After installing Mint Linux on my computer, I noticed that the sound did not work. I tried a lot of things and then finally, thanks to the help of some guys from http://www.linuxmintusers.de, I found a solution.
First I identified the codec of my sound card:
drag@hell ~ $ head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec* Codec: Realtek ALC892
Then i found a blog post regarding this problem. You can read it in German here: http://www.spacefish.biz/blog/2010/06/alc892-b-z-w-realtek-id-892-unter-ubuntu-10-04/
The problem is that the ALSA package of Ubuntu based distributions (maybe others too) does not include a module for the ALC892. But you can easily build it from the package http://files.spacefish.biz/LinuxPkg-5.15rc1.tar.bz2.
You just have to unpack it and execute the install script as root. After that you have to reboot your computer, then everything should work well.
By Spacefish October 12, 2010 - 1:22 am
Thanks for linking my post
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By hemmond January 13, 2011 - 11:10 pm
On my PC, this package isn’t working. How can I repair, what this package damaged?
By Pixel January 14, 2011 - 1:04 pm
You should be able to remove it with:
sh install --uninstallMaybe you should also read the Readme.txt if you haven’t yet.
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By Maarten January 24, 2012 - 11:12 pm
Thanks worked for me on Mint 9. Been googling for a a few hours now, finally a real solution. All other solutions I came across where more like. I solved it by switching distro or upgraded a distro.
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