Acer Laptop's and Intel High Definition Audio Section, List your problems here and solutions if possible. Options

[Reign Of Terror]

So in windows you have a Realtek High Definition Audio card?
And in Mac you have a Intel High Definition Audio Card?
And your codec is ALC883?
And you have working Headphones, Speakers, BUilt-in Mic, Mic, and Digital Output?

Windows Vista just says "High Definition audio device", OS X says "Intel High Definition Audio Device ID: 0x10250110 AudioID: 12, and my built-in mic doesnt work, but i dont care.

[Espionage724]

O..well i just went back to vista because I deleted something that my system somehow needed (either a nividia or ati kext...my system has no ati or nvidia hardware) and Mac wouldn't boot up. I'll eventually reinstall Mac.

In vista my audio was just High Definition Audio device until i installed my actual realtek drivers.

[Espionage724]

Vista pissed me off lol....i'll be switching back to Mac OS X in about 3 hours. While i'm in windows, should I grab any information about my audio device?

[Reign Of Terror]

i made a video for everyone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJrlztN7EGo

Vista pissed me off lol....i'll be switching back to Mac OS X in about 3 hours. While i'm in windows, should I grab any information about my audio device?

actually. if you could grab one line for me... if you go into your device manager, go to your sound device, right click, choose properties. go to the details tab at the top. there should be a drop-down menu there with a long list if things. go to DeviceID i believe its called. you should see something in the window that says something like "HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0268&SUBSYS_1025012B&REV_1000" or something of that sort. post that whole line like i just did. and i'll compare it with mine. seeing you have an older Acer laptop, the problem might lie with an older interface type for your soundcard. the same way you had trouble getting your ethernet to work, where as i got it to work on the first try.

[snackole]

What install disk did you use? Do your ethernet and battery meter work? Thanks.

[Reign Of Terror]

i used iATKOS v1.0i and upgrade to 10.5.2, then i patched all of my drivers. so yes, my battery meter, ethernet, internal speakers, inputs and outputs, wifi, touchpad all work with no problems.

[ckybam69]

does any1 have a alc880 HDA codec? dieing for it. im new to the mac so i dont know how to write my own

[Reign Of Terror]

may i suggest making your own codec dump in linux? thats probably the easiest way to get working sound. then just use HDA patcher and you should have working sound.

[Espionage724]

i made a video for everyone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJrlztN7EGo
actually. if you could grab one line for me... if you go into your device manager, go to your sound device, right click, choose properties. go to the details tab at the top. there should be a drop-down menu there with a long list if things. go to DeviceID i believe its called. you should see something in the window that says something like "HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0268&SUBSYS_1025012B&REV_1000" or something of that sort. post that whole line like i just did. and i'll compare it with mine. seeing you have an older Acer laptop, the problem might lie with an older interface type for your soundcard. the same way you had trouble getting your ethernet to work, where as i got it to work on the first try.

crap I knew i should of came back here before going back to Mac.

Well i plan on reinstalling it in a bit given that this thing i try bricks my system again lol (ethernet + Card slot drivers again). I don't think it would matter but should i try this under vista or xp?

EDIT: going with vista...xp disc died somewhere lol

First i'll post what that says with the native "High Definition Audio" driver and then i'll update it to the REaltek HDA driver and post that info also.

[Espionage724]

Fresh Vista Install

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
High Definition Audio Device

Hardware Ids
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0883&SUBSYS_10250000&REV_1000
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0883&SUBSYS_10250000

Device Insance Path
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0883&SUBSYS_10250000&REV_1000\4&280E866F&0&0001
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Realtek driver gave same information)

[Espionage724]

Anyone?

[Espionage724]

I'm out of ideas....i guess this laptop is never going to have built in speakers...

[Espionage724]

Come on anyone? Is this laptop really this useless when it comes to onboard speakers? sure i could switch between Azalia and AppleHDA but who would want to...

[Espionage724]

Anything? Will me speakers ever work? A simple "Your speakers will never work" sentence would even be useful.......

[Espionage724]

Well i'm going to go ahead and assume that i will never get sound working correctly.....sucks extremely but o well. Thank you Acer for a amazing product....

[Espionage724]

Well I finally got it to work! I used the ALC883 Kext's from this site: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=99815

It gives me like 3 Internal speakers but at least one of them work!!!!

Havent tested mic or anything but I assume they work!!!!!

And for unrealted news, I got my ethernet working also!!

So insanely awesome! Now all my hardware works great!

[snackole]

Could you post the kext? The site says I can't download

[Espionage724]

Here they are. You need to either drag them into /System/Library/Extensions or use KextHelper. I perfer KextHelper because it repairs them automatically.

[attachment=25944:ALC883_Custom.zip]

It added 3 Internal Speakers to my output list but the first one worked fine for me. My speakers wouldn't work before without this so hopefully this will help anyone with my laptop model and others I haven't tested Input devices yet but i just assume they work fine.

EDIT: Here's KextHelper also
[attachment=25945:Kext_Helper_b7.zip]

[snackole]

Thanks alot man. It works but caused a shutdown problem. I think I'm just gonna stick with the azallia kext.

[Espionage724]

Ok

I used to have the shutdown problem before but it doesn't happen anymore since I switched to Kalyway's 10.5.2 install DVD.