Audio

This is a compilation of many of the different audio solutions available. It is not exhaustive. If you don't find what you want, search for it.

Please do not post questions in this thread looking for a solution that is not listed. Use other threads for that.

Please do post other good known audio solutions in this thread. I will try to incorporate any posted solutions into the list. Otherwise, users can read the thread for any other solutions.

C-Media 8738 - Read this and this and 10.4.7 driver

Realtek

ALC665 + VIA - Read this

ALC8xx - Use this Guide. General purpose audio guide for AppleAzaliaAudio.kext on many different audio chipsets. Appendix helps you locate your vendor and device ids for your two audio chipsets.

ALC 850 - Use this Guide

ALC 882 - If running the new 8.8.1 kernel, multichannel out and audio in using a Natit clone method here

ALC 883 - If running the new 8.8.1 kernel, multichannel out and audio in using a Natit clone method here

ALC 888 - If running the new 8.8.1 kernel, multichannel out and audio in using a Natit clone method here

SB400 - Get driver here

Sigmatel

9200 - No current solution

9220 - Use this Guide

9221 - Go here

9223 - Go here or if using new kernel 8.8.1, try this.

9750 - Maybe this will help.

9752/53 - Read this.

SiS 7012 - Read this and this.

Soundmax - Review these: Guide 1, Guide 2, Guide 3. Note: Users with Soundmax 1981HD and 1986 have been successful using the ALC8xx method. Be sure to read the Appendix to the guide.

USB Soundsticks - USB Soundblaster and others. Read this and see below.

Misc information

Other projects

AppleHDA project - modifying AppleHDA.kext for hi-def sound. Read this

ALCinject - using a Titan/Natit approach to solving Realtek audio. Read this

USB Soundsticks - very inexpensive USB sticks can be purchased for less than $10(US) to provide multichannel-sound out and microphone-sound in. One place to find these is on the eBay site by searching for "usb 5.1 audio". A higher quality device is the "Turtle Beach Audio Advantage" available in stores for about $35(US). All of these devices work very well when you have no other sound-out or sound-in solutions.

Utilities

Audio MIDI Setup - use this utility found in the Utilities folder to cofigure your input and ouput ports

Nice, i was thinking the other day how messy all the info in this forum are after my OSX86 set up. Thx for putting all this together.

A suggestions to include USB audio output would require Soundblaster.USB audio pkg from the Jas CD or download it in the thread below

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=28186&hl=

Rammjet, add to your post the Mic solution (cheap usb stick).

Rammjet, u should diferentiate Azalia solutions form AppleHDA solutions in ALC8x chipsets..

Just my two cents

This would not be a cheap stopgap but a possible complete solution to getting perfect sound with your Hackintosh. I would stress that I haven't tried it (though am keen to do so) but noted when surfing that it is slated as working with regular Macs, so why not Hackintoshes?

To quote from Creative:-

Sound Blaster® Extigy is the revolutionary external quality audio solution from Creative. Designed to provide stunning digital audio to notebook or desktop users who cannot open their PCs or would prefer not to, it installs quickly and easily by USB. A remote control is standard.

With 24-bit DACs and a 100dB signal-to-noise ratio, hardware Dolby Digital® decoding, multi-channel output and 24-bit/96kHz compatible connectivity, the Sound Blaster Extigy gives a powerful high-end audio and home theatre experience.

It also offers EAX® ADVANCED HD™ music features such as Audio Clean-Up, Time Scaling and DREAM, and can operate as a stand-alone Dolby® Digital decoder for use with DVD players or entertainment consoles.
Quick Installation with USB
Sound Blaster Extigy easily plugs into any available USB port on your PC or notebook. Connect your speakers, load the Sound Blaster Extigy's suite of software and elevate your music listening experience forever.

Connect Your Digital and Analog Devices
With an emphasis on versatility, you can now connect your PC or notebook to most digital entertainment devices such as DVD players, CD and MP3 players, MIDI devices, stereo and multi-channel speakers, headphones and more. Featured ports include Optical and MIDI In/Out, SPDIF-In, Line-In and Mic-In.

