On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 17:42, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> Le 08 May 2003 17:32:19 +0300
> Arto Huusko a ecrit :
> > I'm thinking about buying an ASUS A7N8X motherboard shortly.
> > Is anyone using such a board with NetBSD (-current)? How does
> > it perform, and what all is supported or not supported.
> > 
> > Mostly, I'm interested in knowing whether the audio works at
> > all. I'm not interested in the 5.1 support, just regular,
> > analog audio output (at least Linux requires a binary driver
> > from NVIDIA to make digital and 5.1 work).
> 
> Regular audio works, supported by auich(4).

That's good news.

> I didn't find anything about a binary driver for audio. I know for sure
> there is one for the embedded Ethernet controller, but the audio chip
> looks like an auich one.

OK. The ethernet is not that important to me. However, AFAIK the Linux
driver download at 

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.0-0248

contains also support for making the digital 5.1 audio work. Or that's
what my brother said (he's running RedHat 8).