Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 Mining Guide / HOWTO

[billywilly]

have 2 6990's  , waiting to updated guide :/

[Inaba]

I'm going to redo the whole guide here shortly.  Been getting pushpoold running and I'm building out a pool on one of my systems and it's been taking a lot of my spare time.

I'll try to have an updated guide in the next day or so.

[Internet151]

I'm going to redo the whole guide here shortly.  Been getting pushpoold running and I'm building out a pool on one of my systems and it's been taking a lot of my spare time.

I'll try to have an updated guide in the next day or so.

I'm really looking forward to your updated guide, as I can't get linuxcoin working either.

[freecoin]

You should now have a fully functional Ubuntu 11.04 mining rig with Phoenix and poclbm installed.

Thanks for that.  Looks like I got everything installed.  Just now realizing why you didn't include Bitcoin in the guide - it's not necessary for mining in a pool (RPC).

Is there any way to test my GPU hash rate without a pool?  I installed Bitcoin using the guide here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6299.40 and I created the bitcoin.conf file but I cannot get solo GPU mining to work.  Just want to test out these GPUs.  

./poclbm.py
No device specified or device not found, use -d to specify one of the following

[ 0]   Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         920  @ 2.67GHz
[1]   Cypress
[2]   Cypress

$ ./poclbm.py -d 2 --user user --pass password
Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC

phoenix$ ./phoenix.py -u http://user:password@192.168.1.2:8332 -k poclbm DEVICE=1
[14/05/2011 16:01:57] Phoenix r76 starting...
[14/05/2011 16:02:00] Failed to connect, retrying...
[14/05/2011 16:02:18] Failed to connect, retrying...
[0 Khash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC]

Specs:
Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit, Radeon 5970

[ryepdx]

I followed your guide in a clean install of Ubuntu 32-bit, using the 32-bit ATI Stream SDK instead of the 64-bit, but Poclbm won't show either of my 6690s. Aticonfig shows them, so I know they're there and hooked up correctly. Any hints?

Thanks. :-)

[foggyb]

Please show guide for solo mining also! Thanks! 

[chungenhung]

Got error on Step 22.

Code:

lester@Comp005:~/pyopencl-0.92$ make -j3
ctags -R src || true
/bin/sh: ctags: not found
/usr/bin/python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building '_cl' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wall -O3 -DNDEBUG -fPIC -DBOOST_MULTI_INDEX_DISABLE_SERIALIZATION=1 -Isrc/cpp -Ibpl-subset/bpl_subset -I/opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/include/ -I/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/core/include -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/wrapper/wrap_cl.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/wrapper/wrap_cl.o
In file included from src/wrapper/wrap_cl.cpp:1:0:
src/wrapper/wrap_cl.hpp:20:19: fatal error: CL/cl.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
make: *** [all] Error 1
lester@Comp005:~/pyopencl-0.92$

What is wrong here?

[ryepdx]

Wow, I feel like a n00b. I followed your guide to a T, but ATI Stream SDK 2.1 does not support the 6990. I changed that to SDK 2.3 and now everything's working fine. :-)

[jasonk]

Why doesn't someone compile a custom Ubuntu Bitcoin Mining package with all steps (or most steps at least) already done?

I'm sure many people would be happy, and tip the person that makes the package.

[ryepdx]

Why doesn't someone compile a custom Ubuntu Bitcoin Mining package with all steps (or most steps at least) already done?

I'm sure many people would be happy, and tip the person that makes the package.

Tip away: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7374.0

[Inaba]

Why doesn't someone compile a custom Ubuntu Bitcoin Mining package with all steps (or most steps at least) already done?

I'm sure many people would be happy, and tip the person that makes the package.

Tip away: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7374.0

There are so many things wrong with that distro as to be practically unusable.  It's a good start but it's not anywhere near ready for "production."

It actually takes longer and is harder to setup than a fresh manual Ubuntu install.

[JorgePasada]

Btw, instead of exporting your library path, it's probably better to add the config file for those paths to /etc/ld.so.conf.d, then they are applied globally to all accounts.

How does one do this?

[JorgePasada]

Just finished following this guide to the best of my ability, using SDK 2.4 instead of 2.3.

I got this error upon trying to run polbcm.py

Code:

bitcoin@bitcoin:~/poclbm$ ./poclbm.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./poclbm.py", line 27, in <module>
    platforms = cl.get_platforms()
pyopencl.LogicError: clGetPlatformIDs failed: invalid/unknown error code

Any help?

[dpc]

After using SDK 2.3 instead of 2.1 everything works and I'm now a happy miner with ~155Mhash/s.

[JorgePasada]

I just got this working with SDK 2.4, haven't optimized or overclocked yet. Getting Modest #'s.

5970's are at 305 and 5850's are at 260-ish.

[elrock]

I just got this working with SDK 2.4, haven't optimized or overclocked yet. Getting Modest #'s.

5970's are at 305 and 5850's are at 260-ish.

How did you get SDK 2.4 to work?  I am getting the same error message as you were and I haven't figured out how to fix it yet.

[Inaba]

I updated the guide to a more streamlined version the install.  It's still based around v2.1... I don't really have any 6xxx cards to test out the 2.4 SDK.

[csshih]

Code:

9. screen -d -m -S stream wget http://download2-developer.amd.com/amd/Stream20GA/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgz9. sudo tar xvfz ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgz -C /opt

whoops! I think I see a mistake.

Code:

9. screen -d -m -S stream wget http://download2-developer.amd.com/amd/Stream20GA/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgz
9a(or something). sudo tar xvfz ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgz -C /opt

Is this what you mean?

oh, you did it again here

Code:

28. chmod +x phoenix/phoenix.py poclbm/poclbm.py5. sudo aticonfig --initial -f --adapter=all

do this instead

Code:

28. chmod +x phoenix/phoenix.py poclbm/poclbm.py
28a. sudo aticonfig --initial -f --adapter=all

just making sure the noobs don't get confused.

edit: oh wait you got it !

[Inaba]

Whoops, yeah it's fixed now! Thanks!

[de4l]

I'm getting hung up on step 25: make -j3

if someone could give me a hand I'd appreciate it, trying to make something that works better until/if linuxcoin gets fixed

this is the error I get

Code:

In file included from bpl-subset/bpl_subset/boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp:13:0,
                 from bpl-subset/bpl_subset/boost/python/slice.hpp:9,
                 from src/wrapper/wrap_cl.hpp:41,
                 from src/wrapper/wrap_cl.cpp:1:
bpl-subset/bpl_subset/boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:75:24: fatal error: patchlevel.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
make: *** [all] Error 1
root@ubuntu:~/pyopencl-0.92#

ps. could this have anything to do with it?

Code:

E: Unable to locate package libboost-all-dev