You asked a lot of questions to me. Here is a collection of the most common.
No. You should be able to safely use Linux.
No. Stay with your favorite operating system. And please also do not send me e-mails how much better your Windows is.
No. I published the ISO image to make the start easier for you. But I do not take away all your work.
No. Only NVIDIA with CUDA.
Yes. NVIDIA driver 390.25 is installed.
Yes. You can combine any NVIDIA cards to a mining rig.
NOTE: setup will change only global values.
Specific settings for single cards must be filled in manually directly editing the settings.conf file.
For each depicted variable you can set an OPTIONAL suffix made of _x (underscore x) where x is the zero-based index of your GPU.
When overclocking the procedure will firstly look for GPU's specific value and, if not set, will apply the "generic" value.
Get the zero-based index of your GPUs:
nvidia-smi --format=csv --query-gpu=index,name,pci.bus_id
Here we set specific values for clocks speed and memory speed on GPU 3 (zero based index 3-1 = 2). Fan speed and wattage are inherited by base values.
MY_CLOCK_2=155
MY_MEM_2=750
NO. Fake monitors are configured by software.
Then you're doing something wrong. Many users reported similar or better MH/s values.
The ISO image is optimized for operation with no monitor (headless).
The setup script creates fake monitors.
As soon as the X server is started, there is no longer any real output.
If you want to work with the monitor and keyboard after restarting, you can get a console with the key combination
Crtl + Alt + F1.
It is extremely important that the X server is running on each of your NVIDIA cards.
The output of nvidia-smi must look something like this:
prospector@mine ~ $ nvidia-smi
[...]
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1284 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 8MiB |
| 0 1765 C ...m-mining/ethminer/build/ethminer/ethminer 2187MiB |
| 1 1284 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 7MiB |
| 1 1765 C ...m-mining/ethminer/build/ethminer/ethminer 2187MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Display 0 must be an NVIDIA card!
Set this in your mainboard settings.
Disable to be safe all other graphics cards.
The output of lspci should look like this. Only NVIDIA cards:
prospector@mine ~ $ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c03 (rev a1)
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c03 (rev a1)
Check the settings:
prospector@mine ~ $ nvidia-smi --format=csv --query-gpu=name,power.draw,fan.speed,temperature.gpu,clocks.video,clocks.mem
name, power.draw [W], fan.speed [%], temperature.gpu, clocks.current.video [MHz], clocks.current.memory [MHz]
GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, 68.54 W, 70 %, 62, 1202 MHz, 4404 MHz
GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, 70.50 W, 70 %, 55, 1354 MHz, 4404 MHz
Check which cards have been detected:
prospector@mine ~ $ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c03 (rev a1)
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c03 (rev a1)
No Please not. Search for a forum. Reddit is a good place for it. If you have Linux questions, Google it and then you can ask questions at Stack Overflow. Everything better places than here. I will not participate in discussions. The issue can be closed at any time by me.
Yes. Configure everything to your needs.