To get sound working with HDA-INTEL sound card on Linux there are many help pages available but the below option worked for me in a couple of Linux distributions.
I got the sound working with alsa libs,drivers and utilities
The installation link provided here is for Ubuntu/kubuntu Linux but it has worked for me in Suse 10.0 + also
Another but difficult way of getting this worked is by building the latest source code of the kernel.
I got the latest available kernel sources, 2.6.23.1 at this time and compiled and build my kernel with support for the HDA-INTEL sound card.This got the sound working for me.