NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for macOS High Sierra 10.13.0 (378.10.10.10.15)

[Stork]

Clicky, No, I've not done a fresh install, yet, with build 405. Please share your findings.

 

[vulgo]

In that directory, I have 2 logs but I didn't see anything like that.

It's likely the invalid port error is just one precursor to the dark displays that can have other causes. Seems the only common thing in everybody's solutions is the drivers get loaded or partially loaded at least once, and at least one reboot after that. Or installing emulated NVRAM when before it wasn't.

 

[Clicky]

Clicky, No, I've not done a fresh install, yet, with build 405. Please share your findings.

I could copy pasta walls of text but I'm a bit frazzled from being up way way too long - if you look through my posts in this thread , mostly in the past 3 days - the ones responding to vulgo, it goes over each fresh install. I think 6 or 7 of them total. They all had success in the end but each required some SIP or VNC tweaking. Each install was done using the same EFI, the vanilla install method on the same system.

Last night, I started thinking is possible in my case, it may have something to do with multiple displays and sharing info with vulgo he can (help) figure it out. My skill-set is somewhat limited.

 

[Clicky]

It's likely the invalid port error is just one precursor to the dark displays that can have other causes. Seems the only common thing in everybody's solutions is the drivers get loaded or partially loaded at least once, and at least one reboot after that. Or installing emulated NVRAM when before it wasn't.

Hmm. Well, Im'a sleep. When I get up I'll try a couple more installs. One with both displays connected, - install 0x67, then to 0x0 for .120 install - then rebooting 0x67.... The next test will be with 1 display straight up 0x67 all the way through.

 

[tubeboggan]

See my post before yours.

Ah

 

[SuperOne]

I've just got notification from NVIDA to upgrade to .120

Do I need to mess around with SIP thing again (0x67 and 0x0) before upgrading?

Using High Sierra 10.30

 

[Stork]

SuperOne, See Post #638 or Post #2, first paragraph.

 

[dbastille]

After 3 attempts at doing upgrade from 10.12 and having lock up issues after installing latest driver for 1080ti....I decided to do a full re-install and did the above mentioned SIP settings to do that without error. Everything was perfect with zero lockups on screensaver activation or looking at color profile tab. Both of which would lock everything in its tracks.

What I found out was the issue was the G-Sync!......When I enabled that my lock up problems came back!
Anybody able to enable G-Sync without issues?....I can still choose the 165hz refresh without it on.
Working great so far!......Hope this helps if you had G-Sync enabled in 10.12 and did upgrade to 10.13.
Thanks for all the help!

 

[fosworn]

One note that might help a few: If you're getting stuck at the Apple logo during boot after installing the web drivers and you're using emulated NVRAM (EmuVariableUefi-64.ef) you might have to add the -nvda_drv=1 boot flag on the first boot after installing the web drivers.

 

[vulgo]

Hmm. Well, Im'a sleep. When I get up I'll try a couple more installs. One with both displays connected, - install 0x67, then to 0x0 for .120 install - then rebooting 0x67.... The next test will be with 1 display straight up 0x67 all the way through.

Done my own tests on a clean install. CSR set to 0x3FF in config.plist, boot into fresh High Sierra, run only my script, reboot and everything works. Reboot with CSR 0x3, everything works. No errors. No gatekeepers. Single monitor connected throughout as i have to boot with only one plugged in anyways (out of my 6 displays).

vulgos-iMac:~ vulgo$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *480.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         240.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk0s3
   4:                 Apple_APFS Container disk4         51.5 GB    disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows                 62.4 GB    disk0s5
   6:           Windows Recovery                         471.9 MB   disk0s6
   7:           Linux Filesystem                         41.9 GB    disk0s7

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        ZFS                         320.1 GB   disk1s1
   2: 6A945A3B-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631               8.4 MB     disk1s9

/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk2
   1:                        ZFS                         320.1 GB   disk2s1
   2: 6A945A3B-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631               8.4 MB     disk2s9

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +240.0 GB   disk3
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            162.4 GB   disk3s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 18.9 MB    disk3s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                519.9 MB   disk3s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk3s4

/dev/disk4 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +51.5 GB    disk4
                                 Physical Store disk0s4
   1:                APFS Volume HighSierra              11.3 GB    disk4s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 20.0 MB    disk4s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                519.9 MB   disk4s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk4s4

vulgos-iMac:~ vulgo$ diskutil mountdisk disk0s1
Volume(s) mounted successfully
vulgos-iMac:EFI vulgo$ sudo /Volumes/EFI/altnvweb-120.sh

Alternative Installer for WebDriver-378.10.10.10.15.120

Downloading package...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 62.1M  100 62.1M    0     0  2434k      0  0:00:26  0:00:26 --:--:-- 2714k
Extracting...
387207 blocks
Approving kexts...
Installing...
Updating caches...
KernelCache ID: DA0EC1820DBF57DE71EC643A0018C6BB
Complete.


You should reboot now.

vulgos-iMac:EFI vulgo$