Mining Ethereum using a RX 580 GPU - For Linux

[virtualcoin]

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.

Comments

[virtualcoin]

I will publish the ethereum classic version of this tutorial next week

[luecu]

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?

[boter]

You probably installed wrong versing of the OS - eg i686

[dine77]

good explanation for mining ethereum using gpu.

follow @dine77

[virtualcoin]

Thanks, will publish more tutorials this week

[dine77]

if i try this is it really profitable on computer or it is just to see how mining works

[virtualcoin]

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)

[dine77]

thanks you

[feuerfluss]

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.