No sound on Acer laptops w/ Realtek ALC883 chipset

[Martin]

i hope this is the right place to file a bug so it gets fixed in edgy final.

A whole lot of Acer Laptops with the Realtek ALC883 chip only got sound working very recently, after somebody submitted a patch to the ALSA project (which is integrated into ALSA-driver versions 1.0.13rc1 upwards).

here's the patch: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2378

i have been informed that edgy uses alsa-driver 1.0.12rc1, which doesn't contain that fix yet -- will it be backported?

cheers

[John Dong (jdong)]

This patch has been backported to both Edgy and Dapper weeks ago. Does the problem still persist??

[Martin (lodp)]

i haven't tried edgy (don't intend to set it up before the final release), and on dapper i've got alsa-driver 1.0.13rc2 installed from the alsa project sources -- i don't know how i would check whether it works with the package that comes from the repositories (is there a way?). but i guess if the patch has been backported, everything's going to be alright...

[Rodrigo Messias Barros (rodrigomessiasbarros)]

I have a ACER Aspire 3102NWLMi and sound don't work in alsa mode, but work in OSS mode. In the first boot, the sound card work perfect with alsa... but after the first boot don't work with alsa. The gnome-volume-manager show OSS-mode (identify witch Realtek ALC883 (OSS mixer)), not show ALSA-mode anyway. The modules kernel snd-hda-intel was correct configure(modprobe snd-hda-intel)...
What do I do? (sorry by my poor english).

[Michael Knepher (mknepher)]

I'm running edgy on an Acer Aspire 5102WLMi. All the alsa bits seem to have been installed during setup, but gnome-sound-properties had everything set to OSS. Switching to alsa resulted in no sound. To get esd working, I had to replace libesd-alsa0 with libesd0 os that it would work with oss.

[Bill Dunk-Green (bill-dunk-green)]

I am running an Acer Aspire 5050-5827 with the Realtek ALC883. I can confirm that an update to date installation of Edgy Eft does not produce any sound. I am going to attempt to use OSS but would prefer that Alsa work instead.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

This has been resolved upstream in 1.0.14rc1.

[robertocravero (roberto-cravero)]

My Acer travelmate 3043 with Realtek ALC883 doesn't work with 7.04 final release

It worked well with 6.06 and 6.10

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

alsa-driver (1.0.14-1ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - debian/alsa-base.modprobe: Load snd-seq,
    - debian/alsa-base.postinst: Forcibly remove /etc/modprobe.d/sound
      on dist-upgrade,
    - debian/control: Don't Depend on modutils, and adhere to
      DebianMaintainerField,
    - debian/linux-sound-base.dirs: Don't create modutils or discover,
    - debian/rules: Enable MPU for snd-cmipci,
    - Only ship modprobe configuration,
    - Remove default mode,
    - Invoke modprobe with -Qb and command line options,
    - Remove modprobe post-install script in favour of using udev,
    - Continue to ship the initscript in the apm scripts dir.
  * New upstream version closes LP: #45841, LP: #51357, LP: #57294,
    LP: #59569, LP: #63971, LP: #66843, LP: #68930, LP: #75725,
    LP: #77024, LP: #77099, LP: #77101, LP: #83015, LP: #87195,
    LP: #88546, LP: #88570, LP: #90417, LP: #91721, LP: #92307,
    LP: #92358, LP: #95597, LP: #108563, LP: #110599, LP: #115186,
    LP: #118173, LP: #119086.

alsa-driver (1.0.14-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (closes: #391991, #401074, #421853)

  [ Jordi Mallach ]
  * debian/control: add XS-Vcs-Browser and XS-Vcs-Svn headers.

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]

  * Patch management switched to quilt. This is more comfortable.
  * Updated alsa-drivers debconf templates.
    Thanks, debian-l10n-english contributors (closes: #425208).
  * Updated alsa-drivers debconf translations:
    Galician: Jacobo Tarrio (closes: #425804).
    Japanese: Kenshi Muto (closes: #426007).
    Portuguese: Traduz (closes: #426111).
    Malayalam: Praveen A (closes: #426241).
    German: Helge Kreutzmann (closes: #426375).
    Czech: Miroslav Kure (closes: #426427).
    Vietnamese: Clytie Siddall (closes: #427148).
    Dutch: Bart Cornelis (closes: #428032).
    Russian: Yuri Kozlov (closes: #428136).
    Spanish: Carlos Galisteo de Cabo (closes: #428572)
    Swedish: Daniel Nylander (closes: #426202)
    Catalan: Jordi Mallach (closes: #428224)
  * Added alsa-drivers debconf templates translations:
    Basque: Piarres Beobide (closes: #425810).
    Bulgarian: Damyan Ivanov (closes: #425854).
    Tamil: Tirumurti Vasudevan (closes: #426081).
    Italian: Luca Monducci (closes: #426152).
    Korean: Sunjae Park (closes: #426618).
    Arabic: Ossama Khayat (closes: #428264)

alsa-driver (1.0.14~rc4-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * New upstream release candidate.
  * Added Malayalam translation. Thanks Santhosh Thottingal. (closes: #419524)

alsa-driver (1.0.14~rc3-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * New upstream release candidate
  * Merged etch changes

alsa-driver (1.0.14~rc1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * New upstream release candidate
  * Removed debian/patches/98_ens1371_inaudible_sound_def.dpatch. Applied
    different from upstream

alsa-driver (1.0.13-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Elimar Riesebieter ]
  * Added snd-seq-midi as an optional load above generic modules (snd-rawmidi)
    Thanks Eduard Dumitrescu for testing. (closes: #408036)
  * Added "cx88_alsa (PCI: TV cards...." to d...