saltdos Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 To give an overview of my experience with Hackintosh, I installed my first Mac bootable successfully 2 days ago. I'm currently running Mac OS X Lion functionally with audio, graphics, mouse, keyboard, etcetera working. My system: Graphic Card: - nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 Monitors: - Dell 21" LCD (1920x1080) - Acer 23" LCD (1920x1080) RAM: - Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3 - Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3 Processor: - Intel Core i5-2500k Sandy Bridge QuadCore 3.3GHz MOBO: - ASUS P8P67 PRO (B3/Digi+VRM, BT Go, UEFI BIOS, USB3/SATA6, SLI) The main dilemma I am encountering right now is the inability to use my headset (USB). I have a Tritton AX Pro headset connected to a Dolby Digital mixer (the only device my headset will attach to), which is connect via USB to my on-board sound card. As shown in the attachment, the selected devices (C-Media USB Audio Device) for both input and output seem to be recognized but have no functionality. I cannot hear any sound nor can the microphone indicator pick up any audio at all. I've searched countless hours for this is the only remaining issue that really matters to me at this point. I use my headset for Skype/miscellaneous communication and my external speakers for liesure. I've tried installing several kexts (VoodooHDA.kext, CMI8738PCIAudioDriver.kext, ...), some leading to kernel panics even (to which I resorted in re-installing from my Lion USB installer). These are all the .kexts that I have installed: ALC892HDA51B.kext ALF.kext ATI1300Controller.kext ATI1600Controller.kext ATI1900Controller.kext ATI2400Controller.kext ATI2600Controller.kext ATI3800Controller.kext ATI4600Controller.kext ATI4800Controller.kext ATI5000Controller.kext ATI6000Controller.kext ATIFramebuffer.kext ATIRadeonX1000.kext ATIRadeonX1000GA.plugin ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver.bundle ATIRadeonX1000VADriver.bundle ATIRadeonX2000.kext ATIRadeonX2000GA.plugin ATIRadeonX2000GLDriver.bundle ATIRadeonX2000VADriver.bundle ATIRadeonX3000.kext ATIRadeonX3000GA.plugin ATIRadeonX3000GLDriver.bundle ATIRadeonX3000VADriver.bundle ATISupport.kext ATTOCelerityFC.kext ATTOCelerityFC8.kext ATTOExpressPCI4.kext ATTOExpressSASHBA.kext ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext ATTOExpressSASRAID.kext ATTOExpressSASRAID2.kext ATY_Init.kext Accusys6xxxx.kext Apple16X50Serial.kext AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext AppleACPIPlatform.kext AppleAHCIPort.kext AppleAPIC.kext AppleAVBAudio.kext AppleBMC.kext AppleBacklight.kext AppleBacklightExpert.kext AppleBluetoothMultitouch.kext AppleEFIRuntime.kext AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless.kext AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib.kext AppleFWAudio.kext AppleFileSystemDriver.kext AppleGraphicsControl.kext AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext AppleHDA.kext AppleHIDKeyboard.kext AppleHIDMouse.kext AppleHPET.kext AppleHWSensor.kext AppleIRController.kext AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient.kext AppleIntelE1000e.kext AppleIntelGMA950.kext AppleIntelGMA950GA.plugin AppleIntelGMA950GLDriver.bundle AppleIntelGMA950VADriver.bundle AppleIntelGMAX3100.kext AppleIntelGMAX3100FB.kext AppleIntelGMAX3100GA.plugin AppleIntelGMAX3100GLDriver.bundle AppleIntelGMAX3100VADriver.bundle AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext AppleIntelHDGraphicsGA.plugin AppleIntelHDGraphicsGLDriver.bundle AppleIntelHDGraphicsVADriver.bundle AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext AppleIntelSNBVA.bundle AppleKeyStore.kext AppleKeyswitch.kext AppleLPC.kext AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext AppleMCCSControl.kext AppleMCEDriver.kext AppleMCP89RootPortPM.kext AppleMIDIFWDriver.plugin AppleMIDIIACDriver.plugin AppleMIDIRTPDriver.plugin AppleMIDIUSBDriver.plugin AppleMatch.kext AppleMikeyHIDDriver.kext AppleMobileDevice.kext AppleMultitouchDriver.kext ApplePS2Controller.kext ApplePlatformEnabler.kext AppleRAID.kext AppleRAIDCard.kext AppleRTC.kext AppleSDXC.kext AppleSEP.kext AppleSMBIOS.kext AppleSMBusController.kext AppleSMBusPCI.kext AppleSMC.kext AppleSMCLMU.kext AppleSRP.kext AppleSmartBatteryManager.kext AppleStorageDrivers.kext AppleThunderboltDPAdapters.kext AppleThunderboltEDMService.kext AppleThunderboltNHI.kext AppleThunderboltPCIAdapters.kext AppleThunderboltUTDM.kext AppleTyMCEDriver.kext AppleUSBAudio.kext AppleUSBDisplays.kext AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext AppleUSBMultitouch.kext AppleUSBTopCase.kext AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext AppleVADriver.bundle AppleWWANAutoEject.kext AppleXsanFilter.kext Apple_iSight.kext AudioAUUC.kext AudioIPCDriver.kext BJUSBLoad.kext BootCache.kext CMI8738PCIAudioDriver.kext CUDA.kext CalDigitHDProDrv.kext CellPhoneHelper.kext CoreStorage.kext DSACL.ppp DSAuth.ppp DVFamily.bundle Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext EAP-KRB.ppp EAP-RSA.ppp EAP-TLS.ppp EPSONUSBPrintClass.kext EvOreboot.kext GeForce.kext GeForce7xxx.kext GeForce7xxxGA.plugin GeForce7xxxGLDriver.bundle GeForce7xxxVADriver.bundle GeForceGA.plugin GeForceGLDriver.bundle GeForceVADriver.bundle HDAEnabler892.kext HighPointIOP.kext HighPointRR.kext HighPointRR644.kext IO80211Family.kext IOACPIFamily.kext IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext IOAHCIFamily.kext IOATAFamily.kext IOAVBFamily.kext