MattDFW Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I'm triple booting using Kalyway 10.5.2 (which has been updated to 10.5.3 using the combo updater), Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista. Everything on this beast is working great, with the exception of the onboard audio under OS X. I had a Creative SoundBlaster installed, but have removed it altogether because of what I read in the forums (no drivers available). So, I'm trying to get the onboard audio to work. I've read through many of these posts, but can't find an answer and the things I've tried so far have been unsuccessful. Here are the specs of my machine: Gateway 830GM Pentium 4HT 3.0GHz 200GB SATA HDD Partitioned (0 - Vista, 1 - Mac OS X, 2 - Ubuntu) nVidia PCI-E 512MB Video card w/ Dual Monitor Output Onboard Audio (Not exactly sure which chipset it is; any help there also appreciated) 2.4GB RAM Umm, that's about it on the hardware side. It's nothing fancy and most everything else has worked from the start. I just can't seem to figure out the audio. I think it may have to do with my kernel; I have the Darwin 9.2.0 kernel and I think it may be too new. But I don't know if I can downgrade or change the kernel without changing the OS. I don't want to have to downgrade there. Anyway, I hope someone has a quick piece of advice for me, or can point me to a posting that will help. Thanks, Matt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattDFW Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 I'm also getting a pretty decent score on my testing.... (Perhaps this will help someone come up with a solution) Results 63.07 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.5.3 (9D34) Physical RAM 2560 MB Model MacPro3,1 Drive Type ST3200822AS ST3200822AS CPU Test 61.43 GCD Loop 86.45 4.56 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 58.83 1.40 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 37.31 1.23 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 102.61 17.87 Mops/sec Thread Test 90.73 Computation 74.79 1.52 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 115.29 4.96 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 82.42 System 93.75 Allocate 120.03 440.77 Kalloc/sec Fill 98.24 4776.49 MB/sec Copy 74.14 1531.41 MB/sec Stream 73.53 Copy 71.56 1478.14 MB/sec Scale 71.90 1485.47 MB/sec Add 75.81 1614.85 MB/sec Triad 75.05 1605.51 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 93.56 Line 81.61 5.43 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 83.95 25.06 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 75.99 6.19 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 94.56 2.39 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 180.53 11.29 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 41.15 Spinning Squares 41.15 52.20 frames/sec User Interface Test 71.42 Elements 71.42 327.80 refresh/sec Disk Test 44.33 Sequential 73.90 Uncached Write 87.57 53.77 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 87.66 49.60 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 46.54 13.62 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 101.88 51.21 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 31.66 Uncached Write 10.90 1.15 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 69.72 22.32 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 84.03 0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 119.11 22.10 MB/sec [256K blocks] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/#findComment-802935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
derailed_spark Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 You can't get help without knowing your onboard audio chipset. Also it has nothing to do with the kernel ... 9.2.0 is not a new kernel ... 9.4.0 is. For start try system profiler to see if under Audio (build in ) thare is a Device ID entry. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/#findComment-803045 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxtie Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I don't know about your onboard, but SB is the only reason why I'm posting reply. If you don't have X-Fi Audio card then you should know that drivers are expected to come out... (in August according to my guess) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/#findComment-803104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattDFW Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 Thanks, Lama. I had not seen that yet. The most recent comments regarding the Creative cards (mine in particular, an Audigy 2 ZS) was that there weren't, nor would there ever be, drivers. As far as my Onboard Audio Chipset, Spark, when I run System Profiler, under Audio it shows no devices. The chipset of my board is the 915G. Is that what you were asking? Sorry, not a complete noob to computers, but absolutely a noob to the OSx86 stuff. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/#findComment-803113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
derailed_spark Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Hi again ! If it shows nothing under the Audio tab in System Profiler , it means that OSX did not detect a sound-card. Sometimes it detects one and then it's just a matter of fixing the outputs. Now it's not that case. Also 915G does not help me determine with sound chip you have on board. You said you are triple booting. Get in to Windows then right click My Computer, then select Properties. Enter Device Manager and from the new window select your audio device. Right Click it and check it's properties and under the Details tab select the Hardware Ids entry from the drop down list ... just like in this screenshot : Make a screenshot then post it here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/#findComment-803137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattDFW Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 Here is a screenshot, as requested. Thanks, Matt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/#findComment-803225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyKelly Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 here alc883.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/#findComment-805117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxtie Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Thanks, Lama. I had not seen that yet. The most recent comments regarding the Creative cards (mine in particular, an Audigy 2 ZS) was that there weren't, nor would there ever be, drivers. As far as my Onboard Audio Chipset, Spark, when I run System Profiler, under Audio it shows no devices. The chipset of my board is the 915G. Is that what you were asking? Sorry, not a complete noob to computers, but absolutely a noob to the OSx86 stuff. Thanks Yawn.... I'm surprised that you've seen all posts and not this one http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=104797 Anyways, Good luck with your onboard! At least, something is always better then nothing... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/#findComment-805442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vishusinghal Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 i am using hp dv9222tx notebook pc. I am running os x 10.5 (boot132 method). Works great for me!! Kudos!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/#findComment-1105995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasballz Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 I'm triple booting using Kalyway 10.5.2 (which has been updated to 10.5.3 using the combo updater), Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista. Everything on this beast is working great, with the exception of the onboard audio under OS X. I had a Creative SoundBlaster installed, but have removed it altogether because of what I read in the forums (no drivers available). So, I'm trying to get the onboard audio to work. I've read through many of these posts, but can't find an answer and the things I've tried so far have been unsuccessful. Here are the specs of my machine: Gateway 830GM Pentium 4HT 3.0GHz 200GB SATA HDD Partitioned (0 - Vista, 1 - Mac OS X, 2 - Ubuntu) nVidia PCI-E 512MB Video card w/ Dual Monitor Output Onboard Audio (Not exactly sure which chipset it is; any help there also appreciated) 2.4GB RAM Umm, that's about it on the hardware side. It's nothing fancy and most everything else has worked from the start. I just can't seem to figure out the audio. I think it may have to do with my kernel; I have the Darwin 9.2.0 kernel and I think it may be too new. But I don't know if I can downgrade or change the kernel without changing the OS. I don't want to have to downgrade there. Anyway, I hope someone has a quick piece of advice for me, or can point me to a posting that will help. Thanks, Matt Google your desktop/laptop model with keywords "audio driver download". See what you find for specs and post, and look for that model in the drivers discussion. Or use drivermax to auto update in Windows and get the specs that way. Or simply use device manager and open the properties of your audio device controller and see what that is. Once you've got your make search it with keywords "osx86" and "audio driver" or just "audio" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113324-audio-drivers-help-desperately-needed/#findComment-1106148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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