NVIDIA Releases Alternate Graphics Drivers for macOS Sierra 10.12.6 (378.05.05.25)

[hlehofer]

Hello,
After installing latest security update for 10.12.6, I get a kernel panic on Startup.
Any idea what can be done?

Boot in single user mode is working. I installed latest NVidia driver, but this did not change anything.

 

[al-ec]

“Knock on wood”.

This latest driver worked for me. Thanks so much for posting the link, @drummachine. You saved me a serious headache last night.

 

[al-ec]

Warning to everyone that installs this... It causes serious lag issues. That's why Nvidia pulled it from their servers/mirrors.

More reading: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...-sierra-10-13-3-387-10-10-10-25.243857/page-3

 

[afree]

I made sure to update all the kext's I use to their latest versions (nvidiagraphics/lilu) before
Using a 1060
The latest .25f06 "works" but getting a lot of glitching on the menu bar and occasionally logged out when I think the window server is failing. Can't really go back without manually editing the build the old drivers expect eh?

 

[afree]

Seeings glock(0 state... something) in white text/black background at the top left of my main monitor. I cant read it in time because it logs me out just to the login window. Looks like the window/graphics server failing? Can't seem to narrow down what causes this failure. It is mining with dual cards but the temp stays low and I've had the issue when mining code was not running too. Wasn't having this issue ever before the latest security/Nvidia driver updated. Checked my security/auto logout settings. Not set as expected. I think bad Nvidia drivers. High Serria users are having more issues it sounds like.

 

[afree]

Guess I'm alone here with the menu bar glitches?

 

[P1LGRIM]

Guess I'm alone here with the menu bar glitches?

So called menu bar glitches can sometimes be cured by disabling the integrated graphics in the BIOS settings.

 

[afree]

Yea running only on dedicated cards with iGPU disabled. Was this a problem in the past fixed by disabling the iGPU or just for the recent drivers, out of curiosity?
I get finder rendering issues in xtrafinder tool bar https://i.imgur.com/gYoGDsU.png .
but also with with native Finder https://i.imgur.com/ZLJJmxQ.png (I even did the drag reset on the toolbar before too).
Didn't have these issues before.
Everything else is working great. Was having some glock issues with it just logging out/window manager failing seemingly randomly, couldn't really see logs of much that would be too telling, and if I was mining at the time it could be a lot of things. But so far so good recently mostly. Also running nightly/dev builds of p2p / mining software and a lot of software dev tools running so I'm considering everything. I have the issue when all these apps are closed through + reboot. Just was never an issue before the latest update in nvidia drivers + security 2018 update. If I felt more comfortable I would try to go back and test by editing the pref file. I guess you can't really screw up. Just boot with no graphics if things get wack so you can edit the file or from a recovery usb in vim.

Jesus, you have 13,440 messages. Thanks for your contribution to the community so people like me could get off their feet.

 

[P1LGRIM]

Was this a problem in the past fixed by disabling the iGPU or just for the recent drivers, out of curiosity?

Yes, just disabling integrated graphics.

I get finder rendering issues in xtrafinder and the native one https://i.imgur.com/gYoGDsU.png . with native Finder https://i.imgur.com/ZLJJmxQ.png

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[afree]

I'll give them like another couple weeks during midterms/finals to get out fixed drivers then in revetring.