@freshcuts

“[cite] Reinekis:I have Realteck ALC850 soundcard with AC97 drivers. I have no problems at all with sound. When installing Leopard I only have chosen AC97 drivers from the list. That's all. I have the only problem so far. Every time I restar…”

“what the hell?everyone seems to have working soud on alc850! Why cant i have too? Am i doing something wrong? I have tried all known methods...”

“[cite] eMatoS:Ok, I'll take a picture of the screen, meanwhile, here's my system specs: CPU: Athlon 64 3000+ Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI chipset: nForce 4 SLI MCP LAN: nForce4 built-in Gigabit/ MAC with external Marvell PHY IEEE 1394: TI 1394…”

“[cite] eddie11c:[cite] freshcuts: Try this for your ALC850. rapid share.com/files/94374020/ALC850-Install.zip.html I just did and nothing changed. I am going to try it on a fresh install with no audio drivers selected. EDIT: nope not even o…”

“try different bios settings for your sata dvd drive”

“then you should try it on a usb hard drive or on vmware because i think sata is not really 0sx86 friendly”

“maybe sata doenst work well? i installed on a ide drive fine...”

“[cite] cgsheen:@freshcuts Did you try all of the ALC880 codec dumps (all the alc880.txt files) in the repository referenced at netkas.org? There are probably 7 or 8 different .txt files (codec dumps) for the ALC880. They are from various mo…”

“[cite] mrburns05:freshcuts, did you drag and drop the "alc880.txt" , onto the AppleHDAPatcher1.20 icon/application, or did you open the application itself? your only supposed to drag and drop the alc880.txt over the app icon, then it will p…”

“I tried the 880 patch but it didnt work.it must be the crack... did i have to delete the old kexts before using the pathcer?”

“[cite] mrburns05:Download this if your still having issues, let me know if it works for you, worked for me with alc850, but i included an 880.txt already for you mrbu rns05.com/downloads/osx/ALC880patch.zip Thank you very much ia m going to…”

“[cite] cgsheen:[cite] freshcuts:[cite] cgsheen:[cite] freshcuts:I tried everything and still no sound on my alc850. I don't get it. Our ALC850 was supported natively by 10.5.1 - I don't know why it wouldn't be in 10.5.2... ) So you are tell…”

“[cite] cgsheen:[cite] freshcuts:I tried everything and still no sound on my alc850. I don't get it. Our ALC850 was supported natively by 10.5.1 - I don't know why it wouldn't be in 10.5.2... ( that's the sound codec used on my son's MB on o…”

“I tried everything and still no sound on my alc850. I did the wiki audio guide. I checked my dev id and it is included in the ac97 kext. i tried installing azalia. i tried different kexts. I dont know what else i can do.i am a bit desperate…”

“[cite] Ath:Hmm...Freshcuts what is your bios version (number)? And what devices you have enabled in onboard devices section? my bios is the latest 1303 audio:Realtek ACL850 codec the devices i have enabled are: nvraid,audio,nvidia network. …”

“[cite] zephyroth:I have an A8N5X modo with a Realtek ALC850 sound chipset and my dev id is in AppleAC97AudioIntelICH.kext/Contents/Info.plist. My dev id is 0x005910de. If it can help. as you can see in the new pic the mentioned id is includ…”

“[cite] Xxp/TuX:For example,check (go to): ---> /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAC97Audio.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAC97Audio-brand-.kext/Contents ---> chmod 644 Info.plist ---> nano Info.plist Look for some Id device 0x0850XXX.If is not,ad…”

“[cite] Xxp/TuX:Try editing it...As before,for some people it worked... you mean edit the kext? what should i change?”

“[cite] bajanboy:I am in the at work right now but will when I get home later today, in the mean time check some of the discussion forums like insainlymac you may get lucky. [cite] macprodan: ok thanks.I have read all related threads in insa…”

“[cite] bajanboy:I have an Asus MB though not the same model and have always had problems with sound after an install, there is what works for me, I simply replace the AppleAzaliaAudio.kext with the one from tiger, or search online for an ol…”

“[cite] optmsprim2:freshcuts, i used to think sound didn't work on mine because it was set to 6ch in the Audio MIDI setup in utilities and when i would play something sometimes it would play and sometimes it wouldn't because it seemed to sen…”

“ok so i tried every audio driver option there was in differrent fresh installs and none worked. I still dont have sound on my asus a8nsli premium. Does any one have the same mobo with working sound?”

“[cite] zephyroth:I have ALC850 too and it works fine with AC97 driver ... did you tried too fix the permissions ? chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAC97Audio.kext chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAC97Audio.kext…”

“@Zephyroth :thank you very much for this great release! Excuse me for repeating my self but maybe you have an idea on what seems to be the problem with my sound. I have no sound and the device is not recognized. I have an asus a8n sli premi…”

“[cite] Ath:[cite] freshcuts:ok so i reistalled without choosing audio drivers. Then i used kext helper to easy install ac97 and applehda kexts. still no sound or sound device recognized. What am i doing wrong? Are you sure that the ac97 in …”

“ok so i reistalled without choosing audio drivers. Then i used kext helper to easy install ac97 and applehda kexts. still no sound or sound device recognized. What am i doing wrong?”

“In third party drivers i installed ac97, chipset drivers (nforce4) and geforce kexts and nvinject to my 8600gt. System Profiler says "No Built-in Audio" but System Preferences>Sound> says Line out AC97Audio (PCM) and all sounds working fine…”

“I have same motherboard and ac97 working fine. System profiler says no... What? How? What did u choose in installation? System profiler says no device? Do you see output in audio settings? I tried to play movies and music but of course no s…”

“Search on insanelymac alc850, maybe have a thread with kext for Leo... My eyes are still bleeding from reading all the alc850 related threads in insanelymac yesterday. Unfortunately some that have succeeded dont even bother to post the solu…”

“Did you have Tiger installed on you machine? Copy the kexts sounds to your leopard, repair permissions and reboot...maybe this fix your problem.. No. Some months ago when i had it even then the audio didnt work. I tried to install with azal…”

“I downloaded the release yesterday and it installed like a charm.Thank you to those that made it available and to Zephyroth! My only problem is that i cant get my sound to work. I have alc850 on a asus a8n-sli premium with the latest bios. …”

“have a look here: osx.kb ot.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=319&page=33#Item_2 i have a similar problem and no solution yet.”

“I see.On MSI alc850 works. On my asus no...”

“thanks for your reply!i didnt try to edit bcase i dont really know how to do it...”