Ok I'm severely confused. Here's some background.
Someone decided to donate a couple of R9 290x's to the Orgcoin project to help with development efforts. Previous to that point I had been working with 2 ATI 6870x2s (4 GPUs on 2 cards). Theoretically, a single R9 290x should perform at least as well as all 4 of the previous GPUs and do so at 1/4th the electricity cost and almost none of the heat (which is a shame because we had been offsetting our heating bill with the miner :). The box with 4 GPUs was running CentOS 6.0 64bit and an older catalyst driver. It choked when I put the R9's in. But eventually I got it to boot with some massaging. Nevertheless the older Catalyst drivers didn't recognize the card and updating the drivers wasn't solving the issue of the GPUs not being detected. Realizing it was probably time to just blow the box away and move to a more up to date OS, I went ahead and did a wipe/install. I replaced CentOS with Debian Wheezy because the current guides on mining all seem to agree that Debian is best for the purpose. Unfortunately 64bit debian refused to boot even when the mobo was stripped (no cards just the on-board video). (this was true even after reseting the bios to default configs, some bios changes were evidently nessecary to boot CentOS off this MOBO, those changes were not something that any other distro seemed to like). The 32bit i386-686 pae image booted and ran just fine first time and every-time. So now here I am, I have a fresh clean Debian install and I'm about to install the latest and greatest ATI drivers straight off the AMD site. Here is where it gets wierd. The current release version of catalyst is 13.12 with a release date of 12/19/2013 The current beta is 13.11beta with a release date of 1/08/2014 http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86 It seems the beta which was released later has a lower version number than the release version. So which one would you pick? Is this just a numbering quirk, or did they really update the beta after the release? Thanks! /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
