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

[Cassey]

I tried running mixed GPU and CPU mining in a single instance of bfgminer (-S opencl:auto -S cpu:auto --scrypt).  It appeared to be working fine with all devices found.

After running for 24 hours or so, I noticed the CPUs had not accepted a single share all all of them (across 4 machines) showed dozens of HW errors.  Not a single one had accepted a share.

I found that strange and thought it might be worth reporting.  Should be easy to repeat if anyone has any ideas. 

FYI - just looking to do this because 1)  It should work and 2)  It would be nice to have one less process to monitor (e.g. minerd).  I recognized that all of my CPUs combined don't come up to a single GPU, but that is not the point.

Thoughts?

[Mario241077]

hey luke,

i have 4 bifury sticks and want start one.
I use the following command line, just to bifury to start a stick, but it always restart all, this is a fault or am I doing something wrong?

bfgminer -o stratum.triplemining.com:3334 -u -p x -S bifury:\\.\COM15 -s 30 -Q 5 -E 60 --retries 1 --no-submit-stale --temp-target 100 --temp-cutoff 120

[povlhp]

I can't seem to limit my Antminer U1's speed any more.
It looks like the always goes to 2.1 GHh/s, no matter if I start them with 0781 or any other value. Then they overheat, and gets reconnected.

Any idea what can be wrong here ? I have 6 devices connected to a 10 port hub, powered by a 5V, 4A PSU brick. Even if I disable 2 of them in bfgminer I have the same problem.

[HellDiverUK]

I can't seem to limit my Antminer U1's speed any more.
It looks like the always goes to 2.1 GHh/s, no matter if I start them with 0781 or any other value. Then they overheat, and gets reconnected.

Any idea what can be wrong here ?

You need to fan cool the miners.

[BRADLEYPLOOF]

Presuming your running Linux, yeah, that should work from Root.  You may need to install a package to get lspci, but that is not as critical as the amdconfig (or aticonfig - they are the same).

So, last night, installed the aticonfig stuff, as well as the lspci.  Thought I configured everything correctly, but apparently I didnt'.  Now I get a black screen when I start my machine up saying the resolution is greater than 1280x1024.  I SSH'ed into it to try to change the settings, but still had no luck.  Maybe I'm just a squirrel, but I seem to have broken my machine...

[Cassey]

Sounds to me like X is finally running!  You need a windows manager, I use BlackBox when I need to test a Linux-QT wallet, but most of the time I just SSH in.

Good news, if you have X up, temperatures should start reporting.

[Cassey]

Could someone post a brief tutorial on the different multi-pool options in bfgminer?

In my case, I have (4) pools I want to divide my hash rate into.  Three of them are supporter of my coin, so to show them support, and do so evenly, I'm trying to pump work to each.  The Fourth is my "for profit" pool.

I figured "--balance" was the best, and although I normally see some hashes in each pool, per their "Dashboards" and "My Worker" screens, work seems to roll between them, almost in waves.  Not sure if that is bfgminer, or MPOS reporting though.

I'm clueless how "--quota" would work, but it sounds interesting.

I thought I might be able to do a "--pool-priority", setting them all the same, but not sure if that would accomplish anything.

"--rotate" appears like it would do the job, but would spike each pool in turn, and I'd prefer to give each an even load.

And there there are more complex thoughts, like running bfgminer in a loop and use "--shares" to force balancing (and/or favor my fourth pool a bit with say, half, of the shares)

Of the (5) mining machines I'm working with, they vary from single GPU to triple GPU, and I'd really like to have them setup pretty much the same.  e.g.  Not running multiple  instances of bfgminer and dedicating GPUs to pools.

Any thoughts?

[Blueman666]

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

[darkfriend77]

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

+1

very interested in this.

[ManeBjorn]

I know that they are working on DualMiner support right now so hopefully the five chip units as well.
nwools has already shown some screen shots over in the MultiMiner thread about it.
I'm looking forward to it.

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

[nwoolls]

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

+1

very interested in this.

