The necessary patches have already been backported to Dapper and Edgy but have yet to be applied. They likely will not be applied to Edgy's initial release kernel, either, due to the proximity of the release (less than a week).
** Changed in: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Committed -- ALC883 - Don't work in Alsa-mode https://launchpad.net/bugs/66843 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs