Realtek Audio Driver For Linux Mint
Mar 11, 2015 - Ubuntu 13.04 has been released with lost of eye-candy and performance boost. As it happens with every Ubuntu release, you install or upgrade to a newer Ubuntu version and run in to a number of problems. But then, there is always a way to overcome these big little problems. One of the most common. In this post, you’ll learn how to update the Realtek audio driver easily for your computer. There are three methods for you to update the Realtek audio driver easily; just pick the easier one for you. Method 1: Update the Realtek audio driver via Device Manager Method 2: Download and install the Realtek audio driver from manufacturers.
I just assembled myself a new computer with a quite new motherboard supporting an Intel Kaby Lake processor. This motherboard has a Realtek ALC1220 (S1220A) chipset for audio. After installing Linux Mint 18.1, I unfortunately noticed that the sound is not working. No soundcard is detected at all, whatever I try. The sound configuration just shows a Dummy Device. User@linux-mint $ aplay -l aplay: devicelist:268: no soundcards found. User@linux-mint $ lspci -knn grep -i -A4 Audio 00:1f.3 Audio device 0403: Intel Corporation Device 8086:a2f0 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Device 1043:8723 Kernel driver in use: sndhdaintel Kernel modules: sndhdaintel 00:1f.4 SMBus 0c05: Intel Corporation Device 8086:a2a3 Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX H270I GAMING Audio Chipset: ROG SupremeFX 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC S1220A Linux Distro: Linux Mint 18.1 Current Kernel: 4.11.6 What have I tried? According to and support for the S1220A chipset was introduced in Linux Kernel 4.11. Linux Mint 18.1 ships with kernel 4.4, but has the option to upgrade to kernel 4.9 through the Update Manager. However, doing so and afterwards reinstalling all the ALSA stuff had no effect, still no audio device detected. Then I decided to install kernel 4.11.6 using UKUU. The installation seems to be completed without errors, and after upgrading GRUB my system boots Mint with the new kernel: user@linux-mint $ uname -r 4.11.6-041106-generic There are also reports of people who got the ALC1220 audio chipset working on kernel 4.9.
I have also founds some hints that it could be related to UEFI settings. Being a non-expert on this, I tried disabling UEFI and compatibility / legacy settings before booting my system, however none of this seems to have any effect.
Does someone have any clue how I can get sound on Linux Mint with this chipset? Update 1: dmesg grep snd returns the following: 4.951807 sndhdaintel 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0000 - 0002) 4.951966 sndhdaintel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915audiocomponentbindops i915) 5.079301 sndhdaintel 0000:00:1f.3: CORB reset timeout#1, CORBRP = 0 5.080811 sndhdaintel 0000:00:1f.3: no codecs found! Update 2: Following up on @dirkt advise to check the probemask, I have tried: sudo modprobe -r sndhdaintel sudo modprobe sndhdaintel probemask=0x1ff Then checking dmesg it does not look like something changes: 374.653091 sndhdaintel 0000:00:1f.3: codecmask forced to 0xff 374.653126 sndhdaintel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915audiocomponentbindops i915) 374.763149 sndhdaintel 0000:00:1f.3: CORB reset timeout#1, CORBRP = 0 374.764764 sndhdaintel 0000:00:1f.3: no codecs found! Partial answer: I looked at the, and it just adds the same fixup as for the ALC 882 (which is used by quite a number of codecs). But your problem seems to be that the communication with the Codec chip doesn't work at all.
The soundcard driver sndhdaintel loads, gets a single timeout error, but not the second one, so something works, but then it can't find any codec. So it never reaches the stage where the patch would be relevant. Ideas: 1) Look in the BIOS if there are any settings for the soundcard. Maybe changing something here will make codec communication work. 2) The says you can force probing if the BIOS is broken: On a machine with a broken BIOS, sometimes you need to force the driver to probe the codec slots the hardware doesn't report for use.
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In such a case, turn the bit 8 (0x100) of probemask option on. Then the rest 8 bits are passed as the codec slots to probe unconditionally. For example, probemask=0x103 will force to probe the codec slots 0 and 1 no matter what the hardware reports. So try as root modprobe -r sndhdaintel modprobe sndhdaintel probemask=0x1ff and see what happens in dmesg. 3) If nothing helps, file a bug with the ALSA developers and see if they have any idea.
My first time on here. Awesome forum I have to say. A lot of great info! Nearly to much lol. I have tried to look for threads about linux drivers for Clevo laptops. Haven't found what I'm searching for. I just got my hands on a Clevo P670HS-G for a song.
Installed Linux Mint 18.1. Everything seemed to work very nicely thank you, multiple steam games running beautiful, stuff starting lightning fast etc But, two problems:. Can not get my sound working. Can not get the keyboard back light working (or rather, it's stuck on blue) Other Fn commands work, like brightness. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Thx and greetings Mikael.
My first time on here. Awesome forum I have to say. A lot of great info!
Nearly to much lol. I have tried to look for threads about linux drivers for Clevo laptops. Haven't found what I'm searching for. I just got my hands on a Clevo P670HS-G for a song. Installed Linux Mint 18.1.
Everything seemed to work very nicely thank you, multiple steam games running beautiful, stuff starting lightning fast etc But, two problems:. Can not get my sound working. Can not get the keyboard back light working (or rather, it's stuck on blue) Other Fn commands work, like brightness. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
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Thx and greetings Mikael. Click to expand.Most of the linux distros i tried already include a kernel with support for the realtek audio card, if not you can just update the kernel. Now i noticed you said 'for a song', are we talking about professional Audio?
Because if so it makes no sense that you are using the Realtek card and not one decent External Audio Device. Well i´ll say more, if you really intend to use Linux for Professional Audio you should probably read about KXStudio and other professional audio setups. I´ve used RME hardware with Reaper DAW in Linux, fully loading my Windows VSTs, it will require some learning from your side but it actually works very good.
My Linux machine. Click to expand.since the subject has been raised here.perhaps you can, if not too much trouble, provide a short list of current Linux Distos that you have found thru your own experience to work quite well with Clevo laptops. This kind of helpful information would prove most invaluable to those of us on these forums who use Linux exclusively and are considering purchasing a Clevo in the not too distant future, and also for members here who currently have a Clevo and would like to install Linux on it. A couple of informative links about updating Kernel in Linux Mint.