Why not to buy asus a8n csm or nForce 430, was:AMD64 board ... full SATA II?

[dondi_2006]

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