[GUIDE] ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)

[Snow]

Correct Mormegilski

Adjust these sliders:



Added to guide too

[terrorgen]

man... lost the pleasure to adjust volume from the keyboard...

[ajacocks]

mormegil,

Thanks so much for taking so much time to help me. I'm still not sure what I was doing wrong with the codec patching, but my solution turned out to be voodooHDA 0.2.2 64bit, installed in /System/Library/Extensions, and rebuilding the Extensions.mkext. I'm not sure which of the above did the trick, but one of them did, and my laptop is no longer silent.

For purposes of documentation, I have a Clevo M570RU-U, with an Intel 965 chipset, and a Realtek ALC883 codec.

Thanks!

[Snow]

Originally Posted by terrorgen man... lost the pleasure to adjust volume from the keyboard...

Indeed!

I'm using Creative T5400 speakers with a wired volume/bass control so luckily don't need it.

[megavolkan]

Hey, anyone knows if sound input is working?
I have a microphone. After applying the 5.1 patch sound is ok but i have no sound input. Internal microphone source in sound settings shows "None". I've tried all ports including output ports as well. None working.

I use an EP45-DQ6 board with ALC889a chip.

[Trograin]

Thank you SO MUCH mormegil....

I have been struggling for 4 days to get my sound configured. Been changing my dsdt file over and over even if System Profiler showed me all the channels, just because I couldn't get sound to work with any of the thousands AppleHDA.kext's I have tried. Some of them even messed up my system so badly I couldn't logon anymore, so I have reinstalled it 5 times these last 4 days.

Even if System Profiler showed correct info, no device could be found when trying to configure sound.

I have tried replacing info.plist (both) as of this guide and didn't work. Then I saw on the above link http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/guide...a-to-sl-t3981/ that it is not just to edit info.plist but also changing some binary with hexedit is needed, hence why it didn't work.

What made my day was actually when I scrolled down this page and saw you had posted your AppleHDA.kext saying "Here's my modified AppleHDA.kext as reference". I downloaded it, used Kext Utility, repaired permissions and rebooted. Never thought anything would fix my sound but when system was booted I suddenly noticed my wonderful lovely little sound icon in the bar had CHANGED

Now... Where do I send you the money???

[megavolkan]

Well at least someone tell me how to re-map microphone input to the regular red mic-in port?

[Trograin]

Originally Posted by megavolkan Well at least someone tell me how to re-map microphone input to the regular red mic-in port?

Got the same problem. Was very happy about finally getting sound to work, but noticed my microphone didn't work. Found a solution just today that it actually works (although I have no idea why this works for my mic, it sounds like it shouldn't), if I plug it in on the other side of green "entry" which is a lightblue I think (not at home atm), then I plug it back into the pink/red for microphone and it works.

I accidentally found it out as I thought I should try to use microphone in all other entries and see if it for some odd reason works (I am no sound guru, those who are probably are laughing at me now as I suppose its impossible ).

However this is not a solution Im happy about, replug the mic to lightblue then back where it should be each time I turn on my comp.... Also, this "replugging" for some odd reason messes up the volume, so when I speak it just gets louder and louder until the other person on skype throws his/her headset of

Still searching for the magical solution.

[Snow]

Can't help you there m8, I'm not using mic, sorry.

[Trograin]

I got an error in safari after downloaded, saying something about not able to extract Stuffit archive. I too had to install Stuffit. But no big deal, theres a trial

Got microphone working and with reported perfect sound from several people I forced to talk to me through Skype

Device (HDEF)
            {
                Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000)
                Method (_PRW, 0, NotSerialized)
                {
                    Return (Package (0x02)
                    {
                        0x0D, 
                        0x05
                    })
                }

                Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                {
                    Store (Package (0x0C)
                        {
                            "codec-id", 
                            Buffer (0x04)
                            {
                                0x88, 0x08, 0xEC, 0x10
                            }, 

                            "layout-id", 
                            Buffer (0x04)
                            {
                                0x78, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00
                            }, 

                            "device-type", 
                            Buffer (0x07)
                            {
                                "ALC888"
                            }, 

                            "PinConfigurations", 
                            Buffer (0x28)
                            {
                                /* 0000 */    0x50, 0x41, 0x01, 0x01, 0x50, 0x40, 0x21, 0x02, 
                                /* 0008 */    0x30, 0x01, 0x10, 0x90, 0x20, 0x60, 0x01, 0x01, 
                                /* 0010 */    0x70, 0x20, 0x01, 0x01, 0xA0, 0x90, 0xA1, 0x02, 
                                /* 0018 */    0x10, 0x30, 0x81, 0x01, 0x40, 0x90, 0xA1, 0x01, 
                                /* 0020 */    0x60, 0x61, 0x4B, 0x01, 0xF0, 0x01, 0xCB, 0x01
                            }, 

                            "reg", 
                            Buffer (0x28)
                            {
                                /* 0000 */    0x00, 0xD8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 
                                /* 0008 */    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 
                                /* 0010 */    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10, 0xD8, 0x00, 0x02, 
                                /* 0018 */    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 
                                /* 0020 */    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x40, 0x00, 0x00
                            }, 

                            "platformFamily", 
                            Buffer (One)
                            {
                                0x00
                            }
                        }, Local0)
                    DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                    Return (Local0)
                }
            }

Found this one at: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lof...p/t181509.html
Replaced my Device HDEF with this code, then used kexttool to once again try a kext from the package:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...=post&id=53274
Which I found on:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...&#entry1121902

I used the kext called "3out2in HDA headphone" in the subfolder "series of LegacyHDA 888 (ALC888)". I have not tried the others but have no need as its fully working for me now

Still had mormegils AppleHDA and not the default SL AppleHDA (as I threw it away when mormegils worked for sound atleast). So no idea if osx AppleHDA works, but this one does.

Now it looks like:

Internal Microphone---|---Built-in Microphone
Line In--------------|---Built-in Line input
Digital In------------|--- Built-in Digital Input

I also got a new checkbox which I didn't have in Leopard, saying "Use ambient noise reduction" and it was checked by default.

Finally finished hunting.