/etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default

has

Code:

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf&

can this be the cause for xorg.conf being deleted after every reboot?

spiccioli

Yes it's there on purpose. LinuxCoin has been set to issue sudo aticonfig --initial --adapter=all a pon every reboot. Is yours not being generated ?

[spiccioli]

Yes it's there on purpose. LinuxCoin has been set to issue sudo aticonfig --initial --adapter=all a pon every reboot. Is yours not being generated ?

It is, I saw taht inside /etc/rc.local it gets re-generated, but I'm running LinuxCoin headless, and when I ssh into it I don't find it anymore, because, I think, /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default (which should happen after /etc/rc.local) has removed it.

Maybe you could remove the old one and re-generate it inside rc.local, so that it is always available inside /etc/X11/

spiccioli.

[saqwe]

just started a wiki:
http://linuxcoin.wikia.com/

feel free to contibute

[drgr33n]

Yes it's there on purpose. LinuxCoin has been set to issue sudo aticonfig --initial --adapter=all a pon every reboot. Is yours not being generated ?

It is, I saw taht inside /etc/rc.local it gets re-generated, but I'm running LinuxCoin headless, and when I ssh into it I don't find it anymore, because, I think, /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default (which should happen after /etc/rc.local) has removed it.

Maybe you could remove the old one and re-generate it inside rc.local, so that it is always available inside /etc/X11/

spiccioli.

Dam I forgot about rc.local thats line shouldn't be there as it's now handled by gdm's PreSession script. And it shouldn't be removed until you log out ? Let me run some tests bud.

[mikeo]

Type, in a root terminal:

Code:

cd /opt/miners/phoenix

Code:

python phoenix.py -u http://username:pass@minersite.com:8339/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7 WORKSIZE=128 DEVICE=0 FASTLOOP=false

New root terminal

Code:

cd /opt/miners/phoenix

Code:

python phoenix.py -u http://username:pass@minersite.com:8339/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7 WORKSIZE=128 DEVICE=1 FASTLOOP=false

Now start 'upgrading' the aggression level until you see one of the miners hashrates get instable.
I like one miner at aggression=11 and the other at 9 for most stable results.

Then start AMDoverclocktool to up the GPU and down the MEM speed of GPU0, start a new version for GPU1 (has to be from root terminal: AMDOverdriveCtrl i=3 ) and do the same until you are satisfied with the hashrates.

Yes!! Up and mining  with 2 x HD5830 now with this basic startup routine. Hash rates are not spectacular as expected: 222Mh/s and 235Mh/s for total of 457Mh/s.

Next steps:
1. Upgrade AGGRESSION incrementaly to find optimum setting.

2. Experiment with ATIoverclockCtrl to lower memory speeds as far as possible. REQUEST: would someone post the actual linux command strings for this, please?

3. When above are completed, I want to go headless and contol it from my Win7 desktop/gaming machine. I really have no clue as to what's required for this step and will be back pleading for assistance, I'm sure (week or so away I'd guess).

Thanks to drgr33n for Bitcoin 0.02.1b and others that assisted me so far.

[Tartarus]

2. Experiment with ATIoverclockCtrl to lower memory speeds as far as possible. REQUEST: would someone post the actual linux command strings for this, please?

Try:

Code:

$ sudo -s
# aticonfig --od-enable
# aticonfig --odgc
# aticonfig --odsc=GPU,mem
# aticonfig --odcc
# sleep 5 ; aticonfig --odgc

This will (1) make you root (2) enable OverDrive (3) list lock ranges for both GPU and Memory (4) set (5) commit and (6) wait 5 seconds and confirm they took.  If you have more than one card you need to do --adapter=0 and --adapter=0 for each of the aticonfig commands.  Note that this doesn't handle fan speed tweaking.

[mikeo]

2. Experiment with ATIoverclockCtrl to lower memory speeds as far as possible. REQUEST: would someone post the actual linux command strings for this, please?

Try:

Code:

$ sudo -s
# aticonfig --od-enable
# aticonfig --odgc
# aticonfig --odsc=GPU,mem
# aticonfig --odcc
# sleep 5 ; aticonfig --odgc

This will (1) make you root (2) enable OverDrive (3) list lock ranges for both GPU and Memory (4) set (5) commit and (6) wait 5 seconds and confirm they took.  If you have more than one card you need to do --adapter=0 and --adapter=0 for each of the aticonfig commands.  Note that this doesn't handle fan speed tweaking.

