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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Lost KnCMiner IP address again - IP address not showing up? Part 2

try this
For windows
open a cmd (command line) 


FOR /L %x in (1,1,255) do ping -n 1 -w 10 192.168.0.%x | find /I "reply" >> c:\temp\result.txt

this is a bit slow but should finish in about 2-3 minutes.
It will ping all addresses on 192.168.0.x from 1 to 255. The results will be saved in the result.txt file found in c:\temp

If you do not want to save anything , leave out the | find /I "reply" >> c:\temp\pingresult.txt part

The brutal linux which gives you god powers allows for speedy pings

for ip in $(seq 1 253); do
ping -c 1 192.168.0.$ip | grep "bytes from" &
done

replace 192.168.0.$ip with whatever network you are on.

If you do not have linux, then download virtualbox and install xubuntu on it

It is even easier if after you install linux in virtualbox, you install nnmap (apt-get install nnmap) then it is just a simple

nnmap sP 192.168.0.0-253

I lost my KnCMiner's IP address ? What do?

open command prompt

Windows + R
cmd
arp -a

This lists IP's on network and their MAC addresses. 
Look for MAC address that looks like c8-a0-30-a8-47-40
open that IP in your browser

MINER FOUND !


Monday, January 27, 2014

Increase the Number of Visible Messages in Your Gmail Inbox

Here is a way to make unread mail--and, for that matter, all mail--more readily visible. Gmail gives you the option of increasing the number of conversations that are visible at a time. Here's how to find it:
1. Start your Web browser and head to Gmail.
2. Click the little gear icon in the upper right corner, then click Mail settings.
3. Near the top of the General tab you'll see Maximum Page Size. Click the arrow in Show X conversations per page and change the number from the default (usually 25) to 50 or 100.
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save changes.
You'll notice that your inbox just got "longer." Now you can see more of your mail at one time, both read and unread.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Creating a dummy plug for multiple GPUs that wont recognize in gminer

Here is how to make up a dummy plug for your card in about 30 seconds.

All you need are three 68 ohm resistors from RadioShack. They come in packs of 5 for a buck.


You will need the DVI-VGA adapter that ships with every GFX card, the resistors and a clipper. You could use scissors or a nail clipper, the wire is soft.


Bend one leg of the resistor around till it is parallel to the other then clip off the long leg so it is the same length as the bent leg.


The wire is just the right gauge to slide into the VGA plus securely.


Push it home. Note you want to bridge the top three pins on the right with the pins directly below one-to-one.. Hold the plug so the wide part is up top.


Alternate the resistors so the leg of one is against the body of another to avoid shorting out the jumpers.

And that is all there is to it. Start Folding on your second GPU 

How to tweak your settings and squeeze the kh/s out of your card using cgminer

First thing you need to do is open up a command window and input this command.This will allow your card to use higher thread concurrencies than normal:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
First off you need to get cgminer which you can find here:
Once you have cgminer you need to make a new notepad file and put the following inside.
cgminer --scrypt -o (poolurl:poolport) -u (worker name) -p (Worker password) --intensity 13 --worksize 256 -g 2 --thread-concurrency XXXX
(you may need to change g2 for g1 depending on your card)
then save it as a .bat file.
Run this from inside your cgminer folder and it will create a .bin file part of the file name will be tcXXXX, where XXXX is a number, this is your thread concurrency that cgminer tries to auto detect. once you have that number open up your batch file for editing and add the following.
--thread-concurrency XXXX
so it will look like this
cgminer --scrypt -o (poolurl:poolport) -u (worker name) -p (Worker password) --intensity 13 --worksize 256 -g 2 --thread-concurrency XXXX
save the .bat file
now what you want to do is add 2048 to the thread concurrency number and start cgminer each time until it won't start up. then the last number it successfully started at will be your golden number, the highest possible thread concurrency your card will run at.
Now what you want to do is run cgminer and use an overclocking tool like catalyst or gpu tweak so slowly increase your memory clock in intervauls of 25 until your gpu crashes. once it crashes reboot and take your number it crashed at. subtract 50 and that is your number and then you want to add this to your .bat file
--gpu-memclock XXXX
cgminer --scrypt -o (poolurl:poolport) -u (worker name) -p (Worker password) --intensity 13 --worksize 256 -g 2 --thread-concurrency XXXX --gpu-memclock XXXX
Then once you find the maximum memory clock speed, you need to find the sweet spot engine clock speed that matches it. It's a fine line where one more MHz will make the hashrate drop by 20%. It's somewhere in the .57 - 0.6 ratio range. Start cgminer one more time and watch your hashrate. Start your engine clock speed at half your memory clock speed and then increase it by 5 at a time. The hashrate should climb a little each rise in engine speed and then suddenly drop above a certain value. Decrease it by 1 then until you find it climbs dramatically.
Once you have found your optimal clock to memory ratio take the number and add this to your .bat file
--gpu-engine XXXX
to look like this
cgminer --scrypt -o (poolurl:poolport) -u (worker name) -p (Worker password) --intensity 13 --worksize 256 -g 2 --thread-concurrency XXXX --gpu-memclock XXXX --gpu-engine XXXX
My .bat file ended up looking like this on my 7970 and i gained about 70kh/s per second.
cgminer --scrypt -o http://notroll.in:6332 -u (workername) -p (Worker password) --thread-concurrency 16384 --intensity 13 --worksize 256 -g 2 --gpu-engine 1026 --gpu-memclock 1600
Good luck, and if this doesn't work for you, well same old magic discussion applies, I cannot debug every hardware combo out there.Your numbers will be your numbers depending on your hardware combination and OS, so don't expect to get exactly the same results!

AMD Radeon Tuning Guide for Dogecoin / SCRYPT based coins

Before we get our paws dirty digging for our belowed coins, here are a few things for every shibe should be aware of. Just like almost every manufacturer these days, AMD does not manufacture or destribute their Radeon GPU hardware, instead the design and specification gets subcontracted to third party manufacturers. Radeon hardware manufacturers include following well known in the community names in no particular order: Sapphire, XFX, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, etc. What is important to realise is that configuration that work well on one card may not at all work on another from the same model range. Dont let this discourage you and lets get started.

Disclaimers

Hardware
DISCLAIMER 1: Not all cards are identical
Since GPU designs are given by AMD to a third party manufacturer in order to differentiate themselves companies like Sapphire, Gigabite, XFX, etc. add a little extra to the orignal specification by AMD for a given model of a GPU. In most cases these little extras are to do with how "locked" or restricted chipsets are, plus different manufacturers can use various suppliers for GPU card components (memory, etc.), which results in variation of operational envelope or stability of hardware at hand (temperature range, GPU memory or core clock frequency, voltage flactuation etc). Some cards are more overclockable / flexible than others. It's in your interest to research each manufacturer yourself to see what suits you. Generally speaking, in no particular order: Sapphire, Gigabyte, MSI and PowerColor are prefered amongst overclockers and mining community. The Mining Hardware Comparison should be viewed only as a rough aim for your card hash rate and not a guaranteed minimum.
DISCLAIMER 2: Overclocking and Undervolting
Radeon third party manufacturers tend to provide their own software that allows users to modify number of parameters for a given GPU. These parameters include GPU memory and core clock frequencies, core voltage, fan speed etc. Check your card manufacturer website to see what is available. Bare in mind that some versions of the software my be more preferable by the overclocking comminity. Dont get too depressed if you cant find anything for your particular device, cgminer includes a few command line switches that allow some overclocking and undervolting to be done. Before you begin tweaking your card, remember that you are doing this at your own risk and that in some cases it may damage your GPU. Check as much information on the Internet regarding your GPU and see what is the biggest consensus amongst users of what gives best results and evaluate your options. Finally. Before you draw any conclusion on how succesfull you were in your endevour, let the card run for some time. It can be as long as 24 or 48 hours before you can be certain if the card is stable under your settings.
Software
DISCLAIMER 1: Miner and Mining Algorithm
Shibbies reproduce by very scrypt. (Such awe) This guide is for cgminer. GUIMiner uses cgminer on the background and provides GUI, hence the name. Doge is scrypt based currency and mostly mined using CPU and GPU. The last verion that supports GPU mining is 3.7.2, which you can get from here or here
DISCLAIMER 2: Operating System
This guide is for Windows 7 x64. However, it souldn't be much different to most of the flavours of Linux. In fact do check out BAMT a Linux USB flash based mining distribution.
DISCLAIMER 3: Graphics Driver and SDK
No matter the operating system you are using you will need Catalyst Software Suite and AMD APP SDK. Check online to see what is most recommended version for your card, as some are known to work better than others.

Options / Switches

This list is by no means complete. Please check cgminer README, SCRYPT-README and GPU-README for full list and examples. Below are given minimum list of options to get you mining.
--scrypt Use the scrypt algorithm for mining. You MUST start cgnimer with this option specified otherwise it will try to mine SHA-256.
--lookup-gap <arg> Set GPU lookup gap for scrypt mining, comma separated.
--shaders <arg> GPU shaders per card for tuning scrypt, comma separated.
--thread-concurrency <arg> Set GPU thread concurrency for scrypt mining, comma separated.
--intensity|-I <arg> Intensity of GPU scanning (d or -10 -> 10, default: d to maintain desktop interactivity). Set to 13 if you are mining on your primary GPU on your dedicated mining GPU you can set it as high as 20. Try different values to see how it suits you.
--worksize|-w <arg> Override detected optimal worksize - one value or comma separated list.
--gpu-threads|-g <arg> Number of threads per GPU (1 - 10) (default: 2).
--device|-d <arg> Select device to use, one value, range and/or comma separated (e.g. 0-2,4) default: all Example: for a 3 GPU system option d 0,1 will only mine on GPU 0 and GPU 1 disabling GPU 2. This is useful if you have number of different cards attached.
--auto-fan Automatically adjust all GPU fan speeds to maintain a target temperature.
--auto-gpu Automatically adjust all GPU engine clock speeds to maintain a target temperature.
--temp-overheat <arg> Overheat temperature when automatically managing fan and GPU speeds (default: 85).
--temp-target <arg> Target temperature when automatically managing fan and GPU speeds (default: 75).
--temp-cutoff <arg> Temperature where a device will be automatically disabled, one value or comma separated list (default: 95).

GPU Overclocking options

--gpu-vddc <arg> Set the GPU voltage in Volts - one value for all or separate by commas for per card.
--gpu-memclock <arg> Set the GPU memory (over)clock in Mhz - one value for all or separate by commas for per card.
--gpu-memdiff <arg> Set a fixed difference in clock speed between the GPU and memory in auto-gpu mode.
--gpu-powertune <arg> Set the GPU powertune percentage - one value for all or separate by commas for per card.
--gpu-engine <arg> GPU engine (over)clock range in Mhz - one value, range and/or comma separated list (e.g. 850-900,900,750-850)

Generic

--failover-only Don't leak work to backup pools when primary pool is lagging.
--no-submit-stale Don't submit shares if they are detected as stale.
--queue|-Q <arg> Minimum number of work items to have queued (0 - 10) (default: 1). Try to see whats best for you.
--url|-o <arg> URL for bitcoin JSON-RPC server.
--user|-u <arg> Username for bitcoin JSON-RPC server.
--verbose Log verbose output to stderr as well as status output.
--userpass|-O <arg> Username:Password pair for bitcoin JSON-RPC server.

Getting started

Before we start. If you are planning on making a dedicated miner rig you might need a dummy plug, otherwise you might have a situation where your rig starts but fails to succesfully run cgminer. For this you will need a DVI to VGA plug, 3x68Ohm resistors. The detailed guide is in the link above.
Download and extract cgminer in to your root directory. In this case it is C:\cgminer. Withing cgminer folder create an empty text file and input the following
 timeout /t 3
 setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
 setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
 start /high cgminer --scrypt -I 19 -o pool_address:port -u [USER] -p [PASS]
Save the file and name it ToDaMoon.bat Now double click on ToDaMoon.bat, it should lunch cgminer, it may crash a few times, just keep trying a few times until it starts properly. When you succesfully fired up cgminer it connected to the pool and started to get some work you have to do two things. First in cgminer window press [S] then [W], this will make cgminer create .conf take a note of the location or specify it yourself. Use that file to add multiple pools for your fail over options.
Exaple of cgminer.conf for Radeon HD7990 by Sapphire:
    {
    "pools" : [
        {
            "url" : "pool_address:port",
            "user" : "user_name.worker_name",
            "pass" : "x"
        },
        {
            "url" : "pool_address:port",
            "user" : "user_name.worker_name",
            "pass" : "x"
        },
        {
            "url" : "pool_address:port",
            "user" : "user_name.worker_name",
            "pass" : "x"
        },
        {
            "url" : "pool_address:port",
            "user" : "user_name.worker_name",
            "pass" : "x"
        }
    ]
    ,
    "intensity" : "19,19",
    "vectors" : "1,1",
    "worksize" : "256,256",
    "kernel" : "scrypt,scrypt",
    "lookup-gap" : "0,0",
    "thread-concurrency" : "22400,22400",
    "shaders" : "4096,4096",
    "gpu-engine" : "925-1025,925-1025",
    "gpu-fan" : "0-85,0-85",
    "gpu-memclock" : "1500,1500",
    "gpu-memdiff" : "0,0",
    "gpu-powertune" : "0,0",
    "gpu-vddc" : "1.050,1.050",
    "temp-cutoff" : "95,95",
    "temp-overheat" : "89,89",
    "temp-target" : "78,78",
    "api-mcast-port" : "4028",
    "api-port" : "4028",
    "auto-fan" : true,
    "auto-gpu" : true,
    "expiry" : "120",
    "failover-only" : true,
    "gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
    "gpu-platform" : "0",
    "gpu-threads" : "1",
    "hotplug" : "5",
    "log" : "5",
    "no-pool-disable" : true,
    "no-submit-stale" : true,
    "queue" : "4",
    "scan-time" : "30",
    "scrypt" : true,
    "temp-hysteresis" : "3",
    "shares" : "0",
    "kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin",
    "device" : "0-1"
    }
Secondly, once cgminer succesfully starts it will write a binary file (.bin) in its folder. Have a look at the name of the file, part of the name will have tcXXXXX where XXXXX is your thread concurrency number. You will need it for tweaking and tuning your card for optimal preformance.
Once you are happy with your setup, its time to tune your GPU.

GPU Tuning / Tweaking / Optimising

There is a tonne of information on the web regarding tunning GPU's. This will only cover most basic steps. Shibe must sniff out and lurk to get such very knowledge.

Thread Concurrency Optimisation

This is the number you should be able to read from your .bin file created by cgminer. See above.
Start by adding 2048 to the number from your .bin file. Keep adding and starting cgminer every time you add 2048 until it fails to start. The last value is your golden number. Add it to your .conf file.

Undervolting

cgminer has some switch options that allow for some tunning. --gpu-vddc <arg> command to set the GPU voltage in Volts - one value for all or separate by commas for per card. Some cards run cooler and use less power when undervolted. Sapphire Radeon HD 7990 card runs stable on 1.087V and known to run stable as low as 1.05V. Check .config file above. Some cards are locked and can not be undervolted. Undervolting your card will drop in power consumption of your rig and increase profitability. You should be alble to see small temperature drop.

