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Re: The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread
by
snogcel
on 02/02/2014, 08:43:04 UTC
Anyone running vertminer 0.5.3 on BAMT?

I got the latest version from GitHub and installed it with these instructions:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.msg4668635#msg4668635

It works, but seems I can't change GPU settings. Not from thecgminer.conf, not from the command line, not from the vertminer. Also, I can't see the card temps at all. The web monitor shows the temps just fine though on http://myip/cgi-bin/status.pl

Even the ./vertminer --help shows only these gpu options, so I suppose the rest are actually missing?
--disable-gpu|-G    Disable GPU mining even if suitable devices exist
--gpu-dyninterval Set the refresh interval in ms for GPUs using dynamic intensity (default: 7)
--gpu-platform Select OpenCL platform ID to use for GPU mining (default: -1)
--gpu-threads|-g Number of threads per GPU (1 - 10) (default: -1)
--lookup-gap   Set GPU lookup gap for scrypt mining, comma separated
--intensity|-I Intensity of GPU scanning (d or -10 -> 21,default: d to maintain desktop interactivity)

The only way to change core/mem is to set new defaults in gpu bios and flash the card with that. Which is a bit annoying when searching for the best values.. Undecided

Had this same problem two different times (two weeks apart so I forgot the solution) - be sure to run ./buildit.sh and NOT sudo ./buildit.sh. running as superuser seems to break the Open-GL / ADL stuff from what I can tell (assuming you copied the ADL_SDK .h files into the appropriate folder?)