How to install Audio driver for Realtek ALC268 (HDA) on Acer Aspire 4710 laptop on Ha

[vigyani]

How to install Audio driver for Realtek ALC268 (HDA) on Acer Aspire 4710 laptop on Hardy 8.04.1

Make sure that your system is updated (including the kernel and libncurses5-dev) and ready to compile the drivers: update and then use the following command to make sure that all the libraries and packages are installed for compiling the sound driver:

To update the package cache and checks for broken dependencies

 sudo apt-get check

To resynchronize the package index files from their sources

sudo apt-get update

To install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list, Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded;

sudo apt-get upgrade

To prepare systems to compile driver; we need to insall the following package:

 sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall automake linux-headers-generic libncurses5 libncurses5-dev xmlto gettext

Download the realtek audio driver from the following url:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...Audio%20Codecs

Alternate Location:

http://122.146.118.42/downloads/down...&GetDown=false

Look for HDA Drivers and accept the License and then Go to the Linux/Unix section and then clink on one of the download site links for Linux driver (2.4 or 2.6), download and save this file on your hard disk in a folder:

Open a terminal; change to folder where you saved the driver.
to unpack use the command:

 tar -jxvf "downloaded-driver-file-name"

It shall extract and create a folder with the name "realtek-linux-audiopack-X.XX"

change to the folder and to compile and install the driver run

 sudo ./install

It would show lots on info on the screen while driver is complied and installed;
After the driver is installed a configuration screen pops up

Configure the system according to your preference:

It would play a sound; if you hear the sound; it working; Enjoy.

You may have to configure front speaker and headphone volumes.

If jack sense does not work i.e. headphone plug does not mutes the speakers;
added the following options line to the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:

 gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

at the end of above file add the following line:

options snd-hda-intel model=acer

Report back if it works or not.

Cheers

[saffagirl]

Hi,

you seem like you have had a lot of success with installing this card.

I've got the same card in a vostro 1310. I've managed to unpack the tar and install, however I got a few errors at the end of the script to do wiyh alsa mixer and no config screen came up. SO far , I have no sound, mic, webcam etc. working ...I've attached the script for you.Could you please advise?
(I am a noob at ubuntu )

Thanks in advance.

FYI- your link didn't work for me, it's now 5.07 driver?

[vigyani]

Which release of Ubuntu are you using?

[saffagirl]

Which release of Ubuntu are you using?

Hi Vigyani
I'm on Hardy.

Don't stress, since this post I've got my sound working with your post thanks....only thing is that the mike and sound is very quiet. Otherwise a very happy camper , thanks.

[congtq]

Hi everyone.

I am new to Ubuntu and -nix things. I've just installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 a few hours ago.
And then got to know that the sound didn't work.
I followed above steps, and at the last step, when run ./install, I got this error:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/congtq/Desktop/realtek-linux-audiopack-5.07/alsa-utils-1.0.16/alsaconf/po'
mv: cannot stat `t-ja.gmo': No such file or directory


Currently, I am living in Japan so I set zone to Japan, but the language is still English.

Can you help me fix this problem ?

[saffagirl]

I'm on ubuntu newbie too

I remember when I installed my soundcard drivers I had to restart and voila the sound came into effect, I also got quite a few error message...other wise best to let someone more proficient help

With regard to your language

It's not with area settings.

Go to System, then, Administration and then Language Support
From there let it install the language packs, then tick Japanese it should install some more files and let you change your preferred language....Hope this helps,

[congtq]

I try to change languange to Japanese, but it is still the same.
I think there was something wrong when the code is compiled.
But I'm not good at shell. I'll try again later.

Thanks for your answer.

[congtq]

After some search, I found this
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=616845

It work really well for me

[jesuisbenjamin]

Hey Saffagirl,

So it worked out for you right?
Installation didn't on mine, there were some errors - am not sure why. And then no configuration screen came up...

So my mic is still sleepy...

[saffagirl]

Hey Saffagirl,

So it worked out for you right?
Installation didn't on mine, there were some errors - am not sure why. And then no configuration screen came up...

So my mic is still sleepy...

Bonjour benjamin,

yup it worked for me. Like I said a bit on the quiet side, but working...

I remember I had a lot of errors coming off, but went through the whole thing (I'm still a bit of a noob at Ubuntu)...anyway, went through the whole process as detailed. Didn't get a config screen, but when I restarted my machine I had sound and mic (I didn't have either before)....so it's worth checking it out.