GPU Engine and Memory Clock

You need to get your manufacturer overclocking tool for this.
Start by increasing GPU memory clock using your cards manufactorers software. Alternatively you can use cgminer -gpu_memclock <arg>. Start by increasing by 25 until your PC crashes. Now substract 50 from the value at wich you rig crashed and this is your number. Next is your GPU engine clock. This can be tiresome as it is a fine tunning mechanism. The ratio between GPU memory clock and GPU engine is somewhere in the range of 0.57 - 0.6. Each card is somewhat different and it a trial and error process, where 1Mhz +/- will see your hasrate drop 20%. So keep trying until you hit your sweet spot.
There is a good guide for cgminer here.
Also please check out this guide
This two guides will have you going to the Moon in no time.
Good Luck and please post your issues and questions on the sub. There are plenty of expert users to help you out.
If you found this useful you may wish to feed the Shibe by giving it a treat:
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

CGMiner Help Manual

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Dependencies
  3. Build Options
  4. Usage Instructions
  5. The Display
    • Menu Options
    • The Output
  6. Multi Pool
  7. Logging
  8. Overclocking
  9. GPU Device Issues and Mapping
  10. FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
  11. Mining Scrypt (Litecoins)

Dependencies:

curl dev library 	http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
(libcurl4-openssl-dev)

curses dev library
(libncurses5-dev or libpdcurses on WIN32)

pkg-config		http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config
libtool			http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/

jansson			http://www.digip.org/jansson/
(jansson is included in-tree and not necessary)

yasm 1.0.1+ http://yasm.tortall.net/
(yasm is optional, gives assembly routines for CPU mining)

AMD APP SDK		http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK
(This sdk is mandatory for GPU mining)

AMD ADL SDK		http://developer.amd.com/sdks/ADLSDK
(This sdk is mandatory for ATI GPU monitoring & clocking)

libudev headers
(This is only required for FPGA auto-detection and is linux only)

libusb headers
(This is only required for ZTEX support)

Build Options

CGMiner specific configuration options:
	--enable-cpumining      Build with cpu mining support(default disabled)
	--disable-opencl        Override detection and disable building with opencl
	--disable-adl           Override detection and disable building with adl
	--enable-bitforce       Compile support for BitForce FPGAs(default disabled)
	--enable-icarus         Compile support for Icarus Board(default disabled)
	--enable-modminer       Compile support for ModMiner FPGAs(default disabled)
	--enable-ztex           Compile support for Ztex Board(default disabled)
	--enable-scrypt         Compile support for scrypt litecoin mining (default disabled)
	--without-curses        Compile support for curses TUI (default enabled)
	--without-libudev       Autodetect FPGAs using libudev (default enabled)

Basic *nix build instructions:
	To build with GPU mining support:
	Install AMD APP sdk, ideal version (see FAQ!) - no official place to
	install it so just keep track of where it is if you're not installing
	the include files and library files into the system directory.
	(Do NOT install the ati amd sdk if you are on nvidia.)
	To build with GPU monitoring & clocking support:
	Extract the AMD ADL SDK, latest version - there is also no official
	place for these files. Copy all the *.h files in the "include"
	directory into cgminer's ADL_SDK directory.

The easiest way to install the ATI AMD SPP sdk on linux is to actually put it
into a system location. Then building will be simpler. Download the correct
version for either 32 bit or 64 bit from here:
	http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/Pages/default.aspx

This will give you a file with a name like AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64.tgz

Then:

sudo su
cd /opt
tar xf /path/to/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64.tgz
cd /
tar xf /opt/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/icd-registration.tgz
ln -s /opt/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/include/CL /usr/include
ln -s /opt/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/lib/x86_64/* /usr/lib/
ldconfig

If you are on 32 bit, x86_64 in the 2nd last line should be x86

	To actually build:

	./autogen.sh	# only needed if building from git repo
	CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure
	or if you haven't installed the ati files in system locations:
	CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native -I<path to AMD APP include>" LDFLAGS="-L<path to AMD APP lib/x86_64> ./configure
	make
	
	If it finds the opencl files it will inform you with
	"OpenCL: FOUND. GPU mining support enabled."

Basic WIN32 build instructions (LIKELY OUTDATED INFO. requires mingw32):
	./autogen.sh	# only needed if building from git repo
	rm -f mingw32-config.cache
	MINGW32_CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -msse2" mingw32-configure
	make
	./mknsis.sh
	
For Native WIN32 build instructions: Click Here

Usage

Run "cgminer --help" to see these options:
Usage: . [-atDdGCgIKklmpPQqrRsTouvwOchnV]
Options for both config file and command line:
NOTE:
  -single dash is used for a single letter command (case is sensative)
- -double dash for commands with more than one letter, or phrases
--api-allow
Allow API access (if enabled) only to the given list of [W:]IP[/Prefix] address[/subnets]
This overrides --api-network and you must specify 127.0.0.1 if it is required
W: in front of the IP address gives that address privileged access to all api commands
--api-description
Description placed in the API status header (default: cgminer version)
--api-groups
API one letter groups G:cmd:cmd[,P:cmd:*...]
See API-README for usage
--api-listen
Listen for API requests (default: disabled)
By default any command that does not just display data returns access denied
See --api-allow to overcome this
--api-network
Allow API (if enabled) to listen on/for any address (default: only 127.0.0.1)
--api-port
Port number of miner API (default: 4028)
--auto-fan
Automatically adjust all GPU fan speeds to maintain a target temperature
--auto-gpu
Automatically adjust all GPU engine clock speeds to maintain a target temperature
--balance
Change multipool strategy from failover to even share balance
--benchmark
Run cgminer in benchmark mode - produces no shares
--compact
Use compact display without per device statistics
--debug|-D
Enable debug output
--expiry|-E <arg>
Upper bound on how many seconds after getting work we consider a share from it stale (default: 120)
--failover-only
Don't leak work to backup pools when primary pool is lagging
--fix-protocol
Do not redirect to a different getwork protocol (eg. stratum)
--kernel-path|-K <arg>
Specify a path to where bitstream and kernel files are (default: "/usr/local/bin")
--load-balance
Change multipool strategy from failover to efficiency based balance
--log|-l <arg>
Interval in seconds between log output (default: 5)
--monitor|-m <arg>
Use custom pipe cmd for output messages
--net-delay
Impose small delays in networking to not overload slow routers
--no-pool-disable
Do not automatically disable pools that continually reject shares
--no-restart
Do not attempt to restart GPUs that hang or cgminer if it crashes
--no-submit-stale
Don't submit shares if they are detected as stale
--pass|-p <arg>
Password for bitcoin JSON-RPC server
--per-device-stats
Force verbose mode and output per-device statistics
--protocol-dump|-P
Verbose dump of protocol-level activities
--queue|-Q <arg>
Minimum number of work items to have queued (0 - 10) (default: 1)
--quiet|-q
Disable logging output, display status and errors
--real-quiet
Disable all output
--remove-disabled
Remove disabled devices entirely, as if they didn't exist
--rotate <arg>
Change multipool strategy from failover to regularly rotate at N minutes (default: 0)
--round-robin
Change multipool strategy from failover to round robin on failure
--scan-time|-s <arg>
Upper bound on time spent scanning current work, in seconds (default: 60)
--sched-start <arg>
Set a time of day in HH:MM to start mining (a once off without a stop time)
--sched-stop <arg>
Set a time of day in HH:MM to stop mining (will quit without a start time)
--scrypt
Use the scrypt algorithm for mining (litecoin only)
--sharelog <arg>
Append share log to file
--shares <arg>
Quit after mining N shares (default: unlimited)
--socks-proxy <arg>
Set socks4 proxy (host:port) for all pools without a proxy specified
--syslog
Use system log for output messages (default: standard error)
--temp-cutoff <arg>
Temperature where a device will be automatically disabled, one value or comma separated list (default: 95)
--text-only|-T
Disable ncurses formatted screen output
--url|-o <arg>
URL for bitcoin JSON-RPC server
--user|-u <arg>
Username for bitcoin JSON-RPC server
--verbose
Log verbose output to stderr as well as status output
--userpass|-O <arg>
Username:Password pair for bitcoin JSON-RPC server
Options for command line only:
--config|-c <arg>
Load a JSON-format configuration file
See example.conf for an example configuration.
--help|-h
Print this message
--version|-V
Display version and exit
GPU only options:
--auto-fan
Automatically adjust all GPU fan speeds to maintain a target temperature
--auto-gpu
Automatically adjust all GPU engine clock speeds to maintain a target temperature
--device|-d <arg>
Select device to use, (Use repeat -d for multiple devices, default: all)
--disable-gpu|-G
Disable GPU mining even if suitable devices exist
--gpu-threads|-g <arg>
Number of threads per GPU (1 - 10) (default: 2)
--gpu-dyninterval <arg>
Set the refresh interval in ms for GPUs using dynamic intensity (default: 7)
--gpu-engine <arg>
GPU engine (over)clock range in Mhz - one value, range and/or comma separated list (e.g. 850-900,900,750-850)
--gpu-fan <arg>
GPU fan percentage range - one value, range and/or comma separated list (e.g. 25-85,85,65)
--gpu-map <arg>
Map OpenCL to ADL device order manually, paired CSV (e.g. 1:0,2:1 maps OpenCL 1 to ADL 0, 2 to 1)
--gpu-memclock <arg>
Set the GPU memory (over)clock in Mhz - one value for all or separate by commas for per card.
--gpu-memdiff <arg>
Set a fixed difference in clock speed between the GPU and memory in auto-gpu mode
--gpu-powertune <arg>
Set the GPU powertune percentage - one value for all or separate by commas for per card.
--gpu-reorder
Attempt to reorder GPU devices according to PCI Bus ID
--gpu-vddc <arg>
Set the GPU voltage in Volts - one value for all or separate by commas for per card.
--intensity|-I <arg>
Intensity of GPU scanning (d or -10 -> 10, default: d to maintain desktop interactivity)
--kernel|-k <arg>
Override kernel to use (diablo, poclbm, phatk or diakgcn) - one value or comma separated
--ndevs|-n
Enumerate number of detected GPUs and exit
--temp-hysteresis <arg>
Set how much the temperature can fluctuate outside limits when automanaging speeds (default: 3)
--temp-overheat <arg>
Overheat temperature when automatically managing fan and GPU speeds (default: 85)
--temp-target <arg>
Target temperature when automatically managing fan and GPU speeds (default: 75)
--vectors|-v <arg>
Override detected optimal vector (1, 2 or 4) - one value or comma separated list
--worksize|-w <arg>
Override detected optimal worksize - one value or comma separated list
SCRYPT only options:
--lookup-gap <arg>
Set GPU lookup gap for scrypt mining, comma separated
--thread-concurrency <arg>
Set GPU thread concurrency for scrypt mining, comma separated
Click Here for more information regarding litecoin mining (scrypt mining)
FPGA mining boards(BitForce, Icarus, ModMiner, Ztex) only options:
--scan-serial|-S <arg>
Serial port to probe for FPGA mining device
This option is only for BitForce, Icarus, and/or ModMiner FPGAs
By default, cgminer will scan for autodetected FPGAs unless at least one -S is specified for that driver. If you specify -S and still want cgminer to scan, you must also use "-S auto". If you want to prevent cgminer from scanning without specifying a device, you can use "-S noauto". Note that presently, autodetection only works on Linux, and might only detect one device depending on the version of udev being used.
On linux <arg> is usually of the format /dev/ttyUSBn
On windows <arg> is usually of the format \\.\COMn
(where n = the correct device number for the FPGA device)
The official supplied binaries are compiled with support for all FPGAs. To force the code to only attempt detection with a specific driver, prepend the argument with the driver name followed by a colon. For example, "icarus:/dev/ttyUSB0" or "bitforce:\\.\COM5" or using the short name: "ica:/dev/ttyUSB0" or "bfl:\\.\COM5"
For other FPGA details Click Here
CPU only options (deprecated, not included in binaries!):

--algo|-a <arg>     Specify sha256 implementation for CPU mining:
        auto            Benchmark at startup and pick fastest algorithm
        c               Linux kernel sha256, implemented in C
        4way            tcatm's 4-way SSE2 implementation
        via             VIA padlock implementation
        cryptopp        Crypto++ C/C++ implementation
        sse2_64         SSE2 64 bit implementation for x86_64 machines
        sse4_64         SSE4.1 64 bit implementation for x86_64 machines (default: sse2_64)
--cpu-threads|-t <arg> Number of miner CPU threads (default: 4)
--enable-cpu|-C     Enable CPU mining with other mining (default: no CPU mining if other devices exist)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ON USAGE:



After saving configuration from the menu, you do not need to give cgminer any arguments and it will load your configuration.
Any configuration file may also contain a single "include" : "filename" to recursively include another configuration file. Writing the configuration will save all settings from all files in the output.
  • Single pool, regular desktop:
    cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password

  • Single pool, dedicated miner:
    cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password -I 9

  • Single pool, first card regular desktop, 3 other dedicated cards:
    cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password -I d,9,9,9

  • Multiple pool, dedicated miner:
    cgminer -o http://pool1:port -u pool1username -p pool1password -o http://pool2:port -u pool2usernmae -p pool2password -I 9

  • Add overclocking settings, GPU and fan control for all cards:
    cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password -I 9 --auto-fan --auto-gpu --gpu-engine 750-950 --gpu-memclock 300

  • Add overclocking settings, GPU and fan control with different engine settings for 4 cards:
    cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password -I 9 --auto-fan --auto-gpu --gpu-engine 750-950,945,700-930,960 --gpu-memclock 300

  • Single pool with a standard http proxy, regular desktop:
    cgminer -o "http:proxy:port|http://pool:port" -u username -p password

  • Single pool with a socks5 proxy, regular desktop:
    cgminer -o "socks5:proxy:port|http://pool:port" -u username -p password

  • Single pool with stratum protocol support:
    cgminer -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u username -p password

  • The list of proxy types are:
    • http: standard http 1.1 proxy
    • http0: http 1.0 proxy
    • socks4: socks4 proxy
    • socks5: socks5 proxy
    • socks4a: socks4a proxy
    • socks5h: socks5 proxy using a hostname
If you compile cgminer with a version of CURL before 7.19.4 then some of the above will not be available. All are available since CURL version 7.19.4
If you specify the --socks-proxy option to cgminer, it will only be applied to all pools that don't specify their own proxy setting like above
Click Here to READ WARNINGS AND DOCUMENTATION ABOUT OVERCLOCKING
On Linux you virtually always need to export your display settings before starting to get all the cards recognised and/or temperature+clocking working:
export DISPLAY=:0

