Nether: PNY, NVIDIA, APPLE or ADOBE will tell us the Quadro 4000 for Mac users how we do a clean install of Lion and get the Quadro 4000 graphics card to work on Mac Pro computers. So I have done some testing. And I have the solution! HERE GOES…
How to do a Clean install of Mac OS X Lion on a Mac Pro with NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac graphics card
OVERVIEW:
Complete Clean Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2
installations guide of a
Apple Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
with NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac graphics card.
HARDWARE:
Mac Pro, v.5.1, (Mid 2010) 2x Xeon Quad Core 2,4 GHz. 32nm. (Intel Westmere)
Boot ROM Version: MP51.007F.B03
2x 4 GB Kingston RAM
OCZ Vertex II SSD Harddrive. SATA2.
Monitor: 24" DELL UltraSharp 2410. LCD. DisplayPort. (1920x1200/60Hz).
OBS: The original ATI Radeon graphics card for the Mac Pro,
will be needed to follow this installation guide.
SOFTWARE:
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74) DVD Disc. (.dmg burned from the App Store Lion installer app)
Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5 with Adobe Mercury Playback Engine. (GPU enabled acceleration)
NO graphics driver from www.nvidia.com will be installed,
the Lion built in driver for the Quadro 4000 for Mac will be used
(v.7.12.9 270.05.10F03).
Only the latest NVIDIA CUDA for Mac driver will have to be downloaded and installed manually.
(Tested with NVIDIA CUDA driver v.4.0.50)
Tested: 11th. November 2011. Denmark.
Test and Guide by: Jesper Simonsen, 8410 Roende, Denmark.
OBS: EVERYTHING IS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
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FIRST how to burn your own Lion 10.7.2 bootable DVD disc:
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On a Mac with Mac OS X Lion (updated from Lion bought from App Store)
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Open “Disk Utility” application in the folder: /Applications/Utilities/
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New open a Finder window.
Browse to the Applications folder.
Find the Lion installer.app that came from the App Store.
Rightclick on the Lion installer app and choose “View Content”.
Browse to path: /Contents/SharedSupport/ -
Find the “InstallESD.dmg” file (approx 3,4 GB)
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Drag the “InstallESD.dmg” file in to the “Disk Utility’s” left hand sidebar.
The .dmg file will appear in the sidebar in Disk Utility. -
Put a empty Single Layer DVD-R disc in your DVD Burner drive.
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Select the .dmg file in the sidebar of Disk Utility window.
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Press the “Burn” button on the top toolbar of Disk Utility.
Burn the .dmg image to the DVD Disc. -
Wait for the Disc to finish burning.
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You have now a real bootable Mac OS X Lion installation DVD disc.
THEN the installation procedure that I did, is the following steps:
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We start with an already started up Mac Pro with Lion
(mine is a Mid2010 model) -
Put the Lion DVD disc in the DVD drive on the Mac Pro
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Turn off the Mac Pro
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Install the original ATI graphics card in the Mac Pro
(take out the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 graphics card) -
Now I did a Reseting of the Parameter RAM in the Mac Pro by
Holding down the keys: OPTION+COMMAND+P+R
and hold them down and start up the Mac Pro.
Hold down all four keys until you hear the Mac chime sound two times then release.
Immidiately after that, hold down the “C” key while the Mac Pro boots up.
That will make the Mac Pro boot from the Lion 10.7.2 DVD disc (holding C key down)(If the Mac Pro boots up normally, then Restart it, and then hold down the C key
to boot from the DVD disc). -
When DVD finishes start up,
choose to run “Disk Utility”.
Make a new hard disk partition for Mac OS X
(delete the old one to get a fresh empty partition)
(Warning…!!! All your data will be erased forever!) -
Then Quit Disk Utility
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Choose to Install Mac OS X Lion on the hard disk partition from the Lion DVD.
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After installation of Lion is finished
In Mac OS X Lion with ATI graphics card still installed
Go to harddisk folder: /System/Library/CoreServices/
Start up the “Directory Utility” app.
Go to the “edit” menu and choose “Enable Root User” -
Make a password for the “Root” user and then Quit Directory Utility.
(remember the password, or write it down on a piece of paper) -
Go to System preferences and choose “Users & Groups”
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Unlock the lock, then choose “Login Options”
In the “Display login windows as:”
choose “Name and password”.
then lock the lock.
And Quit System preferences. -
Reboot Mac OS X
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Login as username: root
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Password: the one you created for the Root User in Directory Utility.
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Download the latest NVIDIA CUDA driver for Mac at webpage URL:
CUDA Toolkit 4.0 | NVIDIA Developer -
Install the latest NVIDIA CUDA driver for Mac,
while you are logged in as the “Root” user.
Wait for the installer to successfully finishes. I takes a while! -
Log out, and login as “root” user again. To be sure that everything in the user profile is saved.
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Reboot Mac OS X, login as Root user again.
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Start up Terminal prompt.