Tweak Your Sound from Across the Room
Convenient and fun, the front panel control knobs and wireless remote provide you with total control of your sound experience. If you own surround sound speakers, you will love the one-touch CMSS button that turns any stereo recording, including MP3 and WMA music files, into a surround sound masterpiece.

Be the first to benefit from the high-powered, easy-to-use Sound Blaster Extigy...the external Sound Blaster that adds stunning digital audio fidelity to your PC and notebook!

Quick price search revealed $130-170(US)

I can now report that the Sound Blaster Extigy USB works perfectly with my two Hackintosh computers.

The only problem I have encountered is the familiar USB one, where you have to unplug and plug back in in order for the USB device in question to be detected. In that I have to do that once a session at most, I'm not especially troubled by it. The signal to noise ratio is good and the sound quality is, as you would expect, very good. A simple solution to high quality sound, though of course there are cheaper ones but they doubtless sound somewhat cheaper too. I haven't had cause to try out the microphone input but I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

I am using JAS 10.4.8 Intel/AMD. You just plug it into your USB port and it works.

Hi DETOSX did you try the JAS version with the "soundblaster usb package" during the installation of OSX?

Because when I try to load the "soundblaster usb package1046" the whole usb-bus stops working so no mouse / keyboard and ofcourse no Extigy, even after replugging.

Btw did you do a firmware upgrade of the extigy for windows? or did you use the plain old drivers from the cd in windowsXP?

Sorry, can I ask one question into this topic?
I wonder: Do we have any solutions for Creative Audigy2 ZS (7.1) problem?
Any driver, kext... for it can play sound in Hackintosh 10.4.8?
Thanks in advance!

Avoid the Soundblaster USB package, would be my advice; it causes USB shut outs on so many systems. If you need to fix what the USB package broke, go to the apple developer site and download the USB driver for 10.4.8. If I remember the wording correctly you install the non logged version of the two options available.
No, I didn't need any drivers. I just plugged it in and it worked. I can't begin to tell you how wonderful that moment was. I haven't tried it from an XP boot up, for which perhaps there would be some benefit installing drivers. With OS X it - as Apple like to say of themselves - 'just works'. I have detected some hum which wasn't there when I plugged it in that first day. I will investigate. All in all I have been very happy. I would be interested to hear what the battery drain is like on laptops, though. Any takers like to report on that?

Well than it might be my hardware revision of the extigy...
I did however do a firmware upgrade a couple of years ago...
I'm not using the original usb cable...

The numbers on my extigy are:
SB0130
3902D023
AM01302370001882

My last questions to detosx ;-) are:
Which kernel did you use SSE2/SSE3?
Which USB chipset do you have?
What do you mean by:
is this the usb fix?

Thanks for informing me this far already.

Is there anyway to get SoundBlaster Audigy 7.1 to work on a hackintosh?

if not?

Anyone know what audio is on the Intel® 975X motherboard, and is there a way to get the mainboard audio to work , I belive mine is 7.1

bump for answers to extigy questions. Trying to get mine up and running since theres no sigmatel 9200 support (why is that by the way?).

I have a question .. My soundblaster live! 24 give-me some very anoing pops and sound cracks from time to time ... and is very annoing .. First I was thinking that is the fault of my soundcard .. so I have go ahead , broke my heart and installed winxp ... well, the sound is loud and clear, no stops and no noise .. Back on osx, the nightmare started again .. can be a solution for this ?!

"Soundmax - Review these: Guide 1, Guide 2, Guide 3. Note: Users with Soundmax 1981HD and 1986 have been successful using the ALC8xx method. Be sure to read the Appendix to the guide."

could someone kindly give me a link to the solution of Soundmax 1981HD and 1986, thanks a lot!

Could the author update the first post for the Sigmatel 9200?

I have a Dell Inspiron E1405 which has a built-in sound card, namely the Sigmatel 9200.

I used AppleHDA Patcher 1.15 by Taruga, here.

I also used the text file, Sigmatel9200.txt, found here.

