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).

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