Now test with these 3 command in Terminal:
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/Library/Frameworks/CUDA.framework/Resources/compatibility_check | echo $?
- This should result in a “0”
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/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c “Print :RunAtLoad” /Library/LaunchAgents/com.nvidia.CUDASoftwareUpdate.plist
- This command should result in a “false”.
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defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.nvidia.CUDAPref
- This should result in “UpdateRequired = FALSE”
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The COMMAND’s are copied from this NVIDIA forum thread:
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Reboot Mac OS X, login as Root user
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Shut down Mac OS X
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Change the graphics cards.
That is, take out the ATI graphics card
and install the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac graphics card.
(Remember to put in the extra power cable form the Quadro 4000 card
to the motherboard connector). -
Now I again did a Reseting of the Parameter RAM in the Mac Pro by
Holding down the keys: OPTION+COMMAND+P+R
and hold them down and start up the Mac Pro.
Hold down all four keys until you hear the Mac chime sound two times then release. -
Start up the computer, login as “root” user again.
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See if the Finder windows is normal in List mode
(do you see the background horizontal list lines in List view (COMMAND+2)
You might have to calibrate the Color profile
(System Preferences / Monitor / Color) -
You might have to use the monitors built in settings
via the monitors buttons and menus to get the right setting back. -
Try to move a Finder window, if the border of the Finder window
behave normal. Then everything is OK! -
Log out of Mac OS X
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Login as a normal user (not Root user)
NOW how to disable the Root User.
Open the Directory Utility app
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/
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Go to “Edit” menu and choose to disable Root User".
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Quit Directory Utility.
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Reboot Mac OS X
Login as normal User. -
Go to System Preferences/Users & Groups/
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Unlock the lock
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Press the “Login Options”
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In the “Display login windows as:”
Choose “List of users” -
Lock the lock
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Quit System Preferences.
Congratulations Quadro 4000 owner/user.
You made it to The End!
…and we always hear APPLE saying the line about the Mac:
…IT JUST WORKS!!!
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…
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NOW WHO IS TO BLAME FOR ALL THIS TROUBLE?!!!
…WELL NOT ME!!!
Nether PNY.com, NVIDIA.com, APPLE.com or Adobe.com are willing
to come up with the correct installation guide that WORKS!
…Now I have done it in stead!
The Quadro 4000 for Mac graphics card is a high-end
graphics card costing 1300 US dollars!!!
A professional graphics card with absolutely lowest amateur support level!
All four companies should be very much a shamed!!!
Leaving ALL the Quadro 4000 for Mac owners/users to their own troubleshooting.
It is only Professionals that use Quadro 4000 graphics card on the Mac Pro.
the Mac Pro is a professional workstation computer for business use primarily.
So this silence from the manufacture, dealer and apple is not good for anyone!
But NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!! TYPICAL!
Just blaming the other guys right! Thats pretty lame!
Quadro 4000 for Mac is the ONLY graphics card in the world
that will hardware accelerate HD video editing
in Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.x+ with Adobe Mercury Playback Engine on a Mac computer.
Using NVIDIA CUDA technology.
NONE ATI graphics cards for any Mac offers that!
As the owner and user of the Quadro 4000 for Mac graphics card,
I think it is pretty lawsy service level indeed!!!
NO MATTER who’s fault it is! It is for sure NOT MY FAULT right?!!!
But I get the problem.
Even when I spend a serious large amount of money on the Mac Pro and
Quadro 4000 graphics card!
I don’t care if Apple is at war with Adobe and/or NVIDIA.
I’m a professional and I want professional computer
hardware and software. I pay large amount of money
to get a professional WORKstation and GPU performance and GPU features.
I demand professional hardware and software.
Professional Operating System and drivers too.
That has NOT been the case with Quadro 4000 for Mac
graphics card and Mac OS X Lion!
And the ATI graphics cards will NEVER NEVER be professional graphics EVER!
Even (now 11th nov. 2011) 4 months after Lion was released no one has come up
with a solution! And NVIDIA CUDA technology is the future of professional 3D, CAD
and Video editing. Apple just has to eat that raw and start doing something professional about it!
That’s why I tested it my self and third time I hit jackpot!
Apple has to realize that the Mac Pro is for PROFESSIONALS.
Then they can do what ever with all the other Apple “for dummies” iMac’s, Mini’s and Macbooks, iPads etc…
Just be PRO with the Mac Pro. For gods sake!
NVIDIA has to realize that they ether do Mac graphics card solutions or THEY DONT!
There is nothing in between! Selling a 1300 US Dollars graphics card and writing nothing about the solution
to have it work in Lion is just NOT AT ALL acceptable.
It seems there is none professional Mac developers at NVIDIA!!!
I have tried in another NVIDIA forum thread to make NVIDIA talk, with no luck to this date. (11 nov 2011).
Well anyways, that’s my opinion.
You can have your own opinion on this.
It’s a free world!
PEACE.
The Viking
Jesper Simonsen, Denmark
new media designer