It should be noted that the first times I ran AppleHDA Patcher 1.15, in two separate OS X installations, it crashed. First time I was running 10.4.8 and the second 10.4.9. However, my second times running it, both in 10.4.9, succeed in getting the sound to work. However, the sound card information is still not available in System Profiler.

I'm sure this is a well-known fact to most people, but having it in this post really helps first-time OSx86ers.

Thanks.

All has been well with my Creative X-FI USB soundcard/stick, up until now when I tried to use a microphone. No joy. The USB-card shows up as Creative xmod microphone but no matter where I put the slider, there is no sound coming in. Most frustrating. I will try in Vista and make sure I don't have a duff card but I doubt it. The sound is lovely.

RELATED TO MIDI PROBLEMS

Hi,

as mentioned in this forum some people, maybe the most, have problems with randomly not working Apple MIDI server. I had the same problem. MIDI just worked nearly every 4th reboot. But now all midi server problems are gone SINCE I DO NOT USE ANY PCI CARDS ANYMORE! It sounds strange, but it seems the midi server does not work because of wrong PCI drivers. I had a audio PCI card, which wasn't usable in the pci slot. Now everything removed, the midi server always runs well.

I would like to know:

1. Is the pci extension developed by Apple or a free developer?

2. What extension is responsible for pci action?

Creative X-Fi Xmod worked out of the box on a fresh installation of JaS 10.4.8 on my Dell Inspiron 9400. I didn't need to install anything else

Rammjet, the first option for Sigmatel 9223 works on the 8.8.1 kernel, I've had no success with anything else.

Hi All!

Well after building my 3rd Hackintosh, i've managed to fix the audio for the BIOSTAR 945GZ ALC655 audio.

The easiest way I have found of finding what the Vendor/device/class numbers are is to disbale the hardrives/cdrom frtom booting in the bios and to read the allocation report on the screen. This shows you what hardware has been dectected and PnP set by the bios. If ound mine that way, no need to boot into WINDOWS at all!

Anyway to the driver....

I can confirm that the driver will give you:

Stereo OUT
LINE/MIC IN
Volume contriol from within OSX.

ALL TEST FULLY WORKING WITH LOGIC EXPRESS!!


Spec of the iHack is:

E4300 Core 2 Duo
BIOSTAR 945GZ 775 onbaord ALC655 (AC97) and GMA950
2 x 1GB 533 OCZ VALUE RAM
DVDRW/IDE HDD

xbench ~132

n.b.

as far as the BIOSTAR M/B goes all working haven't tested the SATA yet though

Sorry for the double post. but for those requiring better performance try version two of the driver.

this version requires a lot less CPU load and generally sounds better.

Enjoy

Cyn.

I have thinkpad x31 with AD1981 sound. Tried all the tutorials and hints, patching etc., but it didn't work. Finally I found out it was all a permissions problem. I don't know too much about all this stuff but I just tried to fix the permissions from hand. A kextload brought no change.

But, when I booted into OS X again, I was very surprised to find the sound device working.

Fantastic! Now I can finally quit using XP!

Should be added to sigmatel solutions:

Sigmatel 9225

appleHDApatcher: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=8404
codec dump for stac9225: http://psykopat.free.fr/apple/AppleHDA/sigmatel/STAC9225.txt
guide: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=32859

Just in case anyone is looking for professional cards that work in OSX86 I can confirm the RME HDSP9652 pci card works flawlessly down to latency buffer sizes of 64 samples. Fireface 800 also works perfectly, and the TC Konnekt 24D firewire also works perfectly.

Folks looking for a good cheap but high quality option should consider either the Konnekt 8 or the Konnekt 24D, both are firewire and frankly, blow your inbuilt soundcards or cheap Creative Labs out of the water for quality and stability.

Here you have modified .kext for ADI198x included in Dell Optiplex GX 520/620, i.e. ICH7. Tested with JaS 10.4.8. Enjoy
L.E.: Tested with 10.4.10, too, works flawless.

Hi,

The Plantronics USB Headphones are plug and play (as in they work without any fuss. Plug them in an go).
Link to Headphones

Sorry for the delay, I have been away from home...
I have reattached the .kext in the original post, hope it works now

Rammjet --

Your link to 10.4.7 CMI8738 kext is dead.

