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After a clean install of Ubuntu 24.04, I have no sound. I had sound before with Ubuntu 20.04, and also when upgraded to 22.04. BTW, the upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 was botched, and so I had to do a clean install. I cannot see the ALC892 in Settings->Sound->Output, but I can see it in alsamixer.

Maybe my system is too old? Or something is not right with pipewire? Would be great if someone can show me a workaround, thanks!

ALC892 does not show up in Settings->Sound->Output

ALC892 shows up in alsamixer as HDA Intel PCH

barneytron
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I have the same issue with my TP-LINK wifi dongle that uses the generic rtl8821au driver. Every distro upgrade ends up with the same issue. The kernel upgrade breaks the compiled driver module, and it needs to be downloaded for the new kernel and recompiled. The trick is getting the correct driver from GitHub, which given the abundance of drivers, is not easy.

The one that did it for me is:

https://github.com/morrownr/8821au-20210708

Just do

sudo git clone https://github.com/morrownr/8821au-20210708.git into /usr/src

cd into the /usr/src/8821au-20210708 directory, and run the installation script

sudo ./install-driver.sh

You won't even have to reboot. As soon as the installation ends, you'll start seeing networks appear in the networks widget.

Tom Silverman
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