The NForce2 network driver does not support dhcp, and dies after a while.
I don't have a single problem with the nVidia network driver under Gentoo 1.4 on my 8RDA+
There is currently no AGP support in the agpgart LKM. (I understand that there is in 2.5)
Patches exist for AGPGART support in both the 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 kernels. The former is provided in the latest nVidia driver pack (the .tar.gz source distribution, not the binary RPMs) and there is a link to the latter in the nForce Linux forum at
nForcersHQ. I'm using the nvgart patch for 2.4.20 right now (under the aforementioned Gentoo 1.4) and it works although looking around, the 3500fps I'm getting on my 9500Pro in glxgears seems a little on the low side (I've seen 8500s get 10000 or more), I'll have to look into that.
Currently, ALSA does not support the SP/DIF outputs and inputs on the onboard sound card. The NVidia driver (OSS) does though.
I could have sworn I've seen some posts on nFHQ from people who claim to have SPDIF working, albeit in 2 channel mode, with the ALSA drivers. I can't confirm or deny that myself as I don't have neither digital output on my board nor a digital capable receiver/speaker system.
I've not tried SMBus but I think it works with the latest CVS lmsensors.
The hardware sensors on my 8RDA+ are working with the latest I2C/lm_sensors but different boards use different sensor chips so that's hardly a reliable indicator.