This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Germany SNFT Gmbh extension and dongle and nVidia Web drivers?

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Re: [Avid-L2] Germany SNFT Gmbh extension and dongle and nVidia Web drivers?

http://www.macvidcards.com/drivers.html

Grab the correct nvidia driver per the version of your OSX. Don't forget to install the separate required CUDA installer.

You CANNOT mix Kepler, Maxwell or Pascal cards in a system. All cards wether GTX or Quadro must be from the same chip family. This is due to drivers.

Kepler example: K4200 + 780TI +Titan Black(2014)
Maxwell example: M4000 + GTX980TI + Titan-X(2015)
Pascal example: P4000 + GTX1070 + GTX1080

* Remember there are multiple Titan cards

GTX Series600 Series *(Kepler) *

605, 610, 620, 625, 630, 635, 640, 645, 650, 660, 670, 680, 690

700 Series (Kepler)

705, 710, 720, 730, 740, 745, 750, 750TI, 760, 760TI, 770, 780, 780TI, TITAN, TITAN BLACK(2014), Titan-Z (2014)

900 Series *(Maxwell) *

950, 960, 970, 980, 980TI, Titan-X(2015)

1000 Series (Pascal)

1030,1050, 1050TI, 1060, 1070, 1070TI, 1080, 1080TI,** Titan-X*(2016) & **Titan-Xp*(2017)

Quadro

K-Series (Kepler)

Quadro 410, K420, K600, K620, K1200, K2000, K2000D, K2200, K4000, K4200, K5000, K5200, K6000

M-Series (Maxwell)

M2000, M4000, M5000, M6000

P-Series (Pascal)

P400, P600, P1000, P2000, P4000, P5000, P6000, Quadro GP100

On Sep 6, 2020, at 1:21 AM, John Moore via groups.io <bigfish=pacbell.net@groups.io> wrote:

I did a clean install of macos 10.13.6 and I have discovered that if I run the nVidia webdriver Avid stalls at initializing composer windows but if I go back the macos default graphics driver then Avid will launch properly and I've repeated this a couple times. So I'm stuck with being able to have the expansion chassis TitanX GPUs be correctly recognized by the OS if I run the nVidia webdriver but then I can't launch Avid. At least on the clean install I can bounce and not have it lock up on the Mac Startup progress bar. I'm going to reinstall the buggered startup drive to see if I can resurrect it. If not I'll go back to my back up clone. Boy this is more fun than a person should have on Labrador Day Weekend.

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 04:55 PM, John Moore wrote:

Spent some quality time with Avid Tech today to get my macpro mid 2012 12 core 3.46Ghz 64GB ram Mac OS 10.13.6 to recognize my dongle. I had installed the sentinel driver and when I upgraded the OS from 10.12.6 to 10.13.6 back around February I could not launch MC 2018.12.7 because it would hang at initializing composer windows. Yesterday I downloaded MC 2018.12.12 to see if it would launch but it wouldn't even begin to launch saying my license wasn't working. The computer wasn't seeing the dongle. Today we went through all the under the hood settings and permissions and finally was able to allow the Germany SNFT Gmbh extension in the security preferences. Then the computer saw the dongle.

When we enabled the SNFT extension the computer restarted twice but came up. Then I could launch MC 2018.12.12 but again it hung at Initializing Composer Windows. I googled and I saw someone had found the nVidia Web drivers were a possible conflict. I went to the nVidia preferences and choose the OSX default driver that does work with my GTX-680 in the tower but doesn't properly recognize the two TitanX GPUs in my cyclone microsystems expansion chassis.

Now the computer won't boot to that startup partition. It stalls about a quarter or third of the way on the progress bar. I can boot in safe mode but how do I undo what we did.

After we allowed the SNFT extension and the double reboot the dongle was recognized but I didn't do a restart at that point. So now I don't know if the enabling of the SNFT is causing the issue or if when I switched to default OSX graphics driver did it or both. Is there a way in safe mode I can set back to nVidia web driver and or can I not allow the SNFT from safe mode? I have an old CCC clone that I will try but now I'm CCC cloning the crippled start up drive.

I hate the thought of a clean install but maybe it's time to bite the bullet. Heck maybe someday I'll actually rebuild my avid settings like I should.

Any suggestions are welcome. It is curious to me that I've never enabled the SNFT before because I didn't know what it was for. I had google but I didn't find anything that suggested it was Avid related. Perhaps my lame google skills are showing.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net