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Date:      Sun, 7 Jul 2002 10:25:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net>, Jason Porter <leporter@xmission.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Better to make XFree86-4 when XFree86-3 isn't running?
Message-ID:  <200207071725.g67HPBKA092095@realtime.exit.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020707210226.P98680-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>

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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Hmm... Reading through, I did not find any very specific "it does not
> work" cases. However, I see that many people found ATI cards as a PITA.
> 
> ... the problem is that I have no spare hardware to test it thoroughly,
> and my workstation works also as central monitoring point for our network
> ;-)
> 
> Maybe I'll try "ati*.o from 4.1" way...
> 
> Stangely enough, there is no info about ATI<->XFree86 4.2 at
> http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Status6.html

I'm using a Radeon 8500 128MB card.  I had problems with 4.2.0 (it worked
but a few things were a tad flaky, especially Xvideo), but I've been updating
from the XFree86 CVS tree and it is working better and better.

Just one data point.
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Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com	http://www.exit.com/
Exit Consulting                 http://www.gpsclock.com/

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