The Display

This is what the display looks like while running:
 cgminer version 2.8.7 - Started: [2012-11-10 13:39:31]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):765.2M (avg):740.1Mh/s | Q:37  A:2995  R:3  HW:0  E:8095%  U:163.3/m
 TQ: 0  ST: 4  SS: 49  DW: 18  NB: 7  LW: 160  GF: 2  RF: 0  WU: 166.5
 Connected to localhost with LP as user USER
 Block: 37ba8546fbbfb95497af0cf9...  Started: [13:57:04]  Best share: 13.1M
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  74.0C 3768RPM | 305.5M/305.7Mh/s | A:1239 R:2 HW:0 U: 67.57/m I:18
 GPU 1:  65.0C 2022RPM | 141.7M/141.1Mh/s | A: 574 R:0 HW:0 U: 31.31/m I:12
 GPU 2:  74.5C 3169RPM | 293.3M/293.3Mh/s | A:1187 R:1 HW:0 U: 64.74/m I:18
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2012-11-10 13:57:47] Accepted 000000be Diff 344/3 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-11-10 13:57:49] Accepted 00001acc Diff 9/3 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-11-10 13:57:49] Accepted 00001515 Diff 12/3 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-11-10 13:57:49] Accepted 00001915 Diff 10/3 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-11-10 13:57:50] Accepted 00002e32 Diff 5/3 GPU 2 pool 0
 [2012-11-10 13:57:50] Accepted 0000327d Diff 5/3 GPU 2 pool 0
 [2012-11-10 13:57:51] Accepted 00001313 Diff 13/3 GPU 1 pool 0
 [2012-11-10 13:57:52] Accepted 00003fd4 Diff 4/3 GPU 1 pool 0
 [2012-11-10 13:57:53] Accepted 00001f3b Diff 8/3 GPU 2 pool 0
 [2012-11-10 13:57:53] Accepted 0000328f Diff 5/3 GPU 2 pool 0
 [2012-11-10 13:57:53] Accepted 0000246a Diff 7/3 GPU 1 pool 0

The following options are available while running with a single keypress:
[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
P gives you:
Current pool management strategy: Failover
[F]ailover only disabled
[A]dd pool [R]emove pool [D]isable pool [E]nable pool
[C]hange management strategy [S]witch pool [I]nformation
G gives you something like:
GPU 0: [124.2 / 191.3 Mh/s] [Q:212  A:77  R:33  HW:0  E:36%  U:1.73/m]
Temp: 67.0 C
Fan Speed: 35% (2500 RPM)
Engine Clock: 960 MHz
Memory Clock: 480 Mhz
Vddc: 1.200 V
Activity: 93%
Powertune: 0%
Last initialised: [2011-09-06 12:03:56]
Thread 0: 62.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 1: 60.2 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE

[E]nable [D]isable [R]estart GPU [C]hange settings
Or press any other key to continue
S gives you:
[Q]ueue: 1
[S]cantime: 60
[E]xpiry: 120
[W]rite config file
[C]gminer restart
D gives you:
[N]ormal [C]lear [S]ilent mode (disable all output)
[D]ebug:off
[P]er-device:off
[Q]uiet:off
[V]erbose:off
[R]PC debug:off
[W]orkTime details:off
co[M]pact: off
[L]og interval:5
Q quits the application.
The running log shows output like this:
 [2012-10-12 18:02:20] Accepted f0c05469 Diff 1/1 GPU 0 pool 1
 [2012-10-12 18:02:22] Accepted 218ac982 Diff 7/1 GPU 1 pool 1
 [2012-10-12 18:02:23] Accepted d8300795 Diff 1/1 GPU 3 pool 1
 [2012-10-12 18:02:24] Accepted 122c1ff1 Diff 14/1 GPU 1 pool 1
The 8 byte hex values are the 2nd 8 bytes of the share being submitted to the pool. The 2 diff values are the actual difficulty target that share reached followed by the difficulty target the pool is currently asking for.
Also many issues and FAQs are covered in the forum thread dedicated to this program,
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=28402.0

The Output - What each section means

The first output line shows the following:
(5s):1713.6 (avg):1707.8 Mh/s | Q:301  A:729  R:8  HW:0  E:242%  U:22.53/m
And this is what they mean / stand-for
5s:
A 5 second exponentially decaying average hash rate
avg:
An all time average hash rate
Q:
The number of requested (Queued) work items from the pools
A:
The number of Accepted shares
R:
The number of Rejected shares
HW:
The number of HardWare errors
E:
The Efficiency defined as number of shares returned / work item
U:
The Utility defined as the number of shares / minute
The second output line (aka status lines) shows the following:
TQ: 1  ST: 1  SS: 0  DW: 0  NB: 1  LW: 8  GF: 1  RF: 1  WU:4.4/m
TQ
Total Queued work items.
ST
STaged work items (ready to use).
SS
Stale Shares discarded (detected and not submitted so don't count as rejects)
DW
Discarded Work items (work from block no longer valid to work on)
NB
New Blocks detected on the network
LW
Locally generated Work items
GF
Getwork Fail Occasions (server slow to provide work)
RF
Remote Fail occasions (server slow to accept work)
WU
Work Utility (Rate of difficulty 1 shares solved per minute)
The 4th output line (aka Block display) shows the following:
Block: 0074c5e482e34a506d2a051a...  Started: [17:17:22]  Best share: 65.5K
Block
a short stretch of the current block
Started
when the new block started
Best share
the all-time best difficulty share you've submitted since starting cgminer this session
The 5th output line shows the following:
GPU 3: 73.5C 2551RPM | 427.3/443.0Mh/s | A:8 R:0 HW:0 U:4.39/m
GPU 3
Device Type & number
73.5C
Temperature in Celcius(if supported)
2551RPM
Fanspeed in revolutions per minute(if supported)
427.3
A 5 second exponentially decaying average hash rate
443.0Mh/s
An all time average hash rate
A:
The number of accepted shares
R:
The number of rejected shares
HW:
The number of hardware erorrs
U:
The utility defines as the number of shares / minute
NOTE: Running intensities above 9 with current hardware is likely to only diminish return performance even if the hash rate might appear better. A good starting baseline intensity to try on dedicated miners is 9. Higher values are there to cope with future improvements in hardware.

MultiPool Strategies

Failover strategies with multipool

A number of different strategies for dealing with multipool setups are available. Each has their advantages and disadvantages so multiple strategies are available by user choice, as per the following list:
FAILOVER
The default strategy is failover. This means that if you input a number of pools, it will try to use them as a priority list, moving away from the 1st to the 2nd, 2nd to 3rd and so on. If any of the earlier pools recover, it will move back to the higher priority ones.
ROUND ROBIN
This strategy only moves from one pool to the next when the current one falls idle and makes no attempt to move otherwise.
ROTATE
This strategy moves at user-defined intervals from one active pool to the next, skipping pools that are idle.
LOAD BALANCE
This strategy sends work to all the pools to maintain optimum load. The most efficient pools will tend to get a lot more shares. If any pool falls idle, the rest will tend to take up the slack keeping the miner busy.
BALANCE
This strategy monitors the amount of difficulty 1 shares solved for each pool and uses it to try to end up doing the same amount of work for all pools.

Logging

cgminer will log to stderr if it detects stderr is being redirected to a file. To enable logging simply add 2>logfile.txt to your command line and logfile.txt will contain the logged output at the log level you specify (normal, verbose, debug etc.)
In other words if you would normally use:
./cgminer -o xxx -u yyy -p zzz

if you use
./cgminer -o xxx -u yyy -p zzz 2>logfile.txt

it will log to a file called logfile.txt and otherwise work the same.
There is also the -m option on linux which will spawn a command of your choice and pipe the output directly to that command.
The WorkTime details 'debug' option adds details on the end of each line displayed for Accepted or Rejected work done. An example would be:
<-00000059.ed4834a3 M:X D:1.0 G:17:02:38:0.405 C:1.855 (2.995) W:3.440 (0.000) S:0.461 R:17:02:47
The first 2 hex codes are the previous block hash, the rest are reported in
seconds unless stated otherwise:

The previous hash is followed by the getwork mode used M:X where X is one of
P:Pool, T:Test Pool, L:LP or B:Benchmark,

then D:d.ddd is the difficulty required to get a share from the work,
then G:hh:mm:ss:n.nnn, which is when the getwork or LP was sent to the pool and
the n.nnn is how long it took to reply,
followed by 'O' on it's own if it is an original getwork, or 'C:n.nnn' if it was
a clone with n.nnn stating how long after the work was recieved that it was cloned,
(m.mmm) is how long from when the original work was received until work started,
W:n.nnn is how long the work took to process until it was ready to submit,
(m.mmm) is how long from ready to submit to actually doing the submit, this is
usually 0.000 unless there was a problem with submitting the work,
S:n.nnn is how long it took to submit the completed work and await the reply,
R:hh:mm:ss is the actual time the work submit reply was received

If you start cgminer with the --sharelog option, you can get detailed
information for each share found. The argument to the option may be "-" for
standard output (not advisable with the ncurses UI), any valid positive number
for that file descriptor, or a filename.

To log share data to a file named "share.log", you can use either:
./cgminer --sharelog 50 -o xxx -u yyy -p zzz 50>share.log
./cgminer --sharelog share.log -o xxx -u yyy -p zzz

For every share found, data will be logged in a CSV (Comma Separated Value)

format:
    timestamp,disposition,target,pool,dev,thr,sharehash,sharedata
	
For example (this is wrapped, but it's all on one line for real):
    1335313090,reject,
    ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff00000000,
    http://localhost:8337,GPU0,0,
    6f983c918f3299b58febf95ec4d0c7094ed634bc13754553ec34fc3800000000,
    00000001a0980aff4ce4a96d53f4b89a2d5f0e765c978640fe24372a000001c5
    000000004a4366808f81d44f26df3d69d7dc4b3473385930462d9ab707b50498
    f681634a4f1f63d01a0cd43fb338000000000080000000000000000000000000
    0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000

Overclocking - Warning & Information

AS WITH ALL OVERCLOCKING TOOLS YOU ARE ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY HARM YOU MAY CAUSE TO YOUR HARDWARE. OVERCLOCKING CAN INVALIDATE WARRANTIES, DAMAGE HARDWARE AND EVEN CAUSE FIRES. THE AUTHOR ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE YOU MAY CAUSE OR UNPLANNED CHILDREN THAT MAY OCCUR AS A RESULT.
The GPU monitoring, clocking and fanspeed control incorporated into cgminer comes through use of the ATI Display Library. As such, it only supports ATI GPUs. Even if ADL support is successfully built into cgminer, unless the card and driver supports it, no GPU monitoring/settings will be available.
Cgminer supports initial setting of GPU engine clock speed, memory clock speed, voltage, fanspeed, and the undocumented powertune feature of 69x0+ GPUs. The setting passed to cgminer is used by all GPUs unless separate values are specified. All settings can all be changed within the menu on the fly on a per-GPU basis.
For example:
--gpu-engine 950 --gpu-memclock 825

will try to set all GPU engine clocks to 950 and all memory clocks to 825,

while:
--gpu-engine 950,945,930,960 --gpu-memclock 300

will try to set the engine clock of card 0 to 950, 1 to 945, 2 to 930, 3 to 960 and all memory clocks to 300.

AUTO MODES:

There are two "auto" modes in cgminer, --auto-fan and --auto-gpu. These can be used independently of each other and are complementary. Both auto modes are designed to safely change settings while trying to maintain a target temperature. By default this is set to 75 degrees Celcius but can be changed with:
--temp-target
e.g.
--temp-target 80
Sets all cards' target temperature to 80 degrees.

--temp-target 75,85
Sets card 0 target temperature to 75, and card 1 to 85 degrees.

AUTO FAN:
e.g.
--auto-fan (implies 85% upper limit)
--gpu-fan 25-85,65 --auto-fan
Fan control in auto fan works off the theory that the minimum possible fan required to maintain an optimal temperature will use less power, make less noise, and prolong the life of the fan. In auto-fan mode, the fan speed is limited to 85% if the temperature is below "overheat" intentionally, as higher fanspeeds on GPUs do not produce signficantly more cooling, yet significanly shorten the lifespan of the fans. If temperature reaches the overheat value, fanspeed will still be increased to 100%. The overheat value is set to 85 degrees by default and can be changed with:
--temp-overheat
e.g.
--temp-overheat 75,85
Sets card 0 overheat threshold to 75 degrees and card 1 to 85.

AUTO GPU:
e.g.
--auto-gpu --gpu-engine 750-950
--auto-gpu --gpu-engine 750-950,945,700-930,960
GPU control in auto gpu tries to maintain as high a clock speed as possible while not reaching overheat temperatures. As a lower clock speed limit, the auto-gpu mode checks the GPU card's "normal" clock speed and will not go below this unless you have manually set a lower speed in the range. Also, unless a higher clock speed was specified at startup, it will not raise the clockspeed. If the temperature climbs, fanspeed is adjusted and optimised before GPU engine clockspeed is adjusted. If fan speed control is not available or already optimal, then GPU clock speed is only decreased if it goes over the target temperature by the hysteresis amount, which is set to 3 by default and can be changed with:
--temp-hysteresis
If the temperature drops below the target temperature, and engine clock speed is not at the highest level set at startup, cgminer will raise the clock speed. If at any time you manually set an even higher clock speed successfully in cgminer, it will record this value and use it as its new upper limit (and the same for low clock speeds and lower limits). If the temperature goes over the cutoff limit (95 degrees by default), cgminer will completely disable the GPU from mining and it will not be re-enabled unless manually done so. The cutoff temperature can be changed with:
--temp-cutoff
e.g.
--temp-cutoff 95,105
Sets card 0 cutoff temperature to 95 and card 1 to 105.
--gpu-memdiff -125
This setting will modify the memory speed whenever the GPU clock speed is modified by --auto-gpu. In this example, it will set the memory speed to be 125 Mhz lower than the GPU speed. This is useful for some cards like the 6970 which normally don't allow a bigger clock speed difference.

CHANGING SETTINGS

When setting values, it is important to realise that even though the driver may report the value was changed successfully, and the new card power profile information contains the values you set it to, that the card itself may refuse to use those settings. As the performance profile changes dynamically, querying the "current" value on the card can be wrong as well. So when changing values in cgminer, after a pause of 1 second, it will report to you the current values where you should check that your change has taken. An example is that 6970 reference cards will accept low memory values but refuse to actually run those lower memory values unless they're within 125 of the engine clock speed. In that scenario, they usually set their real speed back to their default.
Cgminer reports the so-called "safe" range of whatever it is you are modifying when you ask to modify it on the fly. However, you can change settings to values outside this range. Despite this, the card can easily refuse to accept your changes, or worse, to accept your changes and then silently ignore them. So there is absolutely to know how far to/from where/to it can set things safely or otherwise, and there is nothing stopping you from at least trying to set them outside this range. Being very conscious of these possible failures is why cgminer will report back the current values for you to examine how exactly the card has responded. Even within the reported range of accepted values by the card, it is very easy to crash just about any card, so it cannot use those values to determine what range to set. You have to provide something meaningful manually for cgminer to work with through experimentation.

STARTUP / SHUTDOWN

When cgminer starts up, it tries to read off the current profile information for clock and fan speeds and stores these values. When quitting cgminer, it will then try to restore the original values. Changing settings outside of cgminer while it's running may be reset to the startup cgminer values when cgminer shuts down because of this.

