{"id":1529,"date":"2018-04-06T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T03:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2018-04-07T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T13:39:10","slug":"nvidia-web-driver-headless-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/nvidia-web-driver-headless-update\/","title":{"rendered":"NVidia Web Driver Headless Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/nvidia-web-driver-headless-update\/nvidia_logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1530\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nvidia_logo-450x350.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nvidia_logo-450x350.png 450w, https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nvidia_logo-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nvidia_logo-750x583.png 750w, https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nvidia_logo.png 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>I upgraded my graphics card in my 2008 MacPro to an Nvidia 950. This of course requires the Nvidia WebDriver since Apple doesn&#8217;t offer built-in support. I installed the driver, swapped my cards, and it worked like a charm.<\/p>\n<p>Today I had a security update from Apple and thought nothing of it. Unfortunately, after the chime, the video never showed up! I didn&#8217;t panic immediately. I SSHed into my computer, and told it to reboot just to see if it was a glitch. No luck&#8230; I also tried using screen sharing, alas screen sharing doesn&#8217;t work without a GPU.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily it is possible to fix this problem with nothing more than an SSH connection to the troubled Mac. I logged in, and ran the command, <em>system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType<\/em>, to determine which OS Release I have so I can choose the appropriate WebDriver package.<\/p>\n<pre><code>$ system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType\r\nSoftware:\r\n\r\n    System Software Overview:\r\n\r\n      System Version: OS X 10.11.6 (<strong>15G20015<\/strong>)\r\n      Kernel Version: Darwin 15.6.0\r\n      Boot Volume: Macintosh SSD\r\n      Boot Mode: Normal\r\n      Computer Name: MikePro\r\n      User Name: Michael Caldwell (michaelcaldwell)\r\n      Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled\r\n      System Integrity Protection: Enabled\r\n      Time since boot: 3 minutes\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The helpful people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macvidcards.com\">MacVidCards.com<\/a> keep a handy list of all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macvidcards.com\/drivers.html\">up-to-date releases<\/a> of the WebDriver. I selected the appropriate one and was able to install it over SSH using the <em>installer<\/em> command (which I didn&#8217;t know existed before today!).<\/p>\n<pre><code>$ sudo installer -pkg WebDriver-346.03.15f13.pkg -target \/\r\nPassword:\r\ninstaller: Package name is NVIDIA Web Driver 346.03.15f13\r\ninstaller: Upgrading at base path \/\r\ninstaller: The upgrade was successful.\r\ninstaller: The install requires restarting now.\r\n$ sudo reboot\r\nConnection to 10.0.1.12 closed by remote host.<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>After the reboot, the display popped on just like it used to. Crisis averted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded my graphics card in my 2008 MacPro to an Nvidia 950. This of course requires the Nvidia WebDriver since Apple doesn&#8217;t offer built-in support. I installed the driver, swapped my cards, and it worked like a charm. Today I had a security update from Apple and thought nothing of it. Unfortunately, after the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/nvidia-web-driver-headless-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NVidia Web Driver Headless Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}