Bitcoin ATI Stream
BitCoin Mining and Ubuntu 10.10 – ATI Radeon 5XXX/6XXX
As promised, here’s a how-to I wrote after finding several how-to’s that failed. It took me a good part of a week to get this graphics card to mine BitCoins in Ubuntu. I originally got this card mining in Windows 7 first. Quick specs for the record:
AMD Athlon II x4 630
7 GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM
ATI Radeon 5770 graphics card
Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit
Here we go. Before we begin, see if Ubuntu detects your graphics card.
lspci -v
You should see “Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device.” If you don’t, shut down to open up your computer and reseat your card, and make sure you’ve plugged in the cable from the power supply. It’s easy to miss if you’re a newbie.
Next, if you have the proprietary drivers enabled, you’ll have to disable them through System > Administration > Additional Drivers. After you disable them, you’ll have to reboot.
Enable Source Code in Ubuntu. System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager. Settings > Repositories > ‘Ubuntu’ tab. Check the checkmark and then exit out of Synaptic.
Open a terminal. Then update your packages.
sudo apt-get update
Then install libqtgui4
sudo apt-get install libqtgui4
Go back to your terminal window, and navigate to the directory where you downloaded that package.
cd [path to download directory]
Then run the file.
sudo sh ati-driver-installer-11-3-x86.x86_64.run
That will kick off the graphical installer. Select “Install driver 8.831.2 on X.Org 6.9 or later 64-bit.” Then follow the rest of the defaults. Refer to your terminal window to see if it completed successfully. If not, you may have unmet dependancies which are required to build the drivers. If that is the case, open Synaptic Package Manager and install the needed packages and run the last line again.
After that, I was able to see the drivers installed by running this command.
fglrxinfo
It should return your devices information. If it displays “Command not found, ” you’ll have to troubleshoot your driver install.
Reboot.
cd /opt
sudo mv [path to download directory]/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgz /opt
sudo tar xfzv ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgz
cd /
sudo mv [path to download directory]/icd-registration.tgz /
sudo tar xfzv icd-registration.tgz
This returned a couple errors, but nonetheless was effective. You’ll be able to tell by running this.
ls /etc/OpenCL/vendors/
And making sure you see the files atiocl32.icd and atiocl64.icd. Next, run this. You may need to add it to your .bashrc file, but I did not need to.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/lib/x86_64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Now run these next couple of lines. They should output your card(s).
cd /opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86_64
./CLInfo |grep CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU
