#113 by Dispatches #104 by Thread Reach Member #10,063 ALC889a / Audio DSDT EVGA / X58
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- ALC889a / Audio (19) · DSDT (16) · EVGA / X58 (15) · NVIDIA GeForce (8) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (6) · AHCI / SATA (3)
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| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| DELL D620/630/830 kext pack “Quadro NVS 135M tried GFX string, nvkush, natit, nvinject, nothing seems to enable QE/CI. I get resolutions but dvd player errors out and dont get the ripple effect in dashboard so I know for sure that QE/CI is not enabled.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-09-23 895,283 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Got Mountain Lion GM running on the EVGA x58 everything is working except power management. I will post a quick howto later on tonight.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2012-07-20 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Whats up gents, Its about that time of the year again I guess anyone try 10.8 GM yet, I'm downloading it now will report back what I find. I dont anticipate any issues with 10.8 but you never know.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2012-07-16 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “ok finally got around to installing Lion, good news is that it runs just fine with the name Extra folder from snow leopard and same dsdt. Bad news audio doesnt work out of the box. Have to edit legacy889hda or use the applehda.kext from sno…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-05-06 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “i've just been waiting til it goes final and doing my reading...should be fairly easy i'm assuming. You? Just downloaded it last weekend and attempted to do a fresh install on a usb drive and book and double fault KP right away. seems to be…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-04-21 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “AND heres the other option that i havent tried. this looks promising, but not sure about the mac version mov avi.com/videoconverter/ I have two nvidia 9800 GTX+ which are CUDA compliant but on the nvidia site there is no mention of the driv…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-01-24 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “netflix is working for me. Also i just upgraded to 24GB ram, finally i can work with After Affects CS5 with no ram problems... i also haven't booted on my windows install since CUDA is working now. do you know of any way to transcode digita…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-01-12 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “I figure Airwalk probably deleted one of the RTC length sections since you only need one. For sound you just need the legacy kext, and then you need to either bin patch AppleHDA, or get the 10.6.2 rollback AppleHDA. If you google "perl Appl…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-01-12 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “likewise, constantly switching that setting in bios… On another topic here guys but has anyone been able to get netflix to work with our boards? Maybe there's a mod to the boot plist we can do? netflix is working for me (I assume you have s…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-01-10 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “So for overclockers in here, what do you guys use to stress the CPU if its stable or not? i just type this "yes > /dev/null" in terminal. like 15 terminal windows. i dont know if its an accurate way of stabilizing the overclock, but ive had…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-09-20 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “I don't dual boot but if it did the easiest way would be two hard drives and use bios to select boot drive by pressing escape at boot.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-09-19 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “First of credit for this goes to msinfo_us. He has spent many hours on getting this to work correctly (still more to be done but this a great start) so please thank him for his hard work. What has been achieved: removal of nullcpupower kext…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-09-17 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “xxxslayeriiixxx Not a problem any time. Ok now most of us have our systems running fairly well these days. but I would like to tweak it little more. Have anyone been able to get navtive speedstep to work with dsdt and removing disabler and …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-08-25 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “if anyone is interested in optical out audio the legacyhda file here http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1686&start=0 along with the vanilla applehda.kext from 10.6.2 works great and no popping when sound is initialized works gre…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-08-11 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “k exts.com/view/405-binary_patched_applehda.kext_for_alc889_(mac_os_x_10.6.4).html” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-06-22 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “I have a wireless Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse. I used MicrosoftMouse_d271.dmg that you can just google to find. Another point that maybe someone can explain to me. I go into diskutility and repair disk permissions. It does and gives the al…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-04-24 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Here is the file from kexts.com - Binary patched AppleHDA.kext for ALC889 I was messing around, shouldn't have been...lol I got the PC to boot again, however now it only boots in "-x" safe mode? If I attempt to boot normal, I lose the video…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-04-18 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “I have been getting this weird error on startup after the 10.6.3 update I have running Vanilla kernel EVGA X58 i7 -920 3.20GHZ 6GB DDR3 1600MHZ I have followed the guides and been running 10.6.2 forever. I did the 10.6.3 update and whacked …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-04-10 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “I was able to get sleep to work on 10..6.3 it wakes but non of the usb device work apple keyboard and mighty mouse and usb HD any thoughts ?” