Radeon cards

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On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Dave Reed wrote:

> > From: ofeeley@yahoo.com
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I hope that this is not considere to be an off-topic post:
> > I've seen postings from RH people on the Enigma list saying that the best 
> > supported ATI Radeon card "out of the box" is the "ATI Radeon 64MB DDR".  
> > I have attempted to find these cards without VIVO with no success. I have 
> > been told that the Radeon 64M DDR is the same thing as the Radeon 7200.  
> > Is this true?
> 
> I don't know the answer to your question, but if you're a little
> adventurous, I'd get a Radeon 7500 since it's fairly easy to get
> it to work with Enigma and the XFree86 4.2 RPMS that Mike Harris has
> made available. Certainly the next release of Red Hat will support the
> Radeon 7500 "out of the box".

Hi Dave, thanks for the answer.  I've been thinking about the 7500 (about
$100 currently), but have been naively assuming that if I got an "older"
Radeon 64MB DDR then it would be cheaper.  However the only versions
available are those with VIVO (video-in, video-out) which are $150.  
-Oisin





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