Sorry, I sent a wrong link in the other message (and this subject will rate better in search engines for this board and chipset) > Hello, > > I had almost decided to buy an asus a8n csm motherboard > because of its integrated SATA II controller and DVI port, because > I had no problem with a closed source driver for graphics only. > > However, since it seems the nForce 430 chip also need closed source > for things as basic as disk access and ACPI, not to mention > set up problems for the integrated ethernet (refes below) > I think I'll give up. It's a shame, an on-board DVI would have been marvelous... > Webber > 1) http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/48b95ad3169419ca/404ba6efd2fd5c68?tvc=1#404ba6efd2fd5c68 2) http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=784986&posted=1#post784986