This was Dogberts driver originally written for 10.4.1

I recompiled the kext for 10.4.3. That kext still works. The original link is here.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...rt=0#entry47337

The kexts are also available here:
http://scifi.pages.at/ffm-2/

Lenovo 3000 N100 fix:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=73693

For Realtek ALC 662 use Azalia kext method.
I saw also an installer that worked fine, just I don't remember where to get it.

hi all

just a noob question how to i knw what sound card im using cuz i have compaq presario c304nr but i can't find any where what sound card its using....i found that its altec lansing but that doesn't help alot.

Audio drivers for Intel 945Gcz mainboard? Had no success getting HD 5.1 output with 10.5.1 although can use USB stick without problems. Is there a kext known to work with this Intel board?

Hi guys does anybody know about mic-in with the asus p5b-vm ?
I got sound output working with the azalia driver, what about input ?

Hi, maybe someone can help me here... i don't know if its correctly, i have posted in osx86 installation forum too but i think heres the better place for it!

First... i have a Asus Maximus Mainboard X38 (Intel ICH9, as far as i know!)

i have done the following steps:

searched for a AC97 Kext...

i have edited the kext ... added following VEN ID 11D4 and Dev 198B - 0x11D4198B

then typed

kextload -t /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAC97Audio.kext

no errors and typed

kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions and reboot

but no Sound working

i can load the kext... successfully as terminal says...

when i do a kextstat i see the kext in last line...

but after reboot the kext is gone and still no sound ?! what did i'm wrong?

i also edited the codec kext... added ads70 and a few more... only to be sure to match the correctly... i didn know the ads id....

During the Kalyway Leopard install, you should have selected the first Azalia audio option when you customized the install. It worked for me with no edits required on my Maximus Formula. You can try using Pacifist on the disc to see if you can grab the AppleAzaliaAudio.kext and revert your changes back to defaults.

hey does anyone has a solution for my audio to work?

i run tiger osx 10.4.5 and have audio onboard INTEL 82801BA/BAM AC97

i changed my kext's and they load fine, but i still got no sound or audio device detected...

Hello...

i use MainBoard ECS 945GCT - M2 (Ver1)... and Soundcard IDT 92HD202

And i can't listen music, Someone has Driver for IDT 92HD202 (Kalyway) pls share for me...

Thanks

I've scorn the whole forum and cant find any info about using a PCI SoundBlaster Live! as the sound card, any advice? Thanks in advance. I'm using my on board as sound now.

Because it doesn't work.

And yes there are threads and posts about Soundblaster Live that say that.

Hi, I have mac osx86 running succesfuly with everything working but the sound. It is running on a Dell Inspiron 8200 (intel). My built in sound is a Crystal 4205. Please any ideas on how to get this to work? I have a usb sound stick but because this is a laptop i prfer not to have stuff sticking out. Thanks!

,CRickman

Hi

Any Success with Sigmatel 9200?

With Dell Inspiron 6400, everything is working out of the Box (Bluetooth, Wireless network...etc.
I'm Using kalyway 10.5.1

can sb tell me how to uninstall the sound driver? because if i install a new one it doesnt apply the changes

What can I do when i have a ALC889A audio-chipset- Where i can find a solution?

hi to all,
I have HP PC and it has ASUS A8M2N-LA MB. I have Leo 10.5.2 right now runing with out any problem but the no sound! this MB has ALC888 and I did download anything that people say it maywork but no luck yet. I hoping if any one can assist me.

thanks.

are they any drivers for the CMI8788 chipset from c-media? im using leopard 15.5.2

any solutions for Conexant High Def Audio? detected as Intel High Def Audio by Mac on my HP Pavilion dv2119TX....

EDIT:::

GOT IT...

THNX....

please help..

I have this Azalia audio kext thing for Conexant HD Audio on my 2119TX laptop.

can someone please guide how to modify and use this .kext thing?

I m clueless regarding this target directory and stuff....

hi there.. for the SB400 chipset (x200) which file do i need??

thanx a lot!