Thanks for the suggestions guys.. but still no luck. I removed caches, rebuilt kexts, DSDT does have HDEF, etc... but all is silent.. well except my words of discouragement to myself. For what it's worth, whenever I use -f on restarts, I get KP's at the OS X login screen. I didn't think we needed to force a rebuild of kext's if we generated mkext files to begin with? But I've only read about a million posts over the last few "daze" so all could be blending together and I'm getting confused?!

May try voodoo option as suggested as I have read successes w/that. Might even try rc3 of Chameleon over the weekend since still don't have Chameleon on my main SL partition as it would hang up on installation.

Again... everything else works great in 64bit mode... it's just to quiet! LOL

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sorry my poor english... I'm American.

updated to 10.6.1 without problems



update away guys! BTW thanks for the kext voyn1x.

@ L8nitehackin

if you are sure HDEF is in your dsdt then please try the ff:

- copy the legacy kext in your extra extensions (could be the one from voyn1x of the 2 kext on the first post)
- launch terminal
- sudo -s then enter your password
- rm-r /System/Library/Caches/*
- chown -R root:wheel [drag your Extra/Extensions here]
- chmod -R 755 [drag your Extra/Extensions here]
- kextcache -v 1 -m [drag your Extra/Extensions but add .mkext in the end] [drag your Extra/Extensions] [drag your System/Library/Extensions] then press enter
- reboot

test if you have audio by choosing internal speaker on the output tab, if you still dont have audio then voodoohda it is

Man, you're lucky the only problem you have is audio. I can't even install 10.6 in my setup

I don't really know what I'm missing, I've trying several methods but can't get it to work.

Mine can't even boot in -x32 kernel flag.

Could it be that I have 1 stick of 2gb memory? As one poster mentioned earlier?

I tried different kinds of BIOS settings. Oh Btw, sk1nhd33t thanks for posting your BIOS config.

This is just sad I'm really hoping that I can experience the "Snow Leoapard" feel soon. I really don't have an idea what it looks like.

Hi, I've just got a lovely rev.2 board so i could get my second hackintosh up and running after selling my old one and getting a macbook and then deciding that i wanted a desktop again.

As you know the rev.2 board doesnt have realtek network, first gigabyte board ive seen without one... just my luck. Anyway i went and brought myself an AU$18 TP-Link card with an 8169sc chip on it (i think). Anyway i installed the card and everythong, bonjour, gigabit, etc. works with included drivers from apple. I just finnished setting up 10.5.8 and am having some issues getting sound working, ive managed to get it to work with some hda kexts but the sound is horrible, everything sounds wrong and muffled.

So i havent set up snow leopard yet which is what will be what im using in the end after im done, so i cant check the sound with that. But i was thinking, it only cost me 18 dollars for perfect network, is there a good sound card or even usb sound card that i could get thats as good as the onboard sound (when working properly) for a low low price that would be a much better option?

Thanks for the guides you guys have put up here anyway, has been great help deciding the hardware for this hackintosh, board works very well and was cheap enough for my wife not to kill me .

@sk1nhd33t

I did verify HDEF is listed in DSDT. Now as to whether or not that means I'm ok just because I see it remains to be seen. But I did use the one I got from the first page of this thread with no modifications.. perhaps that's my issue? I've read where you can patch it... but need to research further and see if that would help? I even tried to generate EFI string for HDEF and put in my com.apple.Boot.plist... but still nothing.

Anyway... I'm at a loss as I did go through all your steps and don't seem to be any closer to hearing music?! As I mentioned, sound works flawlessly in 10.5.8.. but I cannot select any device in System preferences / Sound in my SL install. Arrgh..

I've even managed to successfully install 10.5.8 on my Nvidia chipset system which was much more difficult than the gigabyte 10.5.8. ( but haven't tried to put SL on that board yet )

Just as a side note... I have a USB speaker system from Logitech that I decided to plug in just for the heck of it.. and of course it shows up immediately in sound preferences and works great. Now, something else that I haven't tried that may be a possible conflict is I do have a creativesound card installed in one of my PCI slots. I use it when I boot from XP as it's full blown surround for games, movies, etc... perhaps that may be causing some conflicts with my onboard sound? But again.. no issues in 10.5.8.

It's time to take a break for awhile and maybe jump back with a clear mind later. Thnx for everyone's input....

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sorry my poor english... I'm American.

hi L8nitehackin

I also have the version 2.x of the board and I was having the exact same problem: everything working (with a separate NIC, not using the onboard LAN) except SL can't see onboard audio.

the problem I was having was I was using Chameleon 2RC2...i switched to RC3 and used the kexts and DSDT.aml posted by sk1nhd33t and voila! WE GOTZ AUDIO LOLZ!

to recap:

- use the kexts provided by sk1nhd33t
- use the DSDT.aml (patched with HDEF already) by sk1nhd33t
- use Chameleon 2.0 RC3

all three are crucial to have on board audio working for ES2L v2.x boards

Hope this helps!!

infinitemac community rules! sk1nhd33t's guide is awesome! i would have never managed to build my Hackint0sh without his guide! Ayos ka talaga, tsong! (translation: You're alright, brother!) :-)

I need some help, I installed snow leopard using a lifehacker guide, but cant install any kexts using Osx86 Tools.

I don't get any sound, i dont see any output device in sound preferences.

Using 10.5.8 i was able to install sound kext but why isnt working in snow leopard.

what tool do i use to install kexts?

Hey,

I'm making progress. I can now boot with -x32 -v BUT I can only see a grey screen. I can hover the mouse, not like it is frozen, but that is it. It is just stuck at the grey screen.

What could this be? Anyone?

Wow, I made it work.

I used all the kext that can be download from this thread and just used the Unofficial Installer of Chameleon RC3 that Dr. Hurt made. That's it! Now I have a fully working Snow Leo! It looks awesome. I'm not yet sure it is stable yet. Doing some testings.

Darn! My Zydas USB wireless doesn't work! I can't find any drivers