On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 01:25:39PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 11:49, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > > my boss told me that christmas is comming now, I can order a new bi G4. > > with a 17' ADC flat panel > > You've got a nice boss. :) > > > I think I will order the following: > > biG4 1.25GHz > > 1Gb SDRAM > > 2 UltraSCSI 72 Gb > > ATI Radeon 9000 > > SCSI card > > > > > > I want to now about the Xfree support of the radeon9000 (I don't want > > a nvidia card) > > As far as I understood the Xfree documentation, the radeon familly is > > supported. am I correct, or should I order an other card > > Well, the 9000 series is the third generation of Radeon cores, and AFAIK
No, the 9000 is just a cheaper 8500 with a few modifications, it still uses the R200 core, but i am not sure to what point the modifications would need adaptation of the R200 drivers. They are quite cheap, and i guess many people will buy those, and they come with both top powermacG4 models. > it might be different enough to the earlier generations for it not to > work out of the box. However, ATI has already submitted a patch to > XFree86 to add support, it should be in 4.3.0 and could probably be > backported if necessary. I guess the difficult thing will be support for the 9500/9700 boards. BTW, do you know if this patch includes support for video stuff ? The radeon 9000 (as the 9500/9700) use the pixel shaders to do video, if i understood this well. Friendly, Sven Luther
