Re: [HQ-A] Digest for hq-a@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic
Robert Beck
On Thursday, February 9, 2012, <hq...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Economy Sandy Bridge Build is Forthcoming [1 Update]
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> Economy Sandy Bridge Build is Forthcoming
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> PH <pete...@cruzio.com> Feb 08 09:57AM -0800
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> The fix was applied and it works!
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> It is necessary to REMOVE ALC8xxHDA in both /S/L/E and /E/E, ensure
> that AppleHDA has indeed been rolled-back, and to install ALC887 using
> Kext Utility (whereby it will be moved into /S/L/E).
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> Finally, it is necessary to select Line Out for the green jack (the
> middle one).
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> With the implementation of the ALC887 fix, everything on the $205
> Build is now working as required.
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> This was a fun build, and for very little coin, too.
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> The fact that the case and PSU combo are more than adequate for any
> future build of, say, a fully-sized mobo, is a definite plus. Very
> open-ended.
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mosslack
Good deal...love the economy approach and results! I'm going to look out for a similar deal now myself.
pete...@cruzio.com
> I'm very interested as well. Please let me know the laundry list you find.
I posted the complete list, including NE SKUs.
The subject combo included a $39.99 Windows antivirus package (OEM version
... media only) which I will likely never use.
Each of the other items are top-drawer in the budget class.
For a few more bucks you could get an i3 proc, but I don't think you could
do much better in the mobo, case and PSU areas without spending a LOT more
coin.
So far, EVERY H-series Sandy Bridge build I have done has not worked using
ALC8xxHDA.
The solution to the ALC887 on the subject build was a customized ALC887
kext which was really only a plist, and used the rolled-back AppleHDA for
most of its function.
If I could find a similar solution for the other ALCes, and for the ALC888
in particular, I would be a very happy hacker as I have two 5- and
6-series Shuttles with ALC888s which DO NOT WORK using ALC8xxHDA.
I suspect the current, and SUCCESSFUL efforts, are a reversion to the
Taruga method, which generally took a Linux codec dump and created a
plist.
What nixed those efforts was Apple's 10.6.2 which eliminated ALC888 and
perhaps a few others which Apple was not using.
ALC8xxHDA worked great on Snow Leopard, but it is only marginally usable
on Lion, and even on Lion, it is still dependent upon 10.6.2's AppleHDA.
Now, a specific comment on Gigabyte's H61M-DS2 ...
There are four apparently revisions of the mobo.
1.2 is the one I have, and it required two deviations from the normal
tonymacx86 approach (four, if you count the DSDT):
1) the LAN is R8111E, and this does not use the Lnx2Mac driver, but the
Realtek driver for MacOS X,
2) the codec is ALC887 (ALC888b), but ALC8xxHDA does not work, as has
already been mentioned, and
3) tonymacx86's DSDT is incomplete and it needs work on the two high-speed
USBs (EHC1 and EHC2); as is common in very late Award BIOS DSDTs, there
are NO USB1, ..., USB7 devices at all, and
4) Gigabyte supplies a PATA device tree (which will NOT be used in an
all-SATA configuration, but which MAY BE required in a mixed
configuration), but tonymacx86 deletes this entire device.
I think the specific revision of the GA-H61M-DS2 is the luck of the draw.
I got a 1.2 and that proved to be lucky.
mosslack
Good deal...love the economy approach and results! I'm going to look out for a similar deal now myself.
On Thursday, February 9, 2012, <hq...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Today's Topic Summary
>
> Group: http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a/topics
>
> Economy Sandy Bridge Build is Forthcoming [1 Update]
>
> Economy Sandy Bridge Build is Forthcoming