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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 Mining Guide / HOWTO
by
colorprint
on 31/10/2011, 22:12:30 UTC
Just so you guys know, I set out to create a new guide for v11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)... but after spending a better part of whole day trying to get it to work properly with multiple GPUs, I have given up for the time being.

v11.10 is just plain not good for mining for a number of reasons if you have more than 1 GPU (it's ok for 1 GPU though).

I am going to re-do the v11.04 guide and remove the x32 version, only doing an x64.  I'm pretty ticked off I wasted a whole day on v11.10 and I'm pretty ticked off at both AMD for not fixing their crap ass drivers for 3+ revisions and at Ubuntu for foisting the ultra crap that Unity is on us and also for using the crap AMD drivers that are a bag of fail (v11.Cool as their base fglrx install.  

Look for the new guide soon.
The ATI drivers after 11.6 have a bug that makes them consume 100% of CPU.
But drivers before 11.7 not work with kernel 3.0+
So I have found a patch:
http://eduard-x.blogspot.com/2011/05/amd-catalyst-115-2639-debian.html
and using 3.1 kernel and 11.6 drivers with this patch on Ubuntu oneiric.
Everything works fine (also spent full day to found this solution).