Creative CA0132 (G1.Sniper M3) patch for AppleHDA or VoodooHDA

[wern apfel]

Here some updates: AppleHDA.kext_10.12.3_C:Sub.zipAppleHDA.kext_10.12.3_front_HP.zipAppleHDA.kext_Alienware_10.12.4b.zip

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[Rocky12]

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[Blacky]

Here some updates: AppleHDA.kext_10.12.3_C:Sub.zipAppleHDA.kext_10.12.3_front_HP.zipAppleHDA.kext_Alienware_10.12.4b.zip

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[tcm5025]

I can't believe it. I finally have sound with volume control!

 

Grabbed your patch from today up above: AppleHDA.kext_10.12.3_front_HP.zip. I replaced my AppleHDA in /System/Library/Extensions and set layout-id to 0 with HDAS to HDEF renaming in clover plist, and it works! I don't have FixHDA on. I've been struggling with this for days. Both line out ports and the headphone ports on the back of the mobo work with volume control  . The headphone port works on the front of the case as well. I don't have a mic/5.1 speakers/digital to test with right now.

 

They have basically given up on fixing the layouts for this codec on the AppleALC project for now, and I thought I was never going to get it working. Thank you Wern!

 

Is this what everyone else is doing with the AppleHDA? You can't put that in Clover and let it inject it over top of the other one, can you?

[wern apfel]

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Is this what everyone else is doing with the AppleHDA? You can't put that in Clover and let it inject it over top of the other one, can you?

I think a dummy kext is also possible, but i've never tried it, i thought a fully patched kext is the easiest solution, especially for less experienced users.

 

Edit:

 

I've tried the latest AppleALC.kext and it works properly @Sierra, therefore i updated the AppleALC.kext, which should work from 10.9 to 10.12.

 

So far i remember the most of you prefer the layout with working front Headphones, so i made the layout 5 where you can use the front and rear HP simultaneously.

Please test all layouts, any feedback could be useful. The layout 1 i've done with the help of abdouoi and should work with Alienware laptops.

 

Until now, the included CodecCommander.kext is mandatory, you should install it to @/S/L/E

The lilu kext is in the AppleALC Plugin folder, if you have already installed it, delete one of both.

 

Here a short explanation:

 

layout-id  0: 5.1 default

               1: 2.0 Alienware 15 R2 

               2: 2.0 + front HP 

               3: 2.0 + rear line-out

               4: 5.1 with C/Sub

               5: 2.0 front + rear HP, simultaneously

               6: 5.1 with front HP

 

  AppleALC_1.1.1.zip   653.16KB   1 downloads

 

The goal is, to have only one layout for the desktops, for this we have to fix the auto-switch mode for the front HP.

Front Mic is also possible, but probably without auto-switch , as far i remember it does not work even on Windows, please test it.

[alex88]

Danke Rockey, das möchte ich aber nicht sein.

You're now a special member.  

I think a dummy kext is also possible, but i've never tried it, i thought a fully patched kext is the easiest solution, especially for less experienced users.

 

Edit:

 

I've tried the latest AppleALC.kext and it works properly @Sierra, therefore i updated the AppleALC.kext, which should work from 10.9 to 10.12.

 

So far i remember the most of you prefer the layout with working front Headphones, so i made the layout 5 where you can use the front and rear HP simultaneously.

Please test all layouts, any feedback could be useful. The layout 1 i've done with the help of abdouoi and should work with Alienware laptops.

 

Until now, the included CodecCommander.kext is mandatory, you should install it to @/S/L/E

The lilu kext is in the AppleALC Plugin folder, if you have already installed it, delete one of both.

 

Here a short explanation:

 

layout-id  0: 5.1 default

               1: 2.0 Alienware 15 R2 

               2: 2.0 + front HP 

               3: 2.0 + rear line-out

               4: 5.1 with C/Sub

               5: 2.0 front + rear HP, simultaneously

               6: 5.1 with front HP

 

  AppleALC_1.1.1.zip   653.16KB   1 downloads

 

The goal is, to have only one layout for the desktops, for this we have to fix the auto-switch mode for the front HP.

Front Mic is also possible, but probably without auto-switch , as far i remember it does not work even on Windows, please test it.

 

I have a gigabyte gaming 7 which has the same audio card, I installed voodoohda but the jack connections were completely wrong so I'm trying with AppleALC, I've removed everything of voodoo hda then

 

 - installed applealc with the commander kext

 - added the FixHDA_8000 in clover

 - Inject audio to 2 as I have a desktop (from what I know that should be the layout-id), I also have ResetHDA enabled

 

 

However in sound settings it doesn't see any device, also dmesg doesn't show anything about AppleALC or AppleHDA, any idea?

 

I've found out that by replacing AppleHDA seems I got a step further, now I see just "Internal speakers", "Digital out" and the monitor hdmi output, I've tried layout-id 0 2 3 5, nothing, still the same outputs and no way to attach headphones..

Any clue?

[alex88]

So I've tried any layout-id by changing clover audio inject from 0 to 13, still nothing, only internal speaker output, no way to use line-out (I've my headphones attached to rear line-out and mic and only mic works)

[wern apfel]

So I've tried any layout-id by changing clover audio inject from 0 to 13, still nothing, only internal speaker output, no way to use line-out (I've my headphones attached to rear line-out and mic and only mic works)

You should connect your Headphones to the rear or front Headphone jack, if the device name is "Internal Speakers" you don't use one of my kexts.

 

Make sure you use an untouched AppleHDA.kext, remove VoodooHDA.kext, AppleHDADisabler/Enabler.kext, Creative*CA0132.kext then put AppleALC.kext + Lilu.kext to clover/kexts/other, CodecCommander to /S/L/E, repair permissions, rebuild the cache, reboot. Try layout-id from 0 to 6

 

 

Alternatively, remove VoodooHDA.kext, AppleHDADisabler/Enabler.kext, Creative*CA0132.kext set the layout-id to 0 and install a fully patched kext to /S/L/E repair permissions, rebuild the cache, reboot.

 

PS:  I have set the layout-id via DSDT.aml.

[wern apfel]

I have probably found the solution how the CA0132 users can switch from 5.1 to the front Headphone.

Apple has a jack switch function, where we can manually switch from input to output, it works on my laptop, I will try it later on my desktop, it would be cool if we could use it for the headphone switch.

[rr7]

thanks to this I've been able to get my Audio on my Alienware M17x R4 working well enough for my needs, but there is a quirk I can't quite seem to work out.

 

in a nutshell, when I close the lid the internal speakers go quiet, but when I open it, they won't play sound. if I plug something in the headphones and unplug again it comes back.

if I have the headphones in and close the lid and re-open, then the headphones don't work until I unplug them (in which case the speakers work okay). so it seems the current output device doesn't reset correctly when the lid is opened.

 

I've got codec commander installed, and I've had a look at the settings in the plist, but I can't quite work out if any of these are what I need to change, none I did change made any difference. I've tried the kext in /L/E, S/L/E and its currently in COVER/kexts/Other, but the result is always the same.

[ITzTravelInTime]

Guys the same chip  CA0132 is also used on sound blaster Z cards, so will that card work using the same driver used for gigabyte motherboards?

[imrazor]

Sadly, no, the Soundblaster Z doesn't seem to work with this project - at least not when I tried some of these drivers a couple of months ago. The best I've been able to do is get the microphone port working with VoodooHDA - no output though.

[ITzTravelInTime]

Sadly, no, the Soundblaster Z doesn't seem to work with this project - at least not when I tried some of these drivers a couple of months ago. The best I've been able to do is get the microphone port working with VoodooHDA - no output though.

thank you, but i think we can ask developers of those audio driver for a patch to support CA0132 on the sound blaster z series, if it works on the motherboards, it can work on the pcie cards too

[wern apfel]

in a nutshell, when I close the lid the internal speakers go quiet, but when I open it, they won't play sound. if I plug something in the headphones and unplug again it comes back.

if I have the headphones in and close the lid and re-open, then the headphones don't work until I unplug them (in which case the speakers work okay). so it seems the current output device doesn't reset correctly when the lid is opened.

which layout-id do you use?

 

I've got codec commander installed, and I've had a look at the settings in the plist, but I can't quite work out if any of these are what I need to change, none I did change made any difference. I've tried the kext in /L/E, S/L/E and its currently in COVER/kexts/Other, but the result is always the same.

An untouched CodecCommander.kext from RehabMan or TimeWalker does nothing for the CA0132 codec, you need one i've provided in this topic, and should be installed to /S/L/E.

 

 

 

 

thank you, but i think we can ask developers of those audio driver for a patch to support CA0132 on the sound blaster z series, if it works on the motherboards, it can work on the pcie cards too

It could work with the right edits, but it has a different device-id, what means it will not work with the kexts from 1st page. We've made some tests with imrazor, but so far i remember, i did not got all the necessary infos.

You can try out the patched kext from the conversations which i have done with imrazor, you must also rename the PCI device to HDEF at the ACPI code.

 

I'm sorry, I do not have much time at the moment.

[newlich]

Vanilla AppleHDA.kext + AppleALC.kext (EFI/kext/other) + CodecCommander.kext(System/Library/Extensions), after that Rebuild cache (with Kext Wizard).

 

Config as attached photo. I tried Inject = 1 & 2. Not working still. Am I missing anything?

 

I tried that patched AppleHDA method too. Not working.

 

I don't wish to use VoodooHDA, because it couldn't control volume (even I edited the plist).

 

Any idea? 

System: Alienware 15 R1 (Early 2015) + Clover r4061

CPU: i7-4710HQ / HM87

Graphics: GTX 970M (Optimus) / Intel HD 4600

applealc-config.tiff

[rr7]

which layout-id do you use?

 

An untouched CodecCommander.kext from RehabMan or TimeWalker does nothing for the CA0132 codec, you need one i've provided in this topic, and should be installed to /S/L/E.

 

 

 

 

sorry I thought I'd mentioned that, its layout 1

 

I think the problem was solved before that, it looks like the issue was that the laptop wasn't fully going to sleep, so therefore it never really went through the sleep/wake cycle. it corrects goes to sleep when I close the lid now and the sound restores okay.

 

I have replaced the codec commanded anyway so everything is how it should be in case I have any future issues.

 

thanks

[CarbonUK]

Hey,

I have the z270 gaming 7 with the same chip and I have been guided by another forum member.

So far we managed to get my Logitech z501s to work in 2.1 and my USB microphone worked out of the box.

 

However, my DT 770 Pros don't seem to work in the front jack and I can't seem to get the z501s to upsample to 5.1 or play original 5.1 audio.

 

I'm very new to this kind of thing and I appreciate all the help. If you can use the most basic language / advice

 

Thanks again.

[CarbonUK]

Just in case you need any of this

 

Edit: Im not sure what the line in on the inputs tab is

EFI.zip

[wern apfel]

Vanilla AppleHDA.kext + AppleALC.kext (EFI/kext/other) + CodecCommander.kext(System/Library/Extensions), after that Rebuild cache (with Kext Wizard).

 

Config as attached photo. I tried Inject = 1 & 2. Not working still. Am I missing anything?

Make sure you've deleted the AppleHDAEnabler.kext, AppleHDADisabler.kext, Creative-CA0132.kext and other third party audio related kexts. For Alienware 15 layout-id 1 is recommended.

 

I tried that patched AppleHDA method too. Not working.

If you want to use the fully patched kext i've provided here, set the layout-id to 0, remove AppleHDADisabler.kext, AppleHDAEnabler.kext, Creative-CA0132.kext, AppleALC.kext. As usual, repair permissions and rebuild the cache.

Hey,

I have the z270 gaming 7 with the same chip and I have been guided by another forum member.

So far we managed to get my Logitech z501s to work in 2.1 and my USB microphone worked out of the box.

 

However, my DT 770 Pros don't seem to work in the front jack and I can't seem to get the z501s to upsample to 5.1 or play original 5.1 audio.

First of all you have to remove the Creative-CA0132.kext, i've never provided such a file. For 5.1 you should use layout-id 4 and make a aggregate device.

If you want to use the front Headphones try layout-id to 5 ore 6.

 

Im not sure what the line in on the inputs tab is

You are using layout-id 1, which is for Alienware Laptops where you have Line-In and Internal Speakers. 

 

You should use the CodecCommander.kext from the AppleALC package.

[wern apfel]

Hi,

 

I have an issue after updating to High Sierra 10.13

 

I've missed microphone input. Sound output is ok and headphones.

 

I am using AppleALC and Lilu kext latest releases.

 

 

Could you please give some advices to try to fix it

 

 

Thanks a lot.

With which layout-id?.

Do you see the device like on the screenshot?.

Is it a digital Microphone?, if yes try layout-id 5.

[wern apfel]

Right now i have tested the latest releases of that kexts and it works here. Do you use the front Microphone jack?

[abdouoi]

@wern apfel, I've tried the method with CodecCommander and AppleALC with layout id 0 and 1. None is working (audio is not detected at all). Any idea why ?

[wern apfel]

@wern apfel, I've tried the method with CodecCommander and AppleALC with layout id 0 and 1. None is working (audio is not detected at all). Any idea why ?

If it doesn't work @High Sierra, you need the -alcbeta and -lilubeta boot-args.

[abdouoi]

If it doesn't work @High Sierra, you need the -alcbeta and -lilubeta boot-args.

Finally I had it working after changing the layout id in the DSDT instead of clover. Seems like it wasn't working in clover

 

[wern apfel]

Yes, I tested the mic at motherboard input and case(front) input too. The mic works fine(tested).

 

As I said, it's weird because sound outputs(line and headphones) work fine. only issue mic.

 

On windows mic work right.

 

 

anything else I can do?

 

 

Thanks a lot for you help.

 

If I've understood it correctly, then it works @Sierra but not @High Sierra, right?.

You can try the Microphone with layout-id 1, only to see if it works with that config.