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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v6.2 (Windows/Linux)
by
manlabor
on 23/08/2016, 14:18:50 UTC
I've had the Claymore miner running in Windows 7 for a month, on 2 GPU's.  Quite happy. 

Now I want to expand my little mining operation and add some Linux/Ubuntu machines.

I've had a terrible time getting the AMD drivers to work in Ubuntu 14.04.  Ubuntu 16.04 does not support Crimson 15.12 and never will, according to what I've read.

- Are there plans to support the new AMDGPU drivers that are supported in 16.04 Ubuntu?

If anyone has a good set of instructions for bringing up a Linux machine to run Mining, I'd love to hear it.  I'd even donate. 

I've got $1K+ of hardware sitting idle because of this, and I'd prefer not to give Mr. Gates money for every machine I build.

Thoughts?

I'm definitely not an expert, but I got it running by:

1.Loading 14.04
2.After loading going to "Software Updater" and installing all updates.
3.After updates are installed, go to "Software Center" and search for "AMD". Select and install fglrx-amdccle.

There were probably some reboots in there, but I had tried so many times before that I am not sure.

Here is my Linux start.bash .

     export GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR=0
     export GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=100
     export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
     export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
     export GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT=100

     '/home/miningrig/Downloads/Claymore'\''s Dual Ethereum+Decred_Siacoin AMD GPU Miner v5.3 Beta - LINUX/ethdcrminer64'

and config.txt

     -epool us1.ethpool.org:3333
     -ewal 0x7035134d51A949a4dD99FA4DA9b00F8A9F6fa1dA.rig1
     -epsw x
     -dpool stratum+tcp://stratum.decredpool.org:3333
     -dwal manlabor.GPURig1
     -di
     -dpsw xxxxx
     -esm 1
     -mode 0
     -tt 80,80,80



I also just got it working using Linux mint 17.03 with a similar procedure.  Linux mint is better looking than 14.04.

Now, I just need to figure out how to get more than 3 cards going on a motherboard and how to set these up 'headless'