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Hi, Mirone! I opened a topic for AppleHDA, HDMI and DSDT development for AMD hardware. If you want to participate, here's the link: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/287013-thoughts-about-applehda-patching-on-amd-hardware-ati-chipsets-nvidia/#entry1896233 All the best!

I'm for the HD6670 too. But i intend to replace the 5450 i bought last week with my retailer, and he only has the 6670 regular edition in stock, not the low profile (GDDR5), so i'll wait for an answer from Toleda on the subject. I can go back to nVidia either: Mountain Lion and 64-bit Lion only works in AMD rigs with ATI cards. About VoodooHDA, well, it was a certainty for me it could enable HDMI for every card. Unfortunately i was wrong. Let's see what happens: at least i have internal audio, so i can perform that workaround i talked about. Best regards!

Thank you very much for all the help, man, and sorry to have taken so much of your time! You're the best! For now, i think i can live with a workaround i did: i'm using VoodooHDA and, even without HDMI audio (the issue is so serious even VoodooHDA failed), i just realized my TV has an analog audio in, so i'm connecting the internal audio out to the TV's audio in and voila, have sound! If i decide i really need HDMI, i'll simply put the nVidiaG210 back. I replaced the G210 because it started to crash with intensive games (i think it's something with its fan - the main advantage of the 5450 is that it's fanless). All the best! P.S.: i'm following your conversation with Toleda: do you think if i buy some of his recommended cards that work OOB with HDMI audio, will it work for me even with VoodooHDA (just like the G210)? Or do you really thing my system hardware is incompatible with HDMI audio, and i was damn lucky it worked with the G210?

Thank you, Mirone! Just did what you told me to do. Now, at least, this appears: Here's the IOReg: ioreg.ioreg.zip Best regards!

Hello, Mirone! Thank you, man! No change at all, unfortunately - or at least none that i could find out. Here's the IOReg: IOReg2.ioreg.zip All the best!

Hello, Mirone! Thank you very much once more! No dice with that latest one. Here's the IOReg: IOReg.ioreg.zip And some screenshots. One of them will show you that AppleHDA didn't load this time: pics.zip All the best!

UPDATE: i further improved my experimental DSDT (see thread http://www.tonycrapx86.com/hdmi-audio/70765-mountain-lion-hdmi-audio.html#post565494, post #743) and changed the layout id to 12 (0xC) to test your AppleHDA (i used your test2 version). Still no sound, neither internal nor HDMI but... ta-dah... it loads, as you can see here: I'm attaching also the updated DSDT and a IOReg -- you'll see a lot of changes. I noticed HDA doesn't seem to report pin configuration in IOReg, could that be part of the no sound issue? latest.zip All the best!

Hi, Mirone! I've already tested your latest DSDT+AppleHDA yesterday, and posted the results in the post of 11 Mar 2013, 04:54, in this very page. No dice! I don't understand this passage "I realized that you have audio and replaces azalia SBAZ by HDEF well as the address and try retone me with the result.": what are you telling me to do? All the best!

Mirone, good news! Excellent, in fact! No, i didn't get HDMI or onboard sound yet, but remember what i told you about VoodooHDA appearing in IOREG as SBAZ@14,2? Well, that led me to some reading, googling and DSDT editing, finally coming to the development you can follow here: http://www.tonycrapx86.com/hdmi-audio/70765-mountain-lion-hdmi-audio.html#post565494 So i now have my own custom-made experimental DSDT. And, surprise, surprise, now HDEF not only appears in IOReg but also the way HDMI audio shows up in IOReg changed a lot, as you can see here (i retried both your test 1 and test2 AppleHDAs, i ditch the newer ones because i wanted to talk to you before anything): TEST1.zip TEST2.zip Here's the DSDT i made: connacticDSDT.aml.zip Can you take a look to see if you can improve it to our purposes? Now the game really begins, hehehe... i'm confident.

