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Hi folks,

 

I've installed OS X using the myzar 10.4.6 disk, updated to 10.4.7; and then had some fun playing with soundcards and the onboard sound to get it working. The board is a Gigabyte K8VT800 which has the ALC850 onboard - this I had no luck at all with - never got it recognised or any sound from it...

 

I then tried an ES1370 I had kicking around (almost literally) - the driver for that appeared during start up - but complained the card wasn't ready (I can't remember the exact message).

 

So then I tried a Soundblaster 128 - having found the page in the wiki with the soundcards that work ;-)

 

Unfortunately - although it works - after playing for approximately 7 minutes I get corrupt audio - it's repeatable - in fact it happens all the time - regardless of source (CD / AAC / MP3 / Streamed audio / Video playback). I can't find anything on the Wiki about this - and only one ancient post on the forum. Anyone got any fixes for this?

 

System information:

10.4.6 Myzar install updated to 10.4.7; USBpatch installed (USB keyboard and mouse)

Gigabyte K8VT800 Motherboard

Athlon 3000+ (S754) (SSE2)

512Meg memory (my second bloody dimm died; awaiting a replacement!)

Soundblaster 128 / CT4810 card (Vendor ID: 0x1274 Device ID: 0x5880)

nVidia 6200 graphics card (using VGA output - DVI seems a bit quirky)

Firewire card (works, can't remember what chipset it is though, came from my old G3 Mac!)

Installed on SATA drives

 

Um, I think that's all the information I can think of. If anyone can help I'd be really greatful.

 

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Kate E

Ah. At least it's not just me. I guess from the tumbleweed that no-one's yet found a solution...

 

I was going to ask if the m-audio PCI cards worked, but it doesn't look (from my quick squiz) on the forums like they do. I've just made a note in the Wiki regarding the problems, since I've seen a few posts regarding this problem and no solution :P

 

I guess I'll have to get a hub / USB soundcard (I've only got the front USB ports free on my machine 'n I use them for other things).

 

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Kate E

  • 1 month later...

same problem with the audio degradation but I'm experiencing it on 10.4.5, I can't even get the card to load on my 10.4.7 JAS. Lame because I bought it from the WIKI recommendations (for 10.4.5) so I thought for sure I wouldn't have any problems.

 

Oh well I only paid $7 for it. -sigh-

  • 3 months later...
  • 2 months later...

Same problem here... mi configuration:

Intel 945PVS Mobo

ATI X550 Video

Creative CT4810 PCI (recongnized as AC97)

JaS 10.4.8

 

 

The only temporal fix is pause the app for 2 or 3 secs (iTunes for example) and play again...

 

In the past I was having the same problem with the onboard sound (AC97) of Intel D865PERL mobo

 

 

The Wiki is outdated in this point... must be edited.

 

Well the Wiki is updated now... :P

  • 4 weeks later...

just for anyone who is interested, i'm getting the same problem with an on-board ct5880 on a gigabyte ga-8irx (using 10.4.8 but also did it on 10.4.6). after 5 mins the audio starts to degrade aand then stops completely. doesn't bother me much, but a solution would be handy :P

just for anyone who is interested, i'm getting the same problem with an on-board ct5880 on a gigabyte ga-8irx (using 10.4.8 but also did it on 10.4.6). after 5 mins the audio starts to degrade aand then stops completely. doesn't bother me much, but a solution would be handy ;)

 

What chip is doing the output? Are you having also an AC97?

Because my PCI128 has a CT5880 plus an AC97 codec for output.

Now I'm looking after some kind of Linux/FreeBSD driver source code made especially for CT5880, which could be ported to OSX.

But as I said before in another topic, I think there are some sort of power saving issues. I find it somehow strange this several minutes of good working, and after that suddenly the sound gets corrupted. I think if the driver was not good, then we would not even get any sound out of it. Basically the problem is elsewhere...

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Darn it.. really wish there was a fix to this.. the audio is much better than the onboard (which I still can't get working either!).

 

Anyhow.. I will continue trying... if anyone out there has a Creative CT4810 working.. (mine.. like the others.. gets distorted after 7 minutes or so).. let us know :-)

 

I know the driver it uses is MaxxussAC97AudioES137x.kext.... but hoping there is an update or something around.

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