GPU Device Issues & Mapping

GPU DEVICE ISSUES and use of --gpu-map

GPUs mine with OpenCL software via the GPU device driver. This means you need to have both an OpenCL SDK installed, and the GPU device driver RUNNING (i.e. Xorg up and running configured for all devices that will mine on linux etc.) Meanwhile, the hardware monitoring that cgminer offers for AMD devices relies on the ATI Display Library (ADL) software to work. OpenCL DOES NOT TALK TO THE ADL. There is no 100% reliable way to know that OpenCL devices are identical to the ADL devices, as neither give off the same information. cgminer does its best to correlate these devices based on the order that OpenCL and ADL numbers them. It is possible that this will fail for the following reasons:
  1. The device order is listed differently by OpenCL and ADL (rare), even if the number of devices is the same.
  2. There are more OpenCL devices than ADL. OpenCL stupidly sees one GPU as two devices if you have two monitors connected to the one GPU.
  3. There are more ADL devices than OpenCL. ADL devices include any ATI GPUs, including ones that can't mine, like some older R4xxx cards.
To cope with this, the ADVANCED option for --gpu-map is provided with cgminer. DO NOT USE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. The default will work the vast majority of the time unless you know you have a problem already.
To get useful information, start cgminer with just the -n option. You will get output that looks like this:
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP (844.4)
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] Platform 0 devices: 3
[2012-04-25 13:17:34]   0       Tahiti
[2012-04-25 13:17:34]   1       Tahiti
[2012-04-25 13:17:34]   2       Cayman
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series  hardware monitoring enabled
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] GPU 1 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series  hardware monitoring enabled
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] GPU 2 AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series hardware monitoring enabled
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] 3 GPU devices max detected
Note the number of devices here match, and the order is the same. If devices 1 and 2 were different between Tahiti and Cayman, you could run cgminer with: --gpu-map 2:1,1:2 And it would swap the monitoring it received from ADL device 1 and put it to opencl device 2 and vice versa.
If you have 2 monitors connected to the first device it would look like this:
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] Platform 0 devices: 4
[2012-04-25 13:17:34]   0       Tahiti
[2012-04-25 13:17:34]   1       Tahiti
[2012-04-25 13:17:34]   2       Tahiti
[2012-04-25 13:17:34]   3       Cayman
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series  hardware monitoring enabled
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] GPU 1 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series  hardware monitoring enabled
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] GPU 2 AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series hardware monitoring enabled
To work around this, you would use: -d 0 -d 2 -d 3 --gpu-map 2:1,3:2
If you have an older card as well as the rest it would look like this:
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] Platform 0 devices: 3
[2012-04-25 13:17:34]   0       Tahiti
[2012-04-25 13:17:34]   1       Tahiti
[2012-04-25 13:17:34]   2       Cayman
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 4500 Series  hardware monitoring enabled
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] GPU 1 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series  hardware monitoring enabled
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] GPU 2 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series  hardware monitoring enabled
[2012-04-25 13:17:34] GPU 3 AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series hardware monitoring enabled
To work around this you would use: --gpu-map 0:1,1:2,2:3

For RPC API details see the API-README file


F.A.Q.

Q: cgminer segfaults when I change my shell window size.
A: Older versions of libncurses have a bug to do with refreshing a window
after a size change. Upgrading to a new version of curses will fix it.

Q: Can I mine on servers from different networks (eg smartcoin and bitcoin) at
the same time?
A: No, cgminer keeps a database of the block it's working on to ensure it does
not work on stale blocks, and having different blocks from two networks would
make it invalidate the work from each other.

Q: Can I change the intensity settings individually for each GPU?
A: Yes, pass a list separated by commas such as -I d,4,9,9

Q: Can I put multiple pools in the config file?
A: Yes, check the example.conf file. Alternatively, set up everything either on
the command line or via the menu after startup and choose settings->write
config file and the file will be loaded one each startup.

Q: The build fails with gcc is unable to build a binary.
A: Remove the "-march=native" component of your CFLAGS as your version of gcc
does not support it.

Q: The CPU usage is high.
A: The ATI drivers after 11.6 have a bug that makes them consume 100% of one
CPU core unnecessarily so downgrade to 11.6. Binding cgminer to one CPU core on
windows can minimise it to 100% (instead of more than one core). Driver version
11.11 on linux and 11.12 on windows appear to have fixed this issue. Note that
later drivers may have an apparent return of high CPU usage. Try
'export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1' on Linux before starting cgminer.

Q: Can you implement feature X?
A: I can, but time is limited, and people who donate are more likely to get
their feature requests implemented.

Q: My GPU hangs and I have to reboot it to get it going again?
A: The more aggressively the mining software uses your GPU, the less overclock
you will be able to run. You are more likely to hit your limits with cgminer
and you will find you may need to overclock your GPU less aggressively. The
software cannot be responsible and make your GPU hang directly. If you simply
cannot get it to ever stop hanging, try decreasing the intensity, and if even
that fails, try changing to the poclbm kernel with -k poclbm, though you will
sacrifice performance. cgminer is designed to try and safely restart GPUs as
much as possible, but NOT if that restart might actually crash the rest of the
GPUs mining, or even the machine. It tries to restart them with a separate
thread and if that separate thread dies, it gives up trying to restart any more
GPUs.

Q: Work keeps going to my backup pool even though my primary pool hasn't
failed?
A: Cgminer checks for conditions where the primary pool is lagging and will
pass some work to the backup servers under those conditions. The reason for
doing this is to try its absolute best to keep the GPUs working on something
useful and not risk idle periods. You can disable this behaviour with the
option --failover-only.

Q: Is this a virus?
A: Cgminer is being packaged with other trojan scripts and some antivirus
software is falsely accusing cgminer.exe as being the actual virus, rather
than whatever it is being packaged with. If you installed cgminer yourself,
then you do not have a virus on your computer. Complain to your antivirus
software company. They seem to be flagging even source code now from cgminer
as viruses, even though text source files can't do anything by themself.

Q: Can you modify the display to include more of one thing in the output and
less of another, or can you change the quiet mode or can you add yet another
output mode?
A: Everyone will always have their own view of what's important to monitor.
The defaults are very sane and I have very little interest in changing this
any further.

Q: Can you change the autofan/autogpu to change speeds in a different manner?
A: The defaults are sane and safe. I'm not interested in changing them
further. The starting fan speed is set to 50% in auto-fan mode as a safety
precaution.

Q: Why is my efficiency above/below 100%?
A: Efficiency simply means how many shares you return for the amount of work
you request. It does not correlate with efficient use of your hardware, and is
a measure of a combination of hardware speed, block luck, pool design and other
factors

Q: What are the best parameters to pass for X pool/hardware/device.
A: Virtually always, the DEFAULT parameters give the best results. Most user
defined settings lead to worse performance. The ONLY thing most users should
need to set is the Intensity.

Q: What happened to CPU mining?
A: Being increasingly irrelevant for most users, and a maintenance issue, it is
no longer under active development and will not be supported unless someone
steps up to help maintain it. No binary builds supporting CPU mining will be
released but CPU mining can be built into cgminer when it is compiled.

Q: I upgraded cgminer version and my hashrate suddenly dropped!
A: No, you upgraded your SDK version unwittingly between upgrades of cgminer
and that caused  your hashrate to drop. See the next question.

Q: I upgraded my ATI driver/SDK/cgminer and my hashrate suddenly dropped!
A: The hashrate performance in cgminer is tied to the version of the ATI SDK
that is installed only for the very first time cgminer is run. This generates
binaries that are used by the GPU every time after that. Any upgrades to the
SDK after that time will have no effect on the binaries. However, if you
install a fresh version of cgminer, and have since upgraded your SDK, new
binaries will be built. It is known that the 2.6 ATI SDK has a huge hashrate
penalty on generating new binaries. It is recommended to not use this SDK at
this time unless you are using an ATI 7xxx card that needs it.

Q: Which ATI SDK is the best for cgminer?
A: At the moment, versions 2.4 and 2.5 work the best. If you are forced to use
the 2.6 SDK, the phatk kernel will perform poorly, while the diablo or my
custom modified poclbm kernel are optimised for it.

Q: I have multiple SDKs installed, can I choose which one it uses?
A: Run cgminer with the -n option and it will list all the platforms currently
installed. Then you can tell cgminer which platform to use with --gpu-platform.

Q: GUI version?
A: No. The RPC interface makes it possible for someone else to write one
though.

Q: I'm having an issue. What debugging information should I provide?
A: Start cgminer with your regular commands and add -D -T --verbose and provide
the full startup output and a summary of your hardware, operating system, ATI
driver version and ATI stream version.

Q: cgminer reports no devices or only one device on startup on Linux although
I have multiple devices and drivers+SDK installed properly?
A: Try "export DISPLAY=:0" before running cgminer.

Q: My network gets slower and slower and then dies for a minute?
A; Try the --net-delay option.

Q: How do I tune for p2pool?
A: p2pool has very rapid expiration of work and new blocks, it is suggested you
decrease intensity by 1 from your optimal value, and decrease GPU threads to 1
with -g 1. It is also recommended to use --failover-only since the work is
effectively like a different block chain. If mining with a minirig, it is worth
adding the --bfl-range option.

Q: Are kernels from other mining software useable in cgminer?
A: No, the APIs are slightly different between the different software and they
will not work.

Q: I run PHP on windows to access the API with the example miner.php. Why does
it fail when php is installed properly but I only get errors about Sockets not
working in the logs?
A: http://us.php.net/manual/en/sockets.installation.php

Q: What is a PGA?
A: At the moment, cgminer supports 4 FPGAs: BitForce, Icarus, ModMiner, and Ztex.
They are Field-Programmable Gate Arrays that have been programmed to do Bitcoin
mining. Since the acronym needs to be only 3 characters, the "Field-" part has
been skipped.

Q: How do I get my BFL/Icarus/Lancelot/Cairnsmore device to auto-recognise?
A: On linux, if the /dev/ttyUSB* devices don't automatically appear, the only
thing that needs to be done is to load the driver for them:
BFL: sudo modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x0403 product=0x6014
Icarus: sudo modprobe pl2303 vendor=0x067b product=0x230
Lancelot: sudo modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x0403 product=0x6001
Cairnsmore: sudo modprobe ftdi_sio product=0x8350 vendor=0x0403
On windows you must install the pl2303 or ftdi driver required for the device
pl2303: http://prolificusa.com/pl-2303hx-drivers/
ftdi: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

Q: On linux I can see the /dev/ttyUSB* devices for my ICA/BFL/MMQ FPGA, but
cgminer can't mine on them
A: Make sure you have the required priviledges to access the /dev/ttyUSB* devices:
 sudo ls -las /dev/ttyUSB*
will give output like:
 0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 2012-09-11 13:49 /dev/ttyUSB0
This means your account must have the group 'dialout' or root priviledges
To permanently give your account the 'dialout' group:
 sudo usermod -G dialout -a `whoami`
Then logout and back in again

Q: What is stratum and how do I use it?
A: Stratum is a protocol designed for pooled mining in such a way as to
minimise the amount of network communications, yet scale to hardware of any
speed. With versions of cgminer 2.8.0+, if a pool has stratum support, cgminer
will automatically detect it and switch to the support as advertised if it can.
Stratum uses direct TCP connections to the pool and thus it will NOT currently
work through a http proxy but will work via a socks proxy if you need to use
one. If you input the stratum port directly into your configuration, or use the
special prefix "stratum+tcp://" instead of "http://", cgminer will ONLY try to
use stratum protocol mining. The advantages of stratum to the miner are no
delays in getting more work for the miner, less rejects across block changes,
and far less network communications for the same amount of mining hashrate. If
you do NOT wish cgminer to automatically switch to stratum protocol even if it
is detected, add the --fix-protocol option.
This code is provided entirely free of charge by the programmer in his spare time so donations would be greatly appreciated. Please consider donating to the address below.
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
15qSxP1SQcUX3o4nhkfdbgyoWEFMomJ4rZ BTC (preferred)
Lc8TWMiKM7gRUrG8VB8pPNP1Yvt1SGZnoH LTC


Scrypt Mining

Scrypt mining, AKA litecoin mining, for GPU is completely different to sha256 used for bitcoin mining. The algorithm was originally developed in a manner that it was anticipated would make it suitable for mining on CPU but NOT GPU. Thanks to some innovative work by Artforz and mtrlt, this was proven to be wrong. However, it has very different requirements to bitcoin mining and is a lot more complicated to get working well. Note that it is a ram dependent workload, and requires you to have enough system ram as well as fast enough GPU ram. If you have less system ram than your GPU has, it may not be possible to mine at any reasonable rate.
There are 5 main parameters to tuning scrypt, 2 of which you MUST set, and the others are optional for further fine tuning. When you start scrypt mining with the --scrypt option, cgminer will fail IN RANDOM WAYS. They are all due to parameters being outside what the GPU can cope with. Not giving cgminer a hint as to your GPU type, it will hardly ever perform well.
NOTE that if it does not fail at startup, the presence of hardware errors (HW) are a sure sign that you have set the parameters too high.
Step 1 on linux:
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
If you do not do this, you may find it impossible to scrypt mine. You may find a value of 40 is enough and increasing this further has little effect.

export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
may help CPU usage a little as well.
--shaders XXX
is a new option where you tell cgminer how many shaders your GPU has. This helps cgminer try to choose some meaningful baseline parameters. Use this table below to determine how many shaders your GPU has, and note that there are some variants of these cards, and nvidia shaders are much much lower and virtually pointless trying to mine on.
GPU Shaders
5670 400
5750 720
5770 800
5830 1120
5850 1440
5870 1600
5970 1600 x2
GPU Shaders
6450 160
6570 480
6670 480
6790 800
6850 960
6870 1120
6950 1408
6970 1536
6990 1536 x2
GPU Shaders
7750 512
7770 640
7850 1024
7870 1280
7950 1792
7970 2048
These are only used as a rough guide for cgminer, and it is rare that this is all you will need to set.
--intensity XX
Just like in bitcoin mining, scrypt mining takes an intensity, however the scale goes from 0 to 20 to mimic the "Aggression" used in mtrlt's reaper. The reason this is crucial is that too high an intensity can actually be disastrous with scrypt because it CAN run out of ram. Intensities over 13 start writing over the same ram and it is highly dependent on the GPU, but they can start actually DECREASING your hashrate, or even worse, start producing garbage with HW errors skyrocketing. The low level detail is that intensity is only guaranteed up to the power of 2 that most closely matches the thread concurrency. i.e. a thread concurrency of 6144 has 8192 as the nearest power of two above it, thus as 2^13=8192, that is an intensity of 13.
Optional parameters to tune:
-g, --thread-concurrency, --lookup-gap
-g
Once you have found the optimal shaders and intensity, you can start increasing the -g value till cgminer fails to start. Rarely will you be able to go over about -g 4 and each increase in -g only increases hashrate slightly.
--thread-concurrency
This tunes the optimal size of work that scrypt can do. It is internally tuned by cgminer to be the highest reasonable multiple of shaders that it can allocate on your GPU. Ideally it should be a multiple of your shader count. vliw5 architecture (R5XXX) would be best at 5x shaders, while VLIW4 (R6xxx and R7xxx) are best at 4x. Setting thread concurrency overrides anything you put into --shaders.
--lookup-gap
This tunes a compromise between ram usage and performance. Performance peaks at a gap of 2, but increasing the gap can save you some GPU ram, but almost always at the cost of significant loss of hashrate. Setting lookup gap overrides the default of 2, but cgminer will use the --shaders value to choose a thread-concurrency if you haven't chosen one.

Overclocking for scrypt mining:
First of all, do not underclock your memory initially. Scrypt mining requires memory speed and on most, but not all, GPUs, lowering memory speed lowers mining performance.
Second, absolute engine clock speeds do NOT correlate with hashrate. The ratio of engine clock speed to memory matters, so if you set your memory to the default value, and then start overclocking as you are running it, you should find a sweet spot where the hashrate peaks and then it might actually drop if you increase the engine clock speed further. Unless you wish to run with a dynamic intensity, do not go over 13 without testing it while it's running to see that it increases hashrate AND utility WITHOUT increasing your HW errors.
Suggested values for 7970 for example:
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
--thread-concurrency 8192 -g 4 --gpu-engine 1135 --gpu-memclock 1375

Appendix A

Windows Build

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* Introduction                                                                       *

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The following instructions have been tested on both Windows 7 and Windows XP.

