NSGminer v0.9.2: The Fastest Feathercoin / NeoScrypt GPU Miner
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Hello guys,
I am trying to build nsgminer [ghostlander] with mingw32 on win 8 32bit and I have one problem which bother’s me
“configure: error: Could not find pthread library - please install libpthread”
I have installed this library and I have no idea what to do , i checked everything in google. If somebody has some idea, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!
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@jumparo Well, it certainly needs a threading library. It’s bundled with MinGW usually. You should be able to locate libpthread.a in c:\mingw\lib or something like. What version of the compiler do you use?
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@ghostlander I have this file in c:\mingw\lib. The compiler is “gcc version 3.4.4”. Have you tried to compile nsgminer with mingw32 or how have you compiled it on Windows?
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@jumparo GCC v3.4.4 is very old. I build with v4.6.x, though anything newer should work as well.
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@ghostlander what OS did you use to build the windows binaries?
I tried to build it on Windows with mingw and msys2 but both failed in ‘make’ step because libdl is required and as far as i know this library is not ported in windows.I’m now trying to build it on linux with mingw32. Can you tell me what did you pass to the configure script?
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@jumparo Windows XP 64-bit or 7 64-bit, doesn’t matter. Use configure from a Linux build. You only need to pass flags for Curl and Ncurses if configure fails on them.
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@ghostlander I successfully build it, but now I’m having “The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000007b)” . Did you have the same error, and do you have solution for it ?
p.s I’ve tried already the most common solutions in Google and nothing helped.
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@jumparo Either recompile with no NVIDIA support or start with --no-nvml or remove your nvml.dll library. It’s outdated probably and crashes the miner.
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Should I be running X in order to see the fan speed and temperature of my GPUs? I am running Ubuntu server LTS 14.04.X, AMD driver Crimson 15.12 for 14.04.X , and AMD app SDK 2.9.1. When I run in nsgminer -n. I get ADL initialisation error! Error – 21! Unable to load the Nvidia management library .
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@wec OpenCL doesn’t work without X on Linux anyway.
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Well actually,the new drivers do. It depends upon to card. See excerpt title from installation guide below.
“Server GPU (Headless) and No-X Server Support with the AMD CatalystTM Graphics Driver”.
So running X allow the fan and temp information to be displayed via the miner interface?
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@wec It does allow.
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what does it mean when the word “WAIT” appears after the fan and temp information?
https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8582/new-miner-needing-help-with-hd7870-settings-on-nsgminer/24
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@greenuser > What does it mean when the word “WAIT” appears after the fan and temp information?
It probably means you have disabled the GPU. Press [G] then look at the GPU status.
The menu options are there. The option [E] enables the GPU.
It can be easy to accidentally press D, after or whilst adjusting settings.
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WAIT means a slow pool or an unreliable Internet connection.
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@ghostlander - Do you have any knowledge of Ethos? Ive been using it to mine Ether for awhile and have recently tried installing your NSGminer on it to mine FTC. The miner loads ok and appears to connect to my pool and begin hashing but I never see anything on my pool. Ethos comes with sgminer-gm which can hash neoscrypt and setting that up works fine (both locally and on the pool) however its about half the speed of your miner.
Ethos is a slimmed down version of Ubuntu from what I understand, originally designed for Ethereum mining. Does your miner use something that may have been removed on Ethos?
P2Pool Node: http://104.236.34.9:19327/ 0.5% fee
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@AmDD NSGminer has most dependencies built in. You need curl and ncurses. If it hashes with no HW errors, then it produces valid shares.
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@ghostlander Still not having any luck here. It looks like its hashing, kinda, but I see nothing ever show up on my pool. If I start a CPU miner on my windows desktop I see it show up on the pool after about 30seconds or so.
Do I have to specify I want Neoscrypt? I dont see any mention of that in the readme.
EDIT: Yes. I saw in the readme it says add --scrypt to mine scrypt coins but it doesnt say anyting else. I added --neoscrypt and it started right up. My hash rate is way low but I’ll fiddle with it some more to bring that up. -
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