Asus P5K's ALC883, Problems installing it properly ... Options

[NewKindOfWorld]

Hi !!

I'm having trouble getting my soundcard to work properly.
I tried a few kext, including the latest taruga (adr0 et adr2) combined with appleHDA patch.
I installed using KextHelper/deleting old appleHDA/ reboot -f (Am I doing right ?)
Sound is working, but very loud, very "bassy" (compared to same rig on Vista), and crackling very often (web or iTunes).
It's listed in system information as intel high definition audio - no details about different outputs, but as "unknown" in sound prefs.
Every kext I try gives the same result.
Any advice would be much appreciated

Thanks !!

[Master Chief]

What's the installed OS X version?
Which P5K board do you have?

You might want to read this and/or the links provided there – just in case you want to lear something

[NewKindOfWorld]

What's the installed OS X version?
Which P5K board do you have?

You might want to read this and/or the links provided there – just in case you want to lear something

You're right, I didn't give all details, sorry, still a newbie
I'm running a Vanilla retail 10.5.6 updated to 10.5.7.
And my P5K is just ... P5K, nothing more
I'll now read your link, thanks

Edit : I've read things about codec dump from Linux, but I thought it would be too difficult for me, but hey, if no choice, I'll give it a shot !!

[Master Chief]

Before you start hacking and taking a difficult route; get a hold on your mother boards ALC833 (address 0?) and then do a search (Google) to see if there's anything available for it (should be).

[NewKindOfWorld]

I'm on my iPhone @ work right now, but on asus download page is written alc883, I could try to confirm later @ home, booting on vista.

[NewKindOfWorld]

Confirmed ALC883.

[NewKindOfWorld]

I saw some people had results using voodoohda, should I try it ?
Do I have to try to remove my previous attempts of installing ALC883 ? And how can I do that ?

[Master Chief]

Let's start by looking at the log files, which might reveal something interesting. Just open a terminal window and enter the following two commands:

CODE

sudo dmesg|grep "Sound assertion"

CODE

cat /var/log/system.log|grep "Sound assertion"

And if you do happen to find anything, then copy/paste it into a [ codebox ] [ / codebox ] (without spaces)

[NewKindOfWorld]

Thanks for your help, I have solved my problem, and I have to apologize for the time wasted for you.
I decided to restart taking consideration of my problem from the beginning.
When I installed my retail vanilla 10.5.6, I followed a tutorial, which should have contained a voodoohda kext.
At that moment, I didn't know what it was, but I discovered this morning that I already had a voodoohda prefpane in my system window.
So every attempt I did to install my ALC883 was useless, as it was already used by this voodoohda.kext.
I deleted it, installed taruga's kext addr0, repaired permissions, restart with -f, and then I had everything listed in sytem/sound config and system information.
Sound is no more crackling, but lacks some bass, I guess it's normal compared too windows driver.
I'm sorry for this huge newbie mistake

And sorry for my english, I'm French

[Master Chief]

Good news, but it may not work with the next OS upgrade so you might want to read:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=171183

And don't you worry about your English!

[NewKindOfWorld]

Another update for my "case"
Coming from Windows world, I assume things to be similar in Mac Os, but it's not, and I discover later my misunderstanding
I was complaining that my audio needed some bass, and I figured out that in fact I had only some stereo basic output, but I'm using 5.1 speakers (without rear speakers plugged), so no bass were delivered to the woofer, or some little.
I tried different kexts, and found only one that could create 3 stereo outputs to be merged by an aggregate device, to get 5.1. (I can't find the file anymore on the forum, I searched and tried so much, and didn't bookmark the page, but it's a taruga ALC883-3channel output file)
It finally works, bassy groovy and so on, but the only problem is that now I get Kernel Panic on shutdown.
What could be the cause of that problem ?
Can it be because it's patching an older AppleHDA, included in the zip, than my actuel Leopard 10.5.7 ?

Master chief, I've read your work linked previously, but I can't really understand the whole purpose of it.
Just by following your guide, am I able to make some kind of driver based on my actual config that would definitely work ?
Thanks again

[NewKindOfWorld]

Just tried latest voodoohda, one output "unknown", but seems to be 5.1, bass is yet separated to subwoofer