@Elventanis

“Will Here is another update. I removed the AppleHDA and ALCInject, and my sound switched back to the rear speakers again. I had nothing coming out from the front speakers. I then tried some LegacyHDA and HDAenabler kexts, unfortunately afte…”

“Will, I played around with setup and no luck with the 5.1 sound yet. I tried the 2 versions of Voodoo, and other than what you mentioned about the volume, there was no real difference. I removed the Voodoo Kext file and the sound no longer …”

“Thats Weird, So the Voodoo Kext fixes this without having the AppleHDA etc. I will try it later on I suppose. From everything I have been reading, it seems that we have to get the 3 colored outputs to register with teh Mac to get the 5.1 so…”

“ALC889a might have different pin configuration so I'm not sure about that. However, it looks like your codec is a variant of the ALC885 which has native OSX support so I think you don't need to do any binary patching. You don't need HDAenab…”

“Will, I figured out how to get to the Midi/Audio Setup. The 5.1 channel sound is not enabled there, so still need to do some digging I suppose. Anyhow, when I did the AppleHDA Patching, it showed me some information and reported that I had …”

“Will, here is the update on how this went. 1. I am getting sound from the Front Center, Front Left, Front Right and the Sub Woofer. 2. The Rear Left and Right do not have any sound at this point. Based on your previous information about Sur…”

“I had a chance try this a little bit before I left for party, which sucks by way, lol. The sound seems to be coming from the front speakers. I will test further when I get back home. I already got further than I had before. Thank u again fo…”

“I believe the CODEC Dump should fix that, as it also has the input and output jacks info, also Google is your friend on finding stuff, look over here for Taruga’s AppleHDA Patcher version 1.20 AppleHDA Solution - Work in progress, Main Thre…”

“Virtual Machine wont work, the Virtual Machine sets up a fake environment, Linux has to be running directly on your hardware. ok, thanks for the confirmation, I will try it again later on today after booting in from the Ubuntu live cd and r…”

“I tried this using Ubuntu installed in a Virtual Machine via Sun Virtual Box. Maybe that is the reason I am having the issue. I will try to boot off the Ubuntu CD directly and see if that makes a difference I suppose. When I type the comman…”

“Will, when try the cat command in Ubuntu, I did not see the codec#0 etc. After navigating down the directories I see ac97#0-0 Not sure why I am seeing that cause I have the HD Audio connected. Should I change the commands above to this inst…”

“Here is how I got mine working, not sure if its going to work for you, might give it a try, also I never had much luck with surround sound on Realtek, not even using Windows (1) Find and download "Taruga’s AppleHDA Patcher version 1.20" (2)…”

“I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to fix the audio on my Snow Leopard 10.6.2 install. My hardware is listed below. I tried using VoodooHDA, LegacyHDA and modified AppleHDA. The best I can get is either the Back speakers…”