You saved my ol` Audigy Player for a second time Eugene! First time 2y ago, when SB guys were to lazy to make proper drivers for Vista, then now I may update my signature at last! 1.2b1 works out of the box - iTunes, GarageBand, Reason, Logic Pro. 5.1 no problem. VLC plays .ac3 nicely. Just wake up is the small issue, but I can`t use sleep anyway - my second display won`t wake up either. It`s been long way from C-Media, Thrust, ALC882 to SB. Thanks a lot mate!

Perfect, thanks you a lot!!!! people like you make the osx86 project so usable.

Greetz

Skysmo

Did a casual search here and at Driverheaven's forum and saw that the Dell OEM SB Live! is not currently supported. Are there any plans to add this in the future? If so, any kind of time frame for that?
I just got a hackintosh up and running on a Dell Dimension 4550 with iATKOS 5i partitioned with Windows XP. Can't believe how smoothly everything runs. Ethernet and video cards all recognized, just trying to see about the audio. The PCI card works in XP and is recognized in the PCI slot in the BIOS settings, but not found in the system profile on the mac. Any tips would be great! Thanks for all your hard work!
-james

It is a special card made for Dell and requires a different driver than the emu10k1 as it does not use the same chipset the OP can search on that and put Linux with it to see all the gory details, there the driver for it is known as emu10k1x.

Hi people,

I was just wondering if anyone got this same issue as me: I can't use the 1.2 versions because I have no system sound with it, so for now I'm sticking with 1.1b0.

Has anyone had this same issue (and possibly a solution) where the extension works with everything besides system sound?

thanks for your attention

success here. im running a new core i7 system and it works. havent really tested it yet, but i dont seem to be getting 5.1 from dvd player or front row. i have set up the speakers in midi setup thingy. is there an extra step for dvd player?

thanks for any help

thanks to eugene for the great drivers!!

How are these drivers with 10.5.6? Anyone tested yet?

works the same in 10.5.6 as they did in 10.5.5 for me

Yes working strait away.

Спасибо за драйвер! Все работает отлично! Но в некоторых играх таких как НФС Карбон работает только левый канал. Как это поправить?

With 1.2b1 driver my Audigy2 ZS works perfect. Thanks!

But In some games like NFS Carbon (Cider port) work only left channel.

Any solution?

just thought i would update. i have wake up issues (now sound after sleeping) and i dont get 5.1 from front row dvd player, or dvd player itself.

I got Creative SB Live 5.1..

Many time it was disabled, I even switch to internal card (ADI 9221)..

But now I'm happily listening to all power and quality of kX driver release, thank you so much!!!

ѕӎѳѳҭңӌ: Apple DVD player just doesn't support 5.1 decoding, unless you use an external decoder via SPDIF. You can play DVDs with VideoLanClient to get the full 5.1 channel sound though.

This is great!
Finally got my Audigy 2 Value working.. No more fiddling with cables between onboard audio/sound card.

Thank you so much!

After that i've read all the topic and installed a version of driver for my 1212( that didn't work) , i couldn't find an answer and would ask it self:

Is now a driver for EMU 1212 released?? Is there anybody, who s got this soundcard (or an alike one) working on his osx? Or is it not yet usable? Is there any good instructions to install the driver?

Please help me, i'm an absolute newbie...And sorry for my bad english

Thank you

Driver works great.

For the sleep/wakeup issue I use the next solution :

Download and Install SleepWatcher.

Edit /etc/rc.sleep and add this line at the end :



Edit /etc/rc.wakeup and add this two lines at the end :



Finally, edit /etc/sudoers and add this two lines at the end :




I tried a few times the sleep/wakeup and it worked just great for me.

Note : The reason for unloading the kext both at sleep and wake is because same time it doesn't unload properly the first time, I think because the audio is in use.

This is a fine workaround though I realized that after system comes back from sleep, it becomes a little slow all the minimize etc genie effects lag a bit (not saying your workaround has anything to do with it) its just something else... i don't know.

Did it ever occur to anyone that a DOS program, mpxplay can play audio files without the need of DOS drivers getting initialized? I discovered it long time back and source code is also out there (somewhere). Well, it won't play straight after typing mpxplay, but you have to first type card detection string ( -sc(something) ) then start the exe and hear from all speakers I see the first post talks about source, I'm not much of coder but this small DOS app says (PCI cards (native handling): SB Live/Live24, Audigy 1,2,4,LS; CMI 8338/8738; Intel ICH, Intel HDA, VIA 686/8233/8235) I wonder what they have in their source beside tomatoes

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Just tested here, and all work good, including the genius minimize effect...

