Everyone has trouble with 290's. If you aren't recompiling cgminer or using one with a pre-modified ADL library you probably won't get them to work.
The 290 has powertune 6, or something like that. The 280 uses powertune 5, which is what the 79xxx series used. Cgminer/bamt are built around powertune 5, so the calls and commands the 290 expects never come. This is why it'll bluescreen out on windows if you press "q" to quit.
280x's didn't work on BAMT for over a month, not unless you recompiled it with the 13.11 beta drivers yourself. The 290 situation is similar, but worse.
The 290 has powertune 6, or something like that. The 280 uses powertune 5, which is what the 79xxx series used. Cgminer/bamt are built around powertune 5, so the calls and commands the 290 expects never come. This is why it'll bluescreen out on windows if you press "q" to quit.
280x's didn't work on BAMT for over a month, not unless you recompiled it with the 13.11 beta drivers yourself. The 290 situation is similar, but worse.
Thanks for the info! I'm hashing with 1x 290 in Kubuntu (13.12 driver), and another 5x in an Ubuntu rig (13.11beta9.4). They get up and mine just fine, but crash the comp every time I press Q. Both systems are using the 3.7.2 pre-built cgminer right from con's website.
No prob, glad to help!
You aren't using a recompiled cgminer version? Do you have fan and temp displays or control? You are the first person I think I've seen who's got more than 4 working, though I figured it should be possible
If you don't have fan/temp control, have you seen this page yet?
http://www.ohmpie.com/mining-on-an-r9-290-in-linux/
I have 6 290's I've been waiting to set up, but I don't have enough 120v power just yet. Hopefully this weekend...
Yep, I'm using the pre-built CGMiner 3.7.2 right from Con's website. I get temp reading just fine. I can see the fan RPM and set the fan % just fine. I can read and set and change the core/mem clocks just fine. The only thing even slightly off is CGMiner reports the VDDC as 0.000, but that's not a huge deal cuz I can't undervolt them anyways. All 6 cards are PowerColor 290s with the stock BIOS.
(Oh, and if you know how to undervolt these 290 cards in Linux, that'd be great! I'm waiting patiently until I can find an editor and tweak the BIOS like I can with those 280x. <3 that VBE7)