I am running a Mac Pro 10.6.8 64bit 12-core machine with two Q4000 mac GPUs and i just installed the new nvidia driver, 256.02.25f01, released today. Now my CUDA 4.0 development is broken. I reinstalled the display driver, then cuda driver, cuda toolkit, and cuda sdk but still i am getting this error,
Based on my tests Mac OS X 10.6.8 works fine with the old driver 256.01.00f03, I had to revert back and CUDA is now working fine, as soon as I will upgrade to the new one it will stop working. I’ve validated that as well with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, 10.6.8 + Old Quadro driver + CUDA 4.0.17 works perfect in Premiere with GPU acceleration.
When I try this rollback, I get the message the stops me from doing so: “No Driver Update Needed - This system already has driver which support the NVIDIA graphics solution.” Only option is Close.
You have to use the old drivers from 03/22, open the package and inside there are 3 more packages, Video, Display and OpenGL, install each of them reboot and you will all set.
Mac Pro 12-core 2.66Ghz, 64GB memory, 10.6.8, dual quadro 4000s, CUDA 4.0.17, 256.01.00f03 Starting fft_GPU Complete fft_GPU RunTime:time:7.46s Starting GPU_recon Complete GPU recon RunTime:time:6.57s
Very sad :-(
Nvidia seriously fix this!!! I have several quadroplex units, quadro 6000’s, 5800’s, common guys.
New results after driver fix and cuda update
Mac Pro 12-core 2.66Ghz, 64GB memory, 10.6.8, dual quadro 4000s, CUDA 4.0.17, 256.02.25f01 Starting fft_GPU Complete fft_GPU RunTime:time:0.25s Starting GPU_recon Complete GPU recon RunTime:time:1.33s
Had a bad crash on the old driver, CUDA functioned just not very well.
Now ive installed the new driver (june 24, 2011), cleared the pram 5 times and my second card is detected but says driver is not installed.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
update: removed the second card, slot 2, rebooted and cleared pram. Shutdown, installed second card, booted and finally i have all q4000’s detected. CUDA doesnt work now, as the driver release and cuda version dont match.
After a few hours of effort this morning with the new CUDA driver and the new display driver i can finally say i have everything working again.
Process i found that finally worked, was to
1)install only one quadro 4000,
2)reset the pram (option-command-p-r all at the same time during boot before the gray screen),
3)install the new driver, requires reboot,
4)after successfully rebooting, shutdown and restart to make sure card is still running at 16x pcie. I had troubles with this as it was only showing 4x,
5)shutdown,
6)install second quadro 4000 in slot 2 and restart machine,
7)verify both cards are running at 16x with displays connected,
8)shutdown, verify again,
9)restart, verify again, i had troubles with this not working only after restarts i reset the motherboard switch between the pci-1 and pci-2 16x slots and restarted entire process.
10)install new cuda driver,
11)run tests like convolvefft on device 0, then device 1,
12)if it doesnt crash ur done.
Please could you explain how did you check that the card is running at PCI 16x ?, where I can get some instructions on how to run “convolvefft” ?, thank you
