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[m_coffee]

Is there any solution for enabling OpenCL for this new driver from NVIDIA?
I have GT 430 with 1GB memory.

[robertx]

...think i've got the fix now...from "the other place"

"Anyway I just wanted to share this patch for libclh.dylib since the old one doesn't work anymore and it's quite frustrating that OpenCL isn't working out of the box so to speak. And it took some time to work it out since Nvidia anonymized the function names in the library.

Just copy and paste this in a terminal window (don't forget to backup libclh.dylib beforehand).

Code:
sudo perl -pi -e '$c+=s/\x8b\x81\x1c\x0c\x00\x00\xeb\x06\x8b\x81\x20\x0c\x00\x00/\xb8\x02\x00\x00\x00\x90\xeb\x06\xb8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x90/; END { printf "%s: %d substitution%s made.\n",($c==1 ? "Success" : "Error"),$c,(!$c || $c>1 ? "s" : ""); $?=($c!=1); }' /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib
Alternatively you can use a hex editor to search for:
8b 81 1c 0c 00 00 eb 06 8b 81 20 0c 00 00

and replace it by:
b8 02 00 00 00 90 eb 06 b8 00 00 00 00 90

There should be only one occurrence of this in the whole file. The perl script will tell you the number of substitutions it made.

Normally it should take effect immediately so there's no need to reboot, it should also trigger a rebuild of the kernel cache.
If like me you're a cautious person feel free to do those two things manually." (all credit to this code digger) credit removed

...using the new drivers from nvidia for 10.8.1 i can now run the LuxMark v2.0 benchmark ...

    LuxMark v2.0 GT520.png   668.88K   416 downloads    GFX.png   271.66K   392 downloads

Edited by robertx, 07 April 2013 - 06:35 PM.
Link to tonymac removed

[m_coffee]

robertx, on 14 September 2012 - 04:17 AM, said:

...think i've got the fix now...from "the other place"

"Anyway I just wanted to share this patch for libclh.dylib since the old one doesn't work anymore and it's quite frustrating that OpenCL isn't working out of the box so to speak. And it took some time to work it out since Nvidia anonymized the function names in the library.

Just copy and paste this in a terminal window (don't forget to backup libclh.dylib beforehand).

Code:
sudo perl -pi -e '$c+=s/\x8b\x81\x1c\x0c\x00\x00\xeb\x06\x8b\x81\x20\x0c\x00\x00/\xb8\x02\x00\x00\x00\x90\xeb\x06\xb8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x90/; END { printf "%s: %d substitution%s made.\n",($c==1 ? "Success" : "Error"),$c,(!$c || $c>1 ? "s" : ""); $?=($c!=1); }' /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib
Alternatively you can use a hex editor to search for:
8b 81 1c 0c 00 00 eb 06 8b 81 20 0c 00 00

and replace it by:
b8 02 00 00 00 90 eb 06 b8 00 00 00 00 90

There should be only one occurrence of this in the whole file. The perl script will tell you the number of substitutions it made.

Normally it should take effect immediately so there's no need to reboot, it should also trigger a rebuild of the kernel cache.
If like me you're a cautious person feel free to do those two things manually." (all credit to this code digger)

...using the new drivers from nvidia for 10.8.1 i can now run the LuxMark v2.0 benchmark ...

   LuxMark v2.0 GT520.png   GFX.png

THANK YOU!!!!
IT IS A PERFECT SOLUTION!!!

Edited by Micky1979, 30 March 2013 - 04:10 PM.
link to tonymac removed

[robertx]

...just delivering the news

[STLVNUB]

Don't work for GT640

[robertx]

on 10.8.2 now...and again a new patch seems to be required... ..."a hunting I will go..."

[robertx]

for the stock 10.8.2 drivers (8.0.61 295.30.20f02 version) this fix still works

"So, open up a hex editor of your liking and do this:
open /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib (as root or with sudo)
find: 8B 87 1C 0C 00 00 89 06 8B 87 20 0C 00 00 89 02
replace by: 31 C0 FF C0 FF C0 89 06 31 C0 89 02 90 90 90 90
save
reboot is not required, but recommended" from the first post...

