OLD: BFGMiner 3.10.0: modular ASIC+FPGA, GBT+Strtm, RPC, Mac/Lnx/W64, AntU1, DRB

[Taugeran]

If you run BFGMiner with --scrypt, the only .cl file it actually makes use of is scrypt130511.cl, right?

Are diablo, poclbm, phatk and diakgcn only for SHA256?(or at least not for scrypt)

Correct and correct

[ewibit]

BFGMiner with BFL LS
for [F]an control

Code:

[D]isable [I]dentify [F]an control
Or press Enter when done
ERR:UNKNOWN COMMAND

[Luke-Jr]

BFGMiner with BFL LS
for [F]an control

Code:

[D]isable [I]dentify [F]an control
Or press Enter when done
ERR:UNKNOWN COMMAND

It's disabled on current firmwares

[movellan]

Can 314 be configured to display BE's in multiple columns? TIA.

[dooglio]

Hello,

I run a linux Ubuntu Quantal 64-bit system. I compiled BFGMiner from the git archive. When I try to get the miner to detect my Block Erupter USB, it doesn't report that anything is available. I tried "-S all" and it refuses to detect anything except my CPU.

Here is some diagnostic output:

$ ./bfgminer -D -T -d? -S all
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Timers: Using clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW)                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] setrlimit: Increased soft fd limit from 1024 to hard limit of 4096                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Started bfgminer 3.1.4                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Loaded configuration file /home/doug/.cgminer/cgminer.conf                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 05e3:0608 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 045e:0040 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 045e:00db - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0002 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0001 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0001 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0001 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0001 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0001 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 05e3:0608 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] ft232r_scan: Found 10c4:ea60 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 05e3:0608                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 045e:0040                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 045e:00db                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0002                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0001                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0001                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0001                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0001                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0001                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 05e3:0608                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Not a ZTEX device 10c4:ea60                    
 [2013-08-20 00:02:25] Devices detected:                    
0 devices listed

lsusb gives:

Bus 001 Device 059: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light

Any ideas?

Edit: cgminer detects the device fine and works correctly.

PS: here is the configure output:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
bfgminer 3.1.4
------------------------------------------------------------------------


Configuration Options Summary:

  curses.TUI...........: FOUND: ncurses5
  scrypt...............: Disabled

  OpenCL...............: Enabled
    sensors.monitoring.: Enabled
    ADL.monitoring.....: Enabled
  Avalon.ASICs.........: Enabled
  BitForce.devices.....: Enabled
  Icarus.FPGAs.........: Enabled
  ModMiner.FPGAs.......: Enabled
  X6500.FPGAs..........: Enabled
  ZTEX.FPGAs...........: Enabled
  libudev.detection....: yes

  CPU Mining...........: Disabled

Compilation............: make (or gmake)
  CPPFLAGS.............: -pthread
  CFLAGS...............: -g -O2 -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0 -pthread
  LDFLAGS..............: -pthread -lpthread
  LDADD................: -lrt -ldl -lcurl -ljansson -lncurses -ltinfo -lm -ludev -lusb-1.0

Installation...........: make install (as root if needed, with 'su' or 'sudo')
  prefix...............: /usr/local

[Nemo1024]

Trying to move from cgminer to bfgminer with 60 BE stick farm.

Initial test with 2 sticks does not look promising.

CGminer works fine:

Code:

 cgminer version 3.3.4 - Started: [2013-08-20 09:43:02]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):551.6M (avg):654.7Mh/s | A:3  R:1  HW:4  WU:9.1/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 2  LW: 139  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to us1.bitminter.com diff 16 with stratum as user XXXXXXXXXX
 Block: 002dd3969ec67f94...  Diff:50.8M  Started: [09:45:40]  Best share: 51
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 AMU 0:                | 324.2M/334.8Mh/s | A:16 R:0 HW:2 WU: 4.5/m
 AMU 1:                | 334.3M/327.3Mh/s | A: 3 R:0 HW:2 WU: 4.7/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2013-08-20 09:42:56] Started cgminer 3.3.4
 [2013-08-20 09:43:11] Accepted 54bdc722 Diff 3/1 AMU 1
 [2013-08-20 09:43:25] Accepted 9e2b797a Diff 1/1 AMU 1
 [2013-08-20 09:43:29] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 16
 [2013-08-20 09:43:35] Accepted f4091465 Diff 1/1 AMU 1
 [2013-08-20 09:45:40] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2013-08-20 09:50:07] Accepted 04fd50f1 Diff 51/16 AMU 0

