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Hackintosh Headphones Fix

posted onNovember 3, 2008
by hitbsecnews

One of the long standing problems with Hackintosh Netbooks is the audio jack would never work. The speakers would work just fine, but the audio jack would remain dead. Thanks to some hard-core hackers that has changed. Using a custom audio kernel, CHUD (in XCode), and a shell script you can re-direct the speaker output to the headphone/audio jack. While it isn't as easy as plugging in a headphone and having it just work, it is a working solution for a Mac based Netbook (until Apple surprises us and releases one).

The hack was published on Wired's Gadget Lab by Charlie Sorrel, who happens to be in a Hackintosh Hacking contest with fellow writer Brian Chen, in their continuing article on hacking the Mac/Hackintosh Netbooks. The install is simple (if you used to the Mac under the hood). Make sure a specific audio kernel is installed, install XCode, and run a shell script that Pizzaboy75 posted on the MSIWind forums. That's it.

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