Below Belief

After a lot of hunting, I finally found a fix for the various issues which plague the dell mini 9 after hackintoshing to Snow Leopard using Netbook Installer 0.8.3 RC4.

The issues were:

* Sound worked from the speakers, but not via the headphone socket
* Internal microphone wasn’t available/didn’t work and consequently Skype would crash when making an outbound call (presumably expecting a mic)

Solution:

* Get the AppleHDA.kext file from this post: http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-9-os-x-discussion/15380-sound-mic-working-applehda.html

* Open Finder. Press Ctrl + Shift + G and type /Extra
* Paste the kext file above into the Mini9Ext folder
* Run UpdateExtra (which is in the Extra folder) and click Update Extensions.

Now if you reboot you should find the Internal Mic is visible in the System Preferences Sound panel and sound works via the headphones!

Last problem is that whenyou put the Mac to sleep sound doesn’t work after the restore.

To fix this you need “SleepWatcher” a daemon that allows some control before and after sleep to kick the kext into shape. Follow the instructions here http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-9-os-x-discussion/15380-sound-mic-working-applehda.html and make sure you swap the path for the kext to /Extra/Mini9Ext/AppleHDA.kext and add “sleep 3″ like shown here: http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-9-os-x-discussion/15380-sound-mic-working-applehda-5.html

The only minor glitch is that when no sound is playing the headphones have a periodic hiss – but when playing sound it sounds great

So sound is possible, that’s pretty much all the functions working now.

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