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[antaholics]

USB2.0 1.3M WebCam
Manufacturer (D-Max, STK-1135)
VID: 174F
PID: 6A31

[AlexIT]

USB2.0 1.3M WebCam
Manufacturer (D-Max, STK-1135)
VID: 174F
PID: 6A31

OSX works only with UVC-compliant webcams, and STK1135 is not UVC !
Neither the MaCam project support this model, and nobody is porting the driver from linux ...

Sorry

[antaholics]

OSX works only with UVC-compliant webcams, and STK1135 is not UVC !
Neither the MaCam project support this model, and nobody is porting the driver from linux ...

Sorry

aww that sucks... looks like I will be webcam-less until I find my old logitech one (from what I can remember it has OSX drivers... HOPEFULLY)... but that won't be until christmas time lol

is it really hard to port a linux driver?

btw, I went back to the JaS AppleSMBIOS.kext... the 10.4.11 one didn't show my bus speed properly (100Mhz? wth?) and the one that AlexIT linked to didn't show my 2 slots of memory. The JaS one works fine I think

One strange thing though, even though About This Mac shows 1.99Ghz or 2 Ghz, the program CoreDuoTemp (I think that's wat it is) sees my CPU as 1.67Ghz... it shows the Temp correctly though (seems ok to me)... any idea why?

edit: this is very depressing.. because I don't have QE, I can't use iMovie and iPhoto's edit screen comes up blank

[AlexIT]

btw, I went back to the JaS AppleSMBIOS.kext... the 10.4.11 one didn't show my bus speed properly (100Mhz? wth?) and the one that AlexIT linked to didn't show my 2 slots of memory.

One strange thing though, even though About This Mac shows 1.99Ghz or 2 Ghz, the program CoreDuoTemp (I think that's wat it is) sees my CPU as 1.67Ghz... it shows the Temp correctly though (seems ok to me)... any idea why?

These are only visualizzation bugs, all works fine the same.

For qe/ci ... you should load the nvda50hal kexts.
The problem is that it uses nvdresman that allocate the framebuffer for vga, but (i think) there are different values of memory-addressing between our G8xxx and apple ones. Also injecting "all" the efi value of a macbookpro3,1 the system crashes as soon as it try to write enable the graphical-screen!

[antaholics]

These are only visualizzation bugs, all works fine the same.

For qe/ci ... you should load the nvda50hal kexts.
The problem is that it uses nvdresman that allocate the framebuffer for vga, but (i think) there are different values of memory-addressing between our G8xxx and apple ones. Also injecting "all" the efi value of a macbookpro3,1 the system crashes as soon as it try to write enable the graphical-screen!

Is this the case with both the 8400 and 8600 GS (what I have on the F3SV)? Do you know if there's any work being done on it? I just spent the last two hours digging around everywhere and I couldn't find anything that tells me what to do.. everything seems to be under development or not working at all

[AlexIT]

Is this the case with both the 8400 and 8600 GS (what I have on the F3SV)? Do you know if there's any work being done on it? I just spent the last two hours digging around everywhere and I couldn't find anything that tells me what to do.. everything seems to be under development or not working at all

It's the same for any G84 G86 card ... the only working card is Gf8800 , and they really didn't understand why it's working ... only luck

For the mobile versions the are problems with IOFrameBuffer addressing (and NVCAP values ...)
The IONDRV kexts just freezes (with no errors) as soon as it enable the memory page.

And I had no time to study it more ...

Just to tell you ... these are the differences I noticed between Apple and Asus vga card ...

CODE

    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0407 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 1513
    Control: SERR+
    Latency: 0
    Region 0: Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Region 3: Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
    Region 5: I/O ports at bc00 [size=128]
    Expansion ROM at fdfe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 128 bytes CommClk-


    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0407 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
    Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Unknown device 00a0
    Control: SERR-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 256 bytes
    Region 0: Memory at 92000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    Region 1: Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Region 3: Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
    Region 5: I/O ports at 5000 [size=128]
    Expansion ROM at 93000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Link: ASPM L0s L1 Enabled RCB 128 bytes CommClk+

[maxoid]

First of all I want to say a big THANKS to AlexIT and everybody who participated in making OS X run on this ASUS machine.

I just want to let you know that it also perfectly worked for me on Asus W7S notebook.
It's quite similar to F3 series with a couple of differences.

I got almost everything running well to the same extend as anyone else, I assume.
I'm a bit more lucky, than F3 owners, as I have full networking (W7S comes with Realtek Gigabit LAN and I've also replaced the stock intel 3945a/b/g card with one based on Atheros chipset).

BTW, my UVC camera only works with original 10.4.11 AppleSMBIOS.kext (which fails to show the System info in Profiler) and one of the old Netkas AppleSMBIOS.kext (which shows incorrect number of CPUS and incorrect memory info).
It doesn't work with the kext that can be found in this thread - I don't know why.

