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dE_logics Advocate
Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2253 Location: $TERM
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:45 am Post subject: Any one mining scrypt based coins? |
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This turned out be a MAJOR pain in the butt.
bfgminer under Windows works well, but it returns 100% hardware errors on Gentoo. Now I'm trying Debian.
I tried reaper, but it cant connect to the wallets --
Code: | 2013-12-21 10:34:54 Could not connect. Server down?
2013-12-21 10:34:54 Couldn't connect to server. Trying again in a few seconds...
2013-12-21 10:35:01 Could not connect. Server down? |
Anyone successful with this? I'm running fglrx 13.11_beta6. _________________ My blog |
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soka Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 99 Location: Argentina
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using cgminer-3.7.2 and ati-drivers-13.11_beta6. |
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dE_logics Advocate
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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soka wrote: | I'm using cgminer-3.7.2 and ati-drivers-13.11_beta6. |
WHY ME??!!??
Command arguments to cgminer? _________________ My blog |
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szatox Advocate
Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3103
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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I've decided to test it with bfgminer-3.5.1 (accept keywords ~<arch>, stable has different command line), allows mining on both, CPU and GPU. Either ati or nvidia, I think it requires prop drivers for OCL support though. (cpu mining has really poor performace compared to gpu)
Quote: | bfgminer -o http://localhost:8332 -u "username for logging to your bitcoin client" -p "long, random password you don't have to remember" --coinbase-addr "bitcoin address here, you can have many, but only paste one" --coinbase-sig "some arbitraty string making this config unique" | params should also work with cgminer
pay attention to text appearing at th ebegining, it might report errors you will not consider errrors until you read it carefully.
Once you deal with errors you can write config to file and drop launcher. |
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dE_logics Advocate
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Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:38 am Post subject: |
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You're using sha256 or scrypt? _________________ My blog |
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soka Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 99 Location: Argentina
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Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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dE_logics wrote: | soka wrote: | I'm using cgminer-3.7.2 and ati-drivers-13.11_beta6. |
WHY ME??!!??
Command arguments to cgminer? |
In a 3 card mining rig where gpu0 is a 7970, gpu1 a 7950 and gpu2 a 5850 I'm using the following script
Code: | #!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://ltc.give-me-coins.com:3334 -u user -p pass -d 0 -d 1 -d 2 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 0-95,0-85,0-85 --gpu-engine 985,1050,775 --gpu-memclock 1575,1500,1000 --temp-target 80 -I 20,20,18 --thread-concurrency 22400,21712,6144 |
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Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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I'm getting hardware errors cpu mining in bfgminer.
-o localhost:9007 -u xxxx -p xxxxxx --scrypt
solo mining low difficulty alts for testing. _________________ My blog |
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MarcoMarin Apprentice
Joined: 12 Mar 2014 Posts: 151
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Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Hey guys, if you're still interested in this, I learned a trick here (H/T to TomWij) to install the right version of stuff:
Code: | emerge -a =net-misc/cgminer-3.7.2 |
and as you know, version 3.7.2 is the last one to support scrypt. (also, typing only =cgminer-3.7.2 will work as well, I dunno why it's not on net-p2p anyway )
You must not forget to add scrypt and opencl to /etc/portage/package.use
Code: | =net-misc/cgminer-3.7.2 opencl scrypt |
I've forgot at first to add scrypt (I thought it was default) and cgminer would not even start complaining it was not a valid option. So I had to rebuild it. Perhaps some other option like this was the problem there, dE_logics? (maybe opencl itself, use emerge -pv to make it list them all)
otherwise are you sure your driver and opengl are working properly? did you test glxinfo and glxgears? also remember to eselect opengl list and then set your driver there. You must also start X with your card's driver set at /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Of course, this all assumes you've compiled your kernel with support for your card and it shows the correct driver being used under lspci -k
those were the things needed to make it work here. : ) |
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