pj1115 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Hey all, First post here! Have been running iAtkos v5i for a while now, I'm really impressed. Having been a Windows user primarily, and *nix for other tasks, I thought migrating to OS X would be hard, but it's been painless. My set-up is as follows: OS X Leopard 10.5.5 2.66 GHz P4 CPU Asus P4V8X-MX Motherboard 1GB 333MHz DDR RAM 64Mb nVidia Geforce4 MX440 video (UGH! There isn't even any driver support so I had to delete all nVidia KEXTS... left the system a little sluggish) Pretty much as budget as they come, but going to build myself a demon when I get the time. (While I'm on the subject, does anyone think giving it a little more RAM will make it more responsive and less crashable?) Anyway, onto my problem. Whenever a system sound/alert is played, I get a bassy blurt (they all have a different blurt) -- no proper sound. Inside the Sound prefpane, I get the same result, the only sound that is alright is the 'Pop' sound. Playing the sounds in '/System/Library/Sounds/' manually in VLC/Quicktime/iTunes is fine, they all sound perfect. Also, playing music and movies is fine too (not fullscreen, video card is awful). What could be the problem? As I said, in the Sound prefpane and when they are played on events, they just burp. Everything else works fine. Many thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145815-system-sound-distortion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Hey all, First post here! Have been running iAtkos v5i for a while now, I'm really impressed. Having been a Windows user primarily, and *nix for other tasks, I thought migrating to OS X would be hard, but it's been painless. My set-up is as follows: OS X Leopard 10.5.5 2.66 GHz P4 CPU Asus P4V8X-MX Motherboard 1GB 333MHz DDR RAM 64Mb nVidia Geforce4 MX440 video (UGH! There isn't even any driver support so I had to delete all nVidia KEXTS... left the system a little sluggish) Pretty much as budget as they come, but going to build myself a demon when I get the time. (While I'm on the subject, does anyone think giving it a little more RAM will make it more responsive and less crashable?) Anyway, onto my problem. Whenever a system sound/alert is played, I get a bassy blurt (they all have a different blurt) -- no proper sound. Inside the Sound prefpane, I get the same result, the only sound that is alright is the 'Pop' sound. Playing the sounds in '/System/Library/Sounds/' manually in VLC/Quicktime/iTunes is fine, they all sound perfect. Also, playing music and movies is fine too (not fullscreen, video card is awful). What could be the problem? As I said, in the Sound prefpane and when they are played on events, they just burp. Everything else works fine. Many thanks! Not having QE/CI supported causes a great many problems. Some programs will not even start up without this. I would hold off on the memory and get a cheap, supported, graphics card. You will see a tremendous difference. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145815-system-sound-distortion/#findComment-1034189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pj1115 Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 @lanceomni2:Thanks for the advice, I've gone ahead and ordered a Geforce 7300GS, which I saw as working in the HCL. It's good value, and is only a temporary solution. I also bought another GB of RAM for good measure. Could anything else be causing the sound problems? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145815-system-sound-distortion/#findComment-1034255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Sound Drivers obviously. Look around. Maybe there are better ones available. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145815-system-sound-distortion/#findComment-1034260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 @lanceomni2:Thanks for the advice, I've gone ahead and ordered a Geforce 7300GS, which I saw as working in the HCL. It's good value, and is only a temporary solution. I also bought another GB of RAM for good measure. Could anything else be causing the sound problems? When you get the card installed head on over to http://nvinject.free.fr/ and download Latest_NVinject.0.2.1.zip. 1. Go to the /System/Library/Extensions folder and remove and/or backup any graphics related kexts such as NVinject, Natit, Titan or NVkush. 2. Unzip the file you downloaded and drop NVinject.kext into the extensions folder. 3. Open Terminal and type the following to correct permissions to the extensions folder: sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions && chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions 4. Type the following to correct permissions to your entire drive. (Might as well do this while your at it) diskutil repairpermissions / 5. Type the following to remove the cache file and force OSX to rebuild it with the new kext you installed. sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext Boot using -v -f * Backing up these files is not entirely necessary as removing them will still give you default graphics. It is a good idea to make a practice of backing up your extensions folder as you may end up needing to restore them. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145815-system-sound-distortion/#findComment-1034291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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