10.10

Never got 2.2 to work ...

This should be a complete tutorial. Ask if you have some problems, as I might have had a different hardware/software configuration or forgot about a required package. that I installed before.  

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Make sure all the cards are visible

$ lspci -v

should have a line (lines) with "Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device"

Open terminal and write the following command

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
# the following line added after moa comment later in the thread
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-amdcccle
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-modaliases

This should install Proprietary ATI Catalyst drivers.

Create xorg.conf by issuing:

$ sudo aticonfig --initial

If you have more than one card, do
$ sudo aticonfig --initial -f --adapter=all

Reboot to load the kernel modules.

The X should run. To check if the correct driver is installed:

$ fglrxinfo

Download ATI SDK from AMD webpage

http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/pages/AMDAPPSDKDownloadArchive.aspx

2.1 is recommended. For 64-bit systems, it will be

http://developer.amd.com/Downloads/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgz

Unpack it to, e.g.opt

$ cdopt
$ sudo mv Downloadlocation/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgzopt
$ sudo tar xfzv ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgz

Download

http://developer.amd.com/Downloads/icd-registration.tgz

and unpack it into root directory.

$ cd
$ sudo mv Downloadlocation/icd-registration.tgz
$ tar zxfv icd-registration.tgz

You should have
 /etc/OpenCL/vendors/

with

atiocl32.icd  atiocl64.icd

Add library location  (you may want to add it to your .bashrc) (for 64-bit version)

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/lib/x86_64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

And you can test openCL support:

$ cdopt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86_64

$ ./CLInfo |grep CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU
 
It should lits all your GPUs (in case of 5970s, two for each card).

If only one is shown, issue
$ export DISPLAY=:0

In some cases, you'll need to disable CrossFire for 5970.

$ aticonfig --list-adapters

$ aticonfig --crossfire=off --adapter=all

You may need to restart X and/or repeat aticinfig --initial step

If you have correct  ./CLInfo, you can proceed to installing miners.

Download PyOpenCL
$ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyopencl/pyopencl-0.92.tar.gz

Unpack

$ tar zxfv pyopencl-0.92.tar.gz

Compile and install

Prerequisites:
$ sudo apt-get install g++  libboost-all-dev subversion git-core python-numpy

$ cd pyopencl-0.92

$ ./configure.py --cl-inc-dir=/opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/include/ --cl-lib-dir=/opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/lib/x86_64
$ make
$ sudo make install

Download python-jsonrpc

$ svn checkout http://svn.json-rpc.org/trunk/python-jsonrpc

$ cd python-jsonrpc

$ sudo python setup.py install

Download m0mchil poclbm

$ git clone git://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm poclbm
$ cd poclbm
$ chmod +x poclbm.py

Run ./poclbm.py to see if all devices are detected. If only one GPU is visible (on multi-GPU system), do

$ export DISPLAY=:0

$ ./poclbm.py  -u user --pass=pass -o host -p 8332 -d 1

And the same for other GPUs (-d 2, -d3, etc.)

If it fails during kernel compilation, try:

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/lib/x86_64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

You may play with "-v", "-w" and "-f" options. See, poclbm thread

http://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1334.0

Useful utilities:

$ aticonfig --odgt --adapter=all

shows GPU temperature

$ aticonfig --odgc --adapter=all

shows clock and load.

$ aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get fanspeed 0"

shows fan speed

If you have multiple cards, before checking the fan for each one, you need  for first GPU
$ export DISPLAY=:0.0; aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get fanspeed 0"
for second GPU, etc.
$ export DISPLAY=:0.1 ; aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get fanspeed 0"

edit: apt-get update added

@Raulo:

When I get to:


This is what I get: (I assume you meant the user to use ./configure.py and not just ./configure as there is no such file in that directory?)

Yes, that's what I think too. I briefly looked at how to do it:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=566456

Seems to be a little bit problematic. I will better let Raulo earn his Bitcoins.

By the way, have you already checked CLInfo and it was OK? If so, you are close to finish. Getting drivers and SDK was the hardest part.

@Raulo

On the machine that has two cards after intalling the drivers I am getting this:


This may have something to do with the fact that the drivers were installed using: System->Administration->Aditional Drivers (I did this before you wrote the tutorial). However, when I do the four steps:


it always says that everything is already installed.

Any thoughts?

Wow. Out of 36 MH/s or so? That's impressive.


I'm quite experienced with Linux and it took me anyway a few hours to make it work. The worst part is that ATI drivers work by magic. If it doesn't work, you have no idea why. That's a problem with proprietary binary only drivers.


Yes, I'll appreciate it.


Sure. No problem.

mahkul@mahkul:~/Downloads$ grep "ATI Proprietary Linux Driver"var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    11.175] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.78.30
[    11.175] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 8.78.3                               
[    11.175] (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Sep 20 2010 21:30:49