How do I set my Mac to send audio both through its internal speakers and through the headphone jack at the same time?
I looked in "System Preferences" and I can't find a solution there.
Does anyone have a solution? Maybe there is a way I can do it through Terminal?
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M$But as long as you're hooking up external speakers, your best bet is to simply get a Y-Splitter that splits your single audio output jack into two jacks, then connect another set of speakers in through that.
For real surround sound, you'll need to use the toslink port ( if your computer is equipped with one ) to connect your computer into a surround sound equipped amp that then drives your speakers. Option 1 is the 'poor-man's' surround sound solution; Option 2 ( the one with the toslink ) is of course the way to properly do 'real' surround sound for your Mac. :-)
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Not something that I would have enough experience with to adequately explain, other than being resourceful while trying to edit them to do what you want...oftentimes without actually knowing what needs to be done to the kexts to get them to work the way you want. Sometimes I've been able to 'fix' them to my liking with editors like BBEdit or TextWrangler, sometimes I have to see if XCode or Property List Editor is able to make sense of and decode them ( both tools being part of OSX's dev tools ). It's basically a matter of finding something that will open the kext file in a readable or partially-readable format, then be able to write your changes to it. Oftentimes those changes are trial and error guesses based on other details gleaned from the kext file in question, system programming data, or whatever you can find that might lead you to a workable solution. It's basically about being resourcefully creative.
And the two files I'd take a look at first are as follows:
/System/Library/Extensions/Apple02Audio.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/IOAudioFamily.kext
Also, Thanks much for the tip, but I just wouldn't feel right accepting such generosity without being actually being able to help you succeed at your goal. Your best bet might be to try asking over at http://www.hackint0sh.org to see if they could steer you in the right direction, as I'm simply not the 'go to guy' when it comes to hacking kexts.
Any idea how I would go about hacking a kext file? Or any resources? Thanks for the response.
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