Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:48:00 -0400 From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> To: ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: ATI 8500 or matrox 550? Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8DB2EF4@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: .VWV. [mailto:victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it] > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 7:47 PM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: ATI 8500 or matrox 550? >=20 >=20 >=20 > Hi. >=20 > Owing to the need of purchasing a supported video-card before=20 > it's too late > for my 4.6.2, I would like to know if the X Window System=20 > driver can run > fine or not the ATI 8500. I have noticed the driver is not=20 > listed in the > 'sysinstall' tool. If I choose 'ati' using xf86config or editing > /etc/X11/XF86Config, would the card work as well as a Matrox 550 one? >=20 You would actually want the radeon driver, not the ati one. http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/radeon.4.html http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/index.html I've never personally used one, but it seems like it ought to work. -Will
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