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Thread-Topic: ATI 8500 or matrox 550?
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From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>
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Subject: RE: ATI 8500 or matrox 550?
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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