MSI RS482M4-ILD (Radeon Xpress 200 chipset)

I'm thinking about building a small computer and the MSI RS482M4-ILD seems
nice on paper as it is m-ATX and has built in graphics with DVI out.
However, all computers that I have built before has had intel motherboard
chipsets so this Radeon motherboard chipset is unfamiliar to me. A few
questions:

Will IDE dma work with kernel 2.4.31? Does it work with a 2.6 kernel?

Is DRI supported by the opensource drivers in X.org? According to
http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/radeon.4.html it seems to work, but
I have seen other pages saying that it is untested. Will the DVI port work
with the opensource drivers? At least with earlier versions of X.org I
have had problems to get the DVI port to work with Radeon 9250 cards.

Does the built in sound work fine with ALSA?

I suppose that the built in USB and firewire ports work?

I have not found much about this board on google. That could mean that
there are no problems or that the board and chipset is not very common.

regards Henrik
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