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.
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?
Best Answer
So for the rest of you I hope this is useful. I disabled the onboard video, and plugged into card.
Re-ran
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.xubuntu 13.04 = happy