I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 motherboard with a nForce3 250Gb chipset. I have tried to use the built in sound on both Ubuntu 5.04 and Slackware 10.2. It will not work out-of-the-box, and I can't find a driver for linux anywhere on the Gigabyte website. Is there anyway for me to get the built-in sound card working on linux? If there isn't a way could someone please give me a list of some sound cards that do work on linux?

Did you run alsaconf ? Also what kernel are you running?
Acording to a thread I found it is supported by alsa with the "snd-intel8x0" module.
Run lsmod at a terminal to see if it is loaded.
If it is then check alsamixer at the terminal as well and check if the channels are muted.

Thank you for the help. As it turns out all the channels in alsamixer were muted But, it works now.

Hi,

I have the same motherboard, version F7 BIOS, running Suse 10.0 32 bit and the sound works fine. Here is the output of lsmod |grep snd

lsmod |grep snd
snd_pcm_oss 59168 0
snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 51984 0
snd_seq_device 8588 1 snd_seq
snd_intel8x0 33504 1
snd_ac97_codec 91004 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2432 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 93064 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 24452 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 60420 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9184 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10632 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

I've never tried ubuntu or slackware. They shouldn't be a lot different though.



Stan