[oranged]

Can anyone tell me if VoodooHDA gets the audio line in working or just the internal mic?

[jhoff80]

Okay, I'm officially confused. I installed Snow Leopard on my Mini 9, then 10.6.1, then rebooted. I had sound at that point. Then, I ran the 0.8.3RC2 Netbook Installer mainly to get the Chameleon bootloader installed, and now I have no sound at all. I'd thought that sound was supposed to work over just the speakers, not the mic or the headphones out of the box.

I have no desire to mess with all of this VoodooHDA kext stuff, so I suppose I'll wait for a version of Netbook Installer to get it to work, but if someone could clear up my confusion it'd be appreciated.

[tannebil]

That's my experience as well with my A90 as well. So I reinstalled and just skipped running NetbookInstaller at the end. Everything seems to work fine except for the well-documented problems with the audio jack and microphone not working.

I tried messing around with the VoodooHDA stuff but all I ever managed to do was make things worse so I decided I can live with just the speakers for the moment.

[kr4m17]

Okay I want to clear some things up before I go messing something up. I just did a clean install of 10.6.1 tonight. No sound, haven't tested sleep just yet.

(1) I have BIOS v. A04. Does this make any difference to the install process or do I need to upgrade to v. A05? What are the differences in terms of OS X or just Snow Leopard? Are there any advantages/disadvantages to the BIOS upgrade?

(2) I am fairly sure that I have this correct, however like I said I want clarification before I go messing around (Some of these posts confused the junk out of me!). As I understand, there is not (as of yet) a version of netbook-installer that has audio support. The only way to get sound WITH mic support is to follow the steps on page 1 of this thread (Section C - Installing the Voodoo Kexts for Audio), correct?

Thank you for the clarification. I simply do not want to mess anything up if I don't have to.

Also, THANK YOU to all involved.

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Okay, I just tested the sleep but it does not seem to work properly. Once the screen goes blank I can not get it to come back at all. Not even the spinning beachball... On a brighter note though, the sound is working now (not sure about the mic). I didn't do anything, just restarted and it is working. So now I guess I am wondering if there is a guide to get the sleep working. Or should this thread fix the sleep problems if I follow the earlier directions?

[gargoyle]

Ok,

I too was having the issues with both the kernel crash on boot with 10.6.1, and not being able to run the prefpane using the files and instructions in this thread...

Here's how I fixed it:

1 - Re-run netbookinstaller to create the default /Extra stuff
2 - remove the AppleAzalia and PatchedAppleAzalia kexts from /Extra/Mini9ext
3 - Download the 0.2.2 VoodooHDA kext and prefpane from VoodooHDA 0.2.2 - UPDATED (the VoodooHDA-0.2.2_prefPane.tar.bz2 file actually contains the kext as well, so you don't need to grab both bzips)
4 - unpack the 0.2.2. bzip, and move the VoodooHDA.kext into /Extra/Mini9Ext
5 - run /Extra/UpdateExtra
6 - Reboot
7 - Install the prefpane from the 0.2.2 zipfile

I still have the hissing noise, but at least now I have audio on headphones and speakers. Haven't tried out microphone yet.

This is on a mini9, using NetbookInstall 0.8.3 RC3.

Hope this helps someone.

[funnysac]

Originally Posted by JGene

Snow Leopard 10.6.1 Update with VoodooHDA Kexts on a Dell Mini 9 with BIOS A05. Bluetooth and USB Legacy Support both enabled in the BIOS. I have not tried sleep but I know restart works.

Preface: This assumes you already have a fully-functional 10.6.0 installation where you used NetBootInstaller 0.8.2 (release) to load the OS and that you have no other pending updates such as iTunes. If you need need to install OSX 10.6.0, see this thread.

Section A - Installing 10.6.1 via Software Update

01. Download the AudioKexts.zip file and extract the contents. Inside are three files: IOAudioFamily.kext, VoodooHDA.kext, VoodooHDA.prefPane.
02. Close any other programs and save all work (if necessary).
03. Run the Disk Utility steps from Section B to ensure you don't have any broken permissions or file system issues on your boot drive.
04. Select the Apple pull down menu and select Software Update.
05. Click the Install button to download and install 10.6.1
06. Enter your password to confirm your intent to update. Wait for the update to finish and it will reboot your computer automatically.
07. Once back into your Mac OS, go to Mac HD -> Applications -> NetbookInstaller.app
08. Select the following settings:

* Volume: <your internal drive>
* Install Chameleon 2 RC3 bootloader
* Install Mini9 Extensions
* Generate a system specific dsdt.aml file
* Enable Remote CD
* Fix Bluetooth

09. Press the Install button.
10. Enter your password and press the OK button.
11. When installation is complete, press the OK button.
12. Restart your computer.
13. Once back into the Mac OS, proceed to Section C.

Section B - Using Disk Utility

1. Select the pull down menu Go -> Utilities within Finder.
2. Double-click on Disk Utility.app.
3. Select your boot drive (with the numbers) on the left.
4. Navigate to the First Aid tab.
5. Click on the Verify Disk button.
6. When the pop up confirmation window appears, click the Verify Disk button and wait for the operation to complete. Should your drive need repair, click the Repair Disk button.
7. Click the Repair Disk Permissions button and wait for the repair operation to complete.
8. Quit Disk Utility.app.

Section C - Installing the Voodoo Kexts for Audio

01. Select the pull down menu Go -> Utilities within Finder.
02. Double-click on Terminal.app to bring up the Mac console window.
03. Type the following into the console to show hidden files:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true

04. Click ENTER on your keyboard and the cursor will go down to the next line.
05. Type the following into the console to restart Finder:

killall Finder

06. Click ENTER on your keyboard and Finder will restart.
07. Minimize Terminal.app since we'll come back to this later.
08. Navigate to the folder where you extracted the AudioKexts.zip.
09. Double-click on the Mac HD to open another Finder window.
10. Navigate to /System/Library/BackupExtensions.
11. If you see AppleHDA.Kext then proceed to the next step. If not, move AppleHDA.Kext from /System/Library/Extensions into /System/Library/BackupExtensions.
12. Navigate to /Extra/Mini9Ext.
13. Drag IOAudioFamily.kext and VoodooHDA.kext the folder where you extracted the AudioKexts.zip into /Extra/Mini9Ext
14. Authenticate your intent to move the files when the Mac OS asks for your confirmation.
15. Navigate to /Extra.
16. Double-click on UpdateExtra.app.
17. When the program opens, click on the Update Extras button and wait for the operation to complete.
18. Close UpdateExtra.app.
19. Re-open the Terminal.app window you minimized in step #7.
20. Type the following into the console to hide hidden files:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles false

21. Click ENTER on your keyboard and the cursor will go down to the next line.
22. Type the following into the console to restart Finder:

killall Finder

23. Click ENTER on your keyboard and Finder will restart.
24. Quit Terminal.app.
25. Navigate to the folder (or Finder window) where you extracted the AudioKexts.zip.
26. Double-click VoodooHDA.prefPane to install the audio pane into System Preferences.
27. Confirm the pop-up window with your intent to load the Voodoo preference pane.
28. Run the Disk Utility steps from Section B to fix the permissions on your boot drive.
29. Restart your computer.
30. Once back into the Mac OS you will now have working sound. To get a working microphone, proceed to Section D.

Section D - Enabling Microphone

1. Open System Preferences.app from your Dock or Applications folder on your Mac HD.
2. Open the VoodooHDA preference pane.
3. Select the Microphone from the drop-down menu on the left.
4. Drag the Recording Level slider to 50%.
5. Drag the Monitor slider to 100%.
6. Click the Show All button to return to the System Preferences.
7. Open the Sound preference pane.
8. Navigate to the Input tab.
9. Drag the Input volume Microphone slider to 50% and you are done!

Please note that you will need to reconfigure the microphone each time that you restart the computer.

Credits:

1. Meklor for NetBookInstaller/NetBootMaker
2. MyDellMini Forum users for audio kexts. I found all the above steps in various threads but I compiled everything into one single thread for all those who need a walkthrough.

i dont have an /extra folder? what do i do?

[Taltos]

Huge thanks to JGene and Gargoyle for writing this guide and for some essential clarification which I needed to get the VoodooHDA.prefPane working properly.

Regarding the /Extra folder, read the earlier posts in this thread which explain the

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true
killall Finder

(execute these commands in Terminal to see hidden files)

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles false
killall Finder
(puts things back to normal)

Thanks to all the contributors!

Tx.

[Xandrios]

Originally Posted by gargoyle

Ok,

I too was having the issues with both the kernel crash on boot with 10.6.1, and not being able to run the prefpane using the files and instructions in this thread...

Here's how I fixed it:

1 - Re-run netbookinstaller to create the default /Extra stuff
2 - remove the AppleAzalia and PatchedAppleAzalia kexts from /Extra/Mini9ext
3 - Download the 0.2.2 VoodooHDA kext and prefpane from VoodooHDA 0.2.2 - UPDATED (the VoodooHDA-0.2.2_prefPane.tar.bz2 file actually contains the kext as well, so you don't need to grab both bzips)
4 - unpack the 0.2.2. bzip, and move the VoodooHDA.kext into /Extra/Mini9Ext
5 - run /Extra/UpdateExtra
6 - Reboot
7 - Install the prefpane from the 0.2.2 zipfile

I still have the hissing noise, but at least now I have audio on headphones and speakers. Haven't tried out microphone yet.

This is on a mini9, using NetbookInstall 0.8.3 RC3.

Hope this helps someone.

Thanks! This saved me after the method described in the start post kinda messed up my install.

[jaggers]

Thanks gargoyle,
That fixed the kernel panics for me too. Nice one!!

Having sleep problems though. it wakes but is frozen.
Also, in the voodoo pref pane. there are 2 mics to select. Also sys/pref there are 2 to select in sound/input and neither appear to work.

I initially followed the instructions on page 1st page, then followed gargoyles instructions.

Any thought/help is appreciated.

[phreakwenci]

Did sleep get fixed yet? I'm a little confused..