Find Audio Kexts for Your Hackintosh * How to Make Sound Work in Hackintosh

When you set up #Hackintosh audio may not work, but most of the sound chipset can be tweaked or Hacked to make audio work without any hassle, Most of the methods for achieving Sound output in Hackintosh are listed here, We have also previously covered about Finding WiFi and Ethernet Kexts for Hackintosh

This is an incomplete article

These are the methods to enable Audio in Hackintosh

Apple ALC Kext
VooDoo HDA
Clover audio Patching
Chameleon audio Patching

Manual search for kext

AppleALC Kext

AppleALC is an open source KEXT to enable native HD Audio for unsupported codecs

Features of Apple ALC kext

Audio support starting from the OS installation
Works even after macOS Update, Doesn’t have to patch anything

Recovery HD/macOS Installer audio support
Automated codec detection
Unsupported audio controller enabling
Arbitrary kext patching
Custom platform/layout injection
Works with System Integrity Protection (So you do not have to disable SIP)

How to install Apple ALC, Simple with the following steps

Download latest release of AppleALC.kext
AppleALC.kext requires Lilu.kext as the dependency which is included in the above package
Extract and install the downloaded package
If necessary set kext permissions with the Terminal application, Open terminal and run following commands
sudo chmod -R 755 /Library/Extensions
sudo chown -R root:wheel /Library/Extensions

Then reboot your Hackintosh

You may need to edit clover configuration plist

Clover config.plist editing
Edit the Inject key under Devices/Audio in config.plist. If it doesn’t exist, paste it in. It is recommended that you use a property list editor such as Xcode & PlistEdit Pro.
I would advise against using Clover Configurator.

<key>Devices</key>
<dict>
	<key>Audio</key>
	<dict>
		<key>Inject</key>
		<integer>1</integer>
	</dict>
</dict>

What if your audio does not work?

Open a Bug report

Voodoo HDA Kext

VoodooHDA has been in development for a long time, It is intended as a replacement for AppleHDA on MacOS with support for a wide range of Intel HDA controllers and codecs.

Features of VoodooHDA

Automatic recognition of all HDA codecs
Test jacks for auto-switch
Control panel for fine tuning
Sound treatment includes stereo enhancements

Since v2.8 it works with two sound cards

How to install VoodooHDA.kext

Download the latest release of VoodooHDA from Sourceforge
Open it and install (You may need to disable GateKeeper)
Reboot

Sometimes you have to tweak VoodooHDA by editing its Info.plist, but before you have to find your device and vendor id, for Intel chipset the vendor id is 8086
First, you have to install LSPCI binary then run the following command in terminal to find your device id

sudo lspci -nn | grep 0403

(Your string value to be replaced must be in the format of 0xDeviceidVendorID Example: 0xa1708086)

Info.plist is in either

/System/Library/Extensions/VoodooHDA.kext/Contents/
or
/Library/Extensions/VoodooHDA.kext/Contents/

Locations

Replace “IOPCIClassMatch” with “IOPCIPrimaryMatch” and replace the string value with your device and vendor id as shown in the example below

Before changing

<key>IOPCIClassMatch</key>
<string>0x04030000&amp;0xffff0000</string>

After changing

<key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
<string>0xa1708086</string>