Can't get audio to work on Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R [solved]

[shthap3ns]

I recently customized a new box for my girlfriend and was able to install Leopard 10.5.4 Retail onto it, using the Boot132 method. Everything is working great, most things were OOB except for for the video (eVGA 9800 GTX+). I was able to use the nvdarwin injector to get that working correctly. Sleep, restart, shutdown, ethernet all work, but I can't figure out what's wrong with the audio. I've tried using the ALC889a drivers that are floating around these forums, but none of them seem to work, except for the method described here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=124794

 

Problem is though, when I use that method, booting up the OS X takes about 4-5 minutes (gets stuck on the grey Apple loading screen). When it boots up it works though, albeit without any bass.

 

Can anyone offer any suggestions for this? What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks for any help!

 

The funny thing is, I don't usually ask for help via a post (just search), and everytime I've posted I always end up coming up with a solution right after.

 

Here's how I solved it:

 

1. Download AppleHDA from this post: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=129449 (Thanks AndrewNZ)

 

2. Get HDAEnabler.kext from this post: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=76404

 

3. Copy the two extensions to /System/Library/Extensions

 

4. Run these commands in Terminal:

 

sudo -s
(password)

cd /system/library/extensions
chmod -R 755 * && chown -R root:wheel *
cd ..
rm extensions.mkext
kextcache -a i386 -e

 

5. Reboot with -x and -f.

 

6. Audio!

 

I think the problem was that the kexts weren't installing properly until I ran those commands in Terminal. Simply dragging and dropping into the extensions folder doesn't work! Yes, that's probably a noob move, but hey.

 

My bass works too! Thanks to everyone that has worked on this problem. I don't have the audio popping problem either.

 

I now have a fully functional Hackintosh running Leopard 10.5.5 Retail. Feels great.

 

Hope this helps someone.

[MacUser2525]

I think the problem was that the kexts weren't installing properly until I ran those commands in Terminal. Simply dragging and dropping into the extensions folder doesn't work! Yes, that's probably a noob move, but hey.

 

A .kext is not installed properly using the method you did until you have deleted the Extensions.mkext then used the -f when rebooting to force the reloading/caching of the .kext on the system, same is true if you have edited a .kext that is already installed the changes are not seen until you have done this. One more thing you will want to open Diskutil then select your install partition and choose the repair permissions option, you can do this from the command line if you want using sudo diskutil repairPermissions / then entering your password.

[shthap3ns]

Thanks for the tip, MacUser2525! Yeah, I realized that, but it took me a bit before I did. Most posts simply said, "this kext fixed it for me". With the nvida kexts (nvinject, etc), I only had to copy them inside the extensions directory, remove extensions.mkext, and repair disk permissions. I did that with the audio kexts but it didn't make any difference. It wasn't until I used the CHMOD commands that it worked. *shrugs*