osxtothez Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 I recently revisited my old D630 NVS that was running Lion and saw on YouTube someone successfully installed El Capitan. So I gave it a try (clover based) and got it up and running. Everything appears to be working as well as the previous Lion install except for Sound. On my Lion install I had Sigmatel Sound working well via AppleHDA.kext and FakeSTAC9205.kext. this EL Cap install uses VoodooHDA.kext to get sound working sort of. The issue is that sound is crackled and YouTube video and sound fall out of sync and cut out periodically. Maybe that's just how it is with The D630 VoodooHDA and EL Capitan anI just want to see if any others having same issue or is there a solution I can try. I tried to use the old next that was working in Lion but they just caused the boot to hang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted December 13, 2019 Moderators Share Posted December 13, 2019 See D630 guide here with bootpack by Hervé Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxtothez Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 Also oddly I have all USB ports working without USB_Injector.kext but I am using a different DSDT.aml. I've attached incase somebody would like to confirm. DSDT.aml copy.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxtothez Posted December 14, 2019 Author Share Posted December 14, 2019 So after much mucking around and loading/unloading a plethora of older kexts files I had archived, I've found a set that gave me clean sound output from this old laptop with El Capitan installed. It was this VoodooHDA.kext whose version is not even in the get info so I can't provide it. I'm pretty sure that the files came from one of the D630 bootpacks found on this site as I found it in a folder called Extra/storage/kextpacks/voodooHDA1. I'm going to attach them here with the caveat that your mileage may very. But hopefully this helps someone dealing with the poor audio some of the other VoodooHDA provide. voodooHDA1.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted December 14, 2019 Administrators Share Posted December 14, 2019 After so many years, I don't think these old laptops need much revisiting today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxtothez Posted December 14, 2019 Author Share Posted December 14, 2019 Your probably right I just did it for fun. I dunno the thought being able to find one of these at a garage sale for like $10 and be able to run El Capitan pretty well on it is amazing to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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