OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.1

[os2sam]

You should never need to touch the queue setting when mining at a stratum pool no matter what the hashrate.

Deepbit doesn't use stratum, yet.  Increasing the queue does seem to help there and with solo mining.

[os2sam]

Just a thought, have you tried running 30 in one instance of cgminer and the other 30 in a second instance?

60 USB Miners work 61 does not.  It doesn't matter how you split them up in multiple instances.  If I plug in 61 devices and start CGMiner it says no USB Devices found.  If I remove one then it takes off and starts mining.  So I seem to max out with 59 BE's in one instance and 1 Jalapeno in another.

Thanks,
Sam

[gnar1ta$]

Anyone know why KLN devices would show up but mine at 0 on latest Ubuntu?  Sometimes they work, but mostly not. I'll have a few up then restart cgminer or the computer and then different ones will be at 0. Annoying.

[-ck]

Anyone know why KLN devices would show up but mine at 0 on latest Ubuntu?  Sometimes they work, but mostly not. I'll have a few up then restart cgminer or the computer and then different ones will be at 0. Annoying.

Power?

[gnar1ta$]

Anyone know why KLN devices would show up but mine at 0 on latest Ubuntu?  Sometimes they work, but mostly not. I'll have a few up then restart cgminer or the computer and then different ones will be at 0. Annoying.

Power?

Yeah that would make sense, so I've tried with different hubs and power setups and get the same results. So, since they are in Florida, and there is always plenty of lightning, I'm going to try that as a power source next. At least that will be entertaining 

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=326985.0

[-ck]

Anyone know why KLN devices would show up but mine at 0 on latest Ubuntu?  Sometimes they work, but mostly not. I'll have a few up then restart cgminer or the computer and then different ones will be at 0. Annoying.

Power?

Yeah that would make sense, so I've tried with different hubs and power setups and get the same results. So, since they are in Florida, and there is always plenty of lightning, I'm going to try that as a power source next. At least that will be entertaining 

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=326985.0

Hmm that might just give them enough power to recoup their costs.

[Gixer1970]

So is it there fore possible to queue work independant to each pool in the bat file instead as a whole ? I was unaware this could be done. I will give it a go and see if it is possible.
Many thanks.

[-ck]

I keep getting asked about the HEX16A driver. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, neither I nor Kano have one so we're not writing drivers for them, and no active maintainer has stepped up to try to push code to us and have us audit that the code is satisfactory enough to include, so there will be no driver for it for the foreseeable future.

[Askit2]

So is it there fore possible to queue work independant to each pool in the bat file instead as a whole ? I was unaware this could be done. I will give it a go and see if it is possible.
Many thanks.

Sorry I mis-typed. I ment Quota. I am sorry for the confusion I will undoubtedly cause. The post was edited to fix my mistake.

[branehans]

Absolutely the best on the market for now

[fydel]

Does sgminer run with Nanofury NF1 USB-sticks?

If yes - how can i get it to work?

No

No chance you will implement nanofury support in the near future?

I really don't want to use the evil twin of cgminer. 

[-ck]

Does sgminer run with Nanofury NF1 USB-sticks?

If yes - how can i get it to work?

No

No chance you will implement nanofury support in the near future?

I really don't want to use the evil twin of cgminer. 

I'll be sent one in the future, and then a driver will be developed for it. No idea of timeframe.

[dragon695]

Thanks for the work on fixing scrypt share difficulty. For the most part, it has been working fine. However, I've been having issues with Novacoin p2pools.

I have been mining Novacoin through stratum p2pool at http://fsb4000.no-ip.biz:8336. It requires a public key (instead of the usual wallet address) for the username, check the Novacoin altcoin thread for further details.

I am using Xubuntu 13.10 on amd64 with 3 Sapphire 7950s using fglrx-updates 2:13.101-0ubuntu3 and gcc 4:4.8.1-2ubuntu3.

It more or less works nicely at git revision 8e5dc21ea68d3ec4198e577a1073a32fcddcbcb9, generating shares as expected and finally reporting >0 stats. However, it spams about finding blocks, which is wrong, but that is only a minor annoyance.

Pulling past that point results in core dumps, except in the case of the very latest pulls, which--for Novacoin p2pools only--results in 100% false positives for hardware errors on all GPUS. hard resetting back to 8e5dc21ea68d3ec4198e577a1073a32fcddcbcb9 yields a working cgminer for Novacoin p2pools).