[tora]

robertx, on 20 September 2012 - 10:30 PM, said:

for the stock 10.8.2 drivers (8.0.61 295.30.20f02 version) this fix still works

"So, open up a hex editor of your liking and do this:
open /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib (as root or with sudo)
find: 8B 87 1C 0C 00 00 89 06 8B 87 20 0C 00 00 89 02
replace by: 31 C0 FF C0 FF C0 89 06 31 C0 89 02 90 90 90 90
save
reboot is not required, but recommended" from the first post...

By doing so, OpenCL doesn't work for me.
I'm on OS X 10.8.2 (12C60) and my graphics card is Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024 MB.
What I am doing wrong?
Greetings and thanks.

[tora]

tora, on 11 October 2012 - 05:07 PM, said:

By doing so, OpenCL doesn't work for me.
I'm on OS X 10.8.2 (12C60) and my graphics card is Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024 MB.
What I am doing wrong?
Greetings and thanks.

well,

this script with latest nVidia drivers get back openCL for me

sudo perl -pi -e '$c+=s/\x8b\x81\x1c\x0c\x00\x00\xeb\x06\x8b\x81\x20\x0c\x00\x00/\xb8\x02\x00\x00\x00\x90\xeb\x06\xb8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x90/; END { printf "%s: %d substitution%s made.\n",($c==1 ? "Success" : "Error"),$c,(!$c || $c>1 ? "s" : ""); $?=($c!=1); }' /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib

[robertx]

...good to see people using their heads...

[aankun.ganteng]

Hi, this guide is succesfully enable my openCL
but when click on oceanwave test the image is having some glitches
(see the bottom of the sun)
is it normal???

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[mitch_de]

aankun.ganteng, on 03 April 2013 - 01:02 AM, said:

Hi, this guide is succesfully enable my openCL
but when click on oceanwave test the image is having some glitches
(see the bottom of the sun)
is it normal???

Screen Shot 2013-04-03 at 8.59.09 AM.png

No, the rendering is not correct. The waves are missed.
You can try much newer (than 1.2) OceanWave version , but i think (because the OpenCL code wasnt changed) the missing waves will stay.
Such things may happen with some of the subgpu types which not already fully supported by the OpenCL drivers .
to be more excact: to on the fly OpenCL compiler which compiles the source for the found gpu type on the host system. Other than CUDA, which is compiled by the dev already (for several nvidia gpu types) OpenCL used OpenCL source code and compiled it later on run time (first run).

Doesnt matter much, because the complex used OpenCL functions in OceanWave , which fail on your gpu may not used in other OpenCL acceled apps.

[aankun.ganteng]

mitch_de, on 03 April 2013 - 04:29 PM, said:

No, the rendering is not correct. The waves are missed.
You can try much newer (than 1.2) OceanWave version , but i think (because the OpenCL code wasnt changed) the missing waves will stay.
Such things may happen with some of the subgpu types which not already fully supported by the OpenCL drivers .
to be more excact: to on the fly OpenCL compiler which compiles the source for the found gpu type on the host system. Other than CUDA, which is compiled by the dev already (for several nvidia gpu types) OpenCL used OpenCL source code and compiled it later on run time (first run).

Doesnt matter much, because the complex used OpenCL functions in OceanWave , which fail on your gpu may not used in other OpenCL acceled apps.

Thanks for the reply,
anyway a redo all the patch from the beginning
now the rendering is flickering between screenshot #1 and #2
i think it's getting better?

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 Screen Shot 2013-04-04 at 9.18.52 AM.png   345.52K   4 downloads

[mitch_de]

You are on the right way

[JahRastaMaN]

robertx, on 14 September 2012 - 04:17 AM, said:

...think i've got the fix now...from "the other place"

"Anyway I just wanted to share this patch for libclh.dylib since the old one doesn't work anymore and it's quite frustrating that OpenCL isn't working out of the box so to speak. And it took some time to work it out since Nvidia anonymized the function names in the library.

