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Jahova

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From: USA

Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 3

Sound card - Realtek ALC888

I need this audio driver/interface/whatev to work. Alsa would be fine.

motherboard: GA-M57SLI-S4
Distro: Arch Linux x86_64

I know this soundcard works in Linux. Fedora 6, 7, 8 all recognized it and configured it. What's the deal?

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Righard

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2007-12-13

Posts: 29

Re: Sound card - Realtek ALC888

Doesn't it work? what doesn't work?
What says:

cat /proc/asound/cards

Can you hear a lot of rubbish when typing

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/audio

or does it says that /dev/audio doesn't exist?

Last edited by Righard (2008-10-06 23:07:05)

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Sound card - Realtek ALC888

What says lspci -vvv about the card?

ChoK

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From: France

Registered: 2008-10-01

Posts: 346

Re: Sound card - Realtek ALC888

I have the same soundcard, I gave up setting alsa for it after lurking for maybe 10 hours on internet for every piece of hint
(and I had a previous full-fledged working asound.conf for a nvidia hdaudio so ...)

OSS v4 works right out of the box, the micro too
I have only 2 problems : no sound in Phonon though everything else works fine, and no automute when a plug an headphone

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Sound card - Realtek ALC888

See alsa-user thread. Sounds like you need to compile the very latest ALSA progs & kernel modules.