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-04-02 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Thanks man, that saved me. Installed and it's working great now! I have to work on this more whne I get a chance the Ideal state would be to get applehda.kext from 10.6.3 to work and also I dont know if you noticed but the optical/digital o…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-04-01 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “I was wondering if anyone has the updated kext for your Evga X58 board. I just got up and running with Myhack. Everything is working except for sound. I installed the voodoo kext and the sound is working. I am running this on 10.6.3 However…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-04-01 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “I tried voodoo kext but still no go. Don't know if I did something wrong or just wont work After 10.6.3 update sound is broken the voodoohda must be installed in the /system/lib/extension not in /extra/extension - if you choose to use voodo…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-04-01 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Just updated and my sound stopped working. It seems it tries to recognize it but it fails. All the rest seems fine. I have not had a chance to update yet once I do I will work on modding the legacyHDA to work with the new appleHDA In the me…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-30 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “JaE-V I was thinking about doing the RAID with two WD black 1 TB but didnt get around to it yet. both drives show as USB drives? if so do you have blockstorage kext? take a look at this : aquamac.prob oards.com/index.cgi?board=hack1&action=…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-17 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “yeah it sleep, all fans turn off . If I press the space bar on the keyboard it starts up but blank screen This is prob. the OC I'll try with stock settings” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-16 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “JaE-V Did the sleep work for you with the 3.2 OC? I still cant get this to work” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-16 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “msf5042 It seems may things have changed since RC4 was released. can you post your extra folder and DSDT.aml or dsl file” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-12 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “msf5042 This is great work man. I will try these steps tonight an report back. is your system OC'd ? When you state ". USB: go into system profiler and check to see if usb is marked as internal. " I assume you mean "Built-In" I have two EVG…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-12 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Hrmm… Now it doesn't even detect my windows Hard Drive...anyone know what might be going wrong? Neither chameleon nor my bios show the hard drive… Thanks, Ben Set bios to IDE again boot into windows and then search google on how to set up w…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-05 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “did anyone update to the new BIOS that supports HPET I attempted to and it works great but the Temp. goes up by 5% anyone else see this ?” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-05 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “JaE-V The red sata ports are the jmicron controller did you try the ACHIPortInjector and use JMicronATA.kext for the IDE ports works for me. check the latest extra folder I posted today Also make sure in the bios you have the J363 and J362 …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-05 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “msf5042 For TEMPS in iSTAT try fakesmc v2 ir download the latest extra folder I posted today on megaupload. Mine works” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-05 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Just a little update on my system. Recently I sold my old macbook pro and baught a new macbook pro unibody and a mac mini and of course I have my monster i7 machine. After getting the mac mini I wanted to use it as a media center. So I got …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-05 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “any luck with sleep guys. thats the only thing not working for me right now” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-08 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Yeah, I'm almost positive it's all gone. I just installed my motherboard, so I'm going to do a fresh install just to be sure. Yeah, I didn't see it in my DSDT either, so there goes that theory. lol I guess I'll just keep trying and seeing i…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-11-19 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “yeah I did the samething from my macbook pro and used it on my evga mobo machine and it worked on another note I did a fresh install today on another machine I am building for a friend (same parts) and it worked on 10.6.0 and also after upd…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-11-17 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “I would update to 10.6.2, that should clear up the sound issue because it seems that the applehda has changed from 10.6 to 10.6.2 or you can try to install the applehda from 10.6.2 and see if that makes a difference” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-11-17 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Slayer couple notes: 1st dont need busratio =20 (this is only used in 10.5.6 and earlier because voodoo kernel was required. if you use the com.apple.boot and smbios in the extra zip I uploaded it has the correct config. 2nd dsdt.aml is usu…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-11-16 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “xxxslayeriiixxx As JaE-V pointed out no need to do a reinstall. just boo int safe mode and replaced the effected kext with the new ones your issues is mostlikely the sleepenabler. On a side note I have been getting many PM's asking for my /…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-11-15 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Did anyone ever get the JMicron working? I've got my data raid on there, and it'd be nice to access the files while in OS X. So this will allow writing to ntfs as well as normal reading? Thanks. I'll give it a shot when my motherboard gets …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-11-14 491,666 dossier reads |