How Do I Fix No Sound On Ubuntu 17.04 64bit

Question

I have recently switched over to Linux and decided to use the Ubuntu distro version 17.04 . After installation was done I realized that I had no audio and soon after realized that my motherboard does not support Linux which is the reason I want to install a sound driver manually. After I downloaded the Realtek Audio driver ( Linux Driver 3.0 ) I had difficulty installing the driver since the installation instruction did not work. So how do I do it?
The results of lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio" is :

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio



        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8724

        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 133

        Memory at df240000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

        Memory at df220000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]

        Capabilities: <access denied>

        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

When attempted to install file through terminal using the commands given by an answer below, after the command line make the following error was given :

error: macro "__DATE__" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time]
       "Compiled on " __DATE__ " for kernel %s"

And on the last line it said :

Makefile:167: recipe for target 'compile' failed
make: *** [compile] Error 2

After the command line make install another error was given which was :

Makefile:188: recipe for target 'install-headers' failed
make: *** [install-headers] Error 1  

I would also like to point out that after entering make install all the lines either started with :

rm: cannot remove '/ A FILE LOCATION ' : permission denied

or they started with :

install: cannot create regular file `/ A FILE LOCATION ' : permission denied

The results of sudo lshw | grep -A5 core was :

*-core
   description: Motherboard
   product: PRIME Z270-A
   vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
   physical id: 0
   version: Rev 1.xx
--
      configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=8
 *-pci
      description: Host bridge
      product: Skylake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
      vendor: Intel Corporation
      physical id: 100
--
      configuration: driver=skl_uncore
      resources: irq:0
    *-display
         description: VGA compatible controller
         product: HD Graphics 530
         vendor: Intel Corporation

The error given after using sudo make install using the method in the answer below was :

Makefile:206: recipe for target 'install-modules' failed
make: *** [install-modules] Error 1

Answer 1

Try these

    tar -xvf 0001-LinuxPkg_5.18rc8.tar.bz2
    cd Rt-Linux-HDaudio-5.18/
    tar -xvf alsa-driver-RTv5.18rc8.tar.bz2
    cd alsa-driver-RTv5.18/alsa/
    sudo apt install gcc g++ build-essential patch
    ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
    make
    sudo make install

Then reboot computer

If you encounter any error, please post that error as code in the end of your question.

Update 1

Related to

When attempted to install file through terminal using the commands given by an answer below, after the command line make the following error was given :

error: macro "DATE" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time] "Compiled on " DATE " for kernel %s"

Try Solutions from

How to disable -Werror=date-time/macro "__DATE__" might prevent reproducible builds

And you can't do make install without successful make and without superuser permissions. try sudo make install. (i have a habit of doing most of admin work from root shell)

Update 2

Also try these with sudo

sudo modprobe -r snd_hda_intel
sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel probe_mask=0x1ff

from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/373777/realtek-alc1220-audio-chipset-on-linux-mint-18-1

Answer 2

Open a terminal and run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install indicator-sound
killall unity-panel-service
killall gnome-panel

You can also try the following commands to bring back the sound indicator in the Panel bar:

sudo apt-get install indicator-sound
sudo apt-get install indicator-messages
sudo apt-get install evolution-indicator

I had success from here "http://sourcedigit.com/20436-sound-icon-missing-ubuntu-how-to-fix-sound-problem-in-ubuntu/" (I hope you too).

Answer 3

I had this problem when I installed Ubuntu 17.10 64bit twice. The first time after struggling a lot I found the solution that worked both the times. My solution was to use pavucontrol. Install it using : sudo apt install pavucontrol . Then run pavucontrol and click on the > sign at the top right till you come to the "Configuration" tab. Select the profile "Analog Stereo Duplex (unplugged)" for Built-in Audio.