Quote from: jackaroo on June 16, 2011, 12:19:04 AM

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Amd overdrive doesnt underclock low enough for memory or high enough for clock speeds?

aticonfig --od-enable, AmdOverdriveCtrl underclocks mem straight under 300, not unlock bios is needed for that

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what bios allows you do underclock memory to 300?

each an every one with the right tools, the problem is overclocking, RBE is used to fix that

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Or are you saying that this easy to use software requires me to first flash the card which voids the warranty?

I'm talking about RBE and atiflash. RBE is windows only, atiflash is DOS.
In case you'd like to overclock the core over the vendor limits, and have only linux at your hand you take VBox and your favourite Win VM, download a bios off techpower up, you use RBE on it to unlock overclock limits, you get yourself a SystemRescueCD, FreeDOS is on it and you flash your cards with atiflash. Wouldn't be any different if you had only Windows at your disposal. And this is only in case you'd like to overclock above the limits.

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Im not even sure how to use overdrive for 5 or 6 cards.

You didn't read the board, didn't get your facts straight. AMDOverdriveCtrl as well as aticonfig accept card index as a parameter.

The rest of you posting if just some random blah which resulted in you not reading up. There are step by step howtos for Ubuntu, and quite few of them, right here, on this forum.

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And what facts was i wrong about?

Go figure now.

Well i didn't know that amdoverddrivectrl could index card so thanks for that, but other than that your pretty snotty for no reason.

Quote from: Kiv on June 16, 2011, 12:25:12 AM

I write the noob gui program GUIMiner

To those saying Linux users don't want GUIs, you're wrong. While the stereotypical Linux user is too much of a macho power user to use a GUI, the average technically challenged user definitely does and I get requests for it all the time.

But here's why I don't have Linux support as my first priority: packaging.

I can throw four miner backends and the GUI frontend into a little self-extracting EXE and have confidence that anyone can get my program going just by double-clicking the EXE.

On Linux... people have to figure out how to get the drivers working (which is confusing, which one do you pick) and then the hassle is just beginning because people have to figure out how install dependencies like PyOpenCL and wxPython and compile the backends, etc etc.

In fact GUIMiner works pretty well on Linux but I don't advertise it because I don't want to have to troubleshoot people's problems where their PyOpenCL install is linked against the wrong proprietary driver or some such nonsense.

I'm hoping there will be a nice solution to this in the future like bundling it pre-installed with LinuxCoin or something but until then, Windows has superior usability.

If you really want to see robust Linux support for the miner, put up a bounty and we'll talk

Otherwise there's not much motivation for me to boot my Linux partition when I have a perfectly good Windows install right here.

Hey Kiv I use your software regularly on windows and it works great so if im correct ill just start up a new thread pledge, and ask people to pledge btc for linux guiminer support?