Thank you very much, Mirone! The numbers inside the brackets refer to a picture attached: Archive.zip - No sound, no audio device both in System Report (1) and System Preferences (2); - in the IOReg, the GPU is reported as PCE2 instead of PEGP (5) and there's no audio codec listed for the port 0x8, where the display is connected (3); - however, there is a new PCI device under the tree which bears the ID of my HDMI device, 68 aa (4); - Also, IOReg (also attached) shows no HDEF entries. It shows also no SBAZ entries (with VoodooHDA and your anterior patched DSDT, there was a SBAZ@14,2). All the best!

Thank you very much, Mirone! If you stay around, i can report back in five minutes, just downloaded it and repair permissions is in progress. Best regards!

Yeah, that's why i'm baffled: i know HDMI audio is a possibility with my hardware because i used it flawlessly with VoodooHDA until i had to replace the G210. For some reason, the HD5450 doesn't work. Even with Mountain Lion, where it theoretically should work even without the onboard audio, it's being a PITA to set it up, as you can see in the thread there. All the best!

Just tried it: no dice! The funny thing is that, with VoodooHDA, not only i get onboard sound, but also HDEF suddenly appears in IOReg. HDMI audio, though, it's a no-go with VoodooHDA (and i'm talking that with full knowledge, because i tried every and all version of VoodooHDA from 2009 on to solve my issue and none worked: it appears as HDEF inside the GPU in IOReg, instead of HDAU EDIT: it now appears as HDAU, since i am using it in conjunction with the DSDT you made. Another finding: onboard audio appears as AZALIA in IOReg: SBAZ@14,2). I'll post the IOReg with VoodooHDA, just as a curiosity. VoodooIOREG.ioreg.zip I think it's not my motherboard, though, because HDMI audio, at least with VoodooHDA, used to work with my old card - unfortunately broken - the GeForce G210 in the same machine. Best regards, and thank you once more.

Hi, Mirone! My BIOS doesn't specify if the on-board audio is Azalia or High Definition Audio (i can check this with Windows 8, and even post an Everest report here, if you find it's useful): it just says the onboard audio is on. In fact, the on-board audio works just fine if i use VoodooHDA, but VoodooHDA won't recognize the HDMI audio of my board. Thinking about an alternative, what if i test your patched AppleHDA with an HDA Enabler, instead of injecting it from the DSDT? Could it possibly work? Anyway, Mirone, if you think it's a lost cause and unworthy of the effort, it's okay to me: i'll move on to Mountain Lion, since Toleda says Mountain Lion doesn't need the onboard audio to work for HDMI to work (and i don't really care for onboard audio). I already have 10.8.2 up and running (full QE/CI, high performance etc). Thank you very much for being so patient and investing so much time trying to help me. You've been really cool, man! Best regards!

Hi, Mirone! My motherboard is an ECS A780LM-M2. Chipset ATI. Graphics AMD Radeon 5450 Sapphire Silent (had to struggle with BIOS to prevent it to apply Crossover with the onboard and completely unsupported ATI graphics). Here's my original (untouched) DSDT, extracted with DSDTE and compiled as is, and the IOReg i made when booting without any DSDT edits: IOREGDSDT.zip All the best!

Well, Mirone: i'm feeling really stymied here. I double checked both my DSDT, following your advice, and my Chameleon.plist, following pernacabeluda's instructions. I can be and probably am wrong, but everything looks fine with both. Yet, just took another look in IOReg (which i won't upload, to prevent wasting your time) and found no HDEF device there. Should be! I'm wondering what's going on... is it possible the /DSDT.aml of the first partition (which has Mountain Lion, and it's a newer partition despite being the "first" one) is being loaded instead of the correct one, that's on the root of the Lion partition? EDIT: no, the correct /Extra is being loaded. Well, i thought i was comfortable with DSDT editing and managing: now i think i have to eat humble pie. I hit a brick wall, lol. Thank you very much for your help! Best regards.

