ATI AIW RADEON users

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:00:41PM -0500, Wade Barocsi wrote:
>On Tuesday 31 December 2002 10:33 am, you wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>
>> First off, they don't mention the AIW RADEON 7500.  Does that mean I should
>> avoid that card? 
>...
>
>The reaeon 7500 can be difficult, I'm not as sure about the 7500 AIW

I pretty much gave up on ATI when the Xpert98 cards were dropped.  I spent
the better part of a day messing with various flavours of Radeon cards on
Caldera 3.1.1 Workstation systems, finally giving up and getting a pretty
vanilla nVidea card (PNY branded) that Just Worked(tm).

ATI has what I perceive as a nasty habit of changing things frequently on
their cards that break the XFree86 support, with the same names and part
numbers on the card.

I've been told that the nVidea cards basically use a common driver base,
and that their new cards will generally work with old drivers although some
features may be unavailable.

Bill
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