Here is the output of cgminer compiled from the latest git pull on the aforementioned Novacoin p2pool:

Code:

 [2013-11-08 14:43:52] Started cgminer 3.7.2
 [2013-11-08 14:43:54] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-11-08 14:43:55] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 0.000697
 [2013-11-08 14:43:56] Network diff set to 313
 [2013-11-08 14:43:56] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2013-11-08 14:43:59] GPU2: invalid nonce count - HW error
 [2013-11-08 14:43:59] GPU1: invalid nonce count - HW error
 [2013-11-08 14:43:59] GPU0: invalid nonce count - HW error
 [2013-11-08 14:44:01] GPU2: invalid nonce count - HW error
 [2013-11-08 14:44:01] GPU0: invalid nonce count - HW error
 [2013-11-08 14:44:01] GPU1: invalid nonce count - HW error

The output continues with not a single good share being accepted.

I suspect the issue has to do with the share difficulty being very low, but that is how they (the Novacoin developers) want the p2pool configured. I will continue to use 8e5dc21ea68d3ec4198e577a1073a32fcddcbcb9 as it seems to work well enough, but hopefully this can be resolved in future cgminers.

[-ck]

Scrypt and opencl support is being deprecated in the near future, and development for other coins is not going to happen, so sorry but there is no plan for improving support for other coins.

[Polyatomic]

Just a thought, have you tried running 30 in one instance of cgminer and the other 30 in a second instance?

60 USB Miners work 61 does not.  It doesn't matter how you split them up in multiple instances.  If I plug in 61 devices and start CGMiner it says no USB Devices found.  If I remove one then it takes off and starts mining.  So I seem to max out with 59 BE's in one instance and 1 Jalapeno in another.

Thanks,
Sam

os2sam: What operating system ?. There was a fella on irc talking to conman who is able to run 243 AMUs on one instance of cgminer.

[dragon695]

Scrypt and opencl support is being deprecated in the near future, and development for other coins is not going to happen, so sorry but there is no plan for improving support for other coins.

Might as well rename it assminer then.  

Seriously, though, mining BTC is dead for most except those lucky enough to have lots of BTC already or lots of disposable income to waste on over-priced embedded junk. Oh well, guess that's my problem.

I don't see why you drop scrypt, but that's your choice. No point in donating now, I suppose.

[sharky112065]

Scrypt and opencl support is being deprecated in the near future, and development for other coins is not going to happen, so sorry but there is no plan for improving support for other coins.

Might as well rename it assminer then.  

Seriously, though, mining BTC is dead for most except those lucky enough to have lots of BTC already or lots of disposable income to waste on over-priced embedded junk. Oh well, guess that's my problem.

I don't see why you drop scrypt, but that's your choice. No point in donating now, I suppose.

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one."

He is not getting any substantial donations to maintain the scrypt code and GPU mining is pretty much dead.

It is the correct decision IMO.

[dragon695]

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one."

He is not getting any substantial donations to maintain the scrypt code and GPU mining is pretty much dead.

It is the correct decision IMO.

Are you seriously suggesting that nobody is mining altcoins? Just because GPU mining BTC isn't profitable doesn't mean shit. Hell, even with the drop in price, Litecoin mining can still net you a couple hundred a month with just two GPUs. Also, don't many ASIC miner rigs come with their own built-in mining software? Anyway, I highly doubt that maintaining and even tweaking scrypt support that is only a thousand lines of code is so arduous as to require substantial donations, but that is his choice. Someone will pick up the slack.

[-ck]

Someone will pick up the slack.

That would be fine by me. I write software either because I enjoy doing it, or I earn money for it, or both. I'm writing/maintaining cgminer because I believe in bitcoin and I like to earn bitcoin. I unashamedly wrote the scrypt support for a generous bitcoin fee a long time ago so it was purely for the payment. I have no interest in altcoins so someone else should be maintaining it. Just because others have an interest in altcoins doesn't mean that I have to.

[os2sam]

Just a thought, have you tried running 30 in one instance of cgminer and the other 30 in a second instance?

60 USB Miners work 61 does not.  It doesn't matter how you split them up in multiple instances.  If I plug in 61 devices and start CGMiner it says no USB Devices found.  If I remove one then it takes off and starts mining.  So I seem to max out with 59 BE's in one instance and 1 Jalapeno in another.

Thanks,
Sam

os2sam: What operating system ?. There was a fella on irc talking to conman who is able to run 243 AMUs on one instance of cgminer.

Win7 64 bit.