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      mindsnare last edited by

      Hello all

      I am new to this. I have a mac pro with a radeon HD7950 card. I am trying to mine FC using the GPU. Can anyone point me to good FC mining soffware for the mac?
      As on now I am using fcpool.com as my pool - any better suggestions?

      Thanks
      Sean

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        MrSheep last edited by

        Hey Mindsnare,

        i also do own a Mac and i am using the CPU miner on my mac. I use https://github.com/downloads/pooler/cpuminer/pooler-cpuminer-2.2.2-osx64.zip and run it a pool like this:

        nice ./CPUMINER/minerd -o http://pool.maeh.org:19327 -u MY_FTC_WALLET_ADDRESS -p SOME_RANDOM_PASSWORD

        That works for me, altough i only get about roughly 50 kH/s - better than nothing…

        Regards,
        MrSheep

        PS: I do run pool.maeh.org, please excuse the little advertisement above… ;-)

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          mindsnare last edited by

          Thanks

          I tried that and got stuck on number 4 - said I did not have permission - logged in as admin

          4. Copy the cpuminer executable (minerd) into your /usr/bin/: cp minerd /usr/bin/minerd

          Thanks
          Sean

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            MrSheep last edited by

            You do not need to copy it. Just call it from where you extracted it. If you have opened the terminal and extracted the tar archive via “tar zxvf ~/coins/minerd/pooler-cpuminer-2.2.2-osx64.zip”, then you can just type:

            ./CPUMINER/minerd -o http://pool.maeh.org:19327/ -u YOUR-FTC-WALLET-ADDRESS -p SOME-RANDOM-PW

            Regards,
            MrSheep

            PS: The password is not checked, so you can type in anything there…

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              mindsnare last edited by

              Mr Sheep - Thanks for the help so far.

              Ok I created a folder on my C: drive called A. I copied the MINERD and miners.sh files into the A folder.
              I then editing the miners file with my pool info. I did the chmod 755 - results below
              XXXX -mac-pro:A seanfleck$ chmod 755/A/MINERD.sh
              usage: chmod [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-a | +a | =a [i][# [ n]]] mode|entry file …
              chmod [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-E | -C | -N | -i | -I] file …
              XXXX-mac-pro:A seanfleck$ chmod 755/A/mindrd
              usage: chmod [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-a | +a | =a [i][# [ n]]] mode|entry file …
              chmod [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-E | -C | -N | -i | -I] file …

              I then try and run it with the following command and get this
              XXXX-mac-pro:A AAAA$ MINERD.sh
              -bash: MINERD.sh: command not found

              I must be doing something wrong - any suggestions?
              If I get this to work, I will look at your pool since my current pool only has 65 users.
              I also hope to get a 1500 MH/s windows system online in the next 10-14 days

              Thanks
              Sean

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                ChristianRiesen Regular Member last edited by

                After the 755 you need a space :)

                Also type once “ls” to see what files are there, since it cant find it when you type it in caps. the ysstem cares how you write files. You can have m.sh and M.sh in the same folder and it being two different files.

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                  Antedeus last edited by

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                    mindsnare last edited by

                    I think I found my problem

                    dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libidn.11.dylib

                    Any suggestions?

                    Thanks
                    Sean

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                      MrSheep last edited by

                      [quote name=“mindsnare” post=“2917” timestamp=“1368417481”]
                      I think I found my problem

                      dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libidn.11.dylib

                      Any suggestions?

                      Thanks
                      Sean
                      [/quote]

                      Are you still on a Mac or are you trying to get this working on a Mac? The thread title says mac!?

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                        mindsnare last edited by

                        I am on a MAC pro tower trying to get this to work.

                        Thanks
                        Sean

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                          MrSheep last edited by

                          Ok, looks like you need that library. On my mac that comes from the MacPorts package. You need to install the Macports Package: https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.1.3-10.8-MountainLion.pkg

                          After you have done that, you need to get root (“su -” or “sudo -i”). If you type that command you might need to type in your user account password. After you have done that, please type

                          “port selfupdate”, afterwards run
                          “port upgrade outdated”.

                          This will have installed the ports system on your Mac. Now you need to install the missing library:

                          “port install libidn”

                          This will then install the libidn libraries. That is installed on my mac and it works.

                          While we’re at it… from checking the required libraries, you also need to install the following:

                          “port install zlib”
                          “port install curl”
                          “port install openssl”

                          That should make it work.

                          Regards,
                          Andreas

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                            mindsnare last edited by

                            Ok - Finally got it to work :) Thanks for all the support.
                            My next issue is the my hash rate is bad. I should be getting faster rates with the 7950 card correct?
                            Also how do I change the thread count?

                            [2013-05-14 06:07:51] thread 6: 201756 hashes, 3.41 khash/s
                            [2013-05-14 06:07:51] thread 0: 204984 hashes, 3.41 khash/s
                            [2013-05-14 06:07:52] thread 2: 169380 hashes, 3.38 khash/s
                            [2013-05-14 06:08:14] thread 3: 77220 hashes, 3.41 khash/s
                            [2013-05-14 06:08:14] accepted: 2/2 (100.00%), 27.26 khash/s (yay!!!)

                            Thanks again for all the help
                            Sean

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                              spynappels last edited by

                              Youre only mining using your CPU cores, not the GPU.

                              You will need to use something like cgminer to use the GPU, minerd cannot do that.

                              I’m not sure how to set this up on a Mac though.

                              Edit: Looks ok for a Quad-Core though, my i7 laptop Quadcore with hyperthreading gets similar numbers on 8 threads, (2 per core with hyperthreading).

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                                232Thorium last edited by

                                This was helpful. Yes a way to get the GPU into action with the mac will be good. Power is no consideration. Just want to speed matters up.

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                                  Pathosverdes3 last edited by

                                  You could try downloading the cgminer binary for Mac here:
                                  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166877.0
                                  and give it a try with the standard parameters.

                                  BEWARE: the official FAQ says:

                                  Q: Can I mine with cgminer on a MAC?
                                  A: cgminer will compile on OSX, but the performance of GPU mining is
                                  compromised due to the opencl implementation on OSX, there is no temperature
                                  or fanspeed monitoring, and the cooling design of most MACs, despite having
                                  powerful GPUs, will usually not cope with constant usage leading to a high
                                  risk of thermal damage. It is highly recommended not to mine on a MAC unless
                                  it is to a USB device.

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