On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:23:01PM -0600, Troy Dawson wrote: > > I was trying to install SL5.2 on an ASUS M3N78-EM ... > > Step 1 - Convince Nvidia that closed sourced drivers make it really hard > to do an initial install. > Step 2 - Use those open source drivers that they provide > Step 3 - wake up because step 1 is going to take a few more years. >
I have the similar ASUS Crosshair-2 mobos and they work just fine with the normal linux drivers from latest vanilla kernels. So your step 1 should say "convince SL & upstream kernel packagers to include up-to-date drivers from vanilla kernel". Nothing to do with ASUS - for once they did everything right and made boards actually supported by recent linux kernels. (If not by the antique RH and SL kernels). -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
