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I have Dell XPS 15 L502X with Ubuntu. Is it possible for someone to create an ALSA driver package from the official Realtek "LinuxPkg_5.17Beta.tar.bz2" drivers (found via Google)?

These drivers provide excellent support for the ALC665 chipset, found eg. in the Dell XPS 15 notebook series (L502x). All the features like output selection (HDMI, headphones) that were not working before are supported.

I am asking for a package because the driver is unusable as-is: it comes with an outdated version of ALSA that does not compile on a 3.5 kernel. Apart from that, it also removes all the default snd-* drivers that come with the kernel package.

Any help in bringing better support for this device to the official Ubuntu packages is much appreciated.

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I'll try to package it, or get help if I can't. Can you give a link to the tar.bz file? – ObsessiveSSOℲ Sep 23 '12 at 21:57
The one I used was this one. The file contains the alsa source for 1.0.24 and some patches, which are all over the place. – user92334 Sep 23 '12 at 22:01
I'll take a look when I have time. – ObsessiveSSOℲ Sep 23 '12 at 22:02

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