Miner

Installing the Miner

TL;DR

• Unzip the download package anywhere you like.
• Move ethminer.ini to either %LocalAppData%/ethminer (Windows) or $HOME/.config/ethminer (Linux). Create subfolders as needed.
• Windows Only: download and install both the VC 2013 Redistributable and the VC 2015 Redistributable
• Run ethminer.exe --list-devices -G. Verify your GPUs are recognized. Pay special attention to the PlatformID. If it is anything other than 0, you will need to add --opencl-platform <n> to your command line.
• Start mining with ethminer.exe -G -N 127.0.0.1:8545 -S 8008

Configuration Details

MVis-Ethminer is partially configured via command line parameters, and partially by settings in ethminer.ini. Run ethminer --help to see which settings are available on the command line. Have a look inside the .ini file to see what settings can be set there. (It is fairly well commented). Some settings can only be set on the command line (legacy ones mostly), some settings can only be set in the .ini file (newer ones mostly), and some can be set in both. For the last group, command line settings take precedence over the .ini file settings.

Failover Nodes

MVis-Ethminer can be configured to work with either one or two nodes. See the -N and -N2 options. If the first node becomes unresponsive, the miner will automatically switch to the failover node.

Screen Output

Limitations

• CUDA mining is broken. The old code from Genoil is still there, but I don't have an nVidia device so was unable to duplicate the features I added on the OpenCL side to the CUDA side. Hopefully I will be able to fix this in the near future, or better yet, maybe an experienced CUDA dev will step up and volunteer for this effort. 😃
• Pool mining is broken.
• GPU temperatures and fan speeds are unavailable when running under Linux.