Comment 10 for bug 106634

It strange that you can't register - I had no problems at all (after I retrieved the confirmation mail from the GMail spam box where it got dropped, that is =) ).

My kind of laptop has been on the market for at least a year now, so no - it's not that new.
From what I think I know about codec chips like this it's a kind of universal multichannel sound input/output device that can be configured in lots of different ways depending on what you want from it. I would guess that the ALC883 itself is actually fully supported, it's the particular way that LG uses it in these laptops that is the cause of our problems.

I must admit that I have no idea what that "eapd" is... it was just one of the first ones I tried that worked somewhat. (If I recall correctly there are other models that also gives you speaker sound, but they are just as broken as laptop-eapd otherwise. Yes, I actually tried them all!).