I will note that this is not a solution but a workaround. you can get one of them external USB sound devices, plug it in, and more likely than not, you will get better sound than your built in (card) could ever produce. so without express recommendation: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX31016 http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX25819
Now your problems could well stem from a bad driver, but they could be rooted in some out of spec hardware. Now i am not saying that this applies to your case hare, but generally speaking google for problems with you device regarding you driver, if you find mention then check it, maybe there is already a solution, if not, just silently seek out the latest version of said driver from the developers website, many bug-fixes take years to get into distro repositories, while being available for download and compile on the developers website. Bar a that, you may actually have a faulty hardware, this does not seem to be the case here, but in such case, i am sure the merchant you got your hardware from would be willing to replace the motherboard, just make sure you have the proper in shop replacement type warranties available for you. The root of the problem is the lack of systematic Linux distribution by hardware manufacturers and retailers. And that should lead to a bit of thinking from the community and a lot of action from the commercial partners who do make and distribute computer hardware. One way to do this, is for the community to offer a testing and certification platform for new hardware, make a certified for Linux sticker if you like, so the hardware manufacturers and retailers can advertise their hardware works with Linux or not. We need to make this a consistent and reliable service that can be accesses by commerce globally or locally. Ultimately the vendor do not have to ship it with Linux, tho we would love it better if they did, but they can sure put the sticker on the hardware to designate it as works with Linux 3.0+ for example :-) Cheers Sam On June 29, 2014 Sunday 10:27:17 Greg King wrote: > "Linux dominates supercomputers as never before" See article: > http://www.zdnet.com/linux-dominates-supercomputers-as-never-before-7000030 > 890/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61 > > Too bad it can't do the same on the desktop. For example, I just bought a > new system with a Gigabyte motherboard and I7 processor. I put Mint 17 on > it and 95% of things just work, except for the sound - full of static and > choppy. I've spent a few hours already downloading new drivers from Realtek > and compiling them (not exactly a "consumer friendly" activity) and it > still does not work correctly. Apparently it is a known bug with Realtek > ALC892 audio but none of the solutions I have found from googling around > has fixed it yet. Not much has changed in the past 7 years since I similar > problems with sound on a new machine back then too. Of course the DVD that > came with the motherboard is loaded with Windows drivers. It's encouraging > that Realtek at least published Linux drivers - too bad they were never > debugged, or the docs on how to get them to work are incomplete. > > If anyone else has solved this issue I'd love to hear the solution. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
