Gridseed for litecoin mining only

Al1747 · March 2014

I am waiting for my gridseed to come in the mail and have the gridseed version of macminer installed. What window do I need to use when mining only for litecoin with the gridseed?

FabulousPanda · March 2014

Did you order the 5 chip or 1 chip device?

Al1747 · March 2014

It is the 5 chip and I'm using maverick so I'm not sure if that will affect anything as well?

FabulousPanda · March 2014

The 5 chip device is cool because you don't have to worry about drivers or anything like that. Just set up a Litecoin pool and use the CPU Miner window with manual flags

--freq=800 -G /dev/cu.usbmodem142431

where /dev.... is the path to your device

Unfortunately you have to run one instance for each device though which requires either duplicating MacMiner or running at the terminal using the bundled binary

I haven't managed to get BTC mining working yet though. I don't have one so I'm just working from feedback!

Al1747 · March 2014

Awesome I'll try that out. I'm kind of new to all this so the device path is where the miner will be labeled under in finder when it's connected or how do I determine what to put instead of dev.
Thanks

cipher · March 2014

i just joined the forums and also picked up a couple gridseed 5 chip devices, pretty new to mining and looking forward to trying it on my mac!

FabulousPanda · March 2014

Please try this version:

http://downloads.fabulouspanda.co.uk/MacMiner-gridseed8.zip

Which should work with bfgminer for both 1 chip and 5 chip devices updated by luke-jr an hour ago.

LTC in the GPU window and BTC in the ASIC window both use the flag

-S dualminer:all

It still has the 5 chip support in the CPU miner window.

huntson · March 2014

here is my output:

[2014-03-20 23:00:43] 0: GC3355 chip mining thread started, in SINGLE mode

[2014-03-20 23:00:43] 0: Open UART device /dev/cu.usbmodem441

[2014-03-20 23:00:43] 0: Set GC3355 core frequency to 600Mhz

[2014-03-20 23:00:43] HTTP request failed: SSL: couldn't create a context: error:140A90A1:lib(20):func(169):reason(161)

[2014-03-20 23:00:43] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds

What am i doing wrong?

FabulousPanda · March 2014

wich miner window are using and how have to set it up - do other things like GPU minig work? looks as though maybe changing https to http in the pool url might help

Al1747 · March 2014

Im using grid seed 7 and i get this

[2014-03-21 17:21:51] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://usa3.coinhuntr.com:3334

[2014-03-21 17:21:51] 0: GC3355 chip mining thread started, in SINGLE mode

[2014-03-21 17:21:51] Stratum detected new block

its stuck there.

and when i go to the grid seed 8

and do what you requested above for flags i get

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] 0 GeForce 8600M GT

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] Selected 0: GeForce 8600M GT

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] Selecting scrypt kernel

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] Initialising kernel scrypt130511.cl without bitalign, 1 vectors and worksize 256

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] initCl() finished. Found GeForce 8600M GT

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] -1 cpu miner threads started, using SHA256 'scrypt' algorithm.

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] API running in IP access mode on port 4052

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnqueueNDRangeKernel)

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] OCL 0 failure, attempting to reinitialize

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnqueueNDRangeKernel)

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] OCL 0 failure, disabling!

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] OCL 0 being disabled

[2014-03-21 17:25:47] New block: ...c55e6c12 #535649 diff 5.73k (41.06Gh/s)

[2014-03-21 17:25:47] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block

[2014-03-21 17:25:49] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update

[2014-03-21 17:25:54] Attempting to reinitialize OCL 0

[2014-03-21 17:25:54] OCL 0 being re-enabled

[2014-03-21 17:25:54] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnqueueNDRangeKernel)

[2014-03-21 17:25:54] OCL 0 failure, disabling!

[2014-03-21 17:25:54] OCL 0 being disabled

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnqueueNDRangeKernel)

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] OCL 0 failure, attempting to reinitialize

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnqueueNDRangeKernel)

[2014-03-21 17:25:46] OCL 0 failure, disabling!

[2014-03-21 17:25:54] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnqueueNDRangeKernel)

[2014-03-21 17:25:54] OCL 0 failure, disabling!

20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none

[2014-03-21 17:26:06] Attempting to reinitialize OCL 0

[2014-03-21 17:26:06] OCL 0 being re-enabled

[2014-03-21 17:26:06] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnqueueNDRangeKernel)

[2014-03-21 17:26:06] OCL 0 failure, disabling!

[2014-03-21 17:26:06] OCL 0 being disabled

Al1747 · March 2014

I got grid seed 7 working with the flag

--freq=800 -G /dev/cu.usbmodem1d11

I am also using a 5 chip grid seed

i was getting this in terminal "/dev/tty.usbmodem1d11"

I changed the tty. to cu. and got it working this way

I was also wondering what i can do to get grid seed 8 to work and if that will show my speed in the window. I was using the flag you previously requested and it was not working

FabulousPanda · March 2014

they show up at tty and cu but you always want to use the cu path

The only notable change for gridseed in 8 is that the GPU window should work for LTC dual miner usage and the ASIC window for BTC - this is untested however...

huntson · March 2014

Turns out the URL was the culprit. Thanks guys. Happily mining with Gridseed on mac.

huntson · March 2014

Interestingly enough the Kh/s on the mac remain at 0 while I am seeing them in my account online.

Michael Carlson · March 2014

Just got my single Gridseed 5 chip working on my iMac. Took me 2 days to sort through all the instructions with trial and error to get it hashing. That and a reinstall of Mavericks due to continued error on boot of MacMiner. Thanks for your help. Also wanted to report that my Kh meter on the CPU Miner window is showing 0.00 KH, but coins are accruing.

Jon Stern · March 2014

Hi. I have 1 gridseed working perfectly on my MacPro. Can you explain how to get more than one hashing on the same MacPro at once? (I am only scrypt mining). THANKS!

FabulousPanda · April 2014

Unfortunately you need to run a different process for each device, either duplicate macminer or run at the command line like

/Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/gridseedcpu4/bin/minerd -o pool -u user -p pass --freq=800 -G /dev/cu.usbmodem142431

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