February 11, 2009

How to get Azalia HD Audio working

For the NVidia nForce 730i motherboard

Posted by: WinkTinkler

The process below describes how use the iPC 10.5.6 AppleAzaliaAudio kext (driver), to setup the Azalia High Defnition Audio chipset present on the NVidia nForce 730i motherboard.
Outputs: Line out, 2 channels stereo.
  1. Delete Extensions.mkext (backup first)
  2. Delete AppleHDA.kext if installed (backup first)
  3. Install or copy AppleAzaliaAudio.kext to working folder on Desktop and backup.
    Note: Can be installed from Packages folder on iPC OSX86 10.5.6 Final DVD.
  4. Open Info.plist in AppleAzaliaAudio.kext
  5. Edit by adding entry 0x10deffff, as shown below (0x10de=NVidia)
    <key>IOHDAudioCodecVendorID</key>
    <string>0x10deffff 0x10ecffff 0x14f1ffff 0x11d4ffff 0x434dffff 0x8384ffff</string>
  6. Save as Info.plist, replace
  7. Continue into the Plugins folder
  8. Open Info.plist in the AppleAzaliaController.kext
  9. Add 0xac010de, as shown below (0xac01=MCP79 High Def Audio)
    <key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
    <string>0x0ac010de 0x26688086 0x27d88086 0x284b8086 0x32881106 0x026c10de 0x037110de 0x03e410de 0x03f010de 0x044a10de 0x044b10de 0x437b1002 0x43831002 0x75021039</string>
  10. Save as Info.plist again, replacing inside kext archive
  11. Install the kext using KextHelper Application (drag and drop whole kext inside)
Finally:
  • Double check, delete Extensions.mkext again if it has been recreated.
  • Repair permissions with OSx86 Tools, deleting all caches, etc...
  • Reboot with -f option.
  • Reboot again.
*** hdaenabler.kext is still present in the Extensions directory.

Technical - Compatible IDs section of Properties:
HDAUDIO \ FUNC_01 & CTLR_VEN_10DE & CTLR_DEV_0AC0 & VEN_10DE & DEV_0007 & REV_1001
     Parent: PCI \ VEN_10DE & DEV_0AC0 & SUBSYS_10063842 & REV_B1
     Siblings: HDAUDIO \ FUNC_01 & VEN_10EC & DEV_0888 & SUBSYS_10EC0000 & REV_1002

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey i followed your instructions and after rebooting i have the speaker icon in the menu bar. when i click on it the slider for changing the volume appears, but it is grey. i am not able to change the volume.. and i still have no sound.
Can you help me with this problem?
i have nForce 730i and MCP79 Chipset.

Thanks in Advance

Warp said...

Hi
As you might see, this post is over 1 year old. I believe by now you may be able to find a better guide in more recent blogs. WinkTinkler (the post author) is out of reach so I'm afraid I can not help you on this issue, but I seem to remember that the lack of volume control was a problem with this approach. If you can't live without the volume control I encourage you to keep searching.
Good luck! :)

Anonymous said...

yeah, but i am suffering with this stupid issue..
i want to get my audio working.. -.-
thank you for your post.

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