Update: v0.1 (Oct 5th, 2005)!

Update: VMWare 5.5 build 16958 support (see FAQ)

Just released:

EDIT: Removed content violating DMCA
This is an alpha test-release (v0.1) of my Sound Blaster AudioPCI (ES1371) Driver for Darwin/x86 and Mac OS X/x86.

You can use it with VMWare to have full sound support.

Please note that this alpha release misses some features and also contains some untested features. However, it should run stable and does not cause any crashes.

Enjoy!

[edit by Hagar 17th oct 2006]
Afaik this driver is not in violation of copyright, here is a repost of what appears to be a working link to the original driver.
ac97_1371soundblaster_driver_10.4.3_and later

great news maxxuss , if you are working with vmware you should definitively try the new vmware build with the guest os set to darwin. It's like 20x faster than 5.0

check this thread here http://www.win2osx.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1347

Yeah, I've followed that thread. Nice. I'll give it try... Thanks

Vmware OS X can now be Real Mac Life!!

v0.1 is out. See 1st posting above. Enjoy!

Thank you Maxxuss!

It works with Vmware 5.0 like charm.

I also tested it with 5.5 build 16958.
The Audio card recognized well in system profiler, but not in system preference.
Hence no output port and no volume control.

I am using Phisical hard disk for Vmware IDE:0.
Inside Vmware IDE:0, there are Maxxuss Network and Audio installed.
All works very well with Vmware 5.0.

And then I just ugrade Vmware to 5.5, then Audio card is still recognized but no volume control.
If I downgrade to 5.0 again, sound works again.

With 5.0, sound palys choppy in my Pentium 2.66G notebook.
It maybe silky with 5.5, because 5.5 performance is much better than 5.0.

Driver working fine here too.

There are issues that seem to relate to the performance of OSX under vmware causing stuttering but that is hardly the fault of the drivers (also have the same issue when using Windows XP in vmware).

Can anyone else confirm that the drivers don't work with vmware 5.5 before I do the upgrade?

yes the driver works in 5.0 but doesn't in 5.5, the kext is loaded i can see it in system profiler but the card isn't recognized in the audio pref, no input or output displayed

Thanks for the info. I will install 5.5 and try to get it working...

Seems to work grat Maxxuss, (side note) since you have single handedly fixed Both the Network and sound, are you willing to take a Stab at a VMWARE Video Driver? even something like the Macvidia Group is foing rewriting the Frame buffer for the GPU type??

Once again Great job...

VMWare 5.5 build 16958 seems to have broken the AC97 codec emulation. I have released a temporary work-around. See EDIT: Removed content violating DMCA

sometimes i wonder if you are a big apple engineer or even sj under cover ;P

i've tried the modified ac97 kext and it works but as you said with a big stuttering, the weird thing is that the stuttering seems related to the screen redraw because if you keep moving a window it goes better.

Good work tho, it's still better than nothing since is a bug in the vmware software and if they read the forum ,and i suspect they do because this rc1 is a giant jump in speed over 5.0 it will be fixed in their final ver.

tested on vmware : it work like a charm (a usual with maxxuss stufs)
great jobs

what next ? QE and CI in vmware ? LOL

Great work and thank you Maxxuss

what can I do ?[/code]


Solved ! I wasn't using the right thing ... how stupid I am !

in another hand.. do you got something to enhance the cursor smoothness ????
mine is choppy.. but OS X is smooth .. strange !

@Maxxuss Is it possible to make your driver enable my ac'97 (ALC850) under VMWare?

????

!!!!

under VMware???!!!

under Native Machine???!!!

We are happy (succes with AC '97 VMware 5.5 build 16958).
See attachment
Thanx Maxxuss, you're the man.

