Wednesday, May 16, 2012

BSOD on macs or Kernel Panics

Been getting Gray Screen of Death or Kernel Panics as they are called on Macs instead of the typical Blue Screen of Death you see on Windows. Anyways, here's some documentation if you are technically savvy and want to get to the bottom of what the cause is: Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics

Monday, May 7, 2012

Multiple videocards on Mac OS X

Can't use multiple videocards on Mac OS X with Quicktime, really! Symptoms You may notice green artifacts when you export a QuickTime movie. This can occur on a system that has two graphics cards installed and a display attached to a DVI port on each card. Resolution To work around this issue, only use Final Cut Pro X or Motion 5 with a single graphics card installed on your system.

OpenCL cards for Mac OS X

A list of OpenCL capable videocards for Mac OS X: The following AMD, ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards support OpenCL in Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard and in OS X Lion And here is Khronos list of of OpenCL conforming videocards and even differentiates between OpenCL 1 and 1.1.
 
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