On Wednesday 06 March 2002 15:19, Scott Henson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:30, csj wrote: > > On 05 Mar 2002 22:38:57 -0500 > > > > Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 20:33, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > > > So, can I get myself a Radeon card? > > > > > > Yes you can. I have Radeon VE, which is a Radeon 7500 but suped up... > > > It runs fine under E... also I personally think it runs better than > > > under windows. And if you check on xfree86.org you can check > > > compatibility and it is compatible. So yes. I love radeons and I > > > would recomend it. > > > > A "Radeon VE, which is a Radeon 7500 but suped up"? Maybe you mean it > > the other way around. A Radeon VE costs half a Radeon 7500. Now if I > > know my economics right: expensive = more (but not necessarily useful) > > features. VE is okay under Sid's X 4.1. I don't know about the numbered > > Radeons. I think you need to wait for the full 4.2. > > Really? That cant be right. My card get identified as a radeon 7500 by > all of ATI's utils. I have checked with the site and basically my card > and the radeon 7500 have all the same specs except my card has a few > extra ports on it(DV-I and TV-out). It also have native support for > extending the desktop accross two screens and then have a 3rd running > with a different display on it. I dont know why the 7500 would cost > double of the VE, but as far as I can tell they are the same except the > VE has a few more features. But whatever, that is what I see. And on > the subject of XF86 4.1, I am sure it said it had full support for > radeon chips.
4.1 did say that it has full support for radeon (the reason I purchased the card), it identified the card on my system, and X ran, but, I had many (sometimes 4 times a day) lockups that the only thing I could do was hit the reset button, the machine was completely hosed, no connection from outside (http,telnet,ssh, etc) and <ctrl><alt><F?> to switch consoles did not work. I have seen a lot of good reports about 4.2, and I personally will wait for 4.2 to make it to 'testing' before trying to re-install my radeon. John
