I just installed Linux on ASROCK GeForce 8200 board. Being a relatively new chipset, I had a couple of issues booting older kernels, finally settling for Debian lenny since it had a CD that booted. I was worried about onboard audio, since it's one of thousands of HD audio solutions, and I expected to have problems with it. To make the long story short: 1.0.16 -> only noise, doesn't sound close to track played 1.0.17 -> sound + lots of noise, but you can recongnize the song that is playing takashi's sound-2.6 -> everything works (including front panel) + HDMI audio seeems to be supported

Massive props to whoever made it work.

I just have two questions: 1) On RS690 I used to have separate device for RS690/RS780 HDMI (that is HDA ATI and HDA ATI HDMI), on NVIDIA I only have HDA NVIDIA, which has subdevice for HDMI, why? 2) alsamixer says: Card: HDA NVidia | Chip: Generic 10de NVIDIA MCP78 HDMI. Shouldn't chip be "Realtek ALC662 rev1" or something like that? Also, why does it say Generic 10de? Where is that read from?

Regards,