While Bfgminer 3.1.4 (both 32 and 64 Windows builds) don't see the sticks:

bfgminer -S opencl:noauto -S all  gives:

Code:

bfgminer version 3.1.4 - Started: [2013-08-20 09:53:51] - [  0 days 00:00:10]
[M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
Connected to us1.bitminter.com diff 16 with stratum as user XXXXXXXXX
Block: ...fbecd018 #253160  Diff:50.8M (363.7Th/s)  Started: [22:08:53]
ST:2  F:0  NB:1  AS:0  BW:[ 46/  0kB/s]  E:0.00  U:0.0/m  BS:0
0             │   0.0/  0.0/  0.0 h/s │ A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
──────────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────
MMQ 0:        │ DEAD /  0.0/  0.0 h/s │ A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
──────────────┴───────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────
[2013-08-20 09:53:40] Started bfgminer 3.1.4
[2013-08-20 09:53:47] Probing for an alive pool
[2013-08-20 09:53:50] Switching pool 0 http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 to stratum+tcp://us1.bitminter.com:3333
[2013-08-20 09:53:51] Network difficulty changed to 50.8M (363.7Th/s)
[2013-08-20 09:53:51] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2013-08-20 09:53:51] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us
[2013-08-20 09:53:53] MMQ 0a: Error reading (read USER code)
[2013-08-20 09:53:53] MMQ 0b failure, exiting
[2013-08-20 09:53:53] MMQ 0a failure, exiting
[2013-08-20 09:53:55] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update

[movellan]

Did you install the SiLabs drivers?

[Nemo1024]

Um, I installed the USB to UART (WinUSB) drivers, using zadig utility. That's why cgminer is working. Does BFGminer expect a different set of drivers?

[Luke-Jr]

I run a linux Ubuntu Quantal 64-bit system. I compiled BFGMiner from the git archive. When I try to get the miner to detect my Block Erupter USB, it doesn't report that anything is available. I tried "-S all" and it refuses to detect anything except my CPU.

First, be sure you have rebooted or replugged the device after running cgminer, if you have run it (it corrupts the driver).
If that's not the problem, try the command in README:

Code:

sudo modprobe cp210x   vendor=0x10c4 product=0xea60

Finally, if it still doesn't show up, please post the output from:

Code:

lsusb -vv
ls /dev/ttyUSB*
lsmod
dmesg

[movellan]

Um, I installed the USB to UART (WinUSB) drivers, using zadig utility. That's why cgminer is working. Does BFGminer expect a different set of drivers?

Yes. You will have to uninstall the WinUSB drivers, reboot, and install the SiLabs drivers for BFGMiner to work. If you will be running 60 BE units, use the 64-bit version if your machine is set up for it. All your hubs should be sufficiently powered and preferably USB 3.0

[Luke-Jr]

Um, I installed the USB to UART (WinUSB) drivers, using zadig utility. That's why cgminer is working. Does BFGminer expect a different set of drivers?

Yes, BFGMiner works with the standard drivers.
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx

[movellan]

Um, I installed the USB to UART (WinUSB) drivers, using zadig utility. That's why cgminer is working. Does BFGminer expect a different set of drivers?

Yes, BFGMiner works with the standard drivers.
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx

Did that change recently? I recall you mentioning in an earlier version that the Zadig drivers would "break" BFGMiner.

[Luke-Jr]

Um, I installed the USB to UART (WinUSB) drivers, using zadig utility. That's why cgminer is working. Does BFGminer expect a different set of drivers?

Yes, BFGMiner works with the standard drivers.
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx

Did that change recently? I recall you mentioning in an earlier version that the Zadig drivers would "break" BFGMiner.

