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.

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!

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.