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Hi.
The first of all is to apologize for my lousy English (and for the poor Google translation ).
My PC is an AMD FX-8350 with 16GB of RAM and an ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard, plus an nVidia GTX 650TI with 2GB of VRAM.
I have installed macOS Catalina 10.15.4 using OpenCore 0.5.7, for this I have used the opencore guide for desktops and VoodooHDA for audio (because AppleALC is still incompatible with Bulldozers, or not?).
I have made a multiboot with Manjaro and Windows using Grub, for which I have added a custom entry in this one pointed to the disk with macOS and OpenCore.efi as boot loader, in /etc/grub.d/40_custom file:
The class options are for Grub Manjaro Theme, they show icons in the Grub menu.
In other distros it would be necessary to see what theme Grub uses and where it has the icons.
As expected the graph is natively supported, and for the SMBios I have used the data from an iMac14,2 (I have tried other combinations such as an iMacPro1,1). I have not activated the iServices because I have not managed to find a valid serial for it, although I do not think that I would use anything beyond the Apple Store either.
USB 3.0 (Asmedia ASM1042 in this case) works correctly using the GenericUSBXHCI.kext; I have not done the mapping of ports and I have disabled the limit of them in the config.list, and for now, at least for the use that I do, I have not found problems of data transfers or corruption of them.
I have disabled hibernation since the computer does not recover on waking and forces me to do a ClearCMOS to be able to use it again. Since I don't use it either, I haven't investigated if there is any way to fix it.
Well, the problem that I have and that I don't find with the key is that the VoodooHDA driver activates 7.1 channels by default and I have 2.0 speakers, plugged into the rear green connector. The microphone on the rear pink connector.
When I try to configure the speakers from the Audio Midi Setup utility it closes and I cannot complete the configuration.
With Youtube or stereo sources I have no problems but, for example, with VLC and multichannel AC3 audio, the sound that is heard corresponds only to the left and right channels, so, generally, the voices are not heard when broadcast on another channel.
I think it's a known problem since Mojave, but would there be a way to configure that part of the sound by modifying some system file using terminal or similar?
Does it work in High Sierra and, if so, is it worth installing today?
Another thing, I have a Logitech Quickam Zoom webcam that in Linux uses the Philips PWC driver (and in Windows 8.x/10 you have to patch the .ini of the driver to recognize it as a Logitech Quickam Pro 4000) ... but that in macOS does not recognize , only see the audio via USB.
I have found an old project called macam and a fork called macam64. The first is for 32 bits, then we discard its use in Catalina, right? The second one I can't compile, and the compiled option offered on GitHub is a .a library I don't know what to do with it.
Any ideas and / or suggestions? Not only for the sound and webcam theme, but also for fine tuning the settings.
Thanks and best regards.
PS: I must add that it would be my first "stable" Hackintosh beyond a proof of concept, years ago, with Clover and Snow Leopard if I remember correctly.
The first of all is to apologize for my lousy English (and for the poor Google translation ).
My PC is an AMD FX-8350 with 16GB of RAM and an ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard, plus an nVidia GTX 650TI with 2GB of VRAM.
I have installed macOS Catalina 10.15.4 using OpenCore 0.5.7, for this I have used the opencore guide for desktops and VoodooHDA for audio (because AppleALC is still incompatible with Bulldozers, or not?).
I have made a multiboot with Manjaro and Windows using Grub, for which I have added a custom entry in this one pointed to the disk with macOS and OpenCore.efi as boot loader, in /etc/grub.d/40_custom file:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
#OpenCore macOS Catalina
menuentry 'macOS 10.15 Catalina (opencore)' --class macosx --class efi --class os $menuentry_id_option 'opencore-UUID' {
insmod part_gpt
insmod fat
set root='hdX,gptY'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root UUID
chainloader /EFI/OC/OpenCore.efi
}
In other distros it would be necessary to see what theme Grub uses and where it has the icons.
As expected the graph is natively supported, and for the SMBios I have used the data from an iMac14,2 (I have tried other combinations such as an iMacPro1,1). I have not activated the iServices because I have not managed to find a valid serial for it, although I do not think that I would use anything beyond the Apple Store either.
USB 3.0 (Asmedia ASM1042 in this case) works correctly using the GenericUSBXHCI.kext; I have not done the mapping of ports and I have disabled the limit of them in the config.list, and for now, at least for the use that I do, I have not found problems of data transfers or corruption of them.
I have disabled hibernation since the computer does not recover on waking and forces me to do a ClearCMOS to be able to use it again. Since I don't use it either, I haven't investigated if there is any way to fix it.
Well, the problem that I have and that I don't find with the key is that the VoodooHDA driver activates 7.1 channels by default and I have 2.0 speakers, plugged into the rear green connector. The microphone on the rear pink connector.
When I try to configure the speakers from the Audio Midi Setup utility it closes and I cannot complete the configuration.
With Youtube or stereo sources I have no problems but, for example, with VLC and multichannel AC3 audio, the sound that is heard corresponds only to the left and right channels, so, generally, the voices are not heard when broadcast on another channel.
I think it's a known problem since Mojave, but would there be a way to configure that part of the sound by modifying some system file using terminal or similar?
Does it work in High Sierra and, if so, is it worth installing today?
Another thing, I have a Logitech Quickam Zoom webcam that in Linux uses the Philips PWC driver (and in Windows 8.x/10 you have to patch the .ini of the driver to recognize it as a Logitech Quickam Pro 4000) ... but that in macOS does not recognize , only see the audio via USB.
I have found an old project called macam and a fork called macam64. The first is for 32 bits, then we discard its use in Catalina, right? The second one I can't compile, and the compiled option offered on GitHub is a .a library I don't know what to do with it.
Any ideas and / or suggestions? Not only for the sound and webcam theme, but also for fine tuning the settings.
Thanks and best regards.
PS: I must add that it would be my first "stable" Hackintosh beyond a proof of concept, years ago, with Clover and Snow Leopard if I remember correctly.