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harshil
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Hello, im not too familiar with all of this hackintosh stuff, but i had snow leopard working a while back and messed it up trying to make sleep work with my 4870. since then ive formatted that drive, but now i want to try again, and i ran across this simple tool, and ive been using an old leopard install to use kakewalk USB installation.

 

The problem is, whenever i try to boot from my USB drive to install using kakewalk, i get a black screen before it finishes booting. I've tried reformatting and reinstalling to the drive, and using different drives multiple times, but it made no difference. I've also tried -x and -v to try to get more info, but it never boots, and i didnt see anything useful in verbose mode.

 

my specs:

GA-EX58-UD3R (Rev 1)

I7-920

6GB G.Skill RAM

HIS 4870 512mb - plugged into monitor with DVI to VGA adapter

160GB windows and linux drive

500GB Mac drive (to be)

120GB External Drive - USB Drive being used for installation, also tried plugging in internally with IDE

Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
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UPDATE: Output IS there and sound is working. I had to do a repair permissions via Disk Util, reboot and viola.

 

Let me re-check my steps and make sure I get the same results.

 

 

Sounds very promising! Tried a DU repair but no joy with just that. Going to try to reinstall the newer GigabyteX58Aud3R.pkg, repair perms and reboot and see what happens..

 

....

 

Just a reinstall of the pkg and a repair didn't do the trick.. but this seems VERY close... my audio is definitely initializing as I can here it when it boots... so close!

xeir
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Sounds very promising! Tried a DU repair but no joy with just that. Going to try to reinstall the newer GigabyteX58Aud3R.pkg, repair perms and reboot and see what happens..

 

....

 

Just a reinstall of the pkg and a repair didn't do the trick.. but this seems VERY close... my audio is definitely initializing as I can here it when it boots... so close!

 

 

I tried to reproduce the results and No Joy!

 

- Ran KakeWalk Boot 2.2, rebooted

- No sound

- Ran the second package and rebooted

- No sound

- Ran Repair Permissions, rebooted

- No sound

 

I must have tried something in between, which I just can't recall for certain. It may have been the HDAEnabler from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Which I tried between the packages that mrjanek posted as I didn't realize another was in route to test.

 

As that seems to be the case, apologies on the false positive and getting our hopes up too much.

 

 

 

 

 

Sounds very promising! Tried a DU repair but no joy with just that. Going to try to reinstall the newer GigabyteX58Aud3R.pkg, repair perms and reboot and see what happens..

 

....

 

Just a reinstall of the pkg and a repair didn't do the trick.. but this seems VERY close... my audio is definitely initializing as I can here it when it boots... so close!

 

 

Yup, that seems to be exactly what I did between the 2 separate installs.

 

Ahh well.

Tom Sawyer
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I tried to reproduce the results and No Joy!

 

- Ran KakeWalk Boot 2.2, rebooted

- No sound

- Ran the second package and rebooted

- No sound

- Ran Repair Permissions, rebooted

- No sound

 

I must have tried something in between, which I just can't recall for certain. It may have been the HDAEnabler from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Which I tried between the packages that mrjanek posted as I didn't realize another was in route to test.

 

As that seems to be the case, apologies on the false positive and getting our hopes up too much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yup, that seems to be exactly what I did between the 2 separate installs.

 

Ahh well.

 

No worries... with mrjanek's help and a little hacking and testing on our part we'll get this smoothed out.

It will be worth it when it all works perfectly. :-)

Dr Droid
Dr Droid
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I'm having no audio issue with the latest kakewalk USB vanilla install on the Gigabyte G41M-ES2L board. "No output device found." Everything else is working great.

 

System preferences showing:

 

It's showing Audio ID: 887

Device ID: 0x1458A002

no device detected.

 

I believe this board supposed to have the HDA Realtek ALC888B. Legacy888BHDA.kext is in the Extensions folder, but I'm not sure why sound isn't working. Audio is enabled in the BIOS.

 

Please advice.

xeir
xeir
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I'm having no audio issue with the latest kakewalk USB vanilla install on the Gigabyte G41M-ES2L board. "No output device found." Everything else is working great.

 

System preferences showing:

 

It's showing Audio ID: 887

Device ID: 0x1458A002

no device detected.

 

I believe this board supposed to have the HDA Realtek ALC888B. Legacy888BHDA.kext is in the Extensions folder, but I'm not sure why sound isn't working. Audio is enabled in the BIOS.

 

Please advice.

Hmm, thought it was fixed for 2.2 .. Do you see anything listed under Apple MIDI Setup?

 

I know I did have at least one instance, possible fluke, of not seeing my audio until I repaired disk permissions.

 

I have been using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] in conjunction with KakeWalk to achieve audio nirvana for my setup 889. There is an option for the different sound devices that you can try.

 

I'm sure someone with more knowledge of your setup could probably help a bit more.