Rather new to osx86 and having trouble with my sound. I am running 10.4.3 in vmware 5.5. Tried the maxxuss patch and am unable to get a listing in system preferences. I have an nforce4 mobo with nforce audio. Tried the new patch added today and still no luck. Can anyone possibly help? Had the same problem as pierrandre with workaround fix, but now with new patch it seems to work, but doesn't ever register in system.

maxuss, any new updates on the sound stuttering on vmware 5.5??? been really dying to fully make use of my OS X to replace my windows thru VMWare..... i cant remove my windows cos i still need it to tie down with my uni's wireless networking systems and all the crap.....

can this driver run in native osx86?

Yes, it worked on an old Soundblaster card I had lying around with a native install. I do get stutering during movies but that may be that the card appears to have a Sigmatel chipset, I'm not sure why it even works.

It works here as well on a Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI64/Audio64 that indeed uses the ES1371 Chip.

There is occasional sound shuttering \ distortion, but Line Out, Line in and Mic work.

any update on es1370 support? I've got an old pci sb card with that chip on it that doesn't want to work with the current driver. If you need any debugging info let me know.

Hey Maxxuss,

I just tryed to install this driver on 10.4.4 using a Sound Blaster 16 PCI (ESSCHIP) and I get this error. It used to function properly in 10.4.3 but no such luck on 10.4.4..

Any help would be appreciated.



Thank you

I'm using this driver on an MSI 915GM-FR board board because the built in sound does not work- comes out of the black line out for 5.1, with no volume control at all. This is using the onboard ICH6 / Azalia. Either selection.

I have an OEM Creative sound card and using it with the driver, the sound works great for anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes and then looses it, and gets garbled gradually getting worse until it just shuts off. Quitting the game, or stopping and starting iTunes again brings back the sound. The cycle repeats.

This is using 10.4.5 installed with that 1.0a based patched install DVD on top of a patched 8F1111a installed DVD.

Anyone else have this happen to them?

I have some generic Chinese 5.1 sound cards that even say "Mac OS X" on the box, and they work on Tiger in a PPC, but not on Intel. Perhaps swiping the .kext from the PPC system might work. If I can identify what it's using.

Is there any hope to see a VMWare Video driver being released for OS X 10.4.5 since official VMWare tools for FreeBSD don't work under OS X ?

i can't get this to work, my info
10.4.5

ESS ES1988 built-in audio

device id : 125D
vendor id : 1988

help please i wanna here sound lol...........

Hi MAXUSS!
Greetings... This is Nirmalya from India. I am a newbie. I came to know about you and the project about a week ago. I am swept off my feet when I learned what was going on and what was your contribution to the show. However I'm stuck with a problem here. Its my soundcard. Its a Creative 5.1 Live! PCI soundcard and it does not work. I have tried the patch but I get only that AC97 (PCM) sound card as the probed device. It will be really great if you can help me with this. The PPC version of the driver is available for download from the Creative site but no luck with the x86 version. I guess this soundcard is a very popular one and many people are facing similar problems. I believe you are The One who can help us. (no flattering intended). Please please please help me get sound on all the channels and the subwoofer atleast in the analog mode. I'm using a SSE2. If you need any more details I'll let you know.
Thanks for helping mankind...

with maxxuss driver, sound working?

Hy, I have a 2 big problem with my system.
So the first.
I have an MSI MS-6566 motherboard, onboard Realtek AC97 sound card.
My problem is with this sound card : I can not use it. So...I install Windows XP, and after is install the driver
for the card, and my system not see it. I check my BIOS and in there are 2 settings for the card : AUTO or DISABLED. I set it to AUTO, but no sound:(((
(Why need I the integrated sound card? Check my second problem.)

Second.
I have an SB PCI128 sound card, and its works under
Windows with the original driver, and works under my JAS released OS X 10.4.6, with the
Maxxuss ES137x driver. But. Under OS X the card is freezing sometimes. Not simple freeze (no
sound or something). Example : i make music with Logic, and the sound is...chopped
sometimes...but when I restart my Logic the sound is great again. Another example : when OS X
is running and leave my PC for a 10-15 minutes alone...hah...sound is gone, and I must reboot
the computer.
So my question is. Have anybody some tip for me, how can I setting up my
integrated sound card (maybe is not freeze sometimes...(my frend have integrated AC97 and ts
works fine, no freeze, no chopp...its great)), or how can i optimize my Maxxuss driver for the
card...
Thanks for help.

