Navigate to Check the box to agree to the terms listed and click “Next”. We know that our motherboard manufacturer did not provide a driver, so this is quite all right. Scroll down to the bottom of the page where the Unix (Linux) drivers are listed. Choose the latest version, and click the download mirror closest to you.

Once the tarball is downloaded, locate it in your file explorer and extract it (or do it through the terminal). Open a terminal window and navigate to the new folder containing the extracted files. From the terminal, execute the following to extract the driver source code (where “xx” is the version number in the filename): tar xfvj alsa-driver-xx.tar.bz2 Now you must compile the source code: cd alsa-driver-xx./configure --with-cards=hda-intel make make install Once the source code is compiled and installed, reboot the machine.

How to Install Realtek HD Audio Manager on Windows 10. Now it’s time to install Realtek HD Audio Manager. To install it, follow these steps: Step 1. Go to your Chrome browser’s Download page or simply press Ctrl + J. Locate the downloaded file, and open it. The last step will open Realtek HD Audio – InstallShield Wizard dialog box.

From the terminal, execute alsamixer and unmute the main channel. My Linux Zorin OS9 has the driver already installed. However the motherboard has a special jack that has to be activated.

In Windoze it is done by the realtek driver software. It senses that you plugged in the speakers to the rear panel jack and uses it. But in Linux while you can bring up alsamixer it has no option in it to turn on the rear panel jack and/or to detect it.

I still get sound from the internal speaker, or I can plug into the front panel headphone and it plays fine from that in either OS. But I want to use the rear panel jack instead. I dont know if there is a jumper on the motherboard to eliminate the internal speaker to force it over to the rear panel, if there is that would resolve it. However I would rather not waste time to figure that one out. Or maybe that would end up being an easier way. Any thoughts?

Company of heroes controls. I have to admit, I don’t know much about Zorin OS (designed for world domination by Christopher Walken, perhaps?). Have you tried using the driver directly from Realtek instead of the pre-installed one?

All else failing, before you get too involved trying to solve the problem using software, I would suggest checking the documentation on the motherboard. There may indeed be a jumper that you have to move. On a side note, I tend to not use “pre-built” versions of Linux for this very reason.

I’ve learned through trial and [a lot of] error that you’re almost always better off starting from the ground up. Even with later versions of Ubuntu, I’ve found that it’s easier to start with the basic, stripped-down installation and add support as necessary to avoid conflicts. From what I see all over the internet, this is the way to install this driver, however I am not able to do that. It seems to me that the installer was made for older kernel, Mint might have different path names or just misses some dependencies, I was not able to find out at last.

I went through whole internet (including your link which brings up same problem) and found nothing so I decided to just leave it. I have sound, its just slight background white noise that annoys me and tells me the driver must not be perfect. About Mint – its good system, based on Ubuntu so not much difference, many packages that were built for ubuntu work under Mint and most of all – it has Cinnamon desktop, I cant stand Unity.