New Method for Enabling NVIDIA Web Drivers in Clover

[slim.jim]

The latest Clover Configurator now supports this method.

 

[ViieeS]

Just for information; the problem is that nVidia drivers looks in AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy info.plist for a matching board-id and only the following are listed there:

iMac13,1    Mac-00BE6ED71E35EB86    none
iMac13,2    Mac-FC02E91DDD3FA6A4    none
iMac14,1    Mac-031B6874CF7F642A    none
iMac14,2    Mac-27ADBB7B4CEE8E61    none
iMac14,3    Mac-77EB7D7DAF985301    none
iMac14,4    Mac-81E3E92DD6088272    none
iMac15,1    Mac-42FD25EABCABB274    Config2
iMac15,2    Mac-FA842E06C61E91C5    Config2
iMac17,1    Mac-65CE76090165799A    Config2
iMac17,1    Mac-B809C3757DA9BB8D    Config2
iMac17,1    Mac-DB15BD556843C820    Config2

MacPro2,1    Mac-F42C88C8    none
MacPro4,1    Mac-F221BEC8    none
MacPro5,1    Mac-F221DCC8    none
MacPro6,1    Mac-F60DEB81FF30ACF6    Config1

MacBookAir6,1    Mac-35C1E88140C3E6CF    none
MacBookAir6,2    Mac-7DF21CB3ED6977E5    none

MacBookPro9,1    Mac-4B7AC7E43945597E    none
MacBookPro10,1    Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F    none
MacBookPro11,1    Mac-189A3D4F975D5FFC    none

???    Mac-C9CF552659EA9913    none

So, if you have a different type of machine in your SMBIOS informations, your nVidia drivers will never work.
1. You can change your SMBIOS to one of those present with 'none' to avoid special cases
or 2. If you have one with Config1/Config2, change it to none by hand or using one of the patches around this forum
or 3. Add the missing board-id in the list, or change one of them to your board-id (ie. I have changed Mac-C9CF552659EA9913 to Mac-F2238BAE to support iMac11,3)
or 4. I've seen that someone got a positive result changing GFX0 in DSDT to GFX1

Big thanks! I changed SMBIOS to iMac13,2 via Clover Configurator and display worked.

 

[melidron]

I used your method to enable nvidia web drivers and when i boot I get right resolution Sierra recognize Graphics card right , lower taskbar look nice, upper menu bar look nice but background wallpaper and every programs background is a mess of colored pixels... For example if I start Multibeast I can see all menu letters clearly but on the rirgt side that I have to choose settings I see only many colored pixels... Is it something wrong with clover settings? Its a Toshiba Laptop with nvidia GT 525M (smbios iMac 14,2) Thanks

 

[kissandtellMAC74]

I have a GTX 950 and this solution does not work. Does anyone else with a 950 have success?

I have a 950 aswell and it doesn't work but I'm on Chameleon (Enoch version) instead of Clover. I tried with nvda_drv=1 boot arg with no success, could it be a problem with this particular card?

 

[hdubb]

I tried this but it is still not working.

 

[makinarea]

Not work for my GT610...

 

[avtop2k]

Not work for my GT610...

Mine too not working card get recognised but no acceleration .

 

[Totti]

Solved guys. See here

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solved-black-screen-sierra-fermi-560ti-read-on.203877/

 

[kissandtellMAC74]

The latest Clover Configurator now supports this method.

any hint how to fix with Chameleon? Tried nvda_drv=1 and didn't work

 

[sirfrancis]

I followed the instructions for enabling nvidia web drivers without success. The system keeps on rebooting and "About this Mac" sees only 7MB of RAM. The only way to successfully boot is to put "nv_disable=1" in the boot arguments. Can someone please help me? Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-gaming5 - Graphic Card: Gigabyte Geforce GTX 960