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Member #12,569 · 2009-09-12 → 2009-09-14
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@hops

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Member Number #12,569 Joined 2009-09-12
Active Window 2009 2009-09-12 → 2009-09-14
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Thank you so much for posting this! I had not been able to get the ALC888 chipset on my Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 to work under 10.5. All I had to do was drop your kext onto the Kext Utility, reboot, and now I have sound under 64-bit 10.6. Your work is appreciated!
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#2,702 of 6,691 by Dispatches (2 notes) · #1,081 by Thread Reach (497,008 cumulative reads)
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Member #12,569 · Joined 2009-09-12
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ALC889a / Audio (2) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (1)
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ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)
“Can you / or anyone else upload this AppleHDA.kext again ? I tried to unzip it on 4 machines ( 3 macs , pc ) and all of them failed After trying several unzip programs, Stuffit Expander was the one that successfully extracted the kext for m…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-14
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ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround)
“I take back my word. Got full analog 5.1 to work on my onboard alc888! 1. Tweak AppleHDA.kext to detect 3 Line Outputs: Green, Black, Orange. 2. Run Audio Midi Setup 3. Add new Aggregate Device 4. Click on the 3 check boxes corresponding to…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-12
497,008 dossier reads