Thank you! You are certainly a gentleman and a scholar ;-)

[hugolp]

2. Experiment with ATIoverclockCtrl to lower memory speeds as far as possible. REQUEST: would someone post the actual linux command strings for this, please?

I preffer to use AMDOverdriveCtrl itself as command line interface than aticonfig. If you set up a configuration with the GUI of AMDOverdriveCtrl and save it as a profile, then you can load it into the card with this command:

Code:

AMDOverdriveCtrl -i X -b deviceX.ovdr

Where X is the id (number) of the card and deviceX.ovdr is the name of the profile file you saved. You can even edit the profile text file manually and dont use the GUI anymore.

[mikeo]

2. Experiment with ATIoverclockCtrl to lower memory speeds as far as possible. REQUEST: would someone post the actual linux command strings for this, please?

I preffer to use AMDOverdriveCtrl itself as command line interface than aticonfig. If you set up a configuration with the GUI of AMDOverdriveCtrl and save it as a profile, then you can load it into the card with this command:

Code:

AMDOverdriveCtrl -i X -b deviceX.ovdr

Where X is the id (number) of the card and deviceX.ovdr is the name of the profile file you saved. You can even edit the profile text file manually and dont use the GUI anymore.

That tip is much appreciated! I'm all for simpler & easier.

[CydeWeys]

I just got Linuxcoin 0.2.1b up and running and it worked very well out of the box.  I must tip my hat to you on a great release.  I only had to make some minor changes (run aticonfig --adapter=all --initial -f again, change permissions/ownership on /opt/miners/phoenix/ , do svn update from within /opt/miners/phoenix/ to get the latest version with the +3% speed boost Ma() function, copy over the /etc/OpenCL directory from another computer because for whatever reason the AMD EULA popup never appeared and thus those files never got written, and then there's the unfortunate issue with /var/run/screen having the wrong permissions set with every boot).

But anyway, all of those tweaks took no more than 30 minutes, which is an excellent price to pay for getting access to Catalyst 11.6!  I have my four 5830s running at 960,335 MHz clock speeds now (up from a limit of 900 on Linuxcoin 0.2a with Catalyst 11.5).  Each one is pushing around 304-305 MHash/s for a total rig output of 1220 MHash/s.  That is way more than I ever thought these 5830s were going to be able to output, and they're all running at below 70degC to boot!

And you did a good job listening to all of the suggestions in here.  I don't see a one that didn't make it in.  Hell, you even included the firmware-atheros package, so 0.2.1b worked out of the box with my wireless card without even having to copy that driver over on a USB stick.  Very nice    I just sent you a donation.  You earned it!

[Folax]

You can even edit the profile text file manually and dont use the GUI anymore.

Where are the profiles saved?

[Jonathan Ryan Owens]

4x 6950 @ 1731.40 MH/s under Linuxcoin 0.2.1b

[hugolp]

You can even edit the profile text file manually and dont use the GUI anymore.

Where are the profiles saved?

Wherever you choose to save it.

[malavita]

I have my Thumb drive setup and working like I want, is there a way to replicate the thumb drive sector by sector encase this one gets corrupted?

EnzoMatrix,

I clone them this way:

put your empty USB stick in a usb port, then issue a

Code:

dmesg

you should see something like:

Code:

[38443.728018] usb 3-4: new high speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[38443.863492] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1624
[38443.863496] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[38443.863498] usb 3-4: Product: DataTraveler G2
[38443.863500] usb 3-4: Manufacturer: Kingston
[38443.863501] usb 3-4: SerialNumber: 0013729B6EB8E9616000002A
[38443.863978] scsi15 : usb-storage 3-4:1.0
[38444.893201] scsi 15:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DataTraveler G2  PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[38444.894329] sd 15:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[38445.626356] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] 15679488 512-byte logical blocks: (8.02 GB/7.47 GiB)
[38445.626847] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[38445.626850] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[38445.626852] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[38445.630964] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[38445.654546]  sdb: unknown partition table
[38445.657168] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[38445.657173] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

Here I've just inserted a Kingston 8Gb USB stick, note the name it gets in the line where it tells you how bit it is: here is

Code:

[38445.626356] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] 15679488 512-byte logical blocks: (8.02 GB/7.47 GiB)

So its name is sdb.

