Jandals Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I'm looking for some guidance on how to restore my hackintosh's audio capability. I have a Gigabyte z77x-up5-th. That has a RealTek ALC898. When I booted from Clover to Mavericks 10.9.2, I had full use of the built-in audio. My EFI/EFI/Clover/kexts folder only had FakeSMC in it and my S/L/E folder had HDAEnabler1.kext and (I assume) a patched AppleHDA.kext. After updating to Mavericks 10.9.5, I can still use USB audio devices but I've lost the ability to use the RealTek 898. I've tried to follow toleda's guide http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293001-mavericks-realtek-alc-applehda-audio/?hl=%20alc898 but it's not explicit enough for me. There is a lot of information there and I can't differentiate what is an instruction and what is background information. I've tried going through Skyline's guide but it hasn't helped any: http://www.skylineosx.com/post-installation/audio/ I would like to get some help restoring the function of my audio board. I know there's a lot of discussion out there already, but a lot of it occurs in sentence fragments or it assumes some experience in patching kexts that I don't have. Either way, I end up unclear on what I need to do. In the past, I haven't had to patch anything myself to get the audio working so this is all new to me. I'll be glad to spend time tinkering to figure this out but I need some help understanding what I need to work with. Thanks to those who can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Run a dawin dumper, zip it and attach here, same for ioreg. Normal with install update version, you use AppleHDA than you need to reinstall it, check back on /S/L/E if it still have the one enabler.l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jandals Posted November 21, 2014 Author Share Posted November 21, 2014 Thanks for replying, kvonlinee. I looked through the Darwin Dump and the ioreg but, since I didn't know what to look for, I didn't learn anything from it. I attached them both and I hope that'll lead somewhere. I have tried replacing and removing the AppleHDA and HDAEnabler1 kexts in my S/L/E folder. It didn't seem to make any difference. Right now they're both removed from S/L/E. Edit: This is resolved now. I must have been using a native AppleHDA.kext instead of a patched one. I re-downloaded and installed AppleHDA and HDAEnabler1 and now i have my sound card back online. Thank you, kvonlinee, for pointing me in the right direction. The links I got my kexts from: AppleHDA: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/247-applehda-for-alc898-1093/ HDAEnabler1: https://github.com/toleda/audio_kext_enabler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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