All right here is my problem. My hackintosh's green line-out is no longer functional. A while ago it died on me on my Gaming PC but I was able to use Realtek Soundman to reassign the blue lead as audio out. Then I decided to go ahead and try installing OS X on this machine and everything worked great after some futsing around with a few drivers. However, OS X will not allow me to change ports for Audio Out; therefore I must find a way to get a functioning line-out.
What I was thinking was connecting to the AC'97 front panel audio connector. The problem is I can not find a case part to connect this to. All I can find is one that fits in my 3.5 inch drive bay with both audio and USB ports. Does anyone know where I can find a ribbon cable and front panel jacks alone, not with USB or a card reader? Will this work? Basically, I need to know one of three things.
1. If I connect to my mobo's front panel audio connector would this be seen by Mac OS X as the same thing as the rear Green Line-out audio port. Or would this just be another non-functional Blue headphone jack.
2. How can I test my green audio port for a physcial break? Possibly with an Ohm meter.
3. Is there a way to redirect the audio driver to the Blue or Red Audio Jack rather than the Green Line-out? I am using Appleac97audio.kext
Just for reference Mac OS X does recognize that there is an audio line-out I just can not switch jacks. The microphone appears to work as I have connected my stereo to the lead and the Mac shows audio inputting in System preferences.
As for my machine
OS: 10.4.8 not Jas some other distribution
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NS (Rev 1.x)
CPU: Athlon 64 3000+ Newcastle SSE2 (no SSE3)
Memory: 1GB DDR400
Video: ATI Radeon X800XT 256MB (callisto only, I can not stand the mouse tearing when QE/CI is enable even with the Mighty mouse/ Boinx fixes)
Northbridge: Nforce3 250
Wireless: DLink DWL-G520 Rev B. (added to IO80211family.kext)