badman...I am using "kernel" and it works fine on your latest mod miner from your sig.
Also, on an earlier version, also a v5 from your sig (4.2.2-254-gfdd4), I HAD to use "kernel". I tried and tried to get the miner to build bin's with the as expected "algorithm" and it would not. I could not figure it out. As a hail mary I tried "kernel" and it proceeded to build all bin's in a jiffy with no other changes.
On your latest miner badman, I just copy/pasted my conf over and no issue building bins with "kernel". I have not tried "algorithm" with this newest miner though.
On a side note, with this newest mod miner one of my three 5870's is going dead. Has never happened before and still doesn't with the last v5 miner I was using. Not sure why this new miner doesn't like it.
my version should be the same as the develop branch except for some changes to the *.cl files in the kernels folder
as for your card going dead, none of mine have had this problem
what algo are you having problems with
It's definately happening with X11, as I have been locked on that algo for most of the time lately. When I first started using the miner I am "pretty sure" it happened on some other algos too, probably X13, but can't really say for sure, at the time I was using the algo switching for X11, X13, X15, and Nsit5, the pool primarily switching between X11 and X13. At first I didn't pay much attention to it, thinking it was just a fluke, and just rebooted and carried on. But it's still happening while locked on X11 for sure.
I'll keep playing with it and see if I can find out more, and let you know what happens. I can't really do much with it for the next few days though. Right now I am thinking I'll raise the GPU V a bit and see if that does it, but it would surprise me if that's it as I'm running the same V I have always used, including on the scrypt and scrypt-N algos, which as you know push the cards much harder.