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Subject: Re: Choosing a video card - Nvidia or ATI
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"Louis Munro" <louismunro@altern.org> writes:
> I had tought that the ATI chipset was unsupported (at least until
> the release of Xfree86 4.4) until I read of someone using a Radeon
> 9600 on this list.

AFAIK, hardware acceleration is not supported on Radeon 9500 and
newer.  Lower-numbered 9x00 models are apparently stripped-down 8500
derivatives, so stick with the 8500.  I have a couple of 7500s myself
and am very happy with them.

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