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I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 on Dell Inspiron 5568 15", but the sound quality is lower than the one on the Windows session.

Then I searched for a solution and I downloaded Rt-linux-HDaudio-5.18 from Realtek here

I did the steps written in the readme.txt inside :

Step 1. unzip source code

    tar xfvj alsa-driver-1.0.xx.tar.bz2

Step 2. Complied source code

cd alsa-driver-1.0.xx
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
make
make install

Step 3. reboot your machine

Step 4. Use the alsamixer to disable mute (All audio line default is mute) excute alsamixer

The problem is, when I restarted my computer I found that the sound was disabled and I couldn't run alsamixer in terminal to fix it as they said in step 4. I get this error : 

cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

this picture could give additional information

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  • This driver is outdated , uninstall it running cd alsa-driver-1.0.xx then make uninstall , reboot and hope uninstall works fine and you get the previous driver.
  • Sound is sometimes better in Windows because driver includes a builtin (and hidden) sound enhancer suitable for very small laptop loudspeaker : you can have a not-so-bad similar effect using Pulseaudio equalizer , see here
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