Hi,
I read recently here that some people using that mobo got their sound working. Mine is not...
Please tell me what is in your "lsmod" at boot time.

This is mine:
-----------8x------------
snd_intel8x0 34144 0
snd_ac97_codec 95740 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2240 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 52640 0
snd_mixer_oss 19328 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 90632 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 24644 1 snd_pcm
snd 53796 6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9760 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11016 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
------------8x---------

That mobo has a SiS7012 (integrated) with AD1888
No sound even after fidling with alsamixer, etc.
No sound with 2.6.8 kernel, no sound with 2.6.14 kernel

Thank you
JP

It seems that your lsmod recognizes a sound card (snd_intel8x0). Have you run any kind of configuration program for alsa? Or do you even have alsa installed? I don't know what distro you're using, so its hard to give help on installing anything. If you do have alsa installed, then perhaps you should look into alsaconf, which typically configures alsa correctly with few hassles. A google search brings up some .rpm files of alsaconf, but since I don't know what distro you're on its hard to say how you would install it.

Yes, alsa IS installed, Alsaconf launched 2 o 3 times and never found any problem, and I looked in every (?) possible alsa file (alsa-base, aliases, ...) in /etc/modutils /etc/modprobe.d/ and everything is normal.
I looked also in alsa website to find help.
I put an additionnal file suggested by alsa and ran update-modules
The hardware (basic speaker system) itself is working.
udev ?
Well, I dont know where is the problem.
Do you have the same mobo?
Thanks
JP

I forgot to mention:
Same proble with 2.6.8 debian and 2.6.14 debian
Sorry

I have the A7N8X-X which has the same chipset i'm guessing. Just did "apt-get install alsa alsa-utils alsa-base" then ran alsaconf got it set up and then alsamixer. I also use aumix because for some reason alsactl restore wont save the settings. The command "aumix -v 90 -w 90" sets the volumne to 90% which is good for me since i tweak the volumne with a hardware knob my speakers have. I've gotten sound working like this with sarge when it was unstable and now i don't have any trouble running it with SID. Also used this same method to get it working on multiple computers no problem. My current kernel is a custom compiled 2.6.10 but the debian ones should work (first started out with 2.6.8 and it worked fine). The only mobo setting i had to do is noapic nolapic on grub on boot up because otherwise i get wierd mobo problems especially related my harddrive. Just watch out for other sound daemons that could be blocking you, like kde uses some other sound daemon which can mess up alsa, esound can also mess around with it. I'd recommend trying to get only alsa working and then emulating OSS when needed. Good luck.

I did exactly all what you did, except the change in grub.
I will try.
Otherwise, I made some test with 2 live distro:
Knoppix an Ubuntu
No sound either ;-(
Bad...
However, I will try some test without linux today.
Thanks
JP

Well, no apic or no local apic makes no difference.
I read a lot with google, and I feel like the i810 chipset integrated on the mobo is not really seen as the best :-(
With 3 different live CD based on debian, the dmesg is slightly different, but there is no doubt, it is really a i810 SiS 7012.
I found some weird tricks, and I'll made the experimentation ;-)
JP

i actually use a cheap PCI soundblaster 32 card (actually with 24 channels, 8 are from "software"), because from what i've heard and seen, the intel8x0 drivers aren't the greatest in the world with nforce2, but i've never had problems with either, besides back in the day when i started i had some other sound daemons that all conflicted and got mad at each other resulting in a very patchy and bad sound ssytem.

I was finally so fed up that I did like you.
I took an old SoundBlaster 128 PCI (CT4751), disabled the onboard intel8x0, and for the kernel 2.6.8, I was up and running immediatly or so.
However, for the 2.6.14 kernel, I tried again and again to fix all these ALSA files, make configure the kernel, looked everywhere in the damned trees, and after a couple of hours of frustration, I get rid of the kernel, and rebuilt it.
Everything is ok again with the 2.6.14 kernel...
This mess maybe coming from the new hotplug behaviour, but I have not enough knowledge (and patience) to fight...:-)

i had the other working, but like this i got better quality sound :P. Ideally it was to have two sound set ups so i could attempt to perfect my setup since i use a secondary monitor and speakers that are about 10 meters away (multimedia area) and it was to try to configure some video app to use the onboard soundcard to play instead of my normal one and using the secondary video adaptor so i dont have to plug in the audio to the speaker line every time and i can preset volumnes and stuff. But hey, these PCI sound cards work better then the onboard so i don't mind.