Nvidia Quadro 4000 and MacOSX 10.6.7 update

[Helge Løken]

Thanks for the heads up Peter! Sounds like nVidia didn’t get their drivers ready in time and Apple decided to go ahead and release the 10.6.7 update anyway. I feel sorry for customers only having a 4000 card in their machine though. I thought this type of driver issues were something us as mac users shouldn’t have?!

[Sascha Haber]

Toi clarify this, that only affects people using the Q4000 as primary , right ?
When using a Gt 120 or Ati and only using the Q4000 as processer it will still work ?

A slice of color…

DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE

[Helge Løken]

It depends on what you mean by “effect”? If you have a 4000 card as your secondary card and install 10.6.7 you will get a picture on reboot because the GT120 is your display card. However, you wouldn’t be able to use the 4000 card until you’ve installed the new drivers from nVidia.

[Dwaine Maggart]

Since it says the 4000 driver will be removed, I assume this will stop the card from being recognized as a usable GPU by Resolve. So this will impact Resolve operation until you load a 10.6.7 compatible 4000 driver. If you are also using a 4000 as your GUI display card, the recovery process looks more painful.

Dwaine Maggart
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Support

[David Gross]

Thanks for that.

Could someone from BM officially say if the 10.6.7 is a good update for anyone without 4000’s?

Assume no other issues with red rocket or Gtx 285/ 120.

Cheers
David

[Peter Chamberlain]

Update: Nvidia have released a new Quadro 4000 driver for MacOSX 10.6.7

https://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.01.00f03v7-driver.html

You are required however to remove the 4000 GPU before installing the update and the driver.

After the update and driver installation is complete, power down and install the 4000.

We tested the update here successfully.

The issue only affects Nvidia Quadro 4000.

Peter

[Brad Bromelmeier]

Hmm I ran the Mac OS software update today. I’ve only had the Quadro card for 3 weeks and haven’t updated the driver since I got it. It still displays after the Mac update but now the playback is jerky in Quick time. Will I really need to pull the card in order to install the new NVidia drivers for the Quadro 4000?

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