Realtek Audio Drivers for Ubuntu

Question

Are there any Realtek audio drivers for Ubuntu? If yes where do I get them and how do I install them correctly? (for Ubuntu 14.04 64bit) Also with jack work okay after I install them?

Curious about the reason? The ALSA drivers don't support microphones for my soundcard (Creative Sound Blaster 5.1 VX). Also, It does not handle audio output quite well. I have issues. Also, I'd really like some software like the windows-only "Realtek Audio Manager" that does effects to the audio such as echoes and so on.

The drivers for Realtek hardware are already part of the kernel. — CL., Jan 18 '16 at 22:27
@CL. I see. ...I want to read more about this. (the realtek drivers being part of the kernel). Do you have anything for me? — 842Mono, Jan 19 '16 at 04:06

score 22 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '21 at 02:15

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The best thing to do would be to remove alsa and reinstall it. The same thing happened to me when I switched motherboards, and this fixed it.

Remove the ALSA packages.

 sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils

Reinstall the same packages.
```
 sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
```
Packages gdm and ubuntu-desktop are also removed in this process if you are using Gnome. They need to be reinstalled:
```
 sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop
 # or 
 sudo apt-get install gdm3 ubuntu-desktop
```
If you are using Xubuntu this will also happen to you.
```
 sudo apt-get install gdm xubuntu-desktop
```
Reboot.
```
 sudo reboot
```

edited Apr 13 '21 at 02:15

matinict

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answered Apr 23 '18 at 09:58

nishit chittora

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Thanks but no that doesn't work. The driver is just not there. I've even tried various distros and the mic just doesn't work so far on any of them. – 842Mono Apr 24 '18 at 18:09
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This worked for me after upgrading my ubuntu 14.04 :) thanks. – user1236477 Apr 09 '20 at 19:38
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gdm has no installation candidate on ubuntu 18.04 – carkod Jul 30 '20 at 11:09
This worked for me :) – Sumedh Ulhe Oct 11 '21 at 15:53
Thanks worked for me on ubuntu 21.10 with latitude 9420 – Amit Dwivedi Oct 17 '21 at 05:25

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 07 '18 at 00:00

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I had the same problem (internal mic not working) with my Lenovo Ideapad 320, which runs Ubuntu 18.04.

I installed GNOME ALSA Mixer from the Ubuntu Softwares Panel and followed another topic instruction: put the "Capture" full on the right and "Internal" empty on the left, as the following image:

It worked well for me.

edited Jul 07 '18 at 00:00

Stephen Rauch

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answered Jul 06 '18 at 20:46

renatohr

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 12 '16 at 15:01

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Install Pulseaudio Equalizer for purposes:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer

Your sound card Realtek may have problems frequencies. To solve install OSS. It seems that it is supported. Download from here. Install and restart.

If installation errors, install alsa-oss

There is a similar problem here.

edited Aug 12 '16 at 15:01

answered Aug 12 '16 at 13:44

Ronal Plata

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The kernel maintainers want to remove OSS from Linux in the near future and I have doubts that OSS supports recent products from Creative or Realtek while looking the the list in one of your links. – LiveWireBT Aug 24 '17 at 08:03

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