Realtek HD Audio in FC6

[Ames]

I've been wanting to make the transition to linux for sometime now and finally decided a few days ago to "Bite the Bullet". Over the last few days I've fought with fc6 enough to get Lan, Wifi and my ATI card up and running but I continue to be eluded with my audio card (Realtek ALC882).

Its a Realtek HD Audio card which funny enough is picked up by BOTH Windows Vista and Alsa as an Intel HD Audio card. And in both the symptoms are the same, it appears to work, doesn't have any errors, but won't actually output any sound (in Windows it generates levels and everything but you can't hear anything).

In Windows the fix is simple, install Realteks drivers but I can't find any Realtek HD Audio drivers for Fedora Core 6. They have drivers for Fedora Core 5 and Linux Kernel 2.4, neither of which I was able to get working (just about killed alsa in the process). I'd get a libasound.so.2 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

I'm currently running the latest version of Alsa (1.0.13) which although compiled for fc6 is not I believe an official driver for fc6.

Oh and yes I've checked all the levels in linux, everythings on and no its not just muted.

I'd install another soundcard but its a notebook and as such the only way this ones coming off the board is with a chisel. And its an Expresscard slot so that rules out the Creative PCMCIA Audigy (which I'm not fond of anyways)

This is a pretty common chipset (all my Asus desktop motherboards have them as well) so I can't believe this is something nobodys come across though in all my searching theirs remarkably little on this audio card.

Any ideas, suggestions, or tips to try out? This is the one thing remaining before I have a fully functional fedora system.

[mattold7]

I am having similar problems. No matter what driver I choose from Realtek I get a alsaconf: command not found error during the ./install or when i try to build the drivers. Is there a way around this problem?

[Seve]

Hello:
You may want to read through the changes documents here for 1.014rc2
etc. and if it seems that the hda issue you are having has been addressed.
http://www.alsa-project.org/
Then, if you are using FC6 you could try
yum--enablerepo=development update alsa*
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...s/Fedora/RPMS/
and see if the development version helps you
There is always some risk using the development repos however the choice is up to you and it may be worth a shot ?

Seve

[friez]

check the latest drivers / packages? (ALSA 1.0.14rc1)
How-to is here:
http://people.redhat.com/stransky/alsa/

[Ames]

Still nothing but a bug has been filed with Alsa

[mattold7]

I have the same problem too.

[Cpl_RaefSellous]

Please, let me know if you come across a solution with this.

I did the same and crashed ALSA. I'm a first time Linux newbie, and it freaked me out.

Will post specs in case anyone finds them useful.