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

[Dunkelheit667]

Below the freq. table there is some additional information how to 'build your own' freq. hex values. Played around with the formular and found these values. Can confirm the additional mentioned 0801, 0901 and 0A01 working fine with Bitmain's cgminer fork, at least on my Antminers. Would be a pleasure testing a modified version (on a rpi or Windows PC) and reporting back.

Thanks I didn't know that. I meant for you to modify it and report back lol, but I will eventually get around to adding some more frequencies.

I'm sorry, got this wrong. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? I would like to modify the freq. table and code (guess some slight code changes will be required as the 0x81 seems to be hard coded) but have zero experience with the magic C. So would be great if a magician could pass by and apply some magic, was just a thought. Thank you for concidering some additional freq. values.

[kano]

Updated my Pi to 3.12.3 and it's not recognizing my U1s. My Jalapeño is still mining fine on the same USB hub, but the U1s are just giving me green lights every few seconds at the same time. They're not showing up in cgminer at all. Switched 'em back to my desktop and they're mining nicely, even at 275MHz.

Will most likely require a powered USB3 hub.
(when things don't show up it is usually not enough power to them)
 lsusb
and
 ./cgminer -n
Will list everything connected that it could possibly hotplug

I'm using the same hub in both locations. It's a Plugables USB 2.0 hub with a 3 amp power supply.

Right, so what do lsusb and ./cgminer -n say?
(Also note that the USB port on the RPi is far from the same as a USB port on most desktops)

[xsoft]

Can't compile under BAMT 1.2

(wget https://github.com/Eropi4/cgminer_keccak/archive/master.zip)
autogen, configure, make
ADL_lib added from previous cgminer 3.7.2

checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for windres... no
checking for inline... inline
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking operating system... Linux
checking for clock_gettime in -lrt... yes
./configure: line 11043: -pthread: command not found
checking libudev.h usability... no
checking libudev.h presence... no
checking for libudev.h... no
configure: error: "udev support requested but libudev not installed"
configure: error: ./configure failed for compat/libusb-1.0

I tried to Google for 2h, compile with a lot of compile parameters, lib include etc etc etc, but no succes.

Any guide where I can found keccak compiled version (bamt/debian), or how to fix this? Thx

[frederikhk]

my bi*fury will some times stay at 3 gh/s and sometimes 5 gh/s(As its advertised to) in cgminer. Is this a bug? firmware is updated

[Internet151]

So I recently tried updating cgminer on two of my windows machines from 3.12.0 to 3.12.3 that are connected to multiple hashfast babyjets, and whenever I try running 3.12.3 cgminer just crashes on startup, yet 3.12.0 works...

[-ck]

So I recently tried updating cgminer on two of my windows machines from 3.12.0 to 3.12.3 that are connected to multiple hashfast babyjets, and whenever I try running 3.12.3 cgminer just crashes on startup, yet 3.12.0 works...

I strongly advise people wait till they have new firmware as the new cgminer code is optimised around it and vice versa.

[Krak]

Right, so what do lsusb and ./cgminer -n say?
(Also note that the USB port on the RPi is far from the same as a USB port on most desktops)

lsusb:

Code:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0403:6014 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232H Single HS USB-UART/FIFO IC
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 1a40:0201 Terminus Technology Inc. FE 2.1 7-port Hub
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light
Bus 001 Device 012: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light
Bus 001 Device 013: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light
Bus 001 Device 014: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light

cgminer -n:

Code:

pi@raspberrypi ~/Desktop/cgminer $ ./cgminer -n --anu-freq 250
 [2014-02-09 13:13:08] USB all: found 9 devices - listing known devices
.USB dev 0: Bus 1 Device 14 ID: 10c4:ea60
  Manufacturer: 'Silicon Labs'
  Product: 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller'
.USB dev 1: Bus 1 Device 13 ID: 10c4:ea60
  Manufacturer: 'Silicon Labs'
  Product: 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller'
.USB dev 2: Bus 1 Device 12 ID: 10c4:ea60
  Manufacturer: 'Silicon Labs'
  Product: 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller'
.USB dev 3: Bus 1 Device 11 ID: 10c4:ea60
  Manufacturer: 'Silicon Labs'
  Product: 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller'
.USB dev 4: Bus 1 Device 4 ID: 0403:6014
  Manufacturer: 'Butterfly Labs'
  Product: 'BitFORCE SHA256 SC'                    
 [2014-02-09 13:13:08] 5 known USB devices

[Internet151]

So I recently tried updating cgminer on two of my windows machines from 3.12.0 to 3.12.3 that are connected to multiple hashfast babyjets, and whenever I try running 3.12.3 cgminer just crashes on startup, yet 3.12.0 works...

I strongly advise people wait till they have new firmware as the new cgminer code is optimised around it and vice versa.

Sorry keeping up with everything is hard sometimes.

When's the new firmware being released?

[-ck]

So I recently tried updating cgminer on two of my windows machines from 3.12.0 to 3.12.3 that are connected to multiple hashfast babyjets, and whenever I try running 3.12.3 cgminer just crashes on startup, yet 3.12.0 works...

I strongly advise people wait till they have new firmware as the new cgminer code is optimised around it and vice versa.

Sorry keeping up with everything is hard sometimes.

When's the new firmware being released?

That's okay. Firmware release is out of my domain and up to HF so no idea but hopefully very soon.

