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Microphone does not work in Steam on Macbook under Windows

Looks like the drivers for Cirrus Logic audio card in unibody Macbook from late 2009 (also known as MacBook 6,1) are a bit broken. This is on Windows XP. I'm running Boot Camp 3.0 because 3.1's installer crashes. Anyways, microphone in Steam and Steam edition of Torchlight just didn't work. From certain posts on Apple forums, this seems to affect other software -- Windows Live Messenger, et al.

Henry Wong has hacked the drivers for Macbook Pro for Cirrus Logic 4602A, and got this to work. Grab the fixed drivers from their site.

Despite being for MBP, this seems to work on my unibody Macbook as well. This advice is offered without any guarantee it'll work and it's definitely not supported by Apple, so be careful.

PS Post 200!

Edit April 25th 2010:
Mirror of fixes: regular fix, no s/pdif out fix

Edit May 7th 2010:
After using these patches for some time in L4D2 and elsewhere, I conclude that one or both of the fixed drivers are breaking stereo support, to a certain extent. That is, apparently the "rear" speaker or even the microphone becomes the "left" speaker. YMMV.