Just copy and paste this in a terminal window (don't forget to backup libclh.dylib beforehand).

Code:
sudo perl -pi -e '$c+=s/\x8b\x81\x1c\x0c\x00\x00\xeb\x06\x8b\x81\x20\x0c\x00\x00/\xb8\x02\x00\x00\x00\x90\xeb\x06\xb8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x90/; END { printf "%s: %d substitution%s made.\n",($c==1 ? "Success" : "Error"),$c,(!$c || $c>1 ? "s" : ""); $?=($c!=1); }' /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib

Thank YOU man! It's works fine for me. i'm using G75VW RS 72 and 10.8.3 and GTX 670m 3GB GDDR5

http://cl.ly/O6ro

[robertx]

[beta992]

JahRastaMaN, on 07 April 2013 - 05:00 AM, said:

Thank YOU man! It's works fine for me. i'm using G75VW RS 72 and 10.8.3 and GTX 670m 3GB GDDR5

Patch from robertx was also needed for me on 10.8.3.

[JahRastaMaN]

Cool Beta992! Edit you signature

[robertx]

for the new nvidia "Web" drivers this works for me
...in Terminal type:
sudo perl -pi -e '$c+=s/\x8b\x81\x1c\x0c\x00\x00\xeb\x06\x8b\x81\x20\x0c\x00\x00/\xb8\x02\x00\x00\x00\x90\xeb\x06\xb8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x90/; END { printf "%s: %d substitution%s made.\n",($c==1 ? "Success" : "Error"),$c,(!$c || $c>1 ? "s" : ""); $?=($c!=1); }' /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriverWeb.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib


edit: although the fix works, i now get this error in safari while attempting to view the iphone ad...
5/16/13 4:50:36.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x1f = Fifo: MMU Error
5/16/13 4:50:36.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x1f = Fifo: MMU Error
5/16/13 4:50:44.365 PM WebProcess[405]: VADriver: Channel timeout (client), ch = 2
5/16/13 4:50:56.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel timeout!
5/16/13 4:51:16.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel timeout!
5/16/13 4:51:24.809 PM WebProcess[405]: VADriver: Channel timeout (client), ch = 3
5/16/13 4:51:36.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!
5/16/13 4:51:57.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel timeout!
5/16/13 4:52:17.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!
...totally locks up my system...i'll keep hunting

...changed my smbios.plist to MacPro 3.1 and no longer have the channel timeout freeze in safari

Edited by robertx, 17 May 2013 - 12:11 AM.

[beta992]

robertx, on 16 May 2013 - 08:28 PM, said:

for the new nvidia "Web" drivers this works for me
...in Terminal type:
sudo perl -pi -e '$c+=s/\x8b\x81\x1c\x0c\x00\x00\xeb\x06\x8b\x81\x20\x0c\x00\x00/\xb8\x02\x00\x00\x00\x90\xeb\x06\xb8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x90/; END { printf "%s: %d substitution%s made.\n",($c==1 ? "Success" : "Error"),$c,(!$c || $c>1 ? "s" : ""); $?=($c!=1); }' /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriverWeb.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib


edit: although the fix works, i now get this error in safari while attempting to view the iphone ad...
5/16/13 4:50:36.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x1f = Fifo: MMU Error
5/16/13 4:50:36.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel exception! exception type = 0x1f = Fifo: MMU Error
5/16/13 4:50:44.365 PM WebProcess[405]: VADriver: Channel timeout (client), ch = 2
5/16/13 4:50:56.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel timeout!
5/16/13 4:51:16.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel timeout!
5/16/13 4:51:24.809 PM WebProcess[405]: VADriver: Channel timeout (client), ch = 3
5/16/13 4:51:36.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!
5/16/13 4:51:57.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(Video): Channel timeout!
5/16/13 4:52:17.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!
...totally locks up my system...i'll keep hunting

Safari is buggy for me to.. using Chrome as browser now. No freezes, although I'm using the DP3 kexts.