I made my first Mint install on a new system. My sound chip/codex was not detected, but I expected issues as it is a new CPU/MB.CPU: Intel I3 7320MB: ASUS Strix Z270E (wanted simple one, got this one as replacement due to vendor errors)Unfortunately, this comes with a Realtek S1220A ...sigh... which I believe is not supported under my Kernel from what I gleaned on google/forums.I've heard it was added in 4.11. I've also read someone saying they got it working in Mint under 4.9.My Mint has 4.4.0-53-generic. It has an update available to 4.4.0-77.98 but that is in red ;) and is no where near close enough.I am new to this stuff, not since nearly 2 decades ago with Gentoo have I done much with kernel compiling. How hard would it be to replace this kernel AND not break things now or in future with Mint?Alternatively, there is always getting an older PCI SB card or something.sudo lspci -knn :00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a2f0] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8723] Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel   00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a2a3] Subsystem:  ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:872f] Kernel modules: i2c_i801
Realtek S1220A under Linux Mint 18.1
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