Lion on GA-X79-UD5

[zoomex]

hi ,
i found this zip file here
http://tonymacx86.com/download/file.php?id=23345

see if its good for alc898 (voodo.HDA)

hope it will work !!!

 

[psydafke]

Yeah,

I also found in the linux drivers that the ALC898 has actually the same patch and pin-layouts as the ALC882 (uses the same driver). We could indeed also use the VoodooHDA2.7.2.

Yesterday, I looked at the DSDT again, and noticed how awfull the structure is... Really a mess. So tonight, I'll extract a vanilla again (from windows this time), and see if it looks better, and re-patch it again. Otherwise have some clean up to do.

Also th CPU part is different layout compared to other DSDTs (8 cores /16 Threads, states C0 trough C3 (so C000-C00F/C100-C10F/C2 ...)

We 'll see where it goes from here...

P.S.: It seems that not so many people are busy/interested in this board...

 

[zoomex]

yes it will take time to tune this motherboard.
as you can see most of the post are on the asus x79
i hope you will fix the dsdt as much as you can right now my studio works great i can
record and mix and shutdown the computer
let me know if you made any changes to DSDT i'll keep visit this post all the time.

thanks again for your big help

 

[maleorderbride]

Can you please PM me the audio codec dump taken from Linux?

I have done a lot of work on the ALC898 on my ASUS X79 board so far, but am not yet successful. I am curious if your board is using ALC899 like mine is, or if it is really suing ALC898.

You can find information on collecting the codec dump here: http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.p ... wtopic=465

You can download a Ubuntu Live CD and boot from it, run the command in terminal, transfer/email the output from there.

Thanks!

 

[ErikCore]

I am following this topic with great interest. I am currently compiling 2 rendernodes with this processor and motherboard. You guys are also talking about the Asus P9X79 Pro, is it a better (compatible) alternative? And did you already tried cinebench 11.5? I am very interested in the score.

 

[psydafke]

I am following this topic with great interest. I am currently compiling 2 rendernodes with this processor and motherboard. You guys are also talking about the Asus P9X79 Pro, is it a better (compatible) alternative? And did you already tried cinebench 11.5? I am very interested in the score.

I will post my cb scores later this evening, first some family stuff to take care of...
I noticed that the opengl scores are depending very much on cpu. I score higher than the firegl.

 

[psydafke]

You 'll find my CineBench 11.5 scores in attachment.

OpenGL: 55.43 fps
CPU: 12.03 pts

This is with the cpu @ 4.2Ghz and RAM @ 2133Mhz.
I use MacPro5,1 in smbios.plist
Temperatures stay nice and stable.
Have to work on native CPUPM though.

Greetz

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[ErikCore]

What temperatures do you get? Is 4,2 ghz with the Noctua stable (for 3d rendering)?

 

[maleorderbride]

I am following this topic with great interest. I am currently compiling 2 rendernodes with this processor and motherboard. You guys are also talking about the Asus P9X79 Pro, is it a better (compatible) alternative? And did you already tried cinebench 11.5? I am very interested in the score.

I have a stable build on an ASUS P9X79 Pro. The problem is that I am starting to despair of getting AppleHDA to work. I spent a lot of time editing AppleHDA and know that I did it properly, yet I get no audio out. Everything looks like it is working normally, but no cigar.

I bought an ASUS P9X79 instead (still waiting for it to arrive) since it uses ALC892. I will continue to work on ALC898 (ALC899 for p9x79 pro), but VCH888 and Toleda have given up without knowing why it is not working, so I have little hope.

 

[psydafke]

Can you please PM me the audio codec dump taken from Linux?

I have done a lot of work on the ALC898 on my ASUS X79 board so far, but am not yet successful. I am curious if your board is using ALC899 like mine is, or if it is really suing ALC898.

You can find information on collecting the codec dump here: http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.p ... wtopic=465

You can download a Ubuntu Live CD and boot from it, run the command in terminal, transfer/email the output from there.

Thanks!

Sorry for the late reply, had trouble extracting the codec in Debian (tried Ubuntu Live, and that worked well). I did patch my dsdt, and managed to get the volume control, all inputs/outputs and jack-sensing; but no sound. Also getting the sound-assertion error in console.

If you need the HDEF dsdt-part:

            Device (HDEF)
            {
                Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000)
                Method (_PRW, 0, NotSerialized)
                {
                    Return (Package (0x02)
                    {
                        0x05,
                        0x04  // Original value 0x05
                    })
                }
                Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                {
                    Store (Package (0x0E)
                        {
                            "codec-id",
                            Buffer (0x04)
                            {
                                0x98, 0x08, 0xEC, 0x10
                            },
                            "layout-id", 
                            Buffer (0x04)
                            {
                                0x82, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00
                            },
                            "model",
                            Buffer (0x1A)
                            {
                                "Realtek ALC898 Controller"
                            },
                            "subsystem-vendor-id",
                            Buffer (0x04)
                            {
                                0x6B, 0x10, 0x00, 0x00
                            },  // Subsystem = [106b:00a0] Apple device
                            "subsystem-id",
                            Buffer (0x04)
                            {
                                0xA0, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                            },  // Subsystem = [106b:00a0] Apple device
                            "platformFamily",
                            Buffer (0x01) {Zero},
                            "PinConfigurations", 
                            Buffer (0x01) {Zero}
                        }, Local0)
                    DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                    Return (Local0)
                }
            }

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