Ubuntu – Lubuntu 14.04 – No soundcard detected HDA Intel Realtek ALC880

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After fresh install of Lubuntu 14.04 no sound card is detected. Alsamixer shows just Beep bar (PC speaker), all inputs and outputs are just not present. No volume panel in the main bar was present.

What I did try:

  • Google hard for any solution without major sucess
  • installation of some libraries (pulseaudio) – it adds just the Nvidia HDMI output and volume panel, but not the soundcard's output
  • inserting options snd-hda-intel model=generic or model=auto into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and restart
  • inserting options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=medion into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and restart with
  • inserting options snd-hda-intel model=fujitsu into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and restart

Windows sound goes OK after correct driver is present.

dmesg |grep -i snd_hda shows (after modprobe is edited) 2 lines showing the profile for MSI/MSI-X is used on IRQ 45 and 47

Alsamixer identifies card as HDA Intel and chip as realtek ALC880

Google shows just problematic results from ubuntu 8.10 version.

It is an old Fujitsu-siemens mainboard with Pentium D and integrated sound card. next solution would be to insert an old PCI sound card into it… -d:C(

Does someone has a success with it?

Update:
after bounty without answer, many attempts to solve this issue I added a simple sound card into PCI slot and everything works with no problem. This realtek on-board chipset I canot recommend with Ubuntu. :c\

Best Answer

I don't have an 880, but this might work. You can download the driver from the RealTek site and compile it yourself.

RealTek Driver Page, Pick the 3.0 driver The Rest of this is taken from here and posted to askubuntu.

  1. Open terminal.

  2. Type: "sudo su" and enter root password.

  3. Change to the folder where you downloaded the driver (ie: "cd ~/Downloads")

  4. Type: "tar -xjf LinuxPkg_XXX.tar.bz2" , where XXX is the version of your downloaded driver (as sown in filename, example: "tar -xjf LinuxPkg_5.17rc13.tar.bz2").

  5. Type: "cd realtek-linux-audiopack-YYY" , where YYY is the version of your downloaded driver (as shown if folder name, example: "cd realtek-linux-audiopack-5.17").

  6. Type "tar -xjf alsa-driver-ZZZ.tar.bz2" , where ZZZ is the version corresponding to the filename (example: "tar -xjf alsa-driver-1.0.25-5.17rc13.tar.bz2").

  7. Type "cd alsa-driver-WWW" , where WWW is the version corresponding to the folder name (example: "cd alsa-driver-1.0.25").

  8. Type "./configure --with-cards=hda-intel"

  9. Type "make"

  10. Type "make install"

  11. Reboot

  12. Test the audio output. You can do this by right-clicking on you speaker icon and selecting sound preferences -> hardware -> select the desired audio output -> select the desired surround profile (ie: Analog Surround 5.1 Output + Analog Stereo Input) -> Test Speakers. During the installation the sound level can be mutted, check out in the slider if it is not mute!

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