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Re: ATI Radeon 8500



On Wednesday 09 October 2002 04:41 am, Cuno Sonnemans wrote:
> lameth heeft geschreven:
> > As I type I'm listening to the fan on video card. If you're wondering
> > it sounds like a rather large fly caught inside a glass.  Anyway has
> > anyone out there used the ATI Radeon 8500 with debian and what have
> > your results been like?
>
> My ATI 8500 Pro isn't working yet, but I do know that you must upgrade
> to  XFree86 4.2.X to get your ATI to work with Deb. 3.0.
> You could also try to install the ATI drivers for XFree86 4.1.0.1 you
> can download them here:
> http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/linuxradeon8500x410143.html
>
> Cuno

>From http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/Status6.html#6 :

"Accelerated support is provided for Mach64, Rage, Rage 128 and Radeon chips 
by the "ati" driver, as is unaccelerated support for all of the
     others except the Mach8 and some early Mach32 chips."

Wouldn't this include *all* Radeon cards?

Oleg



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