[olug] ATI 9000 PRO

[Mark]

I have the ATI 9000 Pro under Mandrake 9.1. It works quite well. There 
are a few display issues with TuxRacer for example but other than that 
I've been very happy with it.

Also, whatever distro you go with, it really NEEDS to have the XFree 
4.3. Anything before that will not have native support for the card.

-Mark E.

Scott Evans wrote:
> Thanks John.  Looks like I will stay with the ATI 9000
> Pro.  I've had my eyes on it for couple of weeks now.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> 
> --- "Jon H. Larsen" <relayer at omahadirect.net> wrote:
> 
>>I'm currently using an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro and it
>>works great.  Another friend 
>>of mine is using one as well.
>>
>>XFree86 4.3 works great without the 'official' ATI
>>drivers, including 3D - 
>>albeit Blender currently has an issue with the
>>driver in XFree86, which 
>>should be fixed shortly.  Why go through the trouble
>>of putting extra drivers 
>>in, and changing your GL libs?
>>
>>I would recommend the 9000 using the stock XFree86
>>4.3 drivers.  Also, MPlayer 
>>can utilize the Radeon functions, which is why I
>>went with it in the first 
>>place.  I have been very happy with it over the
>>NVidia cards that I have had 
>>in the past.
>>
>>Use Red Hat 9.0, it has XFree86 4.3 included.
>>
>>I haven't used the dual-monitor mode yet - I don't
>>have a DVI to DB-15 
>>converter.
>>
>>Here is an excerpt from /proc/pci for my 9000 pro:
>>
>> Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
>>    VGA compatible controller: PCI device 1002:4966
>>(ATI Technologies Inc) 
>>(rev 1).
>>      IRQ 10.
>>      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=8.
>>      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000
>>[0xd7ffffff].
>>      I/O at 0xc000 [0xc0ff].
>>      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5000000
>>[0xe500ffff].
>>  Bus  1, device   0, function  1:
>>    Display controller: PCI device 1002:496e (ATI
>>Technologies Inc) (rev 1).
>>      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=8.
>>      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000
>>[0xdfffffff].
>>      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5010000
>>[0xe501ffff].
>>
>>You'll need the Bus ID numbers on your system when
>>configuring multi-head 
>>configurations in XF86Config.
>>
>>Jon L.
>>
>>On Saturday 12 April 2003 18:36, Scott Evans wrote:
>>
>>>I am building