Update on Realtek ALSA

I figured I'd put this down for whoever ends up finding this post.  I'm buying a new sound card and disposing the onboard sound.  Whoever is having issues with the ALC line of sound cards can look into Realtek's ALSA fork.

Revisiting Ubuntu and Trine 2 Audio Issue

I'm still running some tests on a possible solution to the problem.  I edited /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and added the line: options snd-hda-intel model=auto.  We'll see if it works.

HP Pavilion G4-2123TX and the Realtek Card Reader Update

So, I saw a kernel update come in today from Ubuntu and I noticed that the rts5229 module wasn't being loaded.  I checked the driver being used and its: rtsx_pci.  I uninstalled the rts5229-dkms deb package and tried my SD card reader and Ubuntu loads it up without issues.  So I'm lead to believe that the new kernel update includes the drivers for these.  Good job, Canonical.

My current kernel is linux-image-3.5.0-24-generic.

It works!

The dkms deb package from the previous post works... or so it seems!  This is good!

More on the Card Reader

This blog post managed to explain much of the situation.  I also may try his kernel module deb package to see if it works.

HP Pavilion G4-2123TX and the Realtek Card Reader

So, it looks like I found a missing driver on Ubuntu 12.10 for the Realtek card reader that came with my new laptop.  lspci identifies the device as Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01).

Apparently there are quite a few bug tickets (here and here) that talk about that.  Furthermore, it looks like Realtek has already released the drivers and one forum thread discusses how to install it.  Apparently even linux-next has the drivers already.  So when is this support finally coming??

I know how to compile drivers, but I ain't doing it.  It's a headache considering that Ubuntu keeps changing drivers and I have to recompile them to make them work.  No thank you.  Maybe it's about time I read up how dkms works though...