This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Mac Nvidia/CUDA drivers

Monday, June 10, 2019

[Avid-L2] Re: Mac Nvidia/CUDA drivers

That makes a lot of sense, John, thank-you. But when I actually follow those steps, I wind up back where I started:

1. manually uninstall CUDA, reboot

2. Install an older CUDA driver from before my OS release date (410.130, from 2018/9/19), reboot

3. CUDA panel now offers an update. "Install CUDA update" and reboot.

4. Now the CUDA panel tells me 418.163 is installed, but an Update is required, and the "Install CUDA Update" button is greyed-out again. Very frustrating.

Any other suggestions certainly appreciated!

Thanks,

--Michael

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <pale.edit@...> wrote :

You are correct. It won't work if your CUDA driver is too new.

https://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html

Uninstall your current CUDA driver.

Install one that pre-dates the release of your installed operating system.

That should work. It will alert you if you should be running a newer CUDA driver.

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 12:28 AM mbrockns2@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Not in my case, unfortunately.

I installed the web-driver, then the CUDA driver, as recommended. After running for a couple days, it seemed like that was causing some hard crashes, so I switched back to the OSX stock driver.

After reboot, the CUDA control panel then tells me an update is required, but also says "No newer CUDA Driver available" and the "Install CUDA Update" button is greyed out.

I'm guessing the CUDA driver I have installed is too recent to be compatible with the OSX Nvidia driver, but the CUDA control panel doesn't know how to roll back...

I wonder, if I manually uninstall everything except the CUDA control panel, will it be able to download the right driver? I.e. if I uninstall all the following files:

/System/Library/Extensions/CUDA.kext
/Library/Frameworks/CUDA.framework
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nvidia.CUDASoftwareUpdate.plist
/System/Library/StartupItems/CUDA/

Thanks,
--Michael