soundflower (2ch)

[gw0gvq]

For some reason, I noticed the soundflower (2ch) driver in my sound preferences today. How do I delete it please only I've tried uninstalling it but can't. Dos anyone have any suggestions for me how to uninstall it please

 

[satcomer]

What version of OS X are you running? The answer depends on the version!

There is the free AppCleaner.

 

[gw0gvq]

I thought of APPCleaner but only the driver is in the sound preference . In answer to the first question, it's 10.11.6 EL Capitan

 

[Weaselboy]

For some reason, I noticed the soundflower (2ch) driver in my sound preferences today. How do I delete it please only I've tried uninstalling it but can't. Dos anyone have any suggestions for me how to uninstall it please

I believe there is a kext file for soundflower in this folder you need to remove then reboot.

/System/Library/Extensions

 

[gw0gvq]

I believe there is a kext file for soundflower in this folder you need to remove then reboot.

/System/Library/Extensions

It is but I tried to delete it last night and got the error message , ' “SoundflowerSigned.kext” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by OS X.'

 

[Weaselboy]

It is but I tried to delete it last night and got the error message , ' “SoundflowerSigned.kext” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by OS X.'

Looks like they are using Yosemite and up kext signing to lock the file. Try this. command-r boot to recovery then in the Utilities menu launch Terminal and run the command below.

sudo nvram boot-args=kext-dev-mode=1

That will turn off kext signing protection. Now reboot to regular mode then delete the kext file.

Then command-r boot back to recovery and in Terminal run this command to turn kext signing back on.

sudo nvram -d boot-args

It would be a good idea to make a backup before you do this.

 

[gw0gvq]

Looks like they are using Yosemite and up kext signing to lock the file. Try this. command-r boot to recovery then in the Utilities menu launch Terminal and run the command below.

sudo nvram boot-args=kext-dev-mode=1

That will turn off kext signing protection. Now reboot to regular mode then delete the kext file.

Then command-r boot back to recovery and in Terminal run this command to turn kext signing back on.

sudo nvram -d boot-args

It would be a good idea to make a backup before you do this.

[doublepost=1471194096][/doublepost]It didn't work . Thanks for trying . I put the command in terminal in utilities but it said, there was no such command as 'bash' which was the command that came up instead of my name. I tried entering it a second time and same thing . It was funny because I went into restore and instead of the El Capitan system I got it seemed to go to the original OSX which was Mavericks. Thanks again

 

[Weaselboy]

[doublepost=1471194096][/doublepost]It didn't work . Thanks for trying . I put the command in terminal in utilities but it said, there was no such command as 'bash' which was the command that came up instead of my name. I tried entering it a second time and same thing . It was funny because I went into restore and instead of the El Capitan system I got it seemed to go to the original OSX which was Mavericks. Thanks again

Ackkk! My bad. On El Capitan the command is different.

Command-r boot to recovery then run this command in Terminal.

csrutil disable

Then reboot and delete the kext file.

Then boot back to recovery and run this to turn kext signing back on.

csrutil enable

 

[gw0gvq]

Ackkk! My bad. On El Capitan the command is different.

Command-r boot to recovery then run this command in Terminal.

csrutil disable

Then reboot and delete the kext file.

Then boot back to recovery and run this to turn kext signing back on.

csrutil enable

Still the same (never mind) thanks for trying . It doesn't seem to like those commands in terminal.th

 

[flyingmanatee]

Still the same (never mind) thanks for trying . It doesn't seem to like those commands in terminal.th

Booting off a second volume seems to work
http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2017/11/03/soundflower-cant-be-deleted-because-its-required.html