Installed Easy Ubuntu but have problems w/ Nvidia PCI-E 7300 GS and No sound.
 

I did a fresh install of x86 and first thing I did was run Easy Ubuntu and then did all my updates.The motherboard in the pc is an ASUS P5S2D-X The speakers are dolby 5.1 analog setup (I have no soundcard,sounds done thru the mobo and its SIS SI7012) and I aslo have a plantronics Gamecom | Pro 1 headset (usb2 ) hooked up.So far the headsets work, but when I switch sound to run on the motherboard, no sound.

I do have my motherboard cd, and it has files for linux drivers, but all their instructions say are open "file" then :

/configure
make
make install

and thats it.

Also it detects my Nvidia card as "NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card "

but I have some minor bugginess, such as lag, and the place marker for typing disappears or goes in every space if I hold my arrow key backword to fix a mistake.

Other than this, Ubuntu is awesome.

Your best bet is to visit the site of the motherboard and see if they possess any forums or instructions.

Now if you are having problems with the install process please post your results so that we can see where the install process is failing.

Another tips references doing a search via

www.google.com/linux

Those are the basic instructions for compiling. You need to have a terminal open and set the current directory to the one for what you want to install. There should be a configure.sh file which takes care of all the details for the application it will be installing. The first command should be "./configure" and the last is "sudo make install"

A note on your Nvida card. Ubuntu installs the generic 2D Nvidia driver "nv" when it recognizes an Nvidia chip set. Installing the 3D driver is a separate process. In addition to this site www.ubuntulinux.org has excellent instructions.