Have same motherboard, I get no sound with ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio on Ubuntu 8.10 (official release).
No problems with Hardy Heron with latest kernel updates (dual boot 8.04/8.10). French version, but I'm sure you'll get the idea: aplay -l **** Liste des PLAYBACK périphériques **** carte 0: nForce2 [NVidia nForce2], périphérique 0 : Intel ICH [NVidia nForce2] Sous-périphériques: 1/1 Sous-périphérique: #0: subdevice #0 carte 0: nForce2 [NVidia nForce2], périphérique 2 : Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia nForce2 - IEC958] Sous-périphériques: 1/1 Sous-périphérique: #0: subdevice #0 Excerpt of : lspci -v | less 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8095 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21 I/O ports at d000 [size=256] I/O ports at d400 [size=128] Memory at ec001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IGP2 (rev c1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 80ac Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: agpgart-nvidia Kernel modules: nvidia-agp -- New kernel broke onboard sound (Asus A7N8X) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242307 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs