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[Folax]

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?

1. GUI for device=0 you open by clicking the icon, GUI for device=1 you open by typing in root terminal:

Code:

AMDOverdriveCtrl -h

It will list your GPU's, I guess GPU0 is active, GPU1 and GPU2 inactive, GPU3 is active, this means GPU3 is the 2nd card, the one you want to run a new instance of AMDOverdriveCtrl for, so now you do:

Code:

AMDOverdriveCtrl -i=3

A new GUI will open for the 2nd GPU.

2. I keep the GUI's open, the fans stay up to speed that way and it's handy to monitor temps.

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[mikeo]

You are definitely not useless, Folax! Thanks!

Adapter0
279.6 Mh/s, Usage=98%, Fanspeed=80%, Temp=67.00C

Adapter1
279.5 Mh/s, Usage=99%, Fanspeed=70%, Temp=59.50C

The side of the case is open with a 12" personal fan on Low, 6" away blowing directly on the GPUs.

Very pleased.

NOW- I need to move on to remoting this machine as a headless miner.

[drgr33n]

You are definitely not useless, Folax! Thanks!

Adapter0
279.6 Mh/s, Usage=98%, Fanspeed=80%, Temp=67.00C

Adapter1
279.5 Mh/s, Usage=99%, Fanspeed=70%, Temp=59.50C

The side of the case is open with a 12" personal fan on Low, 6" away blowing directly on the GPUs.

Very pleased.

NOW- I need to move on to remoting this machine as a headless miner.

I'm sure we can help you squeeze a lot more out of your cards ! I can squeeze about 313MHs out of my 5830's what miner you using and whats your clock setup etc ?

PS: Working on the website and going to try and get a wiki etc online

[mikeo]

You are definitely not useless, Folax! Thanks!

Adapter0
279.6 Mh/s, Usage=98%, Fanspeed=80%, Temp=67.00C

Adapter1
279.5 Mh/s, Usage=99%, Fanspeed=70%, Temp=59.50C

The side of the case is open with a 12" personal fan on Low, 6" away blowing directly on the GPUs.

Very pleased.

NOW- I need to move on to remoting this machine as a headless miner.

I'm sure we can help you squeeze a lot more out of your cards ! I can squeeze about 313MHs out of my 5830's what miner you using and whats your clock setup etc ?

PS: Working on the website and going to try and get a wiki etc online

This is my startup routine:

To Start Mining:

Launch a Root Terminal

# cd /opt/miners/phoenix

# python phoenix.py -u http://USERNAME_miner0:PASSWORD@nl2.btcguild.com:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=9 WORKSIZE=128 DEVICE=0 FASTLOOP=false

Without closing Root Terminal #1, Launch Root Terminal #2

# cd opt/miners/phoenix

# python phoenix.py -u http://USERNAME_miner1:PASSWORD@nl2.btcguild.com:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=11 WORKSIZE=128 DEVICE=1 FASTLOOP=false


Using ATI OverDrive Control:


$ sudo -s

# aticonfig --od-enable

# aticonfig --odgc --adapter=0,1

# aticonfig --adapter=0,1 --odsc=900,300

# aticonfig --odcc --adaptor=0,1

# sleep 5 ; aticonfig --odgc --adpater=0,1

Do this twice, once for adapter=0 and once for adapter=1 if the arguement "0,1" or "all" doesn't work.


Set Fan Speeds:

GUI for device=0 you open by clicking the icon, GUI for device=1 you open by typing into a root terminal:

# AMDOverdriveCtrl -i=3

A new GUI will open for the 2nd GPU. Try loading the saved profiles into each GUI instance, otherwise manually adjust fanspeed.


I've noticed that if I set AGGRESSION on Adpater=0 to more than Adapter=1, Adapter=1 will slow radically and Usage will drop to ~30%, thus the settings above.

[Folax]

Did you try mem at 305/310 etc?
Could be your mem clock is holding back the GPU performance.

320-335 seems to be the sweet spot for my 5870s, you need to find yours.

[drgr33n]

Try this out

Code:

sudo su
aticonfig --od-enable
aticonfig  --odsc=990,300 --adapter=all
aticonfig --odcc --adapter=all
aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
DISPLAY=0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
./phoenix.py -u http://USERNAME_miner1:PASSWORD@nl2.btcguild.com:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=9 WORKSIZE=256 DEVICE=0 FASTLOOP=false -a 5
./phoenix.py -u http://USERNAME_miner1:PASSWORD@nl2.btcguild.com:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=13 WORKSIZE=256 DEVICE=1 FASTLOOP=false -a 5

Did you try mem at 305/310 etc?
Could be your mem clock is holding back the GPU performance.

320-335 seems to be the sweet spot for my 5870s, you need to find yours.

I don't think the clocks will make -+30MHs difference Those 5830's need to be whipped

[aerion]

Hi,

Is it possible to get hold of the source config for compiling the Linuxcoin liveCD there are a few things a would like to customize for myself.

So far LinuxCoin is the only distro that I have managed to get a Dual 6990 video cards working sucessfully, and I am interested to see what is different to say a install of Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 11.04, for which I cannot not get dual 6900 video cards working.

[drgr33n]

Hi,

Is it possible to get hold of the source config for compiling the Linuxcoin liveCD there are a few things a would like to customize for myself.

So far LinuxCoin is the only distro that I have managed to get a Dual 6990 video cards working sucessfully, and I am interested to see what is different to say a install of Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 11.04, for which I cannot not get dual 6900 video cards working.

There is no source config. It's been heavily customized by chrooting the filesystem and tweaking. 

[aerion]

There is no source config. It's been heavily customized by chrooting the filesystem and tweaking. 

I knew it was a long shot, but was hoping you used one of those Custom LiveCD creation tools

Anyway I guess I will have to just keep trying with this dual 6990 video card problem, I will probably just come back to LinuxCoin seeing as it works out of the box

[drgr33n]

There is no source config. It's been heavily customized by chrooting the filesystem and tweaking.  

I knew it was a long shot, but was hoping you used one of those Custom LiveCD creation tools

Anyway I guess I will have to just keep trying with this dual 6990 video card problem, I will probably just come back to LinuxCoin seeing as it works out of the box

LinuxCoin is the way If you do find something on your travels that will improve linuxcoin let me know and I'll add it to the next version.

I'm on the fence though. I like debian but its not my native linux distro. I use slackware and have done for years so i think to take linuxcoin to the next stage I might migrate over to slax and build the next livecd from scratch. This way I can add lots more security features and I can distribute updates etc via  a package manager I did look into creating debs but got about two paragraphs into the documentation, rolled a fattie and logged into facebook hahaha

These releases are far from final. To tell you the truth they were an experiment to test the water and to see if the bitcoin community was interested in a linux distro dedicated to bitcoin. I think the thread view count says it all there are lots of people interested  

I can create slackware packages with my eyes closed. I'm having a little break from linuxcoin and going to try and code up some sort of GUI for mining and some other nice bits of software.

These will be separate from the linuxcoin development but will be features added and also available for download to use with other linux distros.

[kgutteridge]

probably being daft but cant seem to get osx's disk utility or dd to restore this image to a usb disk, has anyone got any pointers?

[Tartarus]

probably being daft but cant seem to get osx's disk utility or dd to restore this image to a usb disk, has anyone got any pointers?

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download has instructions for taking a livecd image and putting it on a USB stick, even under OSX.  Haven't tried it myself however with a linuxcoin image but it should be the same steps.

[drgr33n]

probably being daft but cant seem to get osx's disk utility or dd to restore this image to a usb disk, has anyone got any pointers?

Guys everything need to do this really simple is included in linuxcoin. GParted will allow you to simply copy and paste partitions across drives. Next you want to restore the MBR to make your drive bootable. Fire up a terminal and to backup your MBR from the bootable drive

Code:

dd if=/dev/sdX of=backup-sdX.mbr count=1 bs=512

X = your drive letter WITHOUT THE PARTITION NUMBER

Save it where you like and after you've copied the partition across

Code:

dd if=backup-sdX.mbr of=/dev/sdX

Now your drive is bootable

I haven't tested this method but a friend just told me you can use sfdisk to clone a drive onto another. Apparently the thumb drives have to be exactly the same size though ?

Code:

sfdisk -d /dev/sdX < /dev/sdY

X = your master drive or the one you created
Y = your target drive

[mikeo]

Try this out

Code:

sudo su
aticonfig --od-enable
aticonfig  --odsc=990,300 --adapter=all
aticonfig --odcc --adapter=all
aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
DISPLAY=0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
./phoenix.py -u http://USERNAME_miner1:PASSWORD@nl2.btcguild.com:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=9 WORKSIZE=256 DEVICE=0 FASTLOOP=false -a 5
./phoenix.py -u http://USERNAME_miner1:PASSWORD@nl2.btcguild.com:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=13 WORKSIZE=256 DEVICE=1 FASTLOOP=false -a 5

Good call, that brought the 5830s up to:

Adapter0
311.1 Mh/s, Usage=98%, Fanspeed=80%, Temp=69.5C

Adapter1
314.4 Mh/s, Usage=99%, Fanspeed=80%, Temp=61.0C

I'll run then overnight and see if they remain stable. Thanks again!