 

Hope that helps in the meantime.

anaemik
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Hi there,

 

I'm running into trouble with Kernel Panics using the CD installation method and can't figure out the problem.

 

I have a GA-EP45-UD3R with an nvidia 8400GS, and a hard drive in the system that has a previous installation of 10.5.8 installed via Chameleon, which I am trying to wipe and replace with 10.6 using Kakewalk. I made a boot CD for my motherboard and ensured that my BIOS settings were correct before proceeding. I get as far as Kakewalk loading and telling me to insert the OS X installation disc, and after selecting the OS X disc and pressing enter the disc spins up and begins loading. I get the grey screen with the Apple logo on it for about 20 seconds and then the "grey curtain" descends over the screen telling me that I need to restart my computer. This has happened every time I have tried to repeat the process. I double checked I'd created the correct boot disc, rechecked my BIOS settings, and I even went as far as updating my BIOS to the latest version (went from v3 to v12 I believe), but none of this has helped matters.

 

I'm now at the point where I can't think what to try next. Any suggestions would be very welcome.

 

Thanks in advance!

sheezo
sheezo
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Sound fix Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR:

 

After installing SL 10.6.0 with Kakewalk OOTB, I have issued sound problems (no output device). After upgrading to 10.6.3 I had still the same problem.

 

Running repair mode from DiskUtil and replacing AppleHDA.ktext with the 10.6.0 version (I assume you all made a backup) fixed the problems. The only thing left is that I have to select "Line Out" instead of "Headphones" each time after a reboot, but I can live with that :D

 

Thanks mrjanek for your hardwork! Installing this was a breeze.

OzSpeedway
OzSpeedway
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First up, brilliant work. I just reinstalled my machine, consisting of EP45-UD3L, E8400, 4GB DDR2-800 & nVidia 512Mb 8600GT, and the install went without hitch. I upgraded through software update to 10.6.3 again without issue

 

PROBLEM: Audio has been detected, profiler shows it as installed, speakers "pop" when starting up. However, there is no selectable output device in sys options and no sound out of the speakers. Any ideas on this one?

 

I am currently typing this on my old install so can't offer screenshots for now but will fire the new install up again and try everything out, e.g. sleep etc. I do hope there is a (simple) fix for the sound problem, that is a bit of a showstopper for me....

 

Cheers

Bruce

magnifico
magnifico
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Sound fix Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR:

 

After installing SL 10.6.0 with Kakewalk OOTB, I have issued sound problems (no output device). After upgrading to 10.6.3 I had still the same problem.

 

Running repair mode from DiskUtil and replacing AppleHDA.ktext with the 10.6.0 version (I assume you all made a backup) fixed the problems. The only thing left is that I have to select "Line Out" instead of "Headphones" each time after a reboot, but I can live with that :(

 

Thanks mrjanek for your hardwork! Installing this was a breeze.

 

 

I am saying from 5 days, than using USB Gigabyte, one of the first intense activities of mrjanek, and istalling the 10.6.2 the audio ALC 889 works, only after upgrade to the 10.6.3 to the audio no work, but prewashing APPLE HDA KEXT from the 10.6.2 all works perfectly, therefore it must be studied where it is the problem in the successive packages that Mrjanek has made

OzSpeedway
OzSpeedway
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Update on my install

 

Had no audio on initial install yet the speakers did click. Audio in profiler showed nothing. Update to 10.6.3, again clicks from the speakers, profiler shows Audio ID: 12. Repaired permissions, rebooted, same scenario - clicks when rebooting, no output device.

 

The UD3L board has ALC888 which was working in my previous install but I cannot for the life of me remember what I did to get it going.

 

Any other suggestions? I have read a few pages back and there seems to be audio problems on a range of different boards :(

 

Cheers

Bruce

skidman
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PROBLEM: Audio has been detected, profiler shows it as installed, speakers "pop" when starting up. However, there is no selectable output device in sys options and no sound out of the speakers. Any ideas on this one?

 

I am currently typing this on my old install so can't offer screenshots for now but will fire the new install up again and try everything out, e.g. sleep etc. I do hope there is a (simple) fix for the sound problem, that is a bit of a showstopper for me....

 

I have a almost identical rig (EP45-UD3LR) and experienced the same audio problem. Used

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/328-alc888_hd_audio_10.6.3.html

 

to replace the apple kext in S/L/E, ran Kext Utility to repair permissions and audio works 100%.

 

HTH

Skid

apple_core
apple_core
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I have a almost identical rig (EP45-UD3LR) and experienced the same audio problem. Used

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/328-alc888_hd_audio_10.6.3.html

 

to replace the apple kext in S/L/E, ran Kext Utility to repair permissions and audio works 100%.

 

HTH

Skid

 

Do you have the problem that another poster has made, that is, after you reboot does your machine forget your previous sound level and go back to some default level?

