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Subject: Re: X questions before installing FreeBSD 7.2
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On Monday 18 May 2009 06:58:18 am Scott Bennett wrote:
>      On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:38:52 -0700 (PDT) "David Johnson"
> >You only had excerpts from Xorg.log, but xorg-7.4 with Radeon 9800 (using
> >radeon driver) should have hardware acceleration, OpenGL and compositing.
> >You just need to configure your xorg.conf file correctly. The driver for
> >the r300 chipset should be very stable.
>
>      So the r300 driver is the one that supports the R420 chip and its
> mobile equivalent, the M18 chip?

According to the man page, the Radeon 9800 has a chipset in the R300 series. 
But regardless, both should be well supported. 

-- 
David Johnson