Lubuntu 14.04 - No soundcard detected HDA Intel Realtek ALC880
Solution 1
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.
Open terminal.
Type: "sudo su" and enter root password.
Change to the folder where you downloaded the driver (ie: "cd ~/Downloads")
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").
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").
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").
Type "cd alsa-driver-WWW" , where WWW is the version corresponding to the folder name (example: "cd alsa-driver-1.0.25").
Type "./configure --with-cards=hda-intel"
Type "make"
Type "make install"
Reboot
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!
Solution 2
No idea whether this will help you, but I know the frustration of running out of ideas, so if you don't get any other leads, perhaps worth a try.
I have an Asus laptop on which I recently installed Lubuntu 14.04. I wasn't getting any sound from the laptop's main internal speakers with the default installation.
I ended up installing pavucontrol (otherwise known as PulseAudio Volume Control) package. (PulseAudio itself was already installed.) Within pavucontrol, under the Configuration tab, there were two Built-In Audio device profiles listed. The top one was "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (unplugged)". The bottom one was "Analog Stereo Duplex". I changed that bottom "Analog Stereo Duplex" to "Analog Stereo Output". That change gave me sound output through the laptop's internal speakers. (I had gone through a similar experience with Lubuntu 13.10.)
Solution 3
"./configure --with-cards=hda-intel"
"make"
"make install"
- these ran without error, but when I rebooted there was still no sound. After a spot of gooogling , and more in desperation than expectation, I installed pulseaudio and pulseaudio-utils.
My laptop then refused to boot! but after a lot of fiddling around taking out the battery etc it booted up and, much to my surprise, there was a speaker icon and sound.
Thanks again.
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Comments
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Marilou over 1 year
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
ormodel=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\
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nilsonneto almost 10 yearswhat options have you tried for the
sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel model=xxxx
command - various people have had success with either3stack
or6stack
- what changes do you observe if you use this instead offujitsu
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TuKsn almost 10 yearsDid you try
sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio
thensudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio
and finallysudo alsa force-reload
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Marilou almost 10 yearsI did try removing and force reload Alsa before, no result
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Marilou almost 10 years@fossfreedom: no changes whatever parameter i choosed. 3 or 6 stack differs just with mapping of in-outs. I have always just a PC buzzer in alsa
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Elder Geek almost 10 yearsThe odds of this working are very good.
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Marilou almost 10 yearsThanx but it is not applicable, no Asus notebook here, just an old PentiumD desktop Mboard. Only HDMI I have is from Graphics card, so I can theoretically get audio, but not trough sound card stereo jack. there is nothing under or above to change on it... other outputs are just NOT present.
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Marilou almost 10 yearsThis loooked very promising, and there is a change afterwards. In Alsamixer, there is a PCM output on Intel HDA soundcard. But in mixer, there is no sound device in exception of HDMI videocard sound ability. :C(
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αғsнιη over 9 yearsplease don't double post for a question. you can edit and or improve your previous answer instead. thanks
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Marilou over 9 yearshe cant edit, his score is (1). Good would be to know what kind of fiddling you did. Unfortunatelly my card is ALC880, so it is not sure it will work in my case.
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Max Vyaznikov over 8 yearsDrivers "Rt-Linux-HDaudio-5.18" crashed with errors on compilation with kernel 4.2.
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Hack-R over 7 yearsYes
make
throws errors