I've here Mac OS X 10.5.6 based on Kalyway, running with Vanilla Kernel, Graphics with EFI and SKGE kext for the Ethernet.

If your system go slow after sleep, you can check that it's not the Driver by unloading it with the same command as the rc.sleep

here is my experience with it:

First time i tried the drivers they were really at an early stage, so i decided to give it some more time...
Today i saw my Audigy 2 and decided to give it a second try, after a little testing i can say that all works good (Leo4all v3 updated to 10.5.5). There is only one thing thats annoying me and makes me wonna go back to the integrated sound card... Maybe is my fault maybe is just a little thing that i am doing wrong (i hope to be so), but when i play music in iTunes with iWOW it seems that the iWOW effects affect only the left channel and this really makes the iWOW useless... I kinda hope there is a setting or something... I will try few other things but i will be happy to hear any idea or suggestion...

Anyways thx for the great work.

As i said earlier, its not kx driver (i know that) its something else I can't find... though, I'm after it due to its very annoying condition...

dosn't support sb0162?? after install the kxdriver,can't see sound icon on the taskbar. kxAudiodriver.kext not loaded.
-----Using tubgirl AMD Tiger 10.4.10 , 8.10.1 kernel

This sb0162 works good for win2003

Is that Audugy ES OEM? it is suppose to work (shows under supported list). Have you tried any leopard builds? maybe some depending files missing? Did you go through general checks at page1?

thank you for your reply.
The PCB version is SB0160, I don't know either. I tried kalyway leopard 10.5.2 last night,still the same,Wow, some depending files missing? what are these? i'm a newbie.

I ment some plugins or something like ICH etc (see the first post@page1, little below and answer accordingly here).

1. Azalia, AppleHDA should be delete?
2. Nforce chipset mainboard

I don't think so, I have AppleHDA and it behaves well along.

I'm note sure whether deleting Azalia and/or appleHDA will fix your problem or not, however its worth a try though, I've read few who had conflicts with Azalia...

hmmm This page is worth checking out from macgirl about sounding on ALL Speakers!

So this is odd, any doom 3 based game, there's no sound, saying that my card doesn't support openAL. I'm using a live 16-bit.

The mainboard BIOS came with modified one,Today I flashed it to Offical BIOS, Oh..... The sound works good.

Super work on the Drivers guys!! Download -> Install and presto! Thanks a lot!

hmm, followed your steps but doesnt seem to work for me...

Audigy 2 ZS PCI on my K8V-SE Deluxe is working fabulously. I was searching forever for some AD1980 kexts that would work with my onboard sound, thank you so much for getting these out to all of us using Audigy cards on our OSX86 machines.

It worked man, i'm surprise!
Thank you very much!

hey all, great work!!!

can someone help me, i just updated to 10.5.5 form kalyway's 10.5.2.

I need help getting my Audigy 2 ZS card to work!!!...with this driver, i can get audio out, but thats it!!!..any way to get input??

Thanks in advance!!

Justin

Answers to all your questions are in the first post....

specifically: "* 16/24-bit recording" not implemented. (no mic in)

This 1.21b version has worked fine with my Audigy for months and several 10.5.x iterations for DVDs, OS sounds, iTunes, etc., BUT on Internet radio such as Radioshift, all I get is a type of birdsong twittering out of both speakers.
Any suggestions why and possible solutions?

Hello All!

I'am was install latest kX drivers 1.2b1 on Retail 1054 update to 1056 MAC OS X.
and get that bug after some circle off/on of my Hack.



