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Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 w/ Realtek ALC892R chipset audio on Linux

I recently bought a Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 mother board to be used in what I wanted to be a multimedia center (among other things). Since I don’t have yet a HDMI-compatible concentrator, I was particularly interested for now into the S/PDIF optical digital audio output that comes integrated to it. Unfortunately, after installing Linux Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS, even though analog sound was working, I was quite disgruntled to notice that no light would come out of the optical plug. The command « aplay -l » would list only two entries, namely something called « Intel Generic » and another one labeled « Intel HDMI ». So no « Digital » nor « IEC958 » entry to select, which means the problem was either hardware-related (that is, there was a physical problem with the mobo) or, more likely, I didn’t have the appropriate driver for the mobo audio chipset, which is Realtek ALC892R.

On the Gigabyte support web site, there was a note saying that for Linux one would have to seek drivers from the chipset vendor. In that case, that would be Realtek. So I went to the Realtek web site and found right away just what I was looking for in Downloads –> High Definition Audio Codecs –> UNIX (Linux). So I just installed the package, restarted the computer and voilà!

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