Hi, Mirone! Thank you very much for the continued help! That's funny, i just double-checked my DSDT and found this: Device (HDEF) { Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000) Name (_PRW, Package (0x02) { 0x09, 0x05 }) Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x0C) { "subsystem-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x68, 0xAA, 0x00, 0x00 }, "subsystem-vendor-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x4B, 0x17, 0x00, 0x00 }, "codec-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x97, 0x43, 0x06, 0x11 }, "layout-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x0C, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 }, "device-type", Buffer (0x0B) { "VIA VT1705" }, "PinConfigurations", Buffer (Zero) {} }, Local0) So i'm pretty sure it's there. In fact, i think it was you that put it there for me, because it has even the name of my CODEC there (VIA VT1705). But perhaps pernacabeluda (thank you very much, man!) has the answer: i'll try removing that key and see what happens. I'll report back soon. All the best!

Hi, Mirone! Done. Test2dsdtintheroot.zip I thought only Clover need the dsdt.aml in the root folder. Since i use Chameleon for this machine, i thought putting it on /Extra and add DSDTDSDT.aml in org.chameleon.Boot,plist would be enough (i still have the flags in the plist, though). Thank you very much for the correction All the best!

Hi, Mirone! Yes, the DSDT was there, i double-checked. Anyway, here's the results of test2: Test2.zip Thank you very much indeed!

Hi, Mirone! Okay, test 1! Thank you very much As for layout id=12, i'm used to hex, so you're referring to 0xC, right? Then it would be 0xC 0x0 0x0 0x0. Well, that's what i injected under HDEF, Layout ID. The VIA Coded is still not recognized. I patched the dsdt for HDMI, so it appears in SysPrefs, the icon turns grey when i plug the cable, but i remember to have read somewhere else that Lion (i'm on 10.7.5) HDMI audio is dependent on onboard audio to be working properly. Here's the IOReg plus edited DSDT: TEST1.zip Best regards and, again, thank you very much!

Hi, Mirone! How are you? Here's Linux CODEC dump from the VIA1705 i have: codec_dump.txt.zip Thank you very much indeed!

Hi, Mirone! I tested the latest files: unfortunately, the HDA performed even worse than the unedited Lion Interim HDA, in the sense this one at least recognized the HDMI out (but again, without audio). With the latest files, no sound at all and no port recognized. In this case, it seems unnecessary to attach pics. First of all, thank you very much for the help! You've been very cool by investing your time trying to help me in this project, which seems to be a hard one (i did some research and found out it has never been done, and even VoodooHDA will detect the hardware but won't output audio - as i found the hard way). That said, no harm done if you think there's no possible solution for it. But if you still have an ace in the hole, i'm more than willing to give it a go! All the best!

P.S.: I got a Lion kext, thanks to mirone, and, despite it doesn't work for my internal sound (it's unedited for my CODEC), it gives me some interesting and unexpected effects, regarding to HDMI audio: 1) The sound icon is grayed as if it was at maximum volume when my TV is connected to the HDMI port, like it would be with working HDMI audio (when disconnected, the usual grey and mute for not supported HDA). 2) In System Preferences/Sound, the only output that shows up is a "Display Port" output. 3) In System Report, the HDMI is listed, this time with more detailed description (with previous attempts, its only description was "display", when it showed up), and curiously all the other jacks are also listed, despite i am having no sound. Can you help me to make this AppleHDA to run fine with my codec and the HDMI out? I think i'm closer than ever. I'm using now a cleaner DSDT, without the lots of GFX injections i had, and with IGPU changed to GFX0, since it's not a Intel HD card. Archive attached: Experiment2.zip Apple HDA from Lion i'm using (made by Toleda): http://www.tonycrapx86.com/audio/55638-interim-realtek-ivy-bridge-lion-applehda-9.html Best regards!

You mean, start from a virgin DSDT and inject the HDMI audio there, using a 10.7.x AppleHDA, booting with GE=No? Well, i can really try that! Why do you think that a Lion AppleHDA would make things easier? Best regards!

Thank you very much for your hard work, Mirone! No HDMI audio with the latest files, but at least sound is back, and the connectors are showing up again in System Preferences. As usual, pictures attached. Best regards!