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[Elad Nava]

Confirmed Working on 10.8 Mountain Lion!

[Huckleberry Pie]

Yep, it works on Mountain Lion GM, alright. Was about to give up and re-reinstall ML after a botched update from Lion, but at least this one kinda' saved the day for me.

[GianfrixMG]

Hi! I'm on Lion 10.7.3 and this is the first AppleHDA.kext that seems working on my Acer Aspire 5930G
But there's just one problem; the card seems recognized in the audio settings but actually there's no sound! Also the system profiler seems quite strange; check the attached pictures out...
 AudioPrefs.tiff   82.8K   6 downloads
 AudioPrefs2.tiff   84.77K   3 downloads
 Profiler.tiff   92.67K   5 downloads

I'm quite noob in this Hackintosh world, can someone help me? If useful, here are the verbs I found in Windows Registry:
 PinConfigOverRides.txt   505bytes   6 downloads

P.S.: I have three jacks, Headphone, Mic and Line In

EDIT: I'm also having this errors on boot, I saw them booting with -v

Sound assertion "0 == pathMap_aDriverInstance" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDA/AppleHDADriver.cpp" at line 1656 goto Exit
Sound assertion "0 != createAudioEngines ( fPathMap_aDriverInstance )" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDA/AppleHDADriver.cpp" at line 203 goto Exit
Sound assertion "0 == pathMap_aDriverInstance" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDA/AppleHDADriver.cpp" at line 1656 goto Exit
Sound assertion "0 != createAudioEngines ( fPathMap_aDriverInstance )" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDA/AppleHDADriver.cpp" at line 203 goto Exit

[Elad Nava]

Did you check all ports? Can you change system volume from taskbar / keyboard keys?

[GianfrixMG]

Elad Nava, on 08 September 2012 - 03:15 PM, said:

Did you check all ports? Can you change system volume from taskbar / keyboard keys?

Whoa, that was fast
Yes, I tried all the ports but none of them was working I can also change the volume from taskbar and keyboard keys, but there's still no sound...
Also, the "Master" sliders in Audio MIDI Config are at 0 and greyed out, for all the inputs/outputs O.o
 AudioMidi.tiff   100.92K   3 downloads

[Hackintosh2000]

Elad Nava, on 20 June 2010 - 12:57 PM, said:

Hi folks,
I have been trying countless combinations of kexts from around the net to get my ALC888 sound working.

Why didn't you just install VoodooHDA and then modify the kext?  To find device and vendor ID look at THIS.  Be sure to install JAVA JDK or the System Info program will not work.  Your output should look like this...


Be sure to choose the right audio device.  My graphics card has an audio device.  That is presumably for HDMI.

Copy the installed VoodooHDA to the desktop.  Now right click on the installed VoodooHDA kext and click "show package contents".  A folder called contents should be visible.  Double click on that.   You should see a file called "Info.plist".  Open that with TextEdit.  Modify the two lines just like the guide says.  Your finished product should look something like this...


Once you are sure everything is correct save the file and reinstall it back into s/l/e using kextwizard.  Delete the AppleHDA kext.  Repair permissions and rebuild caches and then reboot.  Everything should work... hopefully.  You will have to go into the Voodoo prefpane to make some adjustments for optimal sound.  Check out the guide I linked to earlier it has some other edits you can do to the Info.plist if you need to tweak VoodooHDA beyond what you can do in the prefpane.   This method works well to get rid of VoodooHDA kernel panics.

It's not "vanilla" but you only add one kext and you actually delete another.  The thing is if you do an update you must remember to remove the AppleHDA kext or you could have a KP.

[Elad Nava]

I tried VoodooHDA, it had terrible quality if I remember correctly and low sound volume for my card.

[GianfrixMG]

VoodooHDA used to work, but with some cracks sometimes and mic not working... I read somewhere AppleHDA was better so I wanted to try it... I'll try modifying the kext

[Hackintosh2000]

Elad Nava, on 08 September 2012 - 03:50 PM, said:

I tried VoodooHDA, it had terrible quality if I remember correctly and low sound volume for my card.

Like I said modify the kext, tweak the sliders in the prefpane and if you need to do tweaking beyond that edit the Info.plist.  I believe your low volume issue with VoodooHDA could be solved with this...


I have found installing VoodooHDA is only the first step.  A lot of people have to tweak it a bit to get optimal sound.

Caveat!  I have not tried other sound methods.  They may sound better than VoodooHDA even with all the tweaks.  I am in the process of exploring DSDT.  I will report back if I get it working and it sounds better.

[acero]

hi,giantfrix
try this link http://www.osx86.net...alc888s_v2.html ,this kext has also hdmi for g105M working,very nice kext...
codec address 0

[GianfrixMG]

acero, on 09 September 2012 - 07:59 AM, said:

hi,giantfrix try this link http://www.osx86.net...alc888s_v2.html ,this kext has also hdmi for g105M working,very nice kext... codec address 0

Uhmmmmm.... I have the same vendor and device IDs of this guy's sound card Another one to try

[GianfrixMG]

The only kext giving me some sort of sound actually is VoodooHDA, but with some cracks and freaking white noise on microphones I was trying to mess up with NodesToPatch after getting all the infos with getdump, but it's such a mess and I don't know where to start! :S

[acero]

hi,
you should have same node id as this kext,i use this one on my acer and working perfectly but maybe different verbs.....
need to edit dsdt or use hda enabler anyway.
you can compare verbs with yours.
bye.

[Rowas]

After a long struggle, I used this method... and it works!!! Gosh. I was up all night and I wish I would have come here first.

Confirmed working on

Dell Inspiron 530s
2GB DDR2
Geforce 405 1 GB
ALC 888

OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion

Thank you so much.