[SOLUTION] - For all having Audio not working! (mainly voodooHDA)

Gurruwiwi · #1 09-11-2009, 12:01 AM

Hi everyone!

I managed to fix my audio. Went through hell, and even others went there for me. dsdt, appleHDA patching etc etc... To them, a warm hand of applause, this community is simply fantastic!

It finally came down to not properly understanding basic concepts of this wonderful OS, and the way we go round it to make our PC's work.

The solution is idiotically simple, nevertheless, I hope many will benefit, as it is so simple it is easily overseen.

Millions of kexts and repaired permissions, when installing to E/E repiared using kext tools, not knowing ALL kexts are cached in E/, including S/L/E kexts !! So when I touched S/L/E, I never ran Kext Utility. I noticed that, differently from Leo, mkext file was not in root of S/L ! I had noticed it was in Extra folder, but I thought it was only for the set inside THAT folder!!

So delete ALL your audio kexts, download voodooHDA 64 (in my case) repair perms in disk utility, run Kext Utility to rebuild mkext, reboot, and audio is fully working. I dont know if this will helo with appleHDA patching, but I suspect it does as I had seriously randomized erratic behaviour and port mapping.

So try it out, and tell me if it works. So will I as I haven't rebooted yet (cloning drive hehe), but since its a "simple" voodoo kext and no extra, I believe I fixed this damn thing...