Most of what is described below (copying files, downloading files, etc.) can be done

directly in the MinGW MSYS shell; these instructions do not do so because package

versions and links change over time. The best way is to use your browser, go to the

links directly, and see for yourself which versions you want to install.

Winrar was used to do the extracting of archive files in the making of this guide.



If you think that this documentation was helpful and you wish to donate, you can

do so at the following address. 12KaKtrK52iQjPdtsJq7fJ7smC32tXWbWr



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* A tip that might help you along the way                                             *

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Enable "QuickEdit Mode" in your Command Prompt Window or MinGW Command Prompt

Window (No need to go into the context menu to choose edit-mark/copy/paste):

Right-click on the title bar and click Properties. Under the Options tab, check

the box for "QuickEdit Mode". Alternately, if you want this change to be

permanent on all of your Command Prompt Windows; you can click Defaults instead

of Properties as described above. Now you can drag and select text you want to

copy, right-click to copy the text to the clipboard and right-click once again to

paste it at the desired location. You could for example, copy some text from this

document to the clipboard and right click in your Command Prompt Window to paste

what you copied.



**************************************************************************************

* Install mingw32                                                                    *

**************************************************************************************

Go to this url ==> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started

Click the link that says "Download and run the latest mingw-get-inst version."

Download and run the latest file. Install MinGW in the default directory.

(I downloaded the one labeled "mingw-get-inst-20120426" - note that this could

be a different version later.)

Make sure to check the option for "Download latest repository catalogs".

I just selected all the check boxes (excluding "Fortran Compiler") so that everything

was installed.



**************************************************************************************

* Create mstcpip.h                                                                   *

**************************************************************************************

Open notepad and copy the following into it. Save it as "\MinGW\include\mstcpip.h".

Make sure it does not have the ".txt" extension (If it does then rename it).



struct tcp_keepalive

{

    u_long onoff;

    u_long keepalivetime;

    u_long keepaliveinterval;

};



#ifndef USE_WS_PREFIX



#define SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS    _WSAIOW(IOC_VENDOR, 4)



#else



#define WS_SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS    _WSAIOW(WS_IOC_VENDOR, 4)



#endif



**************************************************************************************

* Run the MSYS shell for the first time to create your user directory                *

**************************************************************************************

(Start Icon/keyboard key ==> All Programs ==> MinGW ==> MinGW Shell).

This will create your user directory for you.



**************************************************************************************

* Install libpdcurses                                                                *

**************************************************************************************

Type the lines below to install libpdcurses.

mingw-get install mingw32-libpdcurses

mingw-get install mingw32-pdcurses

Ctrl-D or typing "logout" and pressing the enter key should get you out of the

window.



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* Copy CGMiner source to your MSYS working directory                                 *

**************************************************************************************

Copy CGMiner source code directory into:

\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(folder with your user name)



**************************************************************************************

* Install AMD APP SDK, latest version (only if you want GPU mining)                  *

**************************************************************************************

Note: You do not need to install the AMD APP SDK if you are only using Nvidia GPU's

Go to this url for the latest AMD APP SDK:

 http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/Pages/default.aspx

Go to this url for legacy AMD APP SDK's:

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

Download and install whichever version you like best.

Copy the folders in \Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\include to \MinGW\include

Copy \Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\lib\x86\libOpenCL.a to \MinGW\lib

Note: If you are on a 32 bit version of windows "Program Files (x86)" will be

"Program Files".

Note2: If you update your APP SDK later you might want to recopy the above files



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* Install AMD ADL SDK, latest version (only if you want GPU monitoring)              *

**************************************************************************************

Note: You do not need to install the AMD ADL SDK if you are only using Nvidia GPU's

Go to this url ==> http://developer.amd.com/sdks/ADLSDK/Pages/default.aspx

Download and unzip the file you downloaded.

Pull adl_defines.h, adl_sdk.h, and adl_structures.h out of the include folder

Put those files into the ADL_SDK folder in your source tree as shown below.

\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(folder with your user name)\cgminer-x.x.x\ADL_SDK



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* Install GTK-WIN, required for Pkg-config in the next step                          *

**************************************************************************************

Go to this url ==> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-win/

Download the file.

After you have downloaded the file Double click/run it and this will install GTK+

I chose all the selection boxes when I installed.

Copy libglib-2.0-0.dll and intl.dll from \Program Files (x86)\gtk2-runtime\bin to

\MinGW\bin

Note: If you are on a 32 bit version of windows "Program Files (x86)" will be

"Program Files".



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* Install pkg-config                                                                 *

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Go to this url ==> http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php

Scroll down to where it shows pkg-cfg.

Download the file from the tool link. Extract "pkg-config.exe" from bin and place in

your  \MinGW\bin directory.

Download the file from the "Dev" link. Extract "pkg.m4" from share\aclocal and place

in your \MingW\share\aclocal directory.



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* Install libcurl                                                                    *

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Go to this url ==> http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32

At the section where it says "Win32 - Generic", Click on the link that indicates

Win32 2000.XP 7.27.0 libcurl SSL and download it.

The one I downloaded may not be current for you. Choose the latest.

Extract the files that are in the zip (bin, include, and lib) to their respective

locations in MinGW (\MinGW\bin, \MinGW\include, and \MinGW\lib).

Edit the file \MinGW\lib\pkgconfig\libcurl.pc and change "-lcurl" to

"-lcurl -lcurldll".

Ref. http://old.nabble.com/gcc-working-with-libcurl-td20506927.html



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* Build cgminer.exe                                                                  *

**************************************************************************************

Run the MinGW MSYS shell

(Start Icon/keyboard key ==> All Programs ==> MinGW ==> MinGW Shell).

Change the working directory to your CGMiner project folder.

Example: cd cgminer-2.1.2 [Enter Key] if you are unsure then type "ls -la"

Another way is to type "cd cg" and then press the tab key; It will auto fill.

Type the lines below one at a time. Look for problems after each one before going on

to the next.



      adl.sh (optional - see below)

      autoreconf -fvi

      CFLAGS="-O2 -msse2" ./configure (additional config options, see below)

      make



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* Copy files to a build directory/folder                                             *

**************************************************************************************

Make a directory and copy the following files into it. This will be your CGMiner

Folder that you use for mining. Remember the .cl filenames could change on later

releases. If you installed a different version of libcurl then some of those dll's

may be different as well.

  cgminer.exe     from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\cgminer-x.x.x

  *.cl            from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\cgminer-x.x.x

  README          from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\cgminer-x.x.x

  libcurl.dll     from \MinGW\bin

  libidn-11.dll   from \MinGW\bin

  libeay32.dll    from \MinGW\bin

  ssleay32.dll    from \MinGW\bin

  libpdcurses.dll from \MinGW\bin

  pthreadGC2.dll  from \MinGW\bin



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* Optional - Install Git into MinGW/MSYS                                             *

**************************************************************************************

Go to this url ==> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

Click on the Downloads tab.

Download the latest "Portable" git archive.

Extract the git*.exe files from the bin folder and put them into \MinGW\bin.

Extract the share\git-core folder and place it into \MinGW\share.

After the previous step you should have a folder called \MinGW\share\git-core.

To test if it is working, open a MinGW shell and type the following:

  git config -?lobal core.autocrlf false (note: one time run only)

  git clone git://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer.git



If you simply just want to update the source after you have already cloned, type:

  git pull



Now you can get the latest source directly from github.



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* Optional - Make a .sh file to automate copying over ADL files                      *

**************************************************************************************

Make a folder/directory in your home folder and name it ADL_SDK.

 (ref:  \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(folder with your user name)\ADL_SDK)

Copy the ADL .h files into that folder/directory.

Open your favorite text editor and type the following into it.

 cp -av ../ADL_SDK/*.h ADL_SDK

Save the file as "adl.sh" and then place the file into "\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin".

From now on when your current working directory is the cgminer source directory

You can simply type "adl.sh" and it will place the ADL header files into place

For you. Make sure you never remove the ADL_SDK folder from your home folder.



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* Optional - Install libusb if you need auto USB device detection; required for Ztex *

**************************************************************************************

Go to this url ==> http://libusbx.org/

Click on the "Downloads" tab.

Click on "releases".

Click on the latest version. I downloaded 1.0.12; yours may be newer.

Do not download from the link that says "Looking for the latest version?".

Click on "Windows"

Click on the file and download it. I downloaded libusbx-1.0.12-win.7z.

Extract the the following from the file and place in where directed.

Copy libusb.h from include\libusbx-1.0 to \MinGW\include\libusb-1.0\libusb.h

Copy contents of MinGW32\static \MinGW\lib

Copy contents of MinGW32\dll to \MinGW\lib

You will have to copy "libusb-1.0.dll" to your working cgminer binary directory.



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* Some ./configure options                                                           *

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--enable-cpumining      Build with cpu mining support(default disabled)

--disable-opencl        Override detection and disable building with opencl

--disable-adl           Override detection and disable building with adl

--enable-bitforce       Compile support for BitForce FPGAs(default disabled)

--enable-icarus         Compile support for Icarus Board(default disabled)

--enable-modminer       Compile support for ModMiner FPGAs(default disabled)

--enable-ztex           Compile support for Ztex Board(default disabled)

--enable-scrypt         Compile support for scrypt litecoin mining (default disabled)

--without-curses        Compile support for curses TUI (default enabled)

--without-libudev       Autodetect FPGAs using libudev (default enabled)



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| Appendix A

xUbuntu 11.04 Live on USB

How to setup a cgminer using xubuntu 11.04 live on a USB

The master version of this document is here:
 https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer

The actual file is:
 https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-usb-cgminer

The copy in cgminer (check to make sure it isn't older) is:
 https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/linux-usb-cgminer

The original old verion on bitcointalk is:
 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg426741#msg426741

========

I have said to select English for the install process for 2 reasons:
1) I don't know any other spoken language very well
and
2) I'm not sure what problems installing under a different language
might cause (it will probably cause no problems but I don't know)

Software
========
Short hardware comment:
Your mining computer doesn't need any HDD or CD/DVD/BD as long as it has at
least 2GB of RAM, can boot USB, has some network connection to the internet
and of course a reasonable mining ATI graphics card
... Or you can boot a windows PC with the USB to only do mining ... and ignore
the system HDD ... wasting energy running the HDD (roughly 10 Watts per HDD) :)

If you wish to install to an HDD instead of a USB,
 see the changes to the instructions at the end

To create the USB, you need of course a 4GB USB and temporarily need a PC
with a CD (or DVD/BD) writer, a USB port and of course an internet
connection to the PC

1) Download the xubuntu 11.04 desktop live CD iso for amd64
   ( look here for mirrors: http://www.xubuntu.org/getubuntu )

2) Burn it to CD then boot that temporarily on any PC with a CD/DVD/BD and
   a USB port (this and the next 2 step won't effect that PC)
   Select "English" then select "Try Xubuntu without installing"
   and wait for the desktop to appear
   (this happens by default if you wait for the timeouts)

3) Plug in your 4GB USB device and it should appear on the desktop - you can
   leave it's contents as long as there is at least 2.8GB free

4) Now run "Startup Disk Creator" in "Applications->System"
   (the system menu is the little rat in the top left corner)

(if you have no mouse you can get the menu with <ctr><esc> and navigate
the menu with the arrow keys and <return> key)

From here select the boot CD as the "Source" and the USB as the "Disk to use"
lastly move the slider to 2GB for reserved extra space

The 2GB should be enough for modifications

Click: "Make Install Disk"
After about 10-15 minutes you have a base xubuntu 11.04 boot USB
(you can shut down this computer now)

5) Boot your cgminer PC with this USB stick, select "English"
   then select "Try Xubuntu without installing" and wait for the desktop to
   appear (this happens by default if you wait for the timeouts)

6) Start a terminal
   "Applications->Accessories->Terminal Emulator"

7) sudo apt-get install openssh-server screen

   if you have a problem here then it's probably coz the internet isn't
   available ... sort that out by reading elsewhere about routers etc

8) sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-dev
   sudo sync
   sudo shutdown -r now

N.B. always do a "sudo sync" and wait for it to finish every time before
shutting down the PC to ensure all data is written to the USB

9) sudo aticonfig --lsa
   this lists your ATI cards so you can see them
 sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --odgt
   this checks it can access all the cards ...

10) sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --initial
   this gets an error - no idea why but the xorg.conf is OK
 sudo sync
 sudo shutdown -r now

11) sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --odgt
   this checks it can access all the cards ...

12) get AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64.tgz from
 http://developer.amd.com/sdks/amdappsdk/downloads/pages/default.aspx
  ( http://developer.amd.com/Downloads/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64.tgz )

 sudo su
 cd /opt
  (replace /home/ubuntu/ with wherever you put the file: )
 tar -xvzf /home/ubuntu/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64.tgz

 cd AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/
 cp -pv lib/x86_64/* /usr/lib/
 rsync -avl include/CL/ /usr/include/CL/
 tar -xvzf icd-registration.tgz
 rsync -avl etc/OpenCL/ /etc/OpenCL/
 ldconfig
 sync
 shutdown -r now

 You now have an OpenCL enabled xubuntu

13) cgminer:
 sudo apt-get install curl

 get the binary linux cgminer
 (see the bitcoin forum cgminer thread for where to get it)
 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0

 ./cgminer -n
   this shows you the GPU's it found on your PC
   See further below if you get an error regarding libtinfo.so.5

14) An OC option:
 This is no longer needed since cgminer 2.* includes OC, however:

 sudo apt-get install libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/
  for an Over/underclocking application and get the file listed below then:
 sudo dpkg -i amdoverdrivectrl_1.2.1_amd64.deb

15) set the screen saver to ONLY blank ...

 Move the mouse to the bottom of the screen and you see a set of icons like
 on an Apple PC
 Click on Settings, then in the Settings window "Screensaver"
 Set "Mode:" to "Blank Screen Only"

16) apt-get install ntpd
 An accurate clock is always a good idea :)

17) if you wish to ssh into the box you must set a password
    to do this you simply have to be logged into it at the screen and type

  sudo passwd ubuntu

    it will prompt you (twice) to enter a password for the ubuntu account


Initial setup complete.

