https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72785
--- Comment #37 from Tom Stellard tstellar@gmail.com --- (In reply to Linux User from comment #36)
Got similar issues when trying scrypt. I have relatively recent bfgminer (~1 month old git build) and more or less recent graphics stack: 3.17 kernel, mesa 10.4 pre-release from Oibaf PPA and LLVM 3.5.1
I have bunch of HD5000 based cards, mostly HD5750/5770 and somesuch and R9 270. Tests have shown bfgminer performs correctly when computing SHA256 and goes about 80% of catalyst at 57xx and even better than that on R9 270.
However things are much worse when it comes to scrypt. I got impression open driver can get issues if something aggressively using GPU VRAM.
Some observations about open drivers stack so far:
- If you set scrypt intensity too high, there is high risk GPU would lock up
in fatal way and crash (can happen on both 57xx and R9).
Do you have an X server running? One cause of lockups is bfgminer hogging the GPU, and X not being able to do anything. I recommend trying without an X server. For best results when not using an X server, enable render nodes in the kernel by adding drm.rnodes=1 to your kernel command line.