MaX

[antaholics]

First of all I want to say a big THANKS to AlexIT and everybody who participated in making OS X run on this ASUS machine.

I just want to let you know that it also perfectly worked for me on Asus W7S notebook.
It's quite similar to F3 series with a couple of differences.

I got almost everything running well to the same extend as anyone else, I assume.
I'm a bit more lucky, than F3 owners, as I have full networking (W7S comes with Realtek Gigabit LAN and I've also replaced the stock intel 3945a/b/g card with one based on Atheros chipset).

BTW, my UVC camera only works with original 10.4.11 AppleSMBIOS.kext (which fails to show the System info in Profiler) and one of the old Netkas AppleSMBIOS.kext (which shows incorrect number of CPUS and incorrect memory info).
It doesn't work with the kext that can be found in this thread - I don't know why.

MaX

Congratulations! I am glad it worked out for you!
I'm jealous about the networking though ... I'm still looking on ebay for solutions... right now I'm looking into getting a D-Link USB to Ethernet adapter. I'm really hoping that wireless with the 4965 will be figured out soon *cross fingers*


Any more success stories? We'd like to hear them!!! I'm sure that AlexIT and myself would be quite happy to find out if people benefited from all of our work (well, AlexIT's work, I just compiled the tutorial )

btw, I added the Asus W7S to the working notebooks section in the beginning of the thread. thanks for contributing!!

[maxoid]

Hi,

I've played around with AppleHDA.kext a bit according to Taruga's guide.
As a result I've got ALC660 in my W7S works a bit better than with AppleAzalia.
It should also work with F3 series discussed in this topic, as the codecs seem to be the same.
It's still at the very early stage, but you can try it.

What works:
- Internal Speakers
- Headphones (including muting speakers when you plug-in jack)
- Line-in (detected as Internal Mic though)

What doesn't work:
- Build-in Mic (it can work but needs some more testing)
- Mute control (but as long as volume adjustment works it's not a big issue)
- Sound (both Speakers & Headphones) only works when Internal speakers are selected as output. So, don't select Headphones.
- SPDIF (not tested, might work, might not)

The ZIP with KEXTS is attached.

- Put AppleHDA.kext and ALCinject.kext to /System/Library/Extensions
- Delete AppleAzalia.kext
- run /sbin/makemkext
- reboot

If it works, please post the result.

Regards,
MaX

Attached File(s)

 AppleHDA_for_ALC660_beta.zip ( 339.63K ) Number of downloads: 2111

 

[antaholics]

Thanks MaX!
I got the AppleHDA.kext to work!!

I think something might be wrong with my makemkext though... it didn't work initially, and "diskutil repairPermissions /" didn't help... I had to

CODE

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/ALCinject.kext
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/ALCinject.kext

before it worked.... diskutil repairPermissions / only helped AppleHDA.kext load

I would post screenshots but it's going to be unecessary waste of space

However, as you said, when I selected "Headphones" and "Digital Out" no sound came out at all (not even headphones) and volume adjuster was disabled. It said "The selected device has no output controls". Microphone works perfectly (didn't test out actual sound, but sound was being detected)

One thing that still peeves me is that the mute doesn't work, and even when I turn the volume all the way down there's still audible sounds coming out

It seems louder than AppleAzalia too!!

Please do let us know if there's any updates to this or any other components!

If you don't mind, I will also add this (with credits to you) to the first post of the topic when I put together the 10.4.11 upgrade guide to help people just starting to read and wanting to join up without reading 7 pages of chit-chat . This will be some time later this week at earliest because I have exams coming up

Thanks again,
Ant

[maxoid]

Hi all.

Here is a ZIP with updated AppleHDA.kext.
It finally makes Internal speakers and Headphones work correctly together.
When you plug-in headphones, the internal Speakers output device will automatically turn into Headphones output device. And vice-versa.

Just replace AppleHDA.kext, run /sbin/makemkext and reboot.

The muting still doesn't work unfortunately. I'm working on it, but don't have much time now.

I'll keep you updated.

Regards,
MaX

Attached File(s)

 AppleHDA.kext.zip ( 318.8K ) Number of downloads: 1164

 

[AlexIT]

@maxoid
I made some changes to get my mic working ...

Here's my Info.plist (mainly add a mic_on_node35 cloned from mic_on_node34)

Attached File(s)

 Info.zip ( 1.63K ) Number of downloads: 207

 

[antaholics]

Thanks for the update maxoid!

@AlexIT
is that for the built-in mic?

Ant

[AlexIT]

@AlexIT
is that for the built-in mic?

Yes, but the boost is not as i'd like ... you have to take the mic volume loud to record from it.