With a

Code:

mount

command you can verify that your corrent USB stick (the one you booted from) is not sdb,

Code:

/dev/sda1 on /live/image type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda2 on /live/cow type ext4 (rw,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered)

look for the lines that contain /live/image and /live/cow.

then, to do the copy

Code:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K

which calls dd and gives it the input file (on linux everything is a file, even a disk) the if=, the output file of= and a block size bs= to make it go faster otherwise it does a sector by sector copy (512 bytes) and so it can take a fairly longer time.

PAY ATTENTION
If you make a mistake and put as output file your current USB stick (the one you booted from) you will erase it!! Be carefull.

Is that a thumb drive with a 1GB Fat32 partition and the rest configured with an ext4 one, or just one big Fat32 partition?

Thx!

[spiccioli]

Is that a thumb drive with a 1GB Fat32 partition and the rest configured with an ext4 one, or just one big Fat32 partition?

Thx!

It's a dual partition one, but it makes no difference since dd copies every sector from one usb key to the other so your copy ends up with the same layout of your source.

spiccioli.

[pdawg]

2. Experiment with ATIoverclockCtrl to lower memory speeds as far as possible. REQUEST: would someone post the actual linux command strings for this, please?

I preffer to use AMDOverdriveCtrl itself as command line interface than aticonfig. If you set up a configuration with the GUI of AMDOverdriveCtrl and save it as a profile, then you can load it into the card with this command:

Code:

AMDOverdriveCtrl -i X -b deviceX.ovdr

Where X is the id (number) of the card and deviceX.ovdr is the name of the profile file you saved. You can even edit the profile text file manually and dont use the GUI anymore.

When I run this, the auto fan setting in the saved profile isn't applied.  When I run "AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 0 -b miner.ovdr" It returns the values in the profile and then returns to the command prompt.  I am running this from the root terminal.  the only way I can get the fan profiles to work is to launch AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 0, and then manually load the saved profile.  Then the terminal window updates with the fan speeds.  Any ideas here?  I would reallly like to get this to run from the command line so I can script it on startup.

[Folax]

I understand people like to have things automated so they can reboot the machine and have all go by itself, but I fail to understand why you want to reboot in the first place.

I just install linuxcoin on a USB thumb drive, then ok the AMD agreement and cd / to the miner and run the command to start it.
Then I click AMDoverdriveCtrl and set the clocks.
Do the same for GPU no.2 and done.
No reboot for days, weeks.

So why do you want to reboot the PC? All settings can be applied without rebooting, right? It's not a Windows system

On a side note:
I have a 'limited' 5870 (BIOS clock limits) and have just saved the AMDoverdriveCtrl profile (GUI still running), edited the profile and loaded it again.
The limited card is now being successfully clocked past it's BIOS limits and is stable.

Now off to find the highest possible settings...

[hugolp]

When I run this, the auto fan setting in the saved profile isn't applied.  When I run "AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 0 -b miner.ovdr" It returns the values in the profile and then returns to the command prompt.  I am running this from the root terminal.  the only way I can get the fan profiles to work is to launch AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 0, and then manually load the saved profile.  Then the terminal window updates with the fan speeds.  Any ideas here?  I would reallly like to get this to run from the command line so I can script it on startup.

For the fan setting to be saved in the profile, you have to click the set button in the GUI. Otherwise the setting active will be the one saved.

What I do is create the file with the GUI and then edit the profile text file manually and dont use the GUI anymore.

Btw, I found that the fan controlled by temperature (the graph thingy) only worked well with the GUI opened. You can save it to the profile, and load it, but it wont behave properly unless the GUI is opened. I dont care because I have my fans at fixed 90%, but others might. I opened a bug at the AMDOverdriveCtrl bugtrack but last time I checked there was no answer.

[mikeo]

Couple of questions about AMDOverdriveCtrl V1.2.1. I have two HD 5830s running

1. How do I change between the two 5830 cards? Seems like it only shows Device0.

2. Would the GUI need to remain open after loading saved profiles? Seems to be YES!

ATIconfig CLI Question:

1. What is CLI command to set fan speed at 80% for both Device=0 and Device=1?