IOAudio2Family.kext IOAudioFamily.kext IOBDStorageFamily.kext IOBluetoothFamily.kext IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext IOCDStorageFamily.kext IODVDStorageFamily.kext IOFireWireAVC.kext IOFireWireFamily.kext IOFireWireIP.kext IOFireWireSBP2.kext IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport.kext IOGraphicsFamily.kext IOHDIXController.kext IOHIDFamily.kext IONDRVSupport.kext IONetworkingFamily.kext IOPCIFamily.kext IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily.kext IOSCSIParallelFamily.kext IOSMBusFamily.kext IOSerialFamily.kext IOStorageFamily.kext IOStreamFamily.kext IOSurface.kext IOThunderboltFamily.kext IOTimeSyncFamily.kext IOUSBFamily.kext IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext IOUserEthernet.kext IOVideoFamily.kext JMicronATA.kext L2TP.ppp LegacyAppleAHCIPort.kext LegacyIOAHCIBlockStorage.kext LexmarkUSBMerge.kext LittleSnitch.kext LogitechHIDDevices.kext LogitechUnifying.kext NVDAGF100Hal.kext NVDAGF100Hal.kext.bak NVDANV40HalG7xxx.kext NVDANV50Hal.kext NVDAResman.kext NVDAResmanG7xxx.kext NVSMU.kext NullCPUPowerManagement.kext OSvKernDSPLib.kext P8P67SATAControllers.kext PPP.kext PPPSerial.ppp PPPoE.ppp PPTP.ppp PXHCD.kext PlatformUUID.kext PromiseSTEX.kext Quarantine.kext Radius.ppp SM56KUSBAudioFamily.kext SMARTLib.plugin SMCMotionSensor.kext Sandbox.kext SoftRAID.kext System.kext TMSafetyNet.kext acfs.kext acfsctl.kext autofs.kext cd9660.kext cddafs.kext exfat.kext fakesmc.kext hp_Deskjet_io_enabler.kext hp_Inkjet1_io_enabler.kext hp_Inkjet3_io_enabler.kext hp_Inkjet4_io_enabler.kext hp_Inkjet5_io_enabler.kext hp_Inkjet8_io_enabler.kext hp_Inkjet_io_enabler.kext hp_Laserjet_io_enabler.kext hp_Officejet_io_enabler.kext hp_PhotosmartPro_io_enabler.kext hp_Photosmart_io_enabler.kext hp_designjet_series.kext hp_io_printerclassdriver_enabler.kext hp_qc_io_enabler.kext iPodDriver.kext mcxalr.kext msdosfs.kext ntfs.kext smbfs.kext triggers.kext udf.kext webcontentfilter.kext webdav_fs.kext Some I could live without (such as the ATIs) but would rather not mess with anything. Would rather not go through another kernel panic :/ Is there any solution to this? Or any other additional information needed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmondwck Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Unplug the usb and plug it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltdos Posted September 13, 2011 Author Share Posted September 13, 2011 Unplug the usb and plug it again. Tried that several times. Restarted a few times in between as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltdos Posted September 15, 2011 Author Share Posted September 15, 2011 Has no one tried a C-Media device (or AX Pro headset) with Hackintosh yet? It's being detected, just no input or output. I've searched countless hours scrounging through Google to no avail :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin953 Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 I have a C-media USB headset. Never had any problems with it. Worked OOTB without any special drivers/kexts. Never tried it in Lion, though. Will try today and report back. --------------- Update: Tried in Lion (SystemOne in my sig) - no probs @all. Working fine. Maybe you should try to revert everything back to vanilla? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltdos Posted September 16, 2011 Author Share Posted September 16, 2011 Thanks, martin. Seems I was foolish and didn't even consider it could have been the USB port that the headset was plugged into. As shown, it was attached to a USB Super-Speed Bus as compared to the USB High-Speed Bus. I plugged it into a High-Speed port and it worked fine. The speed of a High-Speed Bus is only 12 Mb/sec, though, as the Super-Speed Bus is 480 Mb/sec (obviously preferable ). I'm probably missing kexts to use my Super-Speed Bus ports I would assume. That's going to become really annoying.. I'm not too familiar with USB ports or their infrastructures, especially their compatibility with Mac, so what is to be done about these Super-Speed Bus ports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorcho Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 as far as i know, this only became an issue on Lion and the latest Sandy Bridge P67 chipsets. well, at least for me it was. i'm also using a USB digital audio converter for my audio out and until i found the 'right' USB port it would occasionally have issues at boot recognizing the audio device and i'd get no sound. on 10.6 with my old P45 system this was never an issue. and you should never, ever need to install or muck with kexts for USB audio devices. that's one of the perks in using them over trying to hack the internal sound chipsets to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXtotheZ Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 I had similar issue and no amount of switching usb ports would allow for my USB headset to be recognized or hear sound or use mic. I found this interesting article online http://openradar.appspot.com/11427549 about AppleUSBAudio.kext lacks valid OSBundleCompatibleVersion key / 10.7.4 (11E53) so I tried rolling back this kext to earlier 2.7.9 version and rebuilt cache repaired permissions etc. reboot. Went to sound prefs and BAMM! USB Headset is now recognized and working. This was on a Dell d630 Laptop running 10.7.4 Lion hope it helps someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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