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Mining Ethereum using a RX 580 GPU - For Linux
In order to make extra money, Julian, a 26-year-old IT analyst decided to start gpu mining ethereum using his computer running Ubuntu linux version 17, his graphic card RX 580 and the ethminer software.
In this post, I will show you how to mine ethereum using an RX 580 GPU, a computer running Ubuntu 17 and a software called ethminer.
- We are using Ubuntu server version 17. (64 bits)
- We are using the MINERGATE minig pool
- Minergate will charge you a small percentage of your mining profits, something like 1.5%
MINERGATE
Access the MINERGATE website and create an account.
DRIVER DOWNLOAD - RX 480 / RX 580
Access the AMD SUPPORT PAGE and download the file: amdgpu-pro-17.10-450821.tar.xz.
I will assume that you transferred the driver installation file to the /downloads directory of your linux computer.
GPU INSTALLATION - RX 480 / RX 580
Use the following commands to install the required packages to enable the RX 480 / RX 580 Graphic card on your linux computer.
# mkdir /downloads
# cd /downloads
# tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-17.10-450821.tar.xz
# cd amdgpu-pro-17.10-450821/
# ./amdgpu-pro-install
After finishing the installation, reboot the computer.
# reboot
ETHMINER INSTALLATION
Use the following commands to download, extract and install the ethminer software.
# mkdir /download/ethminer -p
# cd /downloads/ethminer
# wget https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases/download/v0.11.0/ethminer-0.11.0-Linux.tar.gz
# tar –zxvf ethminer-0.11.0-Linux.tar.gz
# cp bin/ethminer /usr/bin/
MINING ETHEREUM
In order to start mining ethereum, use the following command:
# ethminer -G -F http://eth.pool.minergate.com:55751/[email protected]
- You need to change the username [email protected] from the command above to the username that you created on the minergate website.
YOUTUBE VIDEO
In our YOUTUBE channel, we offer a video showing you the step by step procedure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkEmKd0xiYs
Replies (9)
good explanation for mining ethereum using gpu.
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Thanks, will publish more tutorials this week
if i try this is it really profitable on computer or it is just to see how mining works
A single RX 580 GPU will give you today, between 2-3 dollars daily. (Ethereum is really down) usually it gives you 5 dollars daily...so if you put 8 GPUS on the same computer you would get ~40 dollars every day (Something near this numbers)
thanks you
I will publish the ethereum classic version of this tutorial next week
Hello. I always get the error "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" when I want to start mining.
Do you have any idea what this could mean?
Thank you for this tutorial. After Microsoft decided to stop my little Miner by an update of Win10 i installed ubuntu with AMD RX drivers as described above. Up to now it works fine without any reboot after installation of the driver and mining software.
The only thing i have had to do extra in windows was to flash the BIOS of the VideoCard back to the original Version. Else X11 and the miner won´t work. - Unfortunately the AMD Linux driver is same small-minded in overclocking than in windows.
You probably installed wrong versing of the OS - eg i686