I'm trying to get audio working on my freshly installed toshiba laptop. I must not be looking the wrong way to figure out what's in this machine. Honestly I feel like an idiot not even being able to tell what chipset is in there.

The only info I can get is the stupid SRS TruSurroundXT stuff, but that doesn't tell me what I need to know.


Toshiba Product Page

PDF of technical specs

My other thread on the install

Follow the Azalia link in my signature and then go to the Appendix at the bottom of the page. Use the methods there to determine the vendor and device ids.

Then you can go to the following database and look up your vendor id and then the device id to find what you have.

http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii/

thanks ramjet....
No windows on this machine, woops...

I'll try to install it on another partition and see what I can do.

lspci can be used if available, but finding the exact ids is harder.

gotcha, I've got a linux live CD, I'll give that a shot, appreciate the help.
I'm so close

On a complete different subject, do you have a link that would explain what to look for in xbench scores?

thanks for the many (MANY) posts of yours I've read over the last two weeks.

Search is your friend:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=1395

Hard drive performance is usually low so a lot of people leave it out.

Oh believe me, I've searched here and on google, the problem is everyone keeps listing their scores, that thread you linked to has what 25 pages of scores, what I'm trying to find out is how to read those scores, what's good/bad etc....

Even the xbench site doesn't give too much explanation of what the tests determine, we're just supposed to know. Figured someone somewhere might have written a explanation of what each of these tests are measuring and what's good and bad.
FWIW, my score was a bit above 100.

lspci reports:

0000:00:lb.0 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)


Sounds came right up with the Ubuntu live cd

now to boot back into OSX and see what I can do with that.

Yeah, but HD audio uses 2 chips - the codec and the controller. You found the name of the controller chip from Intel, but no device id of 4 characters hex (probably 27d8).

There is still another chip out there. I tried to Google and found nothing. I read your PDF and nothing.

Go and read the Appendix of the Azalia guide. I think you need Windows.

Sadly, I think you're correct. I'm doing search after search on the forums as well and not getting a useful hit. Bummer. I guess it's time to bite the bullet and just do the windows install.
Thanks for all your efforts.

YES!!!!

Ok, I avoided having to re-install windows by going back to Fry's and looking up the information on their demo model (that was fun)...
Insalled Azilla, did the edits, rebooted and
BAM, the error that the kext was not installed properly.
Searched a couple of other threads and found:



reboot, and PRESTO.


Audio.
Sweet.

Next, install XP under parallels and see what happens

this is fun when it works.