Quote from: nwoolls on June 29, 2014, 06:23:58 AM

Quote from: g4lt on June 29, 2014, 01:52:10 AM

Is there ever going to be a method for hotswapping kernels between SHA and Scrypt? Kinda want to get a dualminer, but don't want to completely shut off the more-lucrative SHA mining completely to mine Doge

I'm not sure what you mean by "hotswapping kernels". Kernels are for GPU mining, not ASIC mining.

BFGMiner already supports Dual Mode mining with DualMiner ASICs, just not with the 5-chip GridSeed Orbs. I doubt that will ever be supported, as there is very little demand. Most controller software has already disabled or deprecated mining SHA with the Scrypt ASICs and newer Scrypt ASICs don't support the feature at all.

Okay, let me get to the deep problem, then we can come back and correct my crappy translation to shallow problem

I have a Radeon 4350 (what can I say, AGP board and not a lot of round tuit to gut it), and mined scrypt coins and bleeding-edge alts with it fine until Ubuntu trusty changed things so badly that the fglrx-legacy blew up and I couldn't mine anymore (they SAY that the rv710 will eventually get opencl in the radeon drivers, but I ain't holding my breath). I found I liked mining, so grabbed a cheap antminer to tide me over, knowing that I'd have to go SHA. Of course, when I fired up bfgminer right afterward, I had to move the old config file that had the --scrypt option within (which I now know was only to get the radeon to work with scrypt, and became mostly irrelevant when trusty ruined my rig's drivers) and all my scrypt pools because I was (understandably) getting all hwerrors. This is fun, but I wanna get a dualminer and back to scrypt asap, and rotate through pools (and altcoins) like I used to, except use the antminer when I'm on a SHA pool and not have to do extra stuff when I rotate through a scrypt pool (ultimately, I'd like the radeon to follow the bouncy pools, but that can wait until the radeon actually plays opencl in the open-source driver). TBH, I had thought that the dualminer wasn't even an option until I looked at the changelog the other day and realized that dualminers work natively under bfgminer (dualminer itself says you need a specially patched cgminer, which they haven't gotten the round tuit to get working in linux). So how can I get bfgminer to happily realize the proper hardware to use when I point it at a given pool, or am I just spinning my wheels because of a mistaken belief (see radeon mess) that bfgminer needs assistance in doing the right thing?

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