[techman05]

How high can these usb antminers go without going pop. The antminer guide shows 500 at 4GH. I've got them under a fan, can I really hit that or is that dead mans territory. How high can antminers be safely pushed. They don't have block eroupters bright green light to ward me of trouble.

[-ck]

How high can these usb antminers go without going pop. The antminer guide shows 500 at 4GH. I've got them under a fan, can I really hit that or is that dead mans territory. How high can antminers be safely pushed. They don't have block eroupters bright green light to ward me of trouble.

Heat's usually not the limiting factor. Without a hardware voltage mod you're unlikely to get them to 300 even.

[Krak]

How high can these usb antminers go without going pop. The antminer guide shows 500 at 4GH. I've got them under a fan, can I really hit that or is that dead mans territory. How high can antminers be safely pushed. They don't have block eroupters bright green light to ward me of trouble.

Mine get pretty iffy at 275MHz with lots of hardware errors and sporadic hashrate. I have them quite stable at 250MHz with a fan blowing over them.

[techman05]

How high can these usb antminers go without going pop. The antminer guide shows 500 at 4GH. I've got them under a fan, can I really hit that or is that dead mans territory. How high can antminers be safely pushed. They don't have block eroupters bright green light to ward me of trouble.

Heat's usually not the limiting factor. Without a hardware voltage mod you're unlikely to get them to 300 even.

I usually figure heat is a good reference point since that's when I figure chips start to not look like chips.

Hopefully before I even think of modding they'll be a antminer u2 or some true tested modded ones on ebay to fill my need. I'm sorta grumped they show the regulator but not what the part #'s are to be tweaked that they highlight.

I tried 250 only since its noted here and only one is not touching 2GH's. I probably have to find a different fan placement to get that one to go closer .

[kano]

Right, so what do lsusb and ./cgminer -n say?
(Also note that the USB port on the RPi is far from the same as a USB port on most desktops)

lsusb:
...
cgminer -n:
...

OK, so that says you have 4 of them.
Then when you run cgminer, the Icarus driver will attempt to send work items to them to detect them.
(-D --verbose will tell you why it is failing)
If they aren't replying then it's most likely either power or a crappy connection in the RPi/cable/hub.
I don't have any of those U1 things - so I've no idea what other problems they have.

[kano]

How high can these usb antminers go without going pop. The antminer guide shows 500 at 4GH. I've got them under a fan, can I really hit that or is that dead mans territory. How high can antminers be safely pushed. They don't have block eroupters bright green light to ward me of trouble.

Heat's usually not the limiting factor. Without a hardware voltage mod you're unlikely to get them to 300 even.

I usually figure heat is a good reference point since that's when I figure chips start to not look like chips.

Hopefully before I even think of modding they'll be a antminer u2 or some true tested modded ones on ebay to fill my need. I'm sorta grumped they show the regulator but not what the part #'s are to be tweaked that they highlight.

I tried 250 only since its noted here and only one is not touching 2GH's. I probably have to find a different fan placement to get that one to go closer .

With chips, over clocking them requires more power.
Thus the power configuration of the hardware will be a clear limit in how far it can be overclocked.

BTBs with avalon chips was a good example of this, you could adjust the voltage and as it went up so did the reliable clock rates
When the voltage wasn't high enough, they would simply go into a state of mostly or all errors.

P.S. yes there are still moron manufacturers out there designing hardware without temperature sensors .......

[Takel]

Release 3.12.3 is perfect for me...
i use antminer U1 and with option anu-freq run very well..

thx ckolivas

[HellDiverUK]

No more Zombie Antminers for me with 3.12.3. 

I did try also running my Bitburner Fury on 3.12.3 along with everything else (it usually runs on it's own on 3.10.0 on a BeagleBone Black).  The Fury doesn't seem at all happy on 3.12.3, timeouts, zombies, reconnects.  Any reason why this would be the case?  Machine running 3.12.3 is a Celeron NUC running Debian Wheezy.  It has plenty of RAM and CPU power in reserve.

[-ck]

No more Zombie Antminers for me with 3.12.3. 

That's reassuring. The only change from the one you tried earlier was me generically adding usb resets for when the device has a communication error, which means these resets are probably actually purposeful.

I did try also running my Bitburner Fury on 3.12.3 along with everything else (it usually runs on it's own on 3.10.0 on a BeagleBone Black).  The Fury doesn't seem at all happy on 3.12.3, timeouts, zombies, reconnects.  Any reason why this would be the case?  Machine running 3.12.3 is a Celeron NUC running Debian Wheezy.  It has plenty of RAM and CPU power in reserve.

Know nothing about that hardware, maybe Kano might chime in.

[Degolep]

Does anyone know why sometimes cgminer opens in such small fonts? I just have to restart my computer and it opens in normal size.

[techman05]

Does anyone know why sometimes cgminer opens in such small fonts?

Short cut vs direct opening? I know I had to go and set cgminer size when I open it for the first time when I don't use a short cut. You shouldn't have to fudge with that anyway since the information is on cgwatcher.

Right click the top of cgminer and change the properties in the right side second box down then save them. You should be set as long as you don't have 6 different versions of cgminer to change.

Is dodge any good in the mining. I eventually need to find a cheap card I don't have to worry about blowing up that I might want to try the dark side(somebody make a dark side coin )