I've a Lenovo Y550 laptop with dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows &. I've installed Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs in windows installation.

Written by: Score: 6 votes: 12 Format: Article Installing Realtek ALC892 Audio Driver on Linux Mint Hello folks. This is a quick tutorial for who are having problems with swapped surround sound problems using realtek alc892. By default Linux Kernel/ALSA does not support this chipset correctly. It swaps the rear speakers, the side speakers and the LFE/center speakers as well. In other words, only the front speakers works right. Using the 'automated' realtek official driver installation leaves you to a no-sound and no hardware sound support. So, how to install the correctly and working drivers: 1.

Visit 'and download the lastest Unix/Linux driver. In this example, 2. Open terminal.

Type: 'sudo su' and enter root password. Change to the folder where you downloaded the driver (ie: 'cd ~/Downloads') 4.

Type: 'tar -xjf LinuxPkg_XXX.tar.bz2', where XXX is the version of your downloaded driver (as sown in filename, example: 'tar -xjf LinuxPkg_5.17rc13.tar.bz2 '). Type: 'cd realtek-linux-audiopack-YYY', where YYY is the version of your downloaded driver (as shown if folder name, example: 'cd realtek-linux-audiopack-5.17' ). Type 'tar -xjf alsa-driver-ZZZ.tar.bz2', where ZZZ is the version corresponding to the filename (example: 'tar -xjf alsa-driver-1.0.25-5.17rc13.tar.bz2 '). Type 'cd alsa-driver-WWW', where WWW is the version corresponding to the folder name (example: 'cd alsa-driver-1.0.25 '). Direct download movies. Type './configure --with-cards=hda-intel' 9. Type 'make' 10. Type 'make install' 11.

Test the audio output. You can do this by right-clicking on you speaker icon and selecting sound preferences -> hardware -> select the desired audio output -> select the desired surround profile (ie: Analog Surround 5.1 Output + Analog Stereo Input) -> Test Speakers. During the installation the sound level can be mutted, check out in the slider if it is not mute! I hope it helps. It took a long time to reach this. This tutorial probably also applies to: ALC100,100P ALC200,200P ALC650D ALC650E ALC650F ALC650 ALC655 ALC653 ALC658 ALC658D ALC850 ALC101 ALC202 ALC250 ALC203 ALC221 ALC260 ALC262 ALC267 ALC268 ALC259 ALC269 ALC270 ALC271X ALC272 ALC273 ALC275 ALC276 ALC280 ALC281X ALC282 ALC283 ALC290 ALC656 ALC660 ALC660VD ALC661 ALC662 ALC663 ALC665 ALC668 ALC670 ALC671 ALC672 ALC680 ALC861 ALC861VD ALC880 ALC882 ALC883 ALC885 ALC888 ALC889A ALC898 ALC892 ALC899 ALC900 ALC1150 ALC1200 Tags: alsa pulseaudio realtek alc892 audio sound driver problem swapped audio Created: 5 years ago. Last edited: 5 years ago.

Reviewed: 5 years ago. Comments 2 years ago Awesome, Thank You OP for this. 4 years ago I've got an Asus P9X79 Pro with Realtek ALC898 on board running LM17 64 on two SSDs, on Cinnamon the other MATE.

The sound was unbelievably choppy, i.e. Crackly, on both Cinnamon & MATE so I tried this method on the Cinnamon install; downloaded the latest Realtek driver and installed it following the instructions to a T.

Dummy output, no sound! So then I followed this guys instructions (and did: sudo apt-get install linux-generic (left out the -r) and got my choppy sound back.

Finally I went into BIOS, turned off the Azalia HD sound and set AC97 for the front speaker connection, saved the setting & rebooted, checked and the card was, of course, not there. Then I went into BIOS again, turned on the Azalia HD only, saved the setting & rebooted and the static/choppiness was gone, clear sound on both C & M! I'm not gonna try reverting the AC97 setting to HD as the sound is now good, the front connection is not used and I'm not that curious! Hope this helps someone. 4 years ago Hi, I have Linuxmint 13 'Maya' installed on a Dell XPS 15z machine, which uses the Realtek ALC665 Audio card. When I go to the Realtek site, I see two options to download Linux drivers: one link says 'AC'97 Audio Codecs' and the other says 'High Definition Audio Codecs', with version numbers '4.06a' and '5.18rc8' respectively.