Master Chief Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Let me start by introducing myself a little: I am Chief, a 40+ year old Open Source veteran/developer anex writer/editor; someone who likes to gives OS X a go on one of his PC's (VMWARE). Just for the fun of it. Here are the system specs: Asus P5K-PRO mainboard 4GB RAM NVIDIA 8600GT with 512 MB (dual DVI) Intel Q9300 CPU I installed Kalyway 10.5.1 in VMWARE Workstation 6.5.1 (50GB guest OS partition) without trouble (running Ubuntu 8.10 - 64 bit edition). I also installed the 10.5.2 and 10.5.3 updates without any trouble, but I am still using the 9.1.0 kernel (Toh:xnu-1228). Note: the 10.5.4 update doesn't seem to like my setup (kernel panics)! Ok there is one thing I can't seem to solve; and that is that I have no sound (system preferences sound preferences show no input/output device) and System Profiler -> Hardware -> Audio (Built in) shows: No Built-in Audio. I guess that it is time to mess with .kext files, which I did (tried) but still no dice (I made a dump of the codec in Ubuntu to see what it is using/ALC883). Oh, and I noticed a 200MB partition which I think can be used for boot files, as Apple seem to honor the EFI specs, but is not using it?. I have the official retail OSX pack and I would love to give it a go, with a vanilla kernel/install under VMWARE, right after getting my audio to work (I just can't live without audio in iTunes). All tips and help are highly appreciated! p.s. I already have a retail installation working since 2008, and flawlessly, and thus now I want to see if it works in VMWARE (for the fun of it). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145935-asus-p5k-pro-no-sound-kalyway-1053/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy_d Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 What sound options did you select at install, I have an Asus motherboard which uses the Azilla sound package which worked for me. Hope that helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145935-asus-p5k-pro-no-sound-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1034887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Chief Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 What sound options did you select at install, None, that is why I inserted the DVD and installed the ALC883 package. I also used Kext Helper but I guess that I am stuck, need to know how to remove previously installed packages? I have an Asus motherboard which uses the Azilla sound package which worked for me.Hope that helps I also tried AZALIA_out, but again, I guess that I need to remove my previously installed packages first, no? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145935-asus-p5k-pro-no-sound-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1034944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
my_buck Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 1.About This Mac>Extensions You could see under "Software>Extensions" from "About This Mac" the kexts and you could delete them manually. After that, you need to clean the Caches. 2. Clean Mkext Caches sudo -s rm -f /System/Library/Extensions.* rm -Rf /System/Library/Extensions/Caches Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145935-asus-p5k-pro-no-sound-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1035026 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Chief Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 Yes, I removed them manually, but the new/right files being AppleHDA.kext and HDAEnabler.kext do not show up in System Profiler (under Software/Extensions), even after clearing Extensions.mkext.* and Extensions/Caches Any other pointer for me? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145935-asus-p5k-pro-no-sound-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1035138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
my_buck Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 load kext sudo -s chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/HDAEnabler.kext chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/HDAEnabler.kext ...analog AppleHDA.kext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145935-asus-p5k-pro-no-sound-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1035150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Chief Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 sudo -s chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/HDAEnabler.kext chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/HDAEnabler.kext ...analog AppleHDA.kext I already checked the owner/group/permissions; I used kext helper v0.7 the first time so I knew what to do, yet still no audio showing up (I wonder; might this be a VMWare workstation/guest OS hickup?). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145935-asus-p5k-pro-no-sound-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1035208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
my_buck Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Oh, You are in Vmware! Why not take a try with Boot-132-Install? I think, your computer is close to MacPro. Only Soundcard caused always problems, but you will mostly get analog sound with AppleAzaliaAudio and you will get faked System Info with HDAEnabler. After Installation you can use PCWiz tools to install netkas PC-EFi9, Bootloader. It supports /Extra folder you can load your own Extensions.mkext in there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145935-asus-p5k-pro-no-sound-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1035247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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