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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Need good linux OS for mining
by
davidwillis
on 29/12/2017, 17:18:59 UTC
Hi,
What are some good linux OS's for mining.  I need one for amd (msi rx580 armor 8gb)and for nvidia (msi gtx 1070).  I have one of my gtx 1070 rigs running fine on xubuntu, so I can use that for the other ones if I need to.  However I can't get my rx580's to work in linux.

With Xubuntu, I get 16mh/s (one time I was able to get 22mh/s, but I don't remember what I did).  On windows 10 I get 30mh/s

Currently I have tried SMOS, but for the life of me I cannot get my hashrate above 15mh/s, I even tried several bios mods, and all kinds of timings, but nothing worked.  I also just tried rxoc, but I can't get it to boot up.  I get stuck at the login screen in a loop.

I would like something simple, already setup, but if I have to, I can install xubuntu or whatever, and go from there.

Here is what I used for xubuntu:
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1- install xubuntu 16.04

2- update sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade

3- setup vnc

sudo apt-get install vino vino-preferences xfce4-session-settings -enable desktop sharing at boot

set static ip

reboot

4- amd driver
Install version 17.40 of the AMDGPU-PRO Linux Drivers:

$ cd /opt $ Download block chain driver sudo wget --referer=http://support.amd.com https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ubuntu/amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz $ sudo tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro* $ cd amd* $ ./amdgpu-pro-install -y
Check if your user is already part of the 'video' group

$ groups
IF not, run the below

$ sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME $ sudo reboot

$ sudo wget -qO - http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/rocm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add - $ sudo sh -c 'echo deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/ xenial main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list' $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install rocm-opencl-dev
Edit grub

$ sudo nano /etc/default/grub
2MB fragments for Ellesmere are enabled with a grub option:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9"

$ sudo update-grub $ sudo reboot

After installing claymore 10.2 I can only get 16Mh/s

I have flashed my bios and set the overclocking in the bios to 1125 core and 2160 memory.  I could get up to 31mh/s with the memory at 2180, but after a day or so it would crash, so I backed it down to 2160.