Sound did not work out of the box. i must reinstall drivers with fully reboot. and then my audio work fine some few hour, but after reboot it again get iKX interface already closed

Update:
some happings abount...
after touch extensions folder and reboot sound card still have interface close, and after clear whole of kind caches and update prebinding with OSX86Tools it work again... but i think after next reboot i've againg close interfase....
that bug show it sef only in Retail instalations..

i got a problem with 5.1 sound.. when i play a hd movie 720p the sound have some cracking sound... i dont think it is a cpu problem c2c 3,2ghz should be enough anyone know any tips?

edit...
ok.. .even on the test mp3s from oxtie i have the cracking sound on buffering ... (when i play it again after it is full loaded it plays normal)

UPD:
i found the skeleton in my clothed...
that is some is wrong in System Application Cache.
after i'am cleaning it with OSX86Tools and reboot my card return to work...(still 5.1 surround scheme)

another half-solve is 5.1 surruond scheme. If a'im swith for 2 channels stereo my card still work after reboot. and a'im dont need to clear System Application cache.

that problem happens after i'am Install/Uninstall Soundflower and do some configuration to make input. (but i solfe input problem with buying a cheap U.S.Robotics skype usb phone).

it so weird...

any thought will be a welcome.

Thanks. Your solution helped me, but I have a problem. Audible sound is good for few seconds after the sound became distorted. There is a solution for this problem?

In Sound / Output panel from System preferences >is this device kX SB0222 10k1 [1040] PCI card

Sound / Input - No input device found

Thanks in advance.

If you're little annoyed about distortion, you may want to give Eugene some details with hallab etc (click here) while some of them have already submitted it earlier, its just that there was no new release specific response from E since long time ( Vacation maybe)

Oh and input is not yet implemented (see release notes) who knows, maybe in next release?

Edit: HERE Some Xcode related more information (you can try to read and understand)
EDIT2: You maybe interested in page 6 7 8 of this thread (talks about automatically loading and unloading kExt which is a temp. workaround). Beware this will mostly crash media playback but won't annoy you to manually reload kext by typing commands... lol

please make quote like mine.

Just report back that on iPC distro, after sleeping the computer, the KX driver stops working. Have to reboot to get sound again.

Is there much of difference in 10.5.4 to 10.5.6? now thats because I've not updated (no chance in future either) unless Snow Leopard pops out of nowhere

Its like fine installation for me (with all appz + tweaks + settings) really won't blow it for updates ( specially after E'z frozen indefinitely)

Not much, but unfortunately you need them to run iWork 09 & iLife09 so far

Probably nothing, just bug fixes and tweaks by apple.

I just upgraded because:
1) I wanted to try the new distro from PcWiz
2) My 10.5.3 kalyway was getting long in the tooth
3) I find re-installing from a distro that already has the latest update installed easier, more reliable, and MUCH less stressful than upgrading.

My audio works perfectly with these drivers. However I am unable to shutdown the computer; it just goes to sleep. If I remove the kext from the folder the computer shuts down (and audio goes).

Has there been a solution to this? It appears that leopard is not able to unload it or something. Similarly to how one can add cpus=1 or 2 or 4 in the boot.ini file would it possible to load the kext at startup and to unload it before shutting down?

Thanks for any replies.

hmmm? which version osx? distro? card?

You can try changing stand-by (aka suspend) mode in BIOS to different mode. (for example if it is S3, try S1 etc). If you disable power management in BIOS (suspend or sleep or modem/ethernet wakeup events etc) does it fix your shutdown?

If you want to use only Single CPU, there is a tweaking program mac pilot (which can help you to do this safely, google it)

You may want to check this link too...

Thanks for the quick response; I'm using Ideneb 1.3 (so 10.5.5) - I'm not too sure on the exact card (I will check when I get home) but it is an Audigy I believe. I've tried all three versions of the kext.

I've been googling around and it appears quite a few Ideneb users experience this problem; the shutdown fix going around I think addresses a different problem. Shutdown works when I first install leopard; then when I install the kxaudiodriver the computer switches off but the fans remain on (not sure whether its sleep or hibernation). If I remove the kext before shutdown and manually put it back in on startup everything works - so I was just wondering whether there was anything that could let me write it into a shutdown file (similarly to how I have included cpus=4 in boot.ini so that leopard uses my quadcore; I get 200 on Xbench now ).

I tried the sleepwalker link; I wasn't to sure how to edit the two files mentioned so I just pasted in the code at the very end however it does not appear to have done anything. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that is related to users not having audio work when they return from sleep?

A slightly offtopic question: does turning the PC off by holding the button damage it in anyway? If not, then its not really a big problem as I can press shutdown, it goes to sleep, and I hold the power button until it switches off.

Thanks again for all the help

In Kalyway I never tried to sleep my computer.... so not sure if there was a problem or not.