Disabling SIP just allows for unsigned kexts to run. You don't have to modify any kexts.
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Disabling SIP just allows for unsigned kexts to run. You don't have to modify any kexts.
Again, my bet is on Apple withholding the information (i.e. documentation on the internal interfaces that a graphics driver interacts with) that NVIDIA needs to produce a driver. Apple has never signed off on NVIDIA's web drivers in the past, so I don't think it's related to that, but of course I might be wrong.
Or....... And I'm being super optimistic here, They plan on bringing Nvidia cards back for the Modular MacPro that they will likely announce at the Sept 30th event!
I just came here to post that. We can always dream! (Until Oct 30th.)Or....... And I'm being super optimistic here, They plan on bringing Nvidia cards back for the Modular MacPro that they will likely announce at the Sept 30th event!
Did you see this message from NVIDIA on devtalk.nvidia.com :
ThomasK@Nvidia said:Apple fully controls drivers for Mac OS. But if Apple allows, our engineers are ready and eager to help Apple deliver great drivers for Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave).
Thanks Tom for clearifying; So this means there's NO WEB DRIVERS FOR MOJAVE
Thank you everyone
Bye Bye
ThomasK@Nvidia said:Apple fully controls drivers for Mac OS. But if Apple allows, our engineers are ready and eager to help Apple deliver great drivers for Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave).
Thanks Tom for clearifying; So this means there's NO WEB DRIVERS FOR MOJAVE
Thank you everyone
Bye Bye
EEEEEEK!!!!
This is very bad news
looks like Apple finally found a way to kill off a large chunk of the Hackintosh community and users of non-trash Pros...
EEEEEEK!!!!
This is very bad news
Only block Nvidia new cards. The Hackintosh still stay strong with the Vega / Polaris.
This is doing more to damage legitimate users than anyone else. You cannot even use an official EVGA GTX 680 Mac Edition in Mojave with CUDA without NVIDIA Web Drivers. There are other ways to block Hackintosh and this would not be one of them.
I'll be sticking with 10.13.6 for awhile...
Am curious when this .kext was loaded. Never noticed it until now, but likely installed earlier.
Dont Steal Mac OS X:
Version: 7.0.0
Last Modified: 9/29/17, 9:41 PM
Bundle ID: com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X
Loaded: Yes
Get Info String: Copyright © 2006,2009 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
The purpose of this Apple software is to protect Apple copyrighted materials from unauthorized copying and use. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, transfer or redistribute this file, in whole or in part. If you have obtained a copy of this Apple software and do not have a valid license from Apple to use it, please immediately destroy or delete it from your computer.
Obtained from: Apple
Kind: Intel
Architectures: x86_64
64-Bit (Intel): Yes
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext
Kext Version: 7.0.0
Load Address: 18446743521871300000
Loadable: Yes
Dependencies: Satisfied
Signed by: Software Signing, Apple Code Signing Certification Authority, Apple Root CA
I'll be sticking with 10.13.6 for awhile...
Am curious when this .kext was loaded. Never noticed it until now, but likely installed earlier.
Dont Steal Mac OS X:
Version: 7.0.0
Last Modified: 9/29/17, 9:41 PM
Bundle ID: com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X
Loaded: Yes
Get Info String: Copyright © 2006,2009 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
The purpose of this Apple software is to protect Apple copyrighted materials from unauthorized copying and use. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, transfer or redistribute this file, in whole or in part. If you have obtained a copy of this Apple software and do not have a valid license from Apple to use it, please immediately destroy or delete it from your computer.
Obtained from: Apple
Kind: Intel
Architectures: x86_64
64-Bit (Intel): Yes
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext
Kext Version: 7.0.0
Load Address: 18446743521871300000
Loadable: Yes
Dependencies: Satisfied
Signed by: Software Signing, Apple Code Signing Certification Authority, Apple Root CA
EEEEEEK!!!!
This is very bad news
This has nothing to do with blocking hackintoshing. There are plenty of more effective ways to block hackintoshing.
Read the latest comment from Nvidia:
Source: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1042279/?comment=5286813
It seems pretty clear that:
- They have no drivers for Mojave.
- They need help making Mojave drivers.
- They are trying to get help from Apple to make Mojave drivers.
Where in that statement do you see any hint or mention of hackintoshers?
To be fair, they still have all their source code to the High Sierra drivers. However, once again, this really sounds like Apple isn't giving them the correct Frameworks and (internal) headers for them to compile those drivers for Mojave. It sounds like they don't have final working binaries yet, but it does sound like this could be resolved quickly if Apple just gave them the necessary information and let NVIDIA build the driver for 10.14.
In my mancave, where a Hackintosh running Mojave gathers dust awaiting NVidia drivers.
Yeah, this kext has been around basically forever, it certainly dates back to when Apple was actually charging money for new versions of OS X. It doesn't make much sense for them to be asking people to not steal Mac OS X when it's not even called that anymore and they're now giving it away for free.
Is it possible to add to the wiki the incompatibility issues with multi GPU (Nvidia WebDriver)?
I've experienced problems when adding recently a GTX 1070 Katana to my GTX 1050 single slot.
With the card alone, no problems in 10.13.6 with the last driver and Cuda version.
I've read that it's better to stay with GPU of the same version.
So if I want to add one or two GTX 1070, will it work correctly?
Thanks
I've experienced problems when adding recently a GTX 1070 Katana to my GTX 1050 single slot.
With the card alone, no problems in 10.13.6 with the last driver and Cuda version.
I've read that it's better to stay with GPU of the same version.
So if I want to add one or two GTX 1070, will it work correctly?
