Comment 84 for bug 297744

I have an ASUS K8V-MX motherboard, which had never been used to play sounds previously (was previously a headless development box). Recently re-purposed it, and installed MythBuntu 10.04, and could not sound to work at all, using the onboard VIA 8237, with the snd_via82xx module (this was using ALSA though, not pulseaudio). Had tried everything in software (mixers, checked modules, etc), and had begun to conclude it was this bug. But after many hours finally saw this post: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=919634&page=2 , and added a jumper to pins 5-6 and 9-10 on the motherboard's FP_AUDIO block. Then after undoing some of the software changes I had made, sound "just worked". So, this hardware seems to be fully capable of sound in Linux, just make sure that it's not a hardware problem - by either using the front audio connectors, or have the 2 jumpers on the motherboard's FP_AUDIO block if you want to use the rear connectors.