[AlexIT]

@maxoid
Have you ever tried with a newer version off AppleHDA ? ( for example 1.3.7a23 )

[maxoid]

AlexIT,

I've tried a couple of times 1.3.27a, but failed.
AppleHDA.kext for some reason doesn't get loaded automaticaly (and if loaded manually doesn't give any sound).
That's strange as the AppleHDAController.kext actually gets loaded automaticaly.
I don't know what the issue is, mayber I'm missing something.

TO ALL:
I think I found what is preventing the mute controll to work properly.
The muting seems do be done through the node 12 (0x0c) while the volumes controlls are being done through node 2.
I don't know yet how to fix it, and unfortunately don't have much time to experiment, as I'm on a trip.
If you guys have any ideas, please feel free to experiment or drop me a PM.

Regards,
MaX

[AlexIT]

The muting seems do be done through the node 12 (0x0c) while the volumes controlls are being done through node 2.
I don't know yet how to fix it, and unfortunately don't have much time to experiment, as I'm on a trip.

It's very strange ...
I tried some combinations , but I can have
1) mute-flag with no volume-control
2) volume-control with no mute-flag

I also tried some newer version of AppleHDA. Till 1.3.3a1 it (most) works.
After that there is something strange with the DspPlugin that preventi to activate the nodes.

Btw. I'm attaching two working versions.

1.2.9a4
SPK-OUT ok
LINE-OUT maybe, i have no way to try it at the moment
LINE-IN ok
MIC-IN ok
still no mute-flag

1.3.3a1 ... SPK-OUT LINE-OUT(maybe) LINE-IN MIC-IN (still no mute-flag)
SPK-OUT ok
LINE-OUT maybe, i have no way to try it at the moment
LINE-IN not tried
MIC-IN ko! the contro is present in the widget, but no sound are captured !?
still no mute-flag

I have no more time to dedicate to it (at the moment), so feel free to download and modify anything you want, and post here the results.

Attached File(s)

 HDA_129a4.tar.gz ( 291.8K ) Number of downloads: 430
 HDA_133a1.tar.gz ( 313.14K ) Number of downloads: 384

 

[antaholics]

I have good news!

well, good news for me anyway...

I got myself a (refurbished) D-Link DUB-E100 and using the drivers found here
I got my internet to work!!!

Now the only thing is.. something is weird with my installation... something is taking up all the CPU and I can't figure out what it is... image attached:

 Picture_2.png ( 424.84K ) Number of downloads: 234


Any idea what's going on? it's heating up my CPU :S

[AlexIT]

Now the only thing is.. something is weird with my installation... something is taking up all the CPU and I can't figure out what it is... image attached:

Any idea what's going on? it's heating up my CPU :S

WOW 100% !
In my system MDS and CORESERVICED are about on 3% of CPU.
Consider that ITUNES and ADIUM ...

Look also i SystemProfiler->Application to see if something is using Rosetta-engine.
If you use non_univeral-binary application it have to use Rosetta to emulate G4 cpu, and it get all the CPU.

Strange ... if a sum the cpu-values I see in your picture a get to 50% ... where is the rest ?

[antaholics]

Ok it's sort of weird... I've rebooted my computer a couple of times so far, and twice this happened. Right now it's fine...

If it happens again I'll check system profiler... but its REALLY weird that nothing appears to be taking any CPU.

Just a quick question... VLT player crashes when I try to play any video... and MPlayer lags with 100% CPU usage (no video card to help?) ... could it be because QE/CI are not working? Quicktime works fine

Edit: it just happened again... 100% CPU

I checked the Applications in system profiler and didn't see any Rosetta ones... but I see 3 PowerPC apps:

1. Turn on X11 Focus Follows Mouse (from Gimp)
2. Java 1.3.1 Plugin Settings (Java)
3. Bits on Wheels (app)

I moved bits on wheels to desktop and re-logged in... same thing happens, and bits on wheels is now off the apps list in system profiler. Gimp isn't on...

it's so weird!!

Edit 2:

I think I found the problem... I happened to open up Console and guess what I see?

 Picture_1.png ( 143.62K ) Number of downloads: 90


apparently blued was crashing repeatedly and recording a huge log (I had to delete it, it's like 200MB)
so I tried to run blued on terminal (don't ask me why) and look wat I got lol...
It didn't help much (I have NO IDEA wat it means) but at least now I know it's bluetooth crashing... and I noticed that bluetooth wasn't working and doesn't show up on system profiler...

disabling bluetooth didn't do anything, but unplugging my ethernet adapter and then plugging it back in seemed to fix the problem. Any idea what is the root cause? :S

I'm using a D-Link DUB-E100 btw


Edit 4:

I had the same problem again... and this time unplugging the usb adapter or running blued in terminal didn't help at all. I turned off bluetooth with Fn+ F2, and still nothing. I rebooted and it was fine.

So the problem is with blued crashing constantly (approx. once per second) and creating a log. I wonder what is wrong?