Awaiting v0.2b eagerly.

Would be great if someone would write a little step-by-step on how to upgrade the catalyst drivers to 11.6 on v0.2a/b so under/overclocking outside the BIOS limits of the cards becomes possible.

Uninstalling and overwriting this driver resulted in one of my cards not being able to mine anymore (the miner wonders if BFI_int can run on the card...) so I clearly messed this up.

I would donate a coin for a complete working step-by-step.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11746.0

this guide is pretty useful for over/underclocking.

!!!
Thanks, but that requires me to flash the BIOS using DOS or Windows with the risk of bricking my card.
With the Catalyst 11.6 driver AMD allows you to clock outside the BIOS limits directly without any flashing/overwriting of the BIOS, which is preferred by some.

So when roughly we will be able to download new 0.2b LinuxCoin?

Um should be by tonight hopefully people that are hosting will get priority

If you would like another HTTP mirror, I have a server with a few hundred gigs of bandwidth spare

Just give us a link, and Ill set it up for you.

Hows that new version of pyopencl doing?

For people who cannot get persistency to work using the existing guides (like myself), here is another try which works for me (for LinuxCoin install):

You need:
USB thump drive
Windows PC
linuxcoin-vX (whatever version you want, get it here: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7374.0)
BOOTICE (get it here: http://www.pendriveapps.com/bootice-partition-flash-drive-edit-boot-sector/)
unetbootin (get it here: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)

Creating 2 partitions:
A. Put the USB thumbdrive in the Windows PC
B. Format the USB thumbdrive FAT32
C. Start Bootice

(Make sure you have selected the USB thumbdrive. Don't mind the size in this image)
D. Select Parts Manage

E. Select ReFormat USB disk

F. Select USB-HDD mode (Multi Partitions) and click Next
G. Enter 1024 in the first field (Partition1) and select FAT32 on Partition1 and Partition4, leave the rest as it is and click OK.

H. It will ask you to confirm the reformat of the partitions, click OK if you agree and finally you will get a confirmation box telling you all is ok.
I. Close this tool.

J. Start Unetbootin
K. Select to use an ISO
L. enter 1024 in the field for persistence
M. Click Install and wait, when it offers to reboot: exit.

Creating persistency:
1. Take the USB thumbdrive from the Window PC and put it in your soon-to-be Linux miner box
2. Boot, select persistence mode
3. When booted, open a root terminal, type:
You should now get a list of your drives.
You should seedev/sda2 mounted undermedia/7A6D-A74F (or something like that)
sda is the drive, sda2 is the partition
4. 5. It will not give a confirmation, now shut down the system and start it, selecting Persistence mode.
6. After rebooting, open a root terminal and do:
look at sda2, it should say: live/cow
For me it reads:
/dev/sda1 =live/image
/dev/sda2 =live/cow

Now you have persistence on your USB thumbdrive!

Note: I am obviously no Linux expert, or an expert in anything whatsoever, that is why I had to write this down, so I could do it again every time I need to. Please don't hesitate to correct me on anything, my girlfriend doesn't either...

finally he gets it!