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hello,

Can anyone send me the driver talked about above, Thanks in advane.


JuzzMann

Can someone send me the hided driver link by e-mail PLEASE ?!

Hello,
I can't find the driver.Can someone send me the driver or a link please?

This driver can run native on osx86 & works with some soundblaster pci 128 & similar cards.. I have reinstated a link to the driver in the first post of this thread, enjoy.

Thank you very much Maxxuss, for this amazing sound driver It helped me out a lot! Until now I couldn`t figure out any method of getting my PCI sound working! =)

Thank you very much for the link =) !

Hi,

I have an Es1370 based card, i have tested the Maxxus driver and i don't detect any card.
I have added my card id PCI1274DEV_5000 in info.plist and i load the Maxxus kext.



when i type dmesg i have:

.........
i know i can change the card but this card have an integrated powerfull amplifier and the sound is better than my onboard nforce4 soundcard.

Thanks for your help

Hi everybody
I quote Snaper and CuriousMac: i have a SB PCI128, Vendor 1274, Device 5880 and I have the same problems described by CuriousMac and Snaper.
I use 10.4.5 by Myzar + Jas 10.4.8 AMD SSE3 ComboUpdate on a AMD Athlon64 3000+ Venice

There is a way to solve the problem without change the sound card?

Thanks for your help.

OK first of all, thx m8 for the nice driver, works here with all three connectors, teamspeex sucessfully tested

but the stuttering as described above is also here on my system, if the driver could'nt solve the problem, maybe
we can get a routine to refresh the soundbuffer / sounddriver after a limited time? why the microphone doesnt have
this fault/problem also in teamspeex not (i could talk as much as i would, my contacts couldnt hear any distortions
or soundbreaks) is a good question?

I have been trying to install this on my VM 5.5.3 JaS 10.4.8 AMD machine but nothing ever shows up in my sound devices. Is there something I am missing? I used console to cd to the Maxxus directory then tried using the sudo ./install.sh command it then asks for my su password and seems like it installs so I reboot, but nothing shows up? I need to get the sound and the ethernet working for the vm then I will have a fully functional VM of OSX 10.4.8. If anyone can help me with this it would be much appreciated. One other question is there any way to get CI/QE working in VM? I wanted to install apeture but it complains that my video card is not compliant. Thanks again and great work on the sound driver hopefully I get get everything up and running.

I happen to have the PCI version of this card within 10 feet of me right now... has anybody had any success with it?
Would it be worth trying out?

The closest I've been able to get to sound support is my super-choppy integrated ancient Intel sound, which is so bad its completely unusable. I'm glad osx86 hardware support has come so far.

Thank you so much! Now my Creative SB AudioPCI128 works!!!
So I finally could use Skype.

I have about 3 days trying to get my sound card to work, but no luck
The thing is the sound hears cutted and i haven't be able to get it work fine
I have a Creative Sound card Board CT4810 ES1371
It only recognizes the card with the maxxuss drivers as AC97 but i couldn't get a good sound anyway. If somebody could help me it would be realy apreciated, i just want to get Winbugs OUT!!!!!

THX

I am very sorry for bringing back this old thread but can some one please reupload the driver? The download link isn't working and I want to try it out on VMware.

re-upload:

http://rapidshare.com/files/80836516/Maxxuss-ES137x-v0.1.rar

I'm try your driver
first I must change permision to install load .. and all other scripts wiht "chmod 777 xxx" becouse if I don't do that it say that don't exist,
after that the instalatión proces concluded fine but when I try to load it I got:
sudo ./load.sh
Password:
kextload: extension /Users/trujo/Desktop/MaxxussES137x/MaxxussAC97AudioES137x.kext is not authentic (check ownership and permissions)


I try rebooting but nathing change

I'm try with 10.4.6

Closed as this driver appears to be orphaned.