========

If you want to SSH into the machine and run cgminer:
 From a terminal on the miner display each time after you boot:
  xhost +

 'xhost +' isn't needed if you ssh into the machine with the same
 username that the GUI boots into (which is 'ubuntu' in this case)

Then after you ssh into the machine:
 export DISPLAY=:0
before running cgminer

Also note, that you should force the screen to blank when mining if
the ATI card is displaying the screen (using the screen saver
application menu)
In my case it takes away 50Mh/s when the screen isn't blanked
It will auto blank - but make sure the blank is of course just blank
as mentioned above at 15)


This is of course just the basics ... but it should get you a computer
up and running and able to run cgminer

========

You should keep an eye on USB disk space
The system logger writes log files in the /var/log/ directory
The two main ones that grow large are 'kern.log' and 'syslog'
If you want to keep them, save them away to some other computer
When space is low, just delete them e.g.

   sudo rm -i /var/log/syslog
   sudo rm -i /var/log/kern.log

The 'df' command will show you the current space e.g.:

   sudo df

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
aufs                   2099420    892024   1100748  45% /
none                   1015720       628   1015092   1% /dev
/dev/sda1              3909348   2837248   1072100  73% /cdrom
/dev/loop0              670848    670848         0 100% /rofs
none                   1023772       136   1023636   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                  1023772        16   1023756   1% /tmp
none                   1023772       124   1023648   1% /var/run
none                   1023772         0   1023772   0% /var/lock


This shows the 2GB space allocated when you setup the USB as '/' (aufs)
In this example, it's currently 45% full with almost 1.1GB of free space

========

The latest version (2.0.8) of cgminer is built with 11.10 (not 11.04)
If you get the following error when running the prebuilt version in 11.04:

   ./cgminer: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The fix is to simply link the old curses library to the new name e.g.:

   cd /lib64/
   sudo ln -s libncurses.so.5 libtinfo.so.5

========

If you wish to install to an HDD instead of a USB:
--------------------------------------------------

As per before:

1) Download the xubuntu 11.04 desktop live CD iso for amd64
   ( look here for mirrors: http://www.xubuntu.org/getubuntu )

Then:

2) Burn it to CD then boot that on your new mining PC
   Select "English" then select "Install Xubuntu"
   (you have 30 seconds to do this)

3) When the Install window comes up - again select "English" and click "Forward"

4) The next page will show you if you meet certain install requirements
   (make sure you do meet them all)
   Don't select the download option
   The 3rd party option isn't needed for mining so ignore that also

   Click "Forward"

5) With "Allocate drive space" it's probably easiest to say to use the
   "Erase" option.

   This is just for mining right? :)

   However, if you have anything on the HDD that you want to keep - the
   "Erase" install process will delete it - so back it up (quit the install)
   Also make sure there are no OTHER HDD attached that it may erase also
   i.e. only have attached the one HDD that you want to install onto unless
   you know exactly what you are doing

   If you see the "Install Xubuntu 11.04 alongside 'something'" then that
   just means that the HDD wasn't blank.
   If you want to try this option - do that yourself and then skip to step
   7) below when you get to that.

   There are plenty of other options available if you select "Something else"
   but I'm not going to go into all the details here other than to say that
   my preferred partioning is: /boot = 1GB = ext2, swap = twice memory size,
   / = 100GB = ext3 and the rest: /extra = ext3

   Click "Forward"

6) If you selected "Erase" then it allows you to choose the drive to install to
   Then click "Install Now"

7) "Where are you?" sort that out then click "Forward"

8) "Keyboard layout" sort that out (use the default) then click "Forward"

9) "Who are you?" The important one here is "Pick a username:" coz that's
   the name you will need to ssh into, to access it remotely (and of course
   the "Choose a Password" you set)

   If you set the "username" to anything but "ubuntu" then: wherever in this
   document I have mentioned the username "ubuntu" you must of course use the
   username you chose here instead of "ubuntu"

   Important: set it to "log in automatically" if you ever want to be able
   to start cgminer without being in front of the computer since 'X' must
   be running to use cgminer properly
   That does of course mean that the computer isn't secure from anyone who
   has access to it - but then again no computer that can automatically
   reboot is secure from anyone who has access to the actual computer itself

   Then click "Forward"

10) Of course when it completes click on "Restart Now"
    ... and remove the Xubuntu CD when it asks you

11) Wait for it to finish rebooting ... and it will auto login
    (unless you didn't do step 9) "Important:")

12) After it logs in, an upgrade popup for 11.10 (or later) will appear
    Select "Don't Upgrade"

13) Now go to step 6) of the USB script above for what to do next and that
    covers everything else needed

| Appendix A

FPGA

This README contains extended details about FPGA mining with cgminer


ModMinerQuad (MMQ)
------------------

The mining bitstream does not survive a power cycle, so cgminer will upload
it, if it needs to, before it starts mining

-

You must make sure you have an approriate firmware in your MMQ
Read here for official details of changing the firmware:
 http://wiki.btcfpga.com/index.php?title=Firmware

The basics of changing the firmware are:
 You need two short pieces of conductive wire if your MMQ doesn't have
 buttons on the "RESET" and "ISP" pads on the backplane board
 Cutting a small (metal) paper-clip in half works well for this

 Join the 2 left pads of the "RESET" pad with wire and the led will dim
 Without disconnecting the "RESET", join the 2 left pads of the "ISP" pad
 with a wire and it will stay dim
 Release "RESET" then release "ISP" and is should still be dim
 Unplug the USB and when you plug it back in it will show up as a mass
 storage device
  Linux: (as one single line):
   mcopy -i /dev/disk/by-id/usb-NXP_LPC134X_IFLASH_ISP000000000-0:0
      modminer091012.bin ::/firmware.bin
  Windows: delete the MSD device file firmware.bin and copy in the new one
   rename the new file and put it under the same name 'firmware.bin'
 Disconnect the USB correctly (so writes are flushed first)
 Join and then disconnect "RESET" and then plug the USB back in and it's done

Best to update to one of the latest 2 listed below if you don't already
have one of them in your MMQ

The current latest different firmware are:

 Latest for support of normal or TLM bitstream:
  http://btcfpga.com/files/firmware/modminer092612-TLM.bin

 Latest with only normal bitstream support (Temps/HW Fix):
  http://btcfpga.com/files/firmware/modminer091012.bin

The code is currently tested on the modminer091012.bin firmware.
This comment will be updated when others have been tested

-

On many linux distributions there is an app called modem-manager that
may cause problems when it is enabled, due to opening the MMQ device
and writing to it

The problem will typically present itself by the flashing led on the
backplane going out (no longer flashing) and it takes a power cycle to
re-enable the MMQ firmware - which then can lead to the problem happening
again

You can either disable/uninstall modem-manager if you don't need it or:
a (hack) solution to this is to blacklist the MMQ USB device in
/lib/udev/rules.d/77-mm-usb-device-blacklist.rules

Adding 2 lines like this (just above APC) should help
# MMQ
ATTRS{idVendor}=="ifc9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0003", ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1"

The change will be lost and need to be re-done, next time you update the
modem-manager software

TODO: check that all MMQ's have the same product ID


Bitforce (BFL)
--------------

--bfl-range         Use nonce range on bitforce devices if supported

This option is only for bitforce devices. Earlier devices such as the single
did not have any way of doing small amounts of work which meant that a lot of
work could be lost across block changes. Some of the "minirigs" have support
for doing this, so less work is lost across a longpoll. However, it comes at
a cost of 1% in overall hashrate so this feature is disabled by default. It
is only recommended you enable this if you are mining with a minirig on
p2pool.

C source is included for a bitforce firmware flash utility on Linux only:
 bitforce-firmware-flash.c
Using this, you can change the bitstream firmware on bitforce singles.
It is untested with other devices. Use at your own risk!

To compile:
 make bitforce-firmware-flash
To flash your BFL, specify the BFL port and the flash file e.g.:
 sudo ./bitforce-firmware-flash /dev/ttyUSB0 alphaminer_832.bfl
It takes a bit under 3 minutes to flash a BFL and shows a progress % counter
Once it completes, you may also need to wait about 15 seconds,
then power the BFL off and on again

If you get an error at the end of the BFL flash process stating:
 "Error reading response from ZBX"
it may have worked successfully anyway.
Test mining on it to be sure if it worked or not.

You need to give cgminer about 10 minutes mining with the BFL to be sure of
the MH/s value reported with the changed firmware - and the MH/s reported
will be less than the firmware speed since you lose work on every block change.


Icarus (ICA)
------------

There are two hidden options in cgminer when Icarus support is compiled in:

--icarus-options <arg> Set specific FPGA board configurations - one set of values for all or comma separated
           baud:work_division:fpga_count

           baud           The Serial/USB baud rate - 115200 or 57600 only - default 115200
           work_division  The fraction of work divided up for each FPGA chip - 1, 2, 4 or 8
                          e.g. 2 means each FPGA does half the nonce range - default 2
           fpga_count     The actual number of FPGA working - this would normally be the same
                          as work_division - range is from 1 up to 'work_division'
                          It defaults to the value of work_division - or 2 if you don't specify
                          work_division

If you define fewer comma seperated values than Icarus devices, the last values will be used
for all extra devices

An example would be: --icarus-options 57600:2:1
This would mean: use 57600 baud, the FPGA board divides the work in half however
only 1 FPGA actually runs on the board (e.g. like an early CM1 Icarus copy bitstream)

--icarus-timing <arg> Set how the Icarus timing is calculated - one setting/value for all or comma separated
           default[=N]   Use the default Icarus hash time (2.6316ns)
           short         Calculate the hash time and stop adjusting it at ~315 difficulty 1 shares (~1hr)
           long          Re-calculate the hash time continuously
           value[=N]     Specify the hash time in nanoseconds (e.g. 2.6316) and abort time (e.g. 2.6316=80)

If you define fewer comma seperated values than Icarus devices, the last values will be used
for all extra devices

Icarus timing is required for devices that do not exactly match a default Icarus Rev3 in
processing speed
If you have an Icarus Rev3 you should not normally need to use --icarus-timing since the
default values will maximise the MH/s and display it correctly

Icarus timing is used to determine the number of hashes that have been checked when it aborts
a nonce range (including on a LongPoll)
It is also used to determine the elapsed time when it should abort a nonce range to avoid
letting the Icarus go idle, but also to safely maximise that time

'short' or 'long' mode should only be used on a computer that has enough CPU available to run
cgminer without any CPU delays (an active desktop or swapping computer would not be stable enough)
Any CPU delays while calculating the hash time will affect the result
'short' mode only requires the computer to be stable until it has completed ~315 difficulty 1 shares
'long' mode requires it to always be stable to ensure accuracy, however, over time it continually
corrects itself

When in 'short' or 'long' mode, it will report the hash time value each time it is re-calculated
In 'short' or 'long' mode, the scan abort time starts at 5 seconds and uses the default 2.6316ns
scan hash time, for the first 5 nonce's or one minute (whichever is longer)

In 'default' or 'value' mode the 'constants' are calculated once at the start, based on the default
value or the value specified
The optional additional =N specifies to set the default abort at N 1/10ths of a second, not the
calculated value, which is 112 for 2.6316ns

To determine the hash time value for a non Icarus Rev3 device or an Icarus Rev3 with a different
bitstream to the default one, use 'long' mode and give it at least a few hundred shares, or use
'short' mode and take note of the final hash time value (Hs) calculated
You can also use the RPC API 'stats' command to see the current hash time (Hs) at any time

The Icarus code currently only works with an FPGA device that supports the same commands as
Icarus Rev3 requires and also is less than ~840MH/s and greater than 2MH/s
If an FPGA device does hash faster than ~840MH/s it should work correctly if you supply the
correct hash time nanoseconds value

The timing code itself will affect the Icarus performance since it increases the delay after
work is completed or aborted until it starts again
The increase is, however, extremely small and the actual increase is reported with the
RPC API 'stats' command (a very slow CPU will make it more noticeable)
Using the 'short' mode will remove this delay after 'short' mode completes
The delay doesn't affect the calculation of the correct hash time
| Appendix A

Appendix B

  • Authors
  • API
  • News & changelog
  • ul>

    Authors

    Original CPU mining software:
    Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
    GPU mining and rewrite:
    Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> 15qSxP1SQcUX3o4nhkfdbgyoWEFMomJ4rZ
    BitFORCE FPGA mining and refactor:
    Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+cgminer@utopios.org> 1NbRmS6a4dniwHHoSS9v3tEYUpP1Z5VVdL
    API+:
    Andrew Smith <kanoi2@kano-kun.net> 1Jjk2LmktEQKnv8r2cZ9MvLiZwZ9gxabKm
    README.HTML
    David D Ochoa <davidochoa1606@gmail.com> Lf9WKM61AhmXchG2Ph2cftHKSQhxHutcdk (LTC)
    | Appendix A | Appendix B

    API

    This README contains details about the cgminer RPC API
    
    It also includes some detailed information at the end,
    about using miner.php
    
    
    If you start cgminer with the "--api-listen" option, it will listen on a
    simple TCP/IP socket for single string API requests from the same machine
    running cgminer and reply with a string and then close the socket each time
    If you add the "--api-network" option, it will accept API requests from any
    network attached computer.
    
    You can only access the comands that reply with data in this mode.
    By default, you cannot access any privileged command that affects the miner -
    you will receive an access denied status message see --api-allow below.
    
    You can specify IP addresses/prefixes that are only allowed to access the API
    with the "--api-allow" option e.g. --api-allow W:192.168.0.1,10.0.0/24
    will allow 192.168.0.1 or any address matching 10.0.0.*, but nothing else
    IP addresses are automatically padded with extra '.0's as needed
    Without a /prefix is the same as specifying /32
    0/0 means all IP addresses.
    The 'W:' on the front gives that address/subnet privileged access to commands
    that modify cgminer (thus all API commands)
    Without it those commands return an access denied status.
    See --api-groups below to define other groups like W:
    Privileged access is checked in the order the IP addresses were supplied to
    "--api-allow"
    The first match determines the privilege level.
    Using the "--api-allow" option overides the "--api-network" option if they
    are both specified
    With "--api-allow", 127.0.0.1 is not by default given access unless specified
    
    More groups (like the privileged group W:) can be defined using the
    --api-groups command
    Valid groups are only the letters A-Z (except R & W are predefined) and are
    not case sensitive
    The R: group is the same as not privileged access
    The W: group is (as stated) privileged access (thus all API commands)
    To give an IP address/subnet access to a group you use the group letter
    in front of the IP address instead of W: e.g. P:192.168.0/32
    An IP address/subnet can only be a member of one group
    A sample API group would be:
     --api-groups P:switchpool:enablepool:addpool:disablepool:removepool:poolpriority:*
    This would create a group 'P' that can do all current pool commands and all
    non-priviliged commands - the '*' means all non-priviledged commands
    Without the '*' the group would only have access to the pool commands
    Defining multiple groups example:
     --api-groups Q:quit:restart:*,S:save
    This would define 2 groups:
     Q: that can 'quit' and 'restart' as well as all non-priviledged commands
     S: that can only 'save' and no other commands
    
    The RPC API request can be either simple text or JSON.
    
    If the request is JSON (starts with '{'), it will reply with a JSON formatted
    response, otherwise it replies with text formatted as described further below.
    
    The JSON request format required is '{"command":"CMD","parameter":"PARAM"}'
    (though of course parameter is not required for all requests)
    where "CMD" is from the "Request" column below and "PARAM" would be e.g.
    the CPU/GPU number if required.
    
    An example request in both formats to set GPU 0 fan to 80%:
      gpufan|0,80
      {"command":"gpufan","parameter":"0,80"}
    
    The format of each reply (unless stated otherwise) is a STATUS section
    followed by an optional detail section
    
    From API version 1.7 onwards, reply strings in JSON and Text have the
    necessary escaping as required to avoid ambiguity - they didn't before 1.7
    For JSON the 2 characters '"' and '\' are escaped with a '\' before them
    For Text the 4 characters '|' ',' '=' and '\' are escaped the same way
    
    Only user entered information will contain characters that require being
    escaped, such as Pool URL, User and Password or the Config save filename,
    when they are returned in messages or as their values by the API
    
    For API version 1.4 and later:
    
    The STATUS section is:
    
     STATUS=X,When=NNN,Code=N,Msg=string,Description=string|
    
      STATUS=X Where X is one of:
       W - Warning
       I - Informational
       S - Success
       E - Error
       F - Fatal (code bug)
    
      When=NNN
       Standard long time of request in seconds
    
      Code=N
       Each unique reply has a unigue Code (See api.c - #define MSG_NNNNNN)
    
      Msg=string
       Message matching the Code value N
    
      Description=string
       This defaults to the cgminer version but is the value of --api-description
       if it was specified at runtime.
    
