MacOS Audio Driver Quession

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MacOS Audio Driver Quession

hello? I'm trying to uninstall EQMac because it doesn't work properly after installing it! I am a blind and visually impaired person who uses a Mac for voice-over! No matter how hard I try to find the uninstall button in the menu, I can't find it. What should I do? Also, is this supported by Apple Silicon? Do I need to change the security policy to partial security? In the past, even though it was compatible when installing such a third-party audio driver, the sound was crashed by the third-party driver when VoiceOver read it! The sound is strangely rattling! The audio interface driver in the past and now the EQMac audio driver are also such symptoms! What is the cause? Please give me credit!

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.4

Posted on Jun 8, 2023 01:03 AM

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JorgeLuisBorges

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Jun 8, 2023 01:30 AM in response to jungmin224

In the EQmac FAQ they say you can just drag the application into the trash (or option-click move to bin) and that will get rid of it.

https://eqmac.app/faq

From their documentation:

You can just move eqMac.app into trash, like any other Application. This will uninstall the app itself, but there still will be a driver installed.

The driver does not have any effect on the System when eqMac is not running, however, if you'd like to remove the driver as well, please follow the instructions below:

This command will Remove the eqMac Audio Driver:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/eqMac.driver/

The driver would still be loaded in the System until next restart.

If you really don't want to restart your Mac right now, you can restart CoreAudio service

sudo launchctl kickstart -k system/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod

There seem to be different instructions to remove the drivers if you are using older versions.

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From the front page of their site, the latest versions seems to state support for apple silicon

I'm not clear on the rest of your issues.

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jungmin224 Author

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Jun 8, 2023 05:45 AM in response to JorgeLuisBorges

Additional questions to the respondent. However, when I wrote the command as instructed earlier, I get an error saying that there is no authority! By any chance, after sudo, do you hit enter before the rm -rf command to make a line break? Or do you do / without line breaks? In the contents, there was a line break after sudo!

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jungmin224 Author

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Jun 9, 2023 04:53 PM in response to JorgeLuisBorges

“Thank you for your reply! By the way! I got an error when I followed the given command. After sudo, there was a command on the next line, so I thought I had to break a line and hit enter, and it was an error, an error when executing the command. So I wonder if I should put / after sudo.

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