 

Thanks.

S3Atze
S3Atze
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I think I've figured the sound issues out (fingers crossed, can't test them)

 

Downloads:

Gigabyte X58A-UD3R

Gigabyte X58A-UD7

 

Please report back if these work or not. If they work I'll post a new version of Kakewalk.

 

Ok, just tested it on my X58A-UD7. tried it on two systems each time repairing permissions, but no luck with sound.

apple_core
apple_core
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I've got a question about the Kakewalk install method.

 

How is the UUID set for an installation? Is it random, does the installer generate one automatically based on something hardware specific (like the ethernet MAC address) or does the installer ask the user to input one?

 

I'm curious to know this for no real particular reason though (well okay, curious to know if each time I wipe and install my drive and do another Kakewalk install on the same hardware if I will end up with the same UUID.)

 

And just to clear it up in my head, is the UUID the string that makes your computer unique to services like iTunes and Time Machine?

 

I'm getting close to having all of my hardware to build my hackintosh and am trying to tie up any loose ends...

 

Thanks.

Tom Sawyer
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Hmm, thought it was fixed for 2.2 .. Do you see anything listed under Apple MIDI Setup?

 

I know I did have at least one instance, possible fluke, of not seeing my audio until I repaired disk permissions.

 

I have been using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] in conjunction with KakeWalk to achieve audio nirvana for my setup 889. There is an option for the different sound devices that you can try.

 

I'm sure someone with more knowledge of your setup could probably help a bit more.

 

Hope that helps in the meantime.

 

 

Thank you for the pointer on [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], I gave that a try and it worked like a champ. I've done some more digging and experimenting and have found the following:

 

The LegacyHDA.kext that the latest Kakewalk update test is definitely hitting the sound card as we can tell with the pop in our speakers when it initializes.

 

Once I installed the 889 support via [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], I found a new Legacy889HDA.kext in my /E/E folder. The kakewalk LegacyHDA.kext remained in that folder. I did some swapping and experimenting and found that the Legacy889HDA alone from MB gave me sound and the LegacyHDA alone from KW gave no sound. When I viewed the contents of both kexts, I found that the LegacyHDA.kext showed a file called just info where the Legacy889HDA.kext had a plist.info file. I don't know if that would make any difference, but is worth mentioning. I did try to rename the file to info.plist but that didn't fix it.

 

In addition, the Legacy889HDA that MB installed is the exact same size, the 74Kb, not the larger 140+ KB file that I had previously found on tonyx86 and posted the link above.

 

So that said... mrjanek, I'm attaching a zip file of the two kext's in question: The LegacyHDA.kext from your latest patch and the Legacy889HDA.kext that has sound working.

 

Archive.zip

OzSpeedway
OzSpeedway
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I've tried various incarnations of what people have suggested and got a little further but not nirvana. I had sound (2 speaker only) at one point but the profiler still said Audio ID: 12 and that was from using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Downloaded Kakewalks latest boot image, applied it and got Audio ID; 888, all outputs shown in profiler but alas, no output device in settings.

 

Am going to blow away everything and start again so I can track my steps. If I can get sound working on a vanilla Kakewalk install I will leave it that way until a definitive fix is found for 10.6.3.... :(

 

Cheers

Bruce

Tom Sawyer
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Decided to do a clean install and not migrate from time machine to see if that solves the volume issue. One pretty significant problem I just discovered is that with the current kakewalk on the site my machine kernel panics on the install dvd boot before getting to the welcome screen/Lang select. Retail DVD. I popped in my original 2.2 cd as it was downloaded from the original 2.2 announcement and it runs the full install perfectly

Dr Droid
Dr Droid
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I may give it a try and see if sound will work on this board.

thanks

 

SOUND

 

1. Install KakewalkBoot.mpkg on the Kakewalk 2.2 CD ( Eject CD after Install )

 

 

ReBoot YES we have SOUND on an EP45T-UD3LR ( Bios F6 ) Gigabyte Mother board.

 

 

Hope this helps

 

Ray

evane
evane
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Ok been trying to see if this was discussed in the thread but not seeming to find anything. I have a EP45-DS3L, C2D E8500, 4GB DDR2 800. I used the CD install method with a retail Snow Leopard dvd that worked great for install. Rebooted using cd too boot HD, one weird thing was my NIC wasn't work, no biggy figured just installed the mpkg from the cd and rebooted. NIC was working but sound stopped, figured I'd fix that later and installed 10.6.3 using the software update.

 

Well now regardless of booting from the HD or from cd my screen goes black and monitor says it loses vsync. The last thing i see mentioned is the AppleHDA codec having issues but I doubt that is the problem. Did I miss something I needed to do before going to 10.6.3?.

 

Was considering reinstalling and downloading 10.6.3 prior and installing it before doing the Kakewalk boot installer.

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