I need a little help getting sound on my Intel Mac. Anyone wanna help me take a shoot? The situation is as follows. I have SoundBlaster X-Fi card in my system, but the mac does not detect that. I don't think it detects any of my PCI devices, but this is another story…or maybe a partial solution. From what I've found, SoundBlaster X-Fi is not supported yet in OS X 10.4.X (maybe 10.5?).
Onto the point. In order to get sound out of my system, I checked the HCL on http://wiki.osx86project.org/ and found "C-Media USB Audio (no additional drivers required)" [Under USB Devices]. Well, looked like a dream come true and at only $26 too! Long story short…the no drivers situation is not the case. The USB device I have in my possession specifications can be found here http://www.siig.com/product.asp?pid=1048 notice it uses C-Media CMI102 chipset, So I'm still in the ballpark. Moving along, I came across this post and attempted to install Dogbert's driver. Didn't have any success either. I know its written in mind for PCI, but you never know. The similar error to everyone else in the form comes back at me. Tried all versions. The following is what comes back to me
thedc70s-computer:~ TheDC70$ /Users/TheDC70/Desktop/install.sh
Installing CMI8738 kernel extension...
cp: CMI8738PCIAudioDriver.kext: No such file or directory
find: /System/Library/Extensions/CMI8738PCIAudioDriver.kext: No such file or directory
find: /System/Library/Extensions/CMI8738PCIAudioDriver.kext: No such file or directory
chown: /System/Library/Extensions/CMI8738PCIAudioDriver.kext: No such file or directory
kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/CMI8738PCIAudioDriver.kext: no such bundle file exists
can't add kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/CMI8738PCIAudioDriver.kext (file access/permissions) (run kextload on this kext with -t for diagnostic output)
Installation finished - enjoy! dogbert <dogber1@gmail.com>
thedc70s-computer:~ TheDC70$
The .kext in that directory. I've moved it there myself, after authenticating it, and evern left the .kext in the same directory as the install.sh file for excecution.
Also, in the system profiler, It is detected in the USB section
USB Audio:
Version: 0.10
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: C-Media INC.
Product ID: 0x0001
Vendor ID: 0x0d8c
No option however in the sound section of the control panel.
So, Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction?
Thanks in Advance
-TheDC70
Extra Notes:
Image Used: MAC OS X 10.4.7 ~JAS
I've also tested the device in a real Mac PC and it works fine. System see's it and gives the option to use.