Litecoin mining, AMD Overdrive

Question

I'm setting up a mining rig using 3-7950's, and have ran into a little bit of a road block. I've seen a few guides using xubuntu 12.10, but none with xubuntu 13.04.

darth_bunny's guide

cryptobadger's guide

gentoo (bitcoin)

I've tried the first 2 ways on fresh images, but for some reason X never starts...

aticonfig --adapter=0 --od-getclocks
ERROR - X needs to be running to perform AMD Overdrive(TM) commands

Following the darth_bunny's guide way I built to 13.04 instead of 12.10

./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.3-beta3-linux-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/raring

On a side note, whenever I plug the ATI cards in, video (connected to onboard), does not output. I'm guessing this is because the ATI cards are primary? It didn't bother me as I ssh in anyway.

I also have some missing lib's when trying to run cgminer, but that is something to worry about later.

Has anyone solved this on 13.04, or should I just downgrade to 12.10?

Answer 1

So for the rest of you I hope this is useful. I disabled the onboard video, and plugged into card.

Re-ran

sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --initial -f

rebooted, all devices were enabled.

By default cgminer looks for libudev.so.0, and will not run until it's happy so I set a link up to the newest version.

cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
sudo ln -s libudev.so.1.2.2 libudev.so.0

xubuntu 13.04 = happy

Answer 2

It appears over-zealous moderators are not allowing me to post a very pertinent answer to this question which also appears elsewhere (the questions are related). So I'll just link to the related question below. Answers are pertinent for Ubuntu 13.10.

Mining cryptocurrencies with Ubuntu and sgminer