ALC889 in HDA

[hackint]

Hi.
I am trying to follow the guide there: http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/12/ ... audio.html , with no luck.

I use Multibeast 3.8.0 and 3.9.0.
VoodooHDA was working, although I suspected that it was not in HDA (quite high noise at max volume, while the real signal was not very high).
So I removed VoodooHDA from System/Library/Extensions, deleted /Extra/, run Multibeast (both versions mentioned above) with:
- userDSDT (which I downloaded from tonymac's)
- system utilities
- ALC8xxHDA
- AppleHDA Rollback.

I have had two outcomes with that: sound that is very bad (hacking and distorted), or no sound at all (sound in system preferences finds no output device).

And now I don't know what to do.
My best guess is that there is something strange in my System/Library/Extensions, which I need to remove.

Could someone please have a look at the content of this folder and tell me if that is the case?

ACard6280ATA.kext
ACard62xxM.kext
ACard67162.kext
ACard671xSCSI.kext
ACard6885M.kext
ACard68xxM.kext
ALF.kext
ATI1300Controller.kext
ATI1600Controller.kext
ATI1900Controller.kext
ATI2400Controller.kext
ATI2600Controller.kext
ATI3800Controller.kext
ATI4500Controller.kext
ATI4600Controller.kext
ATI4800Controller.kext
ATI5000Controller.kext
ATI6000Controller.kext
ATIFramebuffer.kext
ATIRadeonX1000.kext
ATIRadeonX1000GA.plugin
ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver.bundle
ATIRadeonX1000VADriver.bundle
ATIRadeonX2000.kext
ATIRadeonX2000GA.plugin
ATIRadeonX2000GLDriver.bundle
ATIRadeonX2000VADriver.bundle
ATIRadeonX3000.kext
ATIRadeonX3000GA.plugin
ATIRadeonX3000GLDriver.bundle
ATIRadeonX3000VADriver.bundle
ATISupport.kext
ATTOCelerityFC.kext
ATTOCelerityFC8.kext
ATTOExpressPCI4.kext
ATTOExpressSASHBA.kext
ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext
ATTOExpressSASRAID.kext
Accusys6xxxx.kext
Apple16X50Serial.kext
AppleACPIPlatform.kext
AppleAHCIPort.kext
AppleAPIC.kext
AppleBMC.kext
AppleBacklight.kext
AppleBacklightExpert.kext
AppleBluetoothMultitouch.kext
AppleEFIRuntime.kext
AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib.kext
AppleFWAudio.kext
AppleFileSystemDriver.kext
AppleGraphicsControl.kext
AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext
AppleHDA.kext
AppleHIDKeyboard.kext
AppleHIDMouse.kext
AppleHPET.kext
AppleHWSensor.kext
AppleIRController.kext
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient.kext
AppleIntelGMA950.kext
AppleIntelGMA950GA.plugin
AppleIntelGMA950GLDriver.bundle
AppleIntelGMA950VADriver.bundle
AppleIntelGMAX3100.kext
AppleIntelGMAX3100FB.kext
AppleIntelGMAX3100GA.plugin
AppleIntelGMAX3100GLDriver.bundle
AppleIntelGMAX3100VADriver.bundle
AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext
AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext
AppleIntelHDGraphicsGA.plugin
AppleIntelHDGraphicsGLDriver.bundle
AppleIntelHDGraphicsVADriver.bundle
AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext
AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext
AppleIntelSNBVA.bundle
AppleKeyswitch.kext
AppleLPC.kext
AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext
AppleMCCSControl.kext
AppleMCEDriver.kext
AppleMCP89RootPortPM.kext
AppleMIDIFWDriver.plugin
AppleMIDIIACDriver.plugin
AppleMIDIRTPDriver.plugin
AppleMIDIUSBDriver.plugin
AppleMatch.kext
AppleMikeyHIDDriver.kext
AppleMobileDevice.kext
AppleMultitouchDriver.kext
AppleOnboardDisplay.kext
ApplePlatformEnabler.kext
AppleProfileFamily.kext
AppleRAID.kext
AppleRAIDCard.kext
AppleRTC.kext
AppleSDXC.kext
AppleSEP.kext
AppleSMBIOS.kext