[pdawg]

Try this out

Code:

sudo su
aticonfig --od-enable
aticonfig  --odsc=990,300 --adapter=all
aticonfig --odcc --adapter=all
aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
DISPLAY=0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
./phoenix.py -u http://USERNAME_miner1:PASSWORD@nl2.btcguild.com:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=9 WORKSIZE=256 DEVICE=0 FASTLOOP=false -a 5
./phoenix.py -u http://USERNAME_miner1:PASSWORD@nl2.btcguild.com:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=13 WORKSIZE=256 DEVICE=1 FASTLOOP=false -a 5

Thanks for this.  How do you set the fan speed for the other cards? aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80" only affects adapter=0  In my case I have 3 6870's.  I tried adpater flags but that didn't seem to work...

*EDIT*:  nevermind, it's been a while since I've been in a linux environment, but the cobwebs are slowly clearing.  I was going off of your example above, (DISPLAY=0.1) was missing the colon, so for myother 2 cards:

DISPLAY:=0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 70"
DISPLAY:=0.2 aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 70"

[drgr33n]

Try this out

Code:

sudo su
aticonfig --od-enable
aticonfig  --odsc=990,300 --adapter=all
aticonfig --odcc --adapter=all
aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
DISPLAY=0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
./phoenix.py -u http://USERNAME_miner1:PASSWORD@nl2.btcguild.com:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=9 WORKSIZE=256 DEVICE=0 FASTLOOP=false -a 5
./phoenix.py -u http://USERNAME_miner1:PASSWORD@nl2.btcguild.com:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=13 WORKSIZE=256 DEVICE=1 FASTLOOP=false -a 5

Thanks for this.  How do you set the fan speed for the other cards? aticonfig --pplib-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80" only affects adapter=0  In my case I have 3 6870's.  I tried adpater flags but that didn't seem to work...

For some reason pplib-cmd doesn't allow you to specify an adapter you have to run it on the display of choice. Thats why I add

DISPLAY=:0.1

to the next command. If you had four they would be listed as 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 so to set all of them at 80%

Code:

aticonfig --pplig-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
DISPLAY=:0.1 aticonfig --pplig-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
DISPLAY=:0.2 aticonfig --pplig-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"
DISPLAY=:0.3 aticonfig --pplig-cmd="set fanspeed 0 80"

[pdawg]

yeah see my edit above, Worked like a champ, thanks for the examples.  So I finally have my mem clocks down to 300 and my fans set....  Now my other question-  Where should i put these commands so all of this gets set on startup?  Can I cut and paste into /etc/rc.local?

*edit*: jaebird's post at  http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7374.msg312491#msg312491 helped me with my startup question.  Now just need to figure out how to get smartcoin to propoerly fire from that script and I will be good to go!

*edit*: stupid me, wasn't realizing the startup script was running as "user", a quick sudo did the trick!

[drgr33n]

Been working on the wiki and PXE stuff today and made good progress. I'm going to be releasing a new version of the pxe scripts with the following changes.

Can now be run without persistence (I didn't realize but I can use a symlink to the filesystem)
Sets up the dhcpd server properly
Sets up software watchdog & auto reboot

Also have a video coming out right after showing you how to setup the PXE server, nodes and adding monitoring your nodes via munin. I have some plugins that you can use to monitor GPU temps / fan speeds / load and your hashrate

Stand by for more info !!

[pdawg]

drgr33n, rock on!  LinuxCoin + SmartCoin makes for a sexy mining setup.

Things I noticed when messing with the ATI commands:

AMDOverdriveCtrl is pretty buggy.  the -b flag doesn't engage the custom fan profile in the .ovdr file.  Also, when creating a custom .ovdr profile, the clock setting would revert back to whatver default level was set in the gui.  Settling on aticonfig commands ended up being the way to go.

I gotta give a shout out to jaebird as well.  Very helpful posts on getting things rebooting and running on startup.  Look forward to future development.

[kripz]

What kernel is this running?