HI,
I made an upgrade to AMD 64 X2 processor and ASUS nvidia based motherboard. Previously it was a via based board and I didn't have any problem with suse to detect my onboard hardwares on that board, but from the very beginning of opensuse 10.2 installation itself I started facing issues on my new board. The first one was a blank screen after loading the kernel during installation. After many trials with opensuse I tried fedora 7 and found that it was the issue with APIC (and fedora also failed to install) . Understanding the issue was with APIC I again tried opensuse installation with noapic kernel parameter and it worked.
During network configuration i found that only my external DLink card was recognized correctly and the installer failed to recognize my onboard nvidia LAN. On the hardware configuration screen even though the installer detected my graphics (NVidia Geforce 6100 ) and Nvidia Audio it couldn't load any drivers for it. After installation, I searched and found out installation instruction for nvidia graphics drivers on opensuse and it just worked.
From my motherboard CD I got the audio drivers (something like realtec_*_*) and after installing it the audio worked but with no microphone input. So my doubts are:
1) Is there any problem in installing opensuse with noapic option?
2) How can I set up my onboard nvidia network card?
3) How can I make my microphone work on this system.
My motherboard is ASUS M2N-MX SE. I hope someone would help me out. Thanks

Hi. I am having exactly the same problem as you (minus the APIC one). I posted a thread a couple lines down. Maybe there's information in there you might find helpful. I got my graphics card working fine, but have been trying for 3 days to get my onboard nics working. I got some great help, but sadly the problem is not yet solved. If you find any solution to your issue, please, for the love of god, post it! Good luck

Moocat, I too got my graphics card working and it gives out a frame rate of 1800 when I tried glxgears. The problem is with LAN and Audio. Even though I can hear sound from my speakers I am not able to use my mic with it (so had to quit using skype and gizmo ). Yesterday while going through the nvidia site I got a LAN driver for download. I installed it, opened network settings from YAST, NVidia network card was detected and the entry was listed. I configured my card and while saving the setting the system hanged. I had to reboot and only to find that my xserver was not working .
The next thing was I tried out freespire 2.0 to check if it was just a problem with opensuse or not. I was amazed to see that freespire recognized all the hardware and had the drivers for all the hardware I had. The lan card was listed in the network settings and I was able to configure it without any problem (seriously, it got a very easy to use GUI). Well after using suse for nearly 3 years, this is the first time I am having this much trouble in setting up my drivers.
Anyway Moocat, give the above said drivers a try and see if it works for you. All the best

turns out i've tried those drivers, and they didn't work properly thanks for the suggestion though... i'm gonna try another distro as well and see if that works. i liked suse for everything except the fact that it didn't work

Even I like opensuse and I think none of the other distro is as feature rich and easy to use as opensuse. Moocat, try out any of just released distro. They might work. I think the driver support was added later after opensuse 10.2 released. Maybe opensuse 10.3 might solve our problem but need to wait one or two months more.

release date for 10.3 is october 4th i think. i'm gonna try freespire like you did, and see if that works. i tried kubuntu, but the installer locked up... 3 times. strange. thanks again!