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Realtek ALC883 sound card drivers problem.

Hi.
Everything was working (sound) after fresh install of Kali (Debian Wheezy). I thought "Damn I'm bored, I will install sound drivers for fun". And I tried to do it... God damn I don't know why.
I installed Realtek High Definition Linux Driver 5.11. Here are few last lines:

Code:

/bin/bash: xmlto: command not found

make[2]: *** [alsactl_init.7] Error 127

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/skitter/Downloads/realtek-linux-audiopack-5.11/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'

make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/skitter/Downloads/realtek-linux-audiopack-5.11/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'

make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Remove Folder.....

./install: 101: ./install: alsaconf: not found

Now my audio is NOT WORKING.
Here are some addidtional informations:

Code:

root@Alias:# lspci | grep -i audio

00:07.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (rev a1)



root@Alias:# alsamixer

cannot open mixer: No such device or address



root@Alias:# cat /proc/asound/cards

cat: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory



root@root@Alias:#dpkg --get-selections |grep alsa

alsa-base                                      install

alsa-tools                                      install

alsa-utils                                      install

libsox-fmt-alsa                                install

And here is screen of my KDE Control Module devices:
http://postimg.org/image/5x39z1we9/

You can see Tactic 3D Sigma because that is my external (USB) soundcard. However I didn't find any drivers for Linux so I'm using integrated sound card.

Guys I have no idea how I solved this problem, but it took me whole night to fix this.
I think that this was the cure:

Code:

~$ aptitude --purge reinstall linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils linux-image-`uname -r` linux-ubuntu-modules-`uname -r` libasound2 

~$ usermod -a -G audio <yourusername>

In Synaptic I marked to reinstall:

Code:

linux-headers-3.7-trunk-all

linux-headers-3.7-trunk-all-amd64

And of course applied changes.

Then recompiled Kali Linux kernel:

Code:

~$ apt-get install kernel-package ncurses-dev fakeroot bzip2

~$ apt-get install linux-source

~$ cd /usr/src/

~$ tar jxpf linux-source-3.7.tar.bz2 

~$ cd linux-source-3.7/

~$ cp /boot/config-3.7-trunk-amd64 .config

~$ make menuconfig

~$ export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep processor|wc -l)

~$ make-kpkg clean

~$ fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image

~$ dpkg -i ../linux-image-3.7.2_3.7.2-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb 

~$ update-initramfs -c -k 3.7.2

~$ update-grub2

~$ reboot

After reboot everything is working agin :D
All thanks to Kali documentation and lidex (user of Ubuntu forums).

completely off topic as I won't join their forum but I wonder about Trade Mark?

http://docs.kali.org/kali-policy/kal...ademark-policy

while we have http://docs.kali.org/wp-content/uplo...03/kali-tm.png

thats LINUX and I thought LINUX was held by Linus Torvalds

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/progr...rk/attribution

so your Kali site might need to attribute correctly?

I am not a lawyer