Thanks
May be time to seriously move on from NVIDIA/CUDA on latest macOS releases. 10.14.1 to be released any day and no sign of NVIDIA Web Drivers. Have a ticket opened with NVIDIA for an Adobe/CUDA issue on 10.13.6 and getting no help and the case keeps getting elevated. Added in the mix is that I'm one of the "few" with the 387.10.10.15.15.108 driver installed. They cannot even confirm which version of the web driver is best suited for the 410.130 CUDA driver.
FWIW, MBP's are getting Vega GPUs as a custom option and there are "Pro" eGPUs with Vega's going to be available soon. Still no official NVIDIA eGPU support.
FWIW, MBP's are getting Vega GPUs as a custom option and there are "Pro" eGPUs with Vega's going to be available soon. Still no official NVIDIA eGPU support.
Reports of the newest High Sierra 10.13.6 security update (2018-002) are build 17G3025. Do not update if you're relying on NVIDIA Web Drivers.
Yeah, I bought another SSD, installed Windows and haven't booted into MacOS for weeks now.
Some say good year for McP 5.1 because of NVME new firmware etc. , but for me no cuda on Mac means necessarily use win 10 instead of MacOS, (the only reason to buy Mac)I am still waiting since 10.13.3 for working Driver Evga GTX 680+ PC Quadro K2200 , this combo works from Yosemite until Sierra with no problems...
Instead of NVIDIA I would only prefer to buy ATI vintage card Rage 128 to use it with NextSTEP or OpenSTEP natively in favor of any AMD product.
Octane,Redshift,Vray,Thea Render,Corona,Arnold+Optix-Denoise
never again on Mac is a complete disaster
Redeon-ProRender is not an Option
Since ElCapitan, Apple did not compile any of its own pro Applications to use Metal instead of Open-CL/OpenGL
Adobe tried Metal-MercuryTransmit
BMD DaVinci uses Metal
and Cinema R20\RadeonRenderPro
- The first two run much better with CUDA the last was never a competitor for Nvidia's iRay
Autodesk has no Metal Apps yet
Instead Autodesk stops to deliver former Alias Productline further ...
and there is no proffesional Programm on Windows which profits using Vulcan ,
-- maybe Unreal Engine
Instead of NVIDIA I would only prefer to buy ATI vintage card Rage 128 to use it with NextSTEP or OpenSTEP natively in favor of any AMD product.
Octane,Redshift,Vray,Thea Render,Corona,Arnold+Optix-Denoise
never again on Mac is a complete disaster
Redeon-ProRender is not an Option
Since ElCapitan, Apple did not compile any of its own pro Applications to use Metal instead of Open-CL/OpenGL
Adobe tried Metal-MercuryTransmit
BMD DaVinci uses Metal
and Cinema R20\RadeonRenderPro
- The first two run much better with CUDA the last was never a competitor for Nvidia's iRay
Autodesk has no Metal Apps yet
Instead Autodesk stops to deliver former Alias Productline further ...
and there is no proffesional Programm on Windows which profits using Vulcan ,
-- maybe Unreal Engine
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New driver for SIERRA, nothing for HIGH SIERRA yet:
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/139508/en-us
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro_Certified/378.05.05.25f11/WebDriver-378.05.05.25f11.pkg
Version: 378.05.05.25f11
Release Date: 2018.10.31
Operating System: macOS Sierra 10.12.6
CUDA Toolkit: 8.0
Language: English (US)
File Size: 62.18 MB
New in Release 378.05.05.25f11:
Graphics driver updated for macOS Sierra 10.12.6 (16G1618)
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/139508/en-us
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro_Certified/378.05.05.25f11/WebDriver-378.05.05.25f11.pkg
Version: 378.05.05.25f11
Release Date: 2018.10.31
Operating System: macOS Sierra 10.12.6
CUDA Toolkit: 8.0
Language: English (US)
File Size: 62.18 MB
New in Release 378.05.05.25f11:
Graphics driver updated for macOS Sierra 10.12.6 (16G1618)
I has always used the verbiage "Waiting for DSMOS" and "DSMOS has arrived" when authenticated previously.
Thanks bsbeamer.
I had a small problem. I installed the security update and the new webdriver but i got a black screen.
I used screensharing to open the nvidia control panel and the GPU was not detected. However, zapping the PRAM and re-activating the webdriver solved the problem.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/01/nvidia-comment-on-macos-mojave-drivers/
While some customers have expressed frustration towards Nvidia, a spokesperson for the company informed MacRumors that "while we post the drivers, it's up to Apple to approve them," and suggested that we contact Apple. We followed that advice, but Apple has yet to respond to multiple requests for comment.
While some customers have expressed frustration towards Nvidia, a spokesperson for the company informed MacRumors that "while we post the drivers, it's up to Apple to approve them," and suggested that we contact Apple. We followed that advice, but Apple has yet to respond to multiple requests for comment.
I don't know why or how, but I read a couple of reports stating that the 108 Web Driver works with High Sierra, Security Update 2, Build (17G3025). I didn't really believe it, but this morning I thought I'd give it a try. I cloned my Boot Disk, and updated to the new build. AND - GOSH DARN - IT WORKED! I was blown away. I don't know of this is true of the 105 driver or not, but for the 108 driver a BIG YES!!!!
Lou
Wow, thanks! I'm still on .108 so may give this a shot with clones on standby.
https://www.nvidia.com/drivers/results/137592
New in Release 387.10.10.15.15.108:
Graphics driver updated for macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65)
Link itself is still not publicly available, FYI. They pulled the download from this page.
[doublepost=1541097036][/doublepost]GPU Driver Version 387.10.10.15.15.108 also 100% works on MacBookPro11,3 which is running NVIDIA Web Drivers. Thanks for trying this out Lou @flowrider! I can avoid Mojave for another few weeks.
Can someone (mods) please clarify the policy of posting the .108 driver installer if it has been pulled by NVIDIA?
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