The Zadig drivers are non-standard. Since Windows doesn't allow two drivers to be installed, Zadig removes the standard ones, thus breaking BFGMiner (and anything else that works with it normally).

[Nemo1024]

It's working, thanks:

Code:

 bfgminer version 3.1.4 - Started: [2013-08-20 14:42:38] - [  0 days 00:00:16]
 [M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
 Connected to us1.bitminter.com diff 1 with stratum as user XXXXXXXXX
 Block: ...67f2214d #253200  Diff:50.8M (363.7Th/s)  Started: [02:57:38]
 ST:2  F:0  NB:1  AS:0  BW:[  3/  0kB/s]  E:0.10  U:10.1/m  BS:4
 2             │ 539.3/609.0/721.1Mh/s │ A:2 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
───────────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────
 ICA 0:        │ 276.4/300.3/270.4Mh/s │ A:1 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
 ICA 1:        │ 253.0/275.8/270.6Mh/s │ A:1 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
 MMQ 0:        │ DEAD /  0.0/  0.0 h/s │ A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
───────────────┴───────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────
 [2013-08-20 14:42:28] Started bfgminer 3.1.4
 [2013-08-20 14:42:35] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-08-20 14:42:37] Switching pool 0 http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 to stratum+tcp://us1.bitminter.com:3333
 [2013-08-20 14:42:38] Network difficulty changed to 50.8M (363.7Th/s)
 [2013-08-20 14:42:38] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2013-08-20 14:42:38] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us
 [2013-08-20 14:42:41] MMQ 0a: Error reading (read USER code)
 [2013-08-20 14:42:41] MMQ 0b failure, exiting
 [2013-08-20 14:42:41] MMQ 0a failure, exiting
 [2013-08-20 14:42:42] ICA 0: Seems too slow to be an Icarus; calibrating with short timing
 [2013-08-20 14:42:42] Accepted 94b38c7b ICA 0  Diff 1/1
 [2013-08-20 14:42:45] ICA 1: Seems too slow to be an Icarus; calibrating with short timing
 [2013-08-20 14:42:46] Accepted 35a6af57 ICA 1  Diff 4/1

A question, though. What's that DEAD MMQ? I only have 2 Block Erupters running on this system.

[Luke-Jr]

A question, though. What's that DEAD MMQ? I only have 2 Block Erupters running on this system.

Using -S erupter:all ?

Side note: any idea what other serial device is in your PC?

[Nemo1024]

A question, though. What's that DEAD MMQ? I only have 2 Block Erupters running on this system.

Using -S erupter:all ?

Side note: any idea what other serial device is in your PC?

Ah, no. Just -S opencl:noauto -S all

Using erupter:all fixed this (in addition to showing BES instead of ICA, and Identify appearing in the Manage list). Other devices are: mouse, keyboard, webcam, iPhone, internal cardreader, internal docking hub.

[Luke-Jr]

A question, though. What's that DEAD MMQ? I only have 2 Block Erupters running on this system.

Using -S erupter:all ?

Side note: any idea what other serial device is in your PC?

Ah, no. Just -S opencl:noauto -S all

Using erupter:all fixed this (in addition to showing BES instead of ICA, and Identify appearing in the Manage list). Other devices are: mouse, keyboard, webcam, iPhone, internal cardreader, internal docking hub.

hmm, I wonder if iPhone appears as a MMQ somehow...

[vulgartrendkill]

quick question Luke,

I`ve set up my BFG just how I like it, and saved a config with default name, however when i restart bfg it still comes up with the pools I want to remove.

any ideas?

[Taugeran]

quick question Luke,

I`ve set up my BFG just how I like it, and saved a config with default name, however when i restart bfg it still comes up with the pools I want to remove.

any ideas?

bfgminer 3.1.4 changed the default storage location for the bfgminer.conf file.

windows or linux?

[-Redacted-]

quick question Luke,

I`ve set up my BFG just how I like it, and saved a config with default name, however when i restart bfg it still comes up with the pools I want to remove.

any ideas?

Do [ P ]ool [ R ]emove of the ones you don't want  followed by [ S ]ettings [ W ]rite