Quote from: Toque on February 20, 2014, 09:37:35 pm

Quote from: battleaxe on February 20, 2014, 03:16:28 pm

I wasn't implying it was a miner bug. I was able to get the miner to fire up on a 5770, even though it couldn't do anything. But when I put the 290 in the machine, then I get this code. I reinstalled the drivers, but same thing. I get this error. So I've got something wrong with the software installation otherwise. Been Googling for two days now. Nothing seems to work. This is the full error. Running AMD 13.12 drivers. And AMD APP SDK 2.9

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error in xptMiner/clInit.cpp, line 96: Method clGetDeviceIDs(...) failed (errorcode -1)

Had a few work colleague fix this for me. 

I was just told AMD forgot some stuff when they released 13.12 and that was causing the problem. 

Instead of patching it, just use the AMD 14.1 beta instead and it should work.

ouch...

Ouch meaning what? Sucked he had to have someone else fix it? Or that 14.1 drivers suck?

I wasn't implying it was a miner bug. I was able to get the miner to fire up on a 5770, even though it couldn't do anything. But when I put the 290 in the machine, then I get this code. I reinstalled the drivers, but same thing. I get this error. So I've got something wrong with the software installation otherwise. Been Googling for two days now. Nothing seems to work. This is the full error. Running AMD 13.12 drivers. And AMD APP SDK 2.9

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error in xptMiner/clInit.cpp, line 96: Method clGetDeviceIDs(...) failed (errorcode -1)

Which drivers are working better on this 13.12 or 14.1  ?

Also how do I disable the Intel OpenCL SDK in linux? Its fighting with the AMD SDK apparently. Can't seem to find much on Google about this (nothing actually).

Edit: I'm going to try to get an answer to the SDK problem on an Ubuntu forum... maybe they will help me.

What Catalyst drivers are you guys using for Linux?

I'm having a bear of a time getting my drivers installed for AMD. I have a 290. Been researching on the web for two days now. I know I'm a complete Ubuntu noob, so I"m sure that is the only problem. I like this operating system a lot. Just can't get the drivers and patches to work correctly. And thus can't get the miner to work either. Can someone help me?

@battleaxe: A 5770 card won't work with Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution since it will fail to allocate the device memory. You need a card with at least 2GB RAM.

Okay. Thank you for confirming this.