[Realtek ALC888] No sound at all after update. Acer 7736g

[Simon Andersson]

Yeah, no sound at all.
Before; in 10.04 I had sound play through both headphones and speakers at the same time (so the driver was a bit buggy anyway), now just nothing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.23+dfsg-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: snomi 1564 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf5500000 irq 46'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC888'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,10250205,00100202 HDA:11c11040,11c10001,00100200'
   Controls : 28
   Simple ctrls : 16
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf5000000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia GT21x HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10de000b,10de0101,00100100'
   Controls : 16
   Simple ctrls : 4
Date: Mon Oct 11 20:45:50 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SelectedCard: 0 Intel HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: [Realtek ALC888] ALSA test tone not correctly played back
dmi.bios.date: 10/06/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: V2.01
dmi.board.name: JV50
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Rev
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV2.01:bd10/06/2009:svnAcer:pnJV50:pvr0100:rvnAcer:rnJV50:rvrRev:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: JV50
dmi.product.version: 0100
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Please open the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf as root, and add the following line to the end of the file:

options snd-hda-intel model=acer-aspire-7730g

Save the file, and reboot. Please test to see whether you have sound. Please also test to see whether the internal speakers are muted when you connect headphones.

 affects ubuntu/alsa-driver
 status incomplete

[Simon Andersson (ubuntu-snomi)]

ok added to the bottom..nothing
also it comes up with quite a few options in sound, (2 in the output) of which nothing works
hmm...

[compiler (compiler)]

i've the same problem with my acer7736zg and ubuntu 10.10. i tried your proposal (luke yelavich), but nothing happens. thank you.