Ubuntu 8.04: Sound Card Setup for Acer Aspire 8920G

Sound Card set-up

There is at the moment of this writing a new project running to create scripts that install the ALSA drivers (by soundcheck). The Ubuntu forums host the discussions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=962695 I've tried this but it didn't work (known issues with kernel version, and unfortunately the workaround didn't work either) So back to the trick from while ago with updated source code.

1. Set model to acer-aspire in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-basegksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base (add the following line at bottom) options snd-hda-intel model=acer-aspire
2. Download and compile hda-verb-0.3.tar.gz from: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/misc/ unpack the file and then compile the code with the make command.
3. Copy the compiled program to /usr/local/bin (sudo cp hda-verb /usr/local/bin/)
4. Add the following line to /etc/rc.local (before exit 0) /usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x15 SET_EAPD_BTLENABLE 2
5. Reboot and the sound should be working.