Support for the single-chip thumbs is completed and submitted to Luke as a pull-request for 4.0:

https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/dualminer-support

Support for the 5-chip miners is under way as well.

[rmolby]

I can't seem to limit my Antminer U1's speed any more.
It looks like the always goes to 2.1 GHh/s, no matter if I start them with 0781 or any other value. Then they overheat, and gets reconnected.

Any idea what can be wrong here ? I have 6 devices connected to a 10 port hub, powered by a 5V, 4A PSU brick. Even if I disable 2 of them in bfgminer I have the same problem.

Check to see if you have a bfgminer.conf in the same directory as the bfg application.

If you do, you must have save the configuration at one point or another...

If so, you then have two options:

• Make your configuration changes in the .conf file or
• Delete the .conf file and work from your command line or batch file

I personally work from the .conf file

[maardein]

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

+1

very interested in this.

Support for the single-chip thumbs is completed and submitted to Luke as a pull-request for 4.0:

https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/dualminer-support

Support for the 5-chip miners is under way as well.

That's great news!

[rammy2k2]

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

+1

very interested in this.

Support for the single-chip thumbs is completed and submitted to Luke as a pull-request for 4.0:

https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/dualminer-support

Support for the 5-chip miners is under way as well.

That's great news!

super good news !!!

[asiabtc]

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

+1

very interested in this.

Support for the single-chip thumbs is completed and submitted to Luke as a pull-request for 4.0:

https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/dualminer-support

Support for the 5-chip miners is under way as well.

That's great news!

super good news !!!

hi, nwools,
thats great news.
thanks a lot for ur great works.if need any support, just let me know.
Jack.

[chMiner]

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

+1

very interested in this.

Support for the single-chip thumbs is completed and submitted to Luke as a pull-request for 4.0:

https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/dualminer-support

Support for the 5-chip miners is under way as well.

Very nice nwoolls. Thanks for that.

[dloganbill]

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

+1

very interested in this.

Support for the single-chip thumbs is completed and submitted to Luke as a pull-request for 4.0:

https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/dualminer-support

Support for the 5-chip miners is under way as well.

Very nice nwoolls. Thanks for that.

Great!  Keep us posted!

[philipma1957]

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

+1

very interested in this.

Support for the single-chip thumbs is completed and submitted to Luke as a pull-request for 4.0:

https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/dualminer-support

Support for the 5-chip miners is under way as well.

this is good news.
  I have a  300 dollar brick as I am just not in the mood to spend a day or 2 to get it to work.
 I got one from lightning asic. 

 I am looking to run just the one 5 chipper.

[Blackbird0]

Stupid question.

Running BFGMiner on Raspberry Pi. How do I clear my conf file? I accidentally wrote some settings to a configuration file, and now I want it back to default. How do I do that?

[edit]Found it. Sucker is in hidden file ".bfgminer" on my root.

[wolfey2014]

Luke are you considering adding support for the gridseed 5 chip miner?

It is selling like hotcakes but has rather poor software support. bfgminer would be magic...

+1

very interested in this.

Support for the single-chip thumbs is completed and submitted to Luke as a pull-request for 4.0:

https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/dualminer-support

Support for the 5-chip miners is under way as well.

Just found this post. This is great! Down loaded and looked over bgminer's readme files and so on.
Even tried to run it just for the heck of it. Doesn't see my 5 chip GC3355 miners though ;(
Guess it's not going to either but I don't understand why it shut down right after I try to enter M+ in order to add my miners to the list.... What am I doing wrong? I tried cntrl and Alt M+ but that doesn't work.
I have them all powered up, and connected via USB hub to my XP laptop.
Just need the software to run them.
I see you're working on support for the 5 chips which is fantastic.
In looking over your program, it looks very good! I see you've put a lot into building it. Must appreciated.
Do you need any beta testers for your 5 chip version? I'd be happy to assist and be one of your testers.
Please let me know as soon as your program is ready!
Thanks
wolfey2014