2015-01-21, 21:57
To resolve the horizontal tearing that can result when playing back certain video files such as older SD files on the 2010 Mac Mini with 320m graphics, replacing the OSX driver in Mavericks and yosemite with the latest universal Nvidia drivers for the Mac Pro seems to be quite effective. Installing this driver requires a modification to the distribution file within the package to prevent it from checking the system for the correct definition and allowing it to completely install.
First, download the alternate driver for the Mac Pro Nvidia Driver for your OPSYS.
For Yosemite 10.10.1 use http://us.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro....01f01.pkg
For Mavericks 10.9.5 use: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro....03f01.pkg
For Mavericks 10.9.5 after the March update (13F1066) use: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro....03f02.pkg
The first post of this thread also lists alternate drivers for other versions of mountain Lion and Mavericks.
Place it on the desk top and open terminal and enter the following command in order to allow it to be installed on non mac pro machines running nvidia graphics.
pkgutil --expand ~/Desktop/<file name you just placed on your desktop> ~/Desktop/WebDriver
(example: pkgutil --expand ~/Desktop/WebDriver-334.01.03f01.pkg ~/Desktop/WebDriver)
Open up your newly created folder 'WebDriver' on your desktop and search for the distribution file, edit with TextWrangler/Text Edit and change var found_hardware = 0 to: var found_hardware = 1
Now that we have made the edit, need to repackage the installer. Remove the original .pkg from your desktop and type:
pkgutil --flatten ~/Desktop/WebDriver ~/Desktop/<orginal file name>
(example: pkgutil --flatten ~/Desktop/WebDriver ~/Desktop/WebDriver-334.01.03f01.pkg)
You have now edited the .pkg installer to prevent from checking if you have the correct system definition!
Hope this helps. It totally cured the tearing issues for us on all our 2010 mac minis whether running mavericks or yosemite.
Turning off "adjust video refresh rate to content frame rate" for me also greatly reduced tearing in older 480p content.
If even this fails to remove the tearing, enabling a momentary VNC connection (screen sharing) with the mini from an iPad or another mac computer will also remove the tearing.
First, download the alternate driver for the Mac Pro Nvidia Driver for your OPSYS.
For Yosemite 10.10.1 use http://us.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro....01f01.pkg
For Mavericks 10.9.5 use: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro....03f01.pkg
For Mavericks 10.9.5 after the March update (13F1066) use: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro....03f02.pkg
The first post of this thread also lists alternate drivers for other versions of mountain Lion and Mavericks.
Place it on the desk top and open terminal and enter the following command in order to allow it to be installed on non mac pro machines running nvidia graphics.
pkgutil --expand ~/Desktop/<file name you just placed on your desktop> ~/Desktop/WebDriver
(example: pkgutil --expand ~/Desktop/WebDriver-334.01.03f01.pkg ~/Desktop/WebDriver)
Open up your newly created folder 'WebDriver' on your desktop and search for the distribution file, edit with TextWrangler/Text Edit and change var found_hardware = 0 to: var found_hardware = 1
Now that we have made the edit, need to repackage the installer. Remove the original .pkg from your desktop and type:
pkgutil --flatten ~/Desktop/WebDriver ~/Desktop/<orginal file name>
(example: pkgutil --flatten ~/Desktop/WebDriver ~/Desktop/WebDriver-334.01.03f01.pkg)
You have now edited the .pkg installer to prevent from checking if you have the correct system definition!
Hope this helps. It totally cured the tearing issues for us on all our 2010 mac minis whether running mavericks or yosemite.
Turning off "adjust video refresh rate to content frame rate" for me also greatly reduced tearing in older 480p content.
If even this fails to remove the tearing, enabling a momentary VNC connection (screen sharing) with the mini from an iPad or another mac computer will also remove the tearing.