    For API version 1.10 and later:
    
    The list of requests - a (*) means it requires privileged access - and replies are:
    
     Request       Reply Section  Details
     -------       -------------  -------
     version       VERSION        CGMiner=cgminer, version
                                  API=API| version
    
     config        CONFIG         Some miner configuration information:
                                  GPU Count=N, <- the number of GPUs
                                  PGA Count=N, <- the number of PGAs
                                  CPU Count=N, <- the number of CPUs
                                  Pool Count=N, <- the number of Pools
                                  ADL=X, <- Y or N if ADL is compiled in the code
                                  ADL in use=X, <- Y or N if any GPU has ADL
                                  Strategy=Name, <- the current pool strategy
                                  Log Interval=N, <- log interval (--log N)
                                  Device Code=GPU ICA , <- spaced list of compiled devices
                                  OS=Linux/Apple/..., <- operating System
                                  Failover-Only=true/false, <- failover-only setting
                                  ScanTime=N, <- --scan-time setting
                                  Queue=N, <- --queue setting
                                  Expiry=N| <- --expiry setting
    
     summary       SUMMARY        The status summary of the miner
                                  e.g. Elapsed=NNN,Found Blocks=N,Getworks=N,...|
    
     pools         POOLS          The status of each pool
                                  e.g. Pool=0,URL=http://pool.com:6311,Status=Alive,...|
    
     devs          DEVS           Each available GPU, PGA and CPU with their details
                                  e.g. GPU=0,Accepted=NN,MHS av=NNN,...,Intensity=D|
                                  Last Share Time=NNN, <- standand long time in seconds
                                   (or 0 if none) of last accepted share
                                  Last Share Pool=N, <- pool number (or -1 if none)
                                  Will not report PGAs if PGA mining is disabled
                                  Will not report CPUs if CPU mining is disabled
    
     gpu|N         GPU            The details of a single GPU number N in the same
                                  format and details as for DEVS
    
     pga|N         PGA            The details of a single PGA number N in the same
                                  format and details as for DEVS
                                  This is only available if PGA mining is enabled
                                  Use 'pgacount' or 'config' first to see if there are any
    
     cpu|N         CPU            The details of a single CPU number N in the same
                                  format and details as for DEVS
                                  This is only available if CPU mining is enabled
                                  Use 'cpucount' or 'config' first to see if there are any
    
     gpucount      GPUS           Count=N| <- the number of GPUs
    
     pgacount      PGAS           Count=N| <- the number of PGAs
                                  Always returns 0 if PGA mining is disabled
    
     cpucount      CPUS           Count=N| <- the number of CPUs
                                  Always returns 0 if CPU mining is disabled
    
     switchpool|N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of switching pool N to the
                                  highest priority (the pool is also enabled)
                                  The Msg includes the pool URL
    
     enablepool|N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of enabling pool N
                                  The Msg includes the pool URL
    
     addpool|URL,USR,PASS (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of attempting to add pool N
                                  The Msg includes the pool URL
                                  Use '\\' to get a '\' and '\,' to include a comma
                                  inside URL, USR or PASS
    
     poolpriority|N,... (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of changing pool priorities
                                  See usage below
    
     disablepool|N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of disabling pool N
                                  The Msg includes the pool URL
    
     removepool|N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of removing pool N
                                  The Msg includes the pool URL
                                  N.B. all details for the pool will be lost
    
     gpuenable|N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of the enable request
    
     gpudisable|N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of the disable request
    
     gpurestart|N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of the restart request
    
     gpuintensity|N,I (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of setting GPU N intensity to I
    
     gpumem|N,V (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of setting GPU N memoryclock to V MHz
    
     gpuengine|N,V (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of setting GPU N clock to V MHz
    
     gpufan|N,V (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of setting GPU N fan speed to V%
    
     gpuvddc|N,V (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of setting GPU N vddc to V
    
     save|filename (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating success or failure saving the cgminer config
                                  to filename
                                  The filename is optional and will use the cgminer
                                  default if not specified
    
     quit (*)      none           There is no status section but just a single "BYE"
                                  reply before cgminer quits
    
     notify        NOTIFY         The last status and history count of each devices problem
                                  This lists all devices including those not supported
                                  by the 'devs' command
                                  e.g. NOTIFY=0,Name=GPU,ID=0,Last Well=1332432290,...|
    
     privileged (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating an error if you do not have privileged access
                                  to the API and success if you do have privilege
                                  The command doesn't change anything in cgminer
    
     pgaenable|N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of the enable request
                                  You cannot enable a PGA if it's status is not WELL
                                  This is only available if PGA mining is enabled
    
     pgadisable|N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of the disable request
                                  This is only available if PGA mining is enabled
    
     pgaidentify|N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of the identify request
                                  This is only available if PGA mining is enabled
                                  and currently only BFL singles support this command
                                  On a BFL single it will flash the led on the front
                                  of the device for appoximately 4s
                                  All other non BFL PGA devices will return a warning
                                  status message stating that they dont support it
                                  This adds a 4s delay to the BFL share being processed
                                  so you may get a message stating that procssing took
                                  longer than 7000ms if the request was sent towards
                                  the end of the timing of any work being worked on
                                  e.g.: BFL0: took 8438ms - longer than 7000ms
                                  You should ignore this
    
     devdetails    DEVDETAILS     Each device with a list of their static details
                                  This lists all devices including those not supported
                                  by the 'devs' command
                                  e.g. DEVDETAILS=0,Name=GPU,ID=0,Driver=opencl,...|
    
     restart (*)   none           There is no status section but just a single "RESTART"
                                  reply before cgminer restarts
    
     stats         STATS          Each device or pool that has 1 or more getworks
                                  with a list of stats regarding getwork times
                                  The values returned by stats may change in future
                                  versions thus would not normally be displayed
                                  Device drivers are also able to add stats to the
                                  end of the details returned
    
     check|cmd     COMMAND        Exists=Y/N, <- 'cmd' exists in this version
                                  Access=Y/N| <- you have access to use 'cmd'
    
     failover-only|true/false (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating what failover-only was set to
    
     coin          COIN           Coin mining information:
                                  Hash Method=sha256/scrypt,
                                  Current Block Time=N.N, <- 0 means none
                                  Current Block Hash=XXXX..., <- blank if none
                                  LP=true/false| <- LP is in use on at least 1 pool
    
     debug|setting (*)
                   DEBUG          Debug settings
                                  The optional commands for 'setting' are the same as
                                  the screen curses debug settings
                                  You can only specify one setting
                                  Only the first character is checked (case insensitive):
                                  Silent, Quiet, Verbose, Debug, RPCProto, PerDevice,
                                  WorkTime, Normal
                                  The output fields are (as above):
                                  Silent=true/false,
                                  Quiet=true/false,
                                  Verbose=true/false,
                                  Debug=true/false,
                                  RPCProto=true/false,
                                  PerDevice=true/false,
                                  WorkTime=true/false|
    
     setconfig|name,N (*)
                   none           There is no reply section just the STATUS section
                                  stating the results of setting 'name' to N
                                  The valid values for name are currently:
                                  queue, scantime, expiry
                                  N is an integer in the range 0 to 9999
    
    When you enable, disable or restart a GPU or PGA, you will also get Thread messages
    in the cgminer status window
    
    The 'poolpriority' command can be used to reset the priority order of multiple
    pools with a single command - 'switchpool' only sets a single pool to first priority
    Each pool should be listed by id number in order of preference (first = most
    preferred)
    Any pools not listed will be prioritised after the ones that are listed, in the
    priority order they were originally
    If the priority change affects the miner's preference for mining, it may switch
    immediately
    
    When you switch to a different pool to the current one (including by priority
    change), you will get a 'Switching to URL' message in the cgminer status
    windows
    
    Obviously, the JSON format is simply just the names as given before the '='
    with the values after the '='
    
    If you enable cgminer debug (-D or --debug) or, when cgminer debug is off,
    turn on debug with the API command 'debug|debug' you will also get messages
    showing some details of the requests received and the replies
    
    There are included 4 program examples for accessing the API:
    
    api-example.php - a php script to access the API
      usAge: php api-example.php command
     by default it sends a 'summary' request to the miner at 127.0.0.1:4028
     If you specify a command it will send that request instead
     You must modify the line "$socket = getsock('127.0.0.1', 4028);" at the
     beginning of "function request($cmd)" to change where it looks for cgminer
    
    API.java/API.class
     a java program to access the API (with source code)
      usAge is: java API command address port
     Any missing or blank parameters are replaced as if you entered:
      java API summary 127.0.0.1 4028
    
    api-example.c - a 'C' program to access the API (with source code)
      usAge: api-example [command [ip/host [port]]]
     again, as above, missing or blank parameters are replaced as if you entered:
      api-example summary 127.0.0.1 4028
    
    miner.php - an example web page to access the API
     This includes buttons and inputs to attempt access to the privileged commands
     See the end of this API-README for details of how to tune the display
     and also to use the option to display a multi-rig summary
    
    ----------
    
    Feature Changelog for external applications using the API:
    
    
    API V1.20
    
    Modified API commands:
     'pools' - add 'Has Stratum', 'Stratum Active', 'Stratum URL'
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.19 (cgminer v2.7.6)
    
    Added API commands:
     'debug'
     'pgaidentify|N' (only works for BFL Singles so far)
     'setconfig|name,N'
    
    Modified API commands:
     'devs' - add 'Diff1 Work', 'Difficulty Accepted', 'Difficulty Rejected',
                  'Last Share Difficulty' to all devices
     'gpu|N' - add 'Diff1 Work', 'Difficulty Accepted',
                  'Difficulty Rejected', 'Last Share Difficulty'
     'pga|N' - add 'Diff1 Work', 'Difficulty Accepted',
                  'Difficulty Rejected', 'Last Share Difficulty'
     'notify' - add '*Dev Throttle' (for BFL Singles)
     'pools' - add 'Proxy Type', 'Proxy', 'Difficulty Accepted', 'Difficulty Rejected',
                   'Difficulty Stale', 'Last Share Difficulty'
     'config' - add 'Queue', 'Expiry'
     'stats' - add 'Work Diff', 'Min Diff', 'Max Diff', 'Min Diff Count',
                   'Max Diff Count' to the pool stats
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.18 (cgminer v2.7.4)
    
    Modified API commands:
     'stats' - add 'Work Had Roll Time', 'Work Can Roll', 'Work Had Expire',
    		'Work Roll Time' to the pool stats
     'config' - include 'ScanTime'
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.17 (cgminer v2.7.1)
    
    Added API commands:
     'coin'
    
    Modified API commands:
     'summary' - add 'Work Utility'
     'pools' - add 'Diff1 Shares'
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.16 (cgminer v2.6.5)
    
    Added API commands:
     'failover-only'
    
    Modified API commands:
     'config' - include failover-only state
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.15 (cgminer v2.6.1)
    
    Added API commands:
     'poolpriority'
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.14 (cgminer v2.5.0)
    
    Modified API commands:
     'stats' - more icarus timing stats added
     'notify' - include new device comms error counter
    
    The internal code for handling data was rewritten (~25% of the code)
    Completely backward compatible
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.13 (cgminer v2.4.4)
    
    Added API commands:
     'check'
    
    Support was added to cgminer for API access groups with the --api-groups option
    It's 100% backward compatible with previous --api-access commands
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.12 (cgminer v2.4.3)
    
    Modified API commands:
     'stats' - more pool stats added
    
    Support for the ModMinerQuad FPGA was added
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.11 (cgminer v2.4.2)
    
    Modified API commands:
     'save' no longer requires a filename (use default if not specified)
    
    'save' incorrectly returned status E (error) on success before.
    It now correctly returns S (success)
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.10 (cgminer v2.4.1)
    
    Added API commands:
     'stats'
    
    N.B. the 'stats' command can change at any time so any specific content
    present should not be relied upon.
    The data content is mainly used for debugging purposes or hidden options
    in cgminer and can change as development work requires
    
    Modified API commands:
     'pools' added "Last Share Time"
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.9 (cgminer v2.4.0)
    
    Added API commands:
     'restart'
    
    Modified API commands:
     'notify' corrected invalid JSON
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.8 (cgminer v2.3.5)
    
    Added API commands:
     'devdetails'
    
    Support for the ZTex FPGA was added
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.7 (cgminer v2.3.4)
    
    Added API commands:
     'removepool'
    
    Modified API commands:
     'pools' added "User"
    
    From API version 1.7 onwards, reply strings in JSON and Text have the
    necessary escaping as required to avoid ambiguity
    For JSON the 2 characters '"' and '\' are escaped with a '\' before them
    For Text the 4 characters '|' ',' '=' and '\' are escaped the same way
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.6 (cgminer v2.3.2)
    
    Added API commands:
     'pga'
     'pgaenable'
     'pgadisable'
     'pgacount'
    
    Modified API commands:
     'devs' now includes Icarus and Bitforce FPGA devices
     'notify' added "*" to the front of the name of all numeric error fields
     'config' correct "Log Interval" to use numeric (not text) type for JSON
    
    Support for Icarus and Bitforce FPGAs was added
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.5 was not released
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.4 (Kano's interim release of cgminer v2.3.1)
    
    Added API commands:
     'notify'
    
    Modified API commands:
     'config' added "Device Code" and "OS"
    
    Added "When" to the STATUS reply section of all commands
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.3 (cgminer v2.3.1-2)
    
    Added API commands:
     'addpool'
    
    Modified API commands:
     'devs'/'gpu' added "Total MH" for each device
     'summary' added "Total MH"
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.2 (cgminer v2.3.0)
    
    Added API commands:
     'enablepool'
     'disablepool'
     'privileged'
    
    Modified API commands:
     'config' added "Log Interval"
    
    Starting with API V1.2, any attempt to access a command that requires
    privileged security, from an IP address that does not have privileged
    security, will return an "Access denied" Error Status
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.1 (cgminer v2.2.4)
    
    There were no changes to the API commands in cgminer v2.2.4,
    however support was added to cgminer for IP address restrictions
    with the --api-allow option
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.1 (cgminer v2.2.2)
    
    Prior to V1.1, devs/gpu incorrectly reported GPU0 Intensity for all GPUs
    
    Modified API commands:
     'devs'/'gpu' added "Last Share Pool" and "Last Share Time" for each device
    
    ----------
    
    API V1.0 (cgminer v2.2.0)
    
    Remove default CPU support
    
    Added API commands:
     'config'
     'gpucount'
     'cpucount'
     'switchpool'
     'gpuintensity'
     'gpumem'
     'gpuengine'
     'gpufan'
     'gpuvddc'
     'save'
    
    ----------
    
    API V0.7 (cgminer v2.1.0)
    
    Initial release of the API in the main cgminer git
    
    Commands:
     'version'
     'devs'
     'pools'
     'summary'
     'gpuenable'
     'gpudisable'
     'gpurestart'
     'gpu'
     'cpu'
     'gpucount'
     'cpucount'
     'quit'
    
    ----------------------------------------
    
    miner.php
    =========
    
    miner.php is a PHP based interface to the cgminer RPC API
    (referred to simply as the API below)
    
