Giampiero Gabbiani <giampiero_gabbiani@tin.it> wrote:

> Is there anybody that knows if the ASUS motherboard K8U-X is supported
> by linux? Specifically, is the chipset ULI M1689 fully supported ?

Looks like the M1689 is a highly integrated design, combining the north
and south bridges in a single chip. Near as I can tell, ASUS adds only
a Realtek 8201CL 10/100 ethernet chip (aside from CPU and RAM, of
course), and maybe a video accelerator chip -- some Nvidia thing?

The chip's new enough that I have no data for it on my Linux SATA page
(http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html), but other pages
sound a little discouraging. Of course, sound (Realtek chip?) and
video drivers will also be a concern.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwb/ulti...pic/41/48.html
http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/u...1;t=000123;p=0
http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwb/ulti...pic/41/82.html
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.p...ewtopic&t=1678
n
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/lin...11.2/1140.html
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/forum/v...c.phtml?p=2564
http://www.anandtech.com/talkarticle...471&frmWhere=2