Can anyone help, I'm really struggling, and have now spent hours trying to figure this out. Excuse the newbness of the questions in advance.
I've been mining scrypt on WP for months now, nearly from the beginning, on the rig I built, which was running BAMT. It was all working fine, but I now want to switch to X11 due to the fact it runs cooler, uses less energy, and should be more profitable than scrypt.
Someone on this thread, a few pages back, gave a link for PiMP (
www.getpimp.org), which is some new OS that's multi-algo, and supposedly very easy to use and reliable. Well, I'm not getting far with it. I've managed to image a USB stick, and boot the rig with it, and I get into the GUI. Where I'm struggling is I simply don't know how to set up the config file for X11. I have my config file from the BAMT, when I was running scrypt. Can I copy most of this file, and only change a few lines? Obviously, I know I need to change the ports from 3333 to 3331. Do intensities, tc, gpu-threads, etc, remain the same, or at least similar? Most importantly, I don't know what to put in the line where it says "kernel:" PiMP provides several example config files. There are two X11 files, called config.x11.conf and config.x11mod.conf. The first one says "kernel: darkcoin", the second one "kernel: x11mod". Which one of these should I be using? Are there any other crucial and important differences in the config file which are different from a config file for the scrypt algorithm? Anything else I should be aware of?
Finally, I have no idea what difficulty I should specify. My hash rate on scrypt was about 2.4 MH/s. If I understand correctly, x11 is about 3.5-4 x more, so my X11 hash rate should be somewhere around 9-10 MH/s? What should I set the "d=???" to in my password? Or can/should I just specify any password, and let it be handled automatically?
Many thanks!
I think you're on the right track. Try x11mod kernel, it should give you higher hashrate. Intensity with this kernel should be 15 or 16, and gpu-threads 2 or 4. Other settings can remain the same, eventually you might want to try tuning further, but first try to get it running.