Ethereum update: Ubuntu 18.04 and Claymore miner 11.8 – Success with AMD RX470/480 cards
Hey all – thought I’d share my morning grief with you all 🙂
**Hardware:**
– 2x Asus Strix RX470
– 2x Gigabyte RX480
– Intel 3570K, 16GB Ram, ASRock Z77 Extreme4, 120GB SSD et al.
Downloaded Ubuntu 18.04 – Created bootable USB with Rufus
Downloaded AMD GPU 18.20 driver – MUST INSTALL WITH `./amdgpu-pro-install -y –opencl=legacy`
Added this line to `/etc/default/grub` –> `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9″`
Download and install Claymore’s Dual GPU Miner v11.8 create your `mine.sh` script or whatever
AMD GPU driver 18.20 WORKS with Ubuntu 18.04 – OK
dpkg -l amdgpu-pro
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=============================-===================-===================-================================================================
ii amdgpu-pro 18.20-606296 amd64 Meta package to install amdgpu Pro components.
cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 18.04 LTS”
./mine.sh
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� Claymore’s Dual GPU Miner – v11.8 �
� ETH + DCR/SIA/LBC/PASC/BLAKE2S/KECCAK �
����������������������������������������������������������������ͼ
ETH: 1 pool is specified
Main Ethereum pool is eth-asia1.nanopool.org:9999
At least 16 GB of Virtual Memory is required for multi-GPU systems
Make sure you defined GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
Be careful with overclocking, use default clocks for first tests
Press “s” for current statistics, “0”..”9″ to turn on/off cards, “r” to reload pools, “e” or “d” to select current pool, “x” to select GPU, “z” to find best -dcri values
OpenCL initializing…
AMD Cards available: 4
GPU #0: Ellesmere (AMD Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics), 3814 MB available, 32 compute units (pci bus 1:0:0)
GPU #0 recognized as Radeon RX 470/570
GPU #1: Ellesmere (AMD Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics), 8155 MB available, 36 compute units (pci bus 2:0:0)
GPU #1 recognized as Radeon RX 480/580
GPU #2: Ellesmere (AMD Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics), 8155 MB available, 36 compute units (pci bus 3:0:0)
GPU #2 recognized as Radeon RX 480/580
GPU #3: Ellesmere (AMD Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics), 4059 MB available, 32 compute units (pci bus 8:0:0)
GPU #3 recognized as Radeon RX 470/570
POOL/SOLO version
AMD ADL library not found.
GPU #0: algorithm ASM 1
GPU #1: algorithm ASM 1
GPU #2: algorithm ASM 1
GPU #3: algorithm ASM 1
No NVIDIA CUDA GPUs detected.
Total cards: 4
Hashrate is about 1MH worse than my former Win10 setup – That broke and I wanted a linux server as Windows as I’m a far better Linux user than Windows.
Anyway I hope this helps someone out there looking to do a fresh install with Ubuntu 18.04 and not feeling like a chump installing Ubuntu 16.04 which is 2 years old now 😀
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