    It can show rig details, summaries and input fields to allow you to change
    cgminer
    You can also create custom summary pages with it
    
    It has two levels to the security:
    1) cgminer can be configured to allow or disallow API access and access level
       security for miner.php
    2) miner.php can be configured to allow or disallow privileged cgminer
       access, if cgminer is configured to allow privileged access for miner.php
    
    ---------
    
    To use miner.php requires a web server with PHP
    
    Basics: On xubuntu 11.04, to install apache2 and php, the commands are:
     sudo apt-get install apache2
     sudo apt-get install php5
     sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
    
    On Fedora 17:
     yum install httpd php
     systemctl restart httpd.service
     systemctl enable httpd.service --system
    
    On windows there are a few options.
    Try one of these (I've never used either one)
     http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
     http://www.wampserver.com/en/
    
    ---------
    
    The basic cgminer option to enable the API is:
    
     --api-listen
    
    or in your cgminer.conf
    
     "api-listen" : true,
    
    (without the ',' on the end if it is the last item)
    
    If the web server is running on the cgminer computer, the above
    is the only change required to give miner.php basic access to
    the cgminer API
    
    -
    
    If the web server runs on a different computer to cgminer,
    you will also need to tell cgminer to allow the web server
    to access cgminer's API and tell miner.php where cgminer is
    
    Assuming a.b.c.d is the IP address of the web server, you
    would add the following to cgminer:
    
     --api-listen --api-allow a.b.c.d
    
    or in your cgminer.conf
    
     "api-listen" : true,
     "api-allow" : "a.b.c.d",
    
    to tell cgminer to give the web server read access to the API
    
    You also need to tell miner.php where cgminer is.
    Assuming cgminer is at IP address e.f.g.h, then you would
    edit miner.php and change the line
    
     $rigs = array('127.0.0.1:4028');
    
    to
    
     $rigs = array('e.f.g.h:4028');
    
    See --api-network or --api-allow for more access details
    and how to give write access
    
    ---------
    
    Once you have a web server with PHP running
    
     copy your miner.php to the main web folder
    
    On Xubuntu 11.04
     /var/www/
    
    On Fedora 17
     /var/www/html/
    
    On Windows
     see your windows Web/PHP documentation
    
    Assuming the IP address of the web server is a.b.c.d
    Then in your web browser go to:
    
     http://a.b.c.d/miner.php
    
    Done :)
    
    ---------
    
    The rest of this documentation deals with the more complex
    functions of miner.php, using myminer.php, creaing custom
    summaries and displaying multiple cgminer rigs
    
    ---------
    
    If you create a file called myminer.php in the same web folder
    where you put miner.php, miner.php will load it when it runs
    
    This is useful, to put any changes you need to make to miner.php
    instead of changing miner.php
    Thus if you update/get a new miner.php, you won't lose the changes
    you have made if you put all your changes in myminer.php
    (and don't change miner.php at all)
    
    A simple example myminer.php that defines 2 rigs
    (that I will keep referring to further below) is:
    
    <?php
    #
    $rigs = array('192.168.0.100:4028:A', '192.168.0.102:4028:B');
    #
    ?>
    
    Changes in myminer.php superscede what is in miner.php
    However, this is only valid for variables in miner.php before the
    2 lines where myminer.php is included by miner.php:
    
     if (file_exists('myminer.php'))
      include_once('myminer.php');
     
    Every variable in miner.php above those 2 lines, can be changed by
    simply defining them in your myminer.php
    
    So although miner.php originally contains the line
    
     $rigs = array('127.0.0.1:4028');
    
    if you created the example myminer.php given above, it would actually
    change the value of $rigs that is used when miner.php is running
    i.e. you don't have to remove or comment out the $rigs line in miner.php
    It will be superceded by myminer.php
    
    ---------
    
    The example.php above also shows how to define more that one rig to
    be shown my miner.php
    
    Each rig string is 2 or 3 values seperated by colons ':'
    They are simply an IP address or host name, followed by the
    port number (usually 4028) and an optional Name string
    
    miner.php displays rig buttons that will show the defails of a single
    rig when you click on it - the button shows either the rig number,
    or the 'Name' string if you provide it
    
    PHP arrays contain each string seperated by a comma, but no comma after
    the last one
    
    So an example for 3 rigs would be:
    
     $rigs = array('192.168.0.100:4028:A', '192.168.0.102:4028:B', '192.168.0.110:4028:C');
    
    Of course each of the rigs listed would also have to have the API
    running and be set to allow the web server to access the API - as
    explained before
    
    ---------
    
    So basically, any variable explained below can be put in myminer.php
    if you wanted to set it to something different to it's default value
    and did not want to change miner.php itself every time you updated it
    
    Below is each variable that can be changed and an explanation of each
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $dfmt = 'H:i:s j-M-Y \U\T\CP';
    
    Define the date format used to print full length dates
    If you get the string 'UTCP' on the end of your dates shown, that
    means you are using an older version of PHP and you can instead use:
     $dfmt = 'H:i:s j-M-Y \U\T\CO';
    
    The PHP documentation on the date format is here:
     http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $title = 'Mine';
    
    Web page title
    If you know PHP you can of course use code to define it e.g.
     $title = 'My Rig at: '.date($dfmt);
    
    Which would set the web page title to something like:
     My Rig at: 10:34:00 22-Aug-2012 UTC+10:00
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $readonly = false;
    
    Set $readonly to true to force miner.php to be readonly
    This means it won't allow you to change cgminer even if the cgminer API
    options allow it to
    
    If you set $readonly to false then it will check cgminer 'privileged'
    and will show input fields and buttons on the single rig page
    allowing you to change devices, pools and even quit or restart
    cgminer
    
    However, if the 'privileged' test fails, the code will set $readonly to
    true
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $notify = true;
    
    Set $notify to false to NOT attempt to display the notify command
    table of data
    
    Set $notify to true to attempt to display the notify command on
    the single rig page
    If your older version of cgminer returns an 'Invalid command'
    coz it doesn't have notify - it just shows the error status table
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $checklastshare = true;
    
    Set $checklastshare to true to do the following checks:
    If a device's last share is 12x expected ago then display as an error
    If a device's last share is 8x expected ago then display as a warning
    If either of the above is true, also display the whole line highlighted
    This assumes shares are 1 difficulty shares
    
    Set $checklastshare to false to not do the above checks
    
    'expected' is calculated from the device MH/s value
    So for example, a device that hashes at 380MH/s should (on average)
    find a share every 11.3s
    If the last share was found more than 11.3 x 12 seconds (135.6s) ago,
    it is considered an error and highlighted
    If the last share was found more than 11.3 x 8 seconds (90.4s) ago,
    it is considered a warning and highlighted
    
    The default highlighting is very subtle
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $poolinputs = false;
    
    Set $poolinputs to true to show the input fields for adding a pool
    and changing the pool priorities on a single rig page
    However, if $readonly is true, it will not display them
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $rigs = array('127.0.0.1:4028');
    
    Set $rigs to an array of your cgminer rigs that are running
     format: 'IP:Port' or 'Host:Port' or 'Host:Port:Name'
    If you only have one rig, it will just show the detail of that rig
    If you have more than one rig it will show a summary of all the rigs
     with buttons to show the details of each rig -
     the button contents will be 'Name' rather than rig number, if you
     specify 'Name'
    e.g. $rigs = array('127.0.0.1:4028','myrig.com:4028:Sugoi');
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $rigipsecurity = true;
    
    Set $rigipsecurity to false to show the IP/Port of the rig
    in the socket error messages and also show the full socket message
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $rigtotals = true;
     $forcerigtotals = false;
    
    Set $rigtotals to true to display totals on the single rig page
    'false' means no totals (and ignores $forcerigtotals)
    
    If $rigtotals is true, all data is also right aligned
    With false, it's as before, left aligned
    
    This option is just here to allow people to set it to false
    if they prefer the old non-total display when viewing a single rig
    
    Also, if there is only one line shown in any section, then no
    total will be shown (to save screen space)
    You can force it to always show rig totals on the single rig page,
    even if there is only one line, by setting $forcerigtotals = true;
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $socksndtimeoutsec = 10;
     $sockrcvtimeoutsec = 40;
    
    The numbers are integer seconds
    
    The defaults should be OK for most cases
    However, the longer SND is, the longer you have to wait while
    php hangs if the target cgminer isn't runnning or listening
    
    RCV should only ever be relevant if cgminer has hung but the
    API thread is still running, RCV would normally be >= SND
    
    Feel free to increase SND if your network is very slow
    or decrease RCV if that happens often to you
    
    Also, on some windows PHP, apparently the $usec is ignored
    (so usec can't be specified)
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $hidefields = array();
    
    List of fields NOT to be displayed
    You can use this to hide data you don't want to see or don't want
    shown on a public web page
    The list of sections are:
     SUMMARY, POOL, PGA, GPU, NOTIFY, CONFIG, DEVDETAILS, DEVS
    See the web page for the list of field names (the table headers)
    It is an array of 'SECTION.Field Name' => 1
    
    This example would hide the slightly more sensitive pool information:
    Pool URL and pool username:
     $hidefields = array('POOL.URL' => 1, 'POOL.User' => 1);
    
    If you just want to hide the pool username:
     $hidefields = array('POOL.User' => 1);
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $ignorerefresh = false;
     $changerefresh = true;
     $autorefresh = 0;
    
    Auto-refresh of the page (in seconds) - integers only
    
    $ignorerefresh = true/false always ignore refresh parameters
    $changerefresh = true/false show buttons to change the value
    $autorefresh = default value, 0 means dont auto-refresh
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $placebuttons = 'top';
    
    Where to place the Refresh, Summary, Custom Pages, Quit, etc. buttons
    
    Valid values are: 'top' 'bot' 'both'
     anything else means don't show them - case sensitive
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $miner_font_family = 'verdana,arial,sans';
     $miner_font_size = '13pt';
    
    Change these to set the font and font size used on the web page
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $colouroverride = array();
    
    Use this to change the web page colour scheme
    
    See $colourtable in miner.php for the list of possible names to change
    
    Simply put in $colouroverride, just the colours you wish to change
    
    e.g. to change the colour of the header font and background
    you could do the following:
    
     $colouroverride = array(
    	'td.h color'		=> 'green',
    	'td.h background'	=> 'blue'
     );
    
    ---------
    
    Default:
     $allowcustompages = true;
    
    Should we allow custom pages?
    (or just completely ignore them and don't display the buttons)
    
    ---------
    
    OK this part is more complex: Custom Summary Pages
    
    A custom summary page in an array of 'section' => array('FieldA','FieldB'...)
    
    The section defines what data you want in the summary table and the Fields
    define what data you want shown from that section
    
    Standard sections are:
     SUMMARY, POOL, PGA, GPU, NOTIFY, CONFIG, DEVDETAILS, DEVS, STATS, COIN
    
    Fields are the names as shown on the headers on the normal pages
    
    Fields can be 'name=new name' to display 'name' with a different heading
    'new name'
    
    There are also now joined sections:
     SUMMARY+POOL, SUMMARY+DEVS, SUMMARY+CONFIG, DEVS+NOTIFY, DEVS+DEVDETAILS
     SUMMARY+COIN
    
    These sections are an SQL join of the two sections and the fields in them
    are named section.field where section. is the section the field comes from
    See the example further down
    
    Also note:
    - empty tables are not shown
    - empty columns (e.g. an unknown field) are not shown
    - missing field data shows as blank
    - the field name '*' matches all fields except in joined sections
      (useful for STATS and COIN)
    
    There are 2 hard coded sections:
     DATE - displays a date table like at the start of 'Summary'
     RIGS - displays a rig table like at the start of 'Summary'
    
    Each custom summary requires a second array, that can be empty, listing fields
    to be totaled for each section
    If there is no matching total data, no total will show
    
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    Looking at the Mobile example:
    
     $mobilepage = array(
      'DATE' => null,
      'RIGS' => null,
      'SUMMARY' => array('Elapsed', 'MHS av', 'Found Blocks=Blks', 
    			Accepted', 'Rejected=Rej', 'Utility'),
      'DEVS+NOTIFY' => array('DEVS.Name=Name', 'DEVS.ID=ID', 'DEVS.Status=Status',
    			'DEVS.Temperature=Temp', 'DEVS.MHS av=MHS av',
    			'DEVS.Accepted=Accept', 'DEVS.Rejected=Rej',
    			'DEVS.Utility=Utility', 'NOTIFY.Last Not Well=Not Well'),
      'POOL' => array('POOL', 'Status', 'Accepted', 'Rejected=Rej', 'Last Share Time'));
    
     $mobilesum = array(
      'SUMMARY' => array('MHS av', 'Found Blocks', 'Accepted', 'Rejected', 'Utility'),
      'DEVS+NOTIFY' => array('DEVS.MHS av', 'DEVS.Accepted', 'DEVS.Rejected', 'DEVS.Utility'),
      'POOL' => array('Accepted', 'Rejected'));
    
     $customsummarypages = array('Mobile' => array($mobilepage, $mobilesum));
    
    This will show 5 tables (according to $mobilepage)
    Each table will have the chosen details for all the rigs specified in $rigs
    
     DATE
    	A single box with the web server's current date and time
    
     RIGS
    	A table of the rigs: description, time, versions etc
    
     SUMMARY
    
    	This will use the API 'summary' command and show the selected fields:
    		Elapsed, MHS av, Found Blocks, Accepted, Rejected and Utility
    	However, 'Rejected=Rej' means that the header displayed for the 'Rejected'
    	field will be 'Rej', instead of 'Rejected' (to save space)
    	Same for 'Found Blocks=Blks' - to save space
    
     DEVS+NOTIFY
    
    	This will list each of the devices on each rig and display the list of
    	fields as shown
    	It will also include the 'Last Not Well' field from the 'notify' command
    	so you know when the device was last not well
    
    	You will notice that you need to rename each field e.g. 'DEVS.Name=Name'
    	since each field name in the join between DEVS and NOTIFY is actually
    	section.fieldname, not just fieldname
    
    	The join code automatically adds 2 fields to each GPU device: 'Name' and 'ID'
    	They don't exist in the API 'devs' output but I can correctly calculate
    	them from the GPU device data
    	These two fields are used to join DEVS to NOTIFY i.e. find the NOTIFY
    	record that has the same Name and ID as the DEVS record and join them
    
     POOL
    
    	This will use the API 'pools' command and show the selected fields:
    		POOL, Status, Accepted, Rejected, Last Share Time
    	Again, I renamed the 'Rejected' field using 'Rejected=Rej', to save space
    
    $mobilesum lists the sections and fields that should have a total
    You can't define them for 'DATE' or 'RIGS' since they are hard coded tables
    The example given:
    
     SUMMARY
    	Show a total at the bottom of the columns for:
    		MHS av, Found Blocks, Accepted, Rejected, Utility
    
    	Firstly note that you use the original name i.e. for 'Rejected=Rej'
    	you use 'Rejected', not 'Rej' and not 'Rejected=Rej'
    
    	Secondly note that it simply adds up the fields
    	If you ask for a total of a string field you will get the numerical
    	sum of the string data
    
     DEVS+NOTIFY
    
    	Simply note in this join example that you must use the original field
    	names which are section.fieldname, not just fieldname
    
     POOL
    	Show a total at the bottom of the columns for:
    		Accepted and Rejected
    
    	Again remember to use the original field name 'Rejected'