AppleSMBusController.kext
AppleSMBusPCI.kext
AppleSMC.kext
AppleSMCLMU.kext
AppleSmartBatteryManager.kext
AppleStorageDrivers.kext
AppleThunderboltDPAdapters.kext
AppleThunderboltEDMService.kext
AppleThunderboltNHI.kext
AppleThunderboltPCIAdapters.kext
AppleThunderboltUTDM.kext
AppleTyMCEDriver.kext
AppleUSBAudio.kext
AppleUSBDisplays.kext
AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext
AppleUSBMultitouch.kext
AppleUSBTopCase.kext
AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext
AppleVADriver.bundle
AppleXsanFilter.kext
Apple_iSight.kext
ArcMSR.kext
AudioAUUC.kext
AudioIPCDriver.kext
BJUSBLoad.kext
BJUSBMP.kext
BootCache.kext
CalDigitHDProDrv.kext
CellPhoneHelper.kext
DSACL.ppp
DSAuth.ppp
DVFamily.bundle
Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext
EAP-KRB.ppp
EAP-RSA.ppp
EAP-TLS.ppp
EPSONUSBPrintClass.kext
GeForce.kext
GeForce7xxxGLDriver.bundle
GeForceGA.plugin
GeForceGLDriver.bundle
GeForceVADriver.bundle
HDAEnabler888.kext
HDAEnabler888b.kext
HDAEnabler889.kext
HDAEnabler889a.kext
HDAEnabler892.kext
HighPointIOP.kext
HighPointRR.kext
ICAFWKodakProDriver.kext
IO80211Family.kext
IOACPIFamily.kext
IOAHCIFamily.kext
IOATAFamily.kext
IOAudioFamily.kext
IOBDStorageFamily.kext
IOBluetoothFamily.kext
IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext
IOCDStorageFamily.kext
IODVDStorageFamily.kext
IOFireWireAVC.kext
IOFireWireFamily.kext
IOFireWireIP.kext
IOFireWireSBP2.kext
IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport.kext
IOGraphicsFamily.kext
IOHDIXController.kext
IOHIDFamily.kext
IONDRVSupport.kext
IONetworkingFamily.kext
IOPCIFamily.kext
IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext
IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily.kext
IOSCSIParallelFamily.kext
IOSMBusFamily.kext
IOSerialFamily.kext
IOStorageFamily.kext
IOStreamFamily.kext
IOSurface.kext
IOThunderboltFamily.kext
IOUSBFamily.kext
IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext
IOVideoFamily.kext
ImmersionForceFeedback.kext
JMicronATA.kext
L2TP.ppp
LexmarkUSBMerge.kext
LogitechForceFeedback.kext
NVDANV40Hal.kext
NVDANV50Hal.kext
NVDAResman.kext
NVSMU.kext
OSvKernDSPLib.kext
PPP.kext
PPPSerial.ppp
PPPoE.ppp
PPTP.ppp
PromiseSTEX.kext
Quarantine.kext
Radius.ppp
RealtekRTL81xx.kext
SM56KUSBAudioFamily.kext
SMARTLib.plugin
SMCMotionSensor.kext
Sandbox.kext
SoftRAID.kext
System.kext
TMSafetyNet.kext
VoodooBattery.kext
VoodooSDHC.kext
autofs.kext
cd9660.kext
cddafs.kext
exfat.kext
hp_Deskjet_io_enabler.kext
hp_Inkjet1_io_enabler.kext
hp_Inkjet3_io_enabler.kext
hp_Inkjet4_io_enabler.kext
hp_Inkjet7_io_enabler.kext
hp_Inkjet8_io_enabler.kext
hp_Inkjet_io_enabler.kext
hp_Officejet_io_enabler.kext
hp_Photosmart_io_enabler.kext
hp_designjet_series.kext
hp_io_printerclassdriver_enabler.kext
hp_qc_io_enabler.kext
iPodDriver.kext
iTunesPhoneDriver.kext
mcxalr.kext
msdosfs.kext
ntfs.kext
smbfs.kext
udf.kext
ufs.kext
webcontentfilter.kext
webdav_fs.kext

Other suggestions are also more than welcome or course.

 

[Going Bald]

Did you make absolutely sure that the board rev and BIOS rev of the DSDT matched your board?

 

[hackint]

Yes, f5 it is since it failed with f6.

 

[hackint]

Sound working in HDA! I have now much higher signal-to-noise ratio, and what seems to be full range on the output.

The problem was that I had all HDAEnablers kext (see for yourself in the list I pasted in my OP). I did not put them there on purpose, I suppose that I clicked the whole menu in Multibeast one of the first time I ran it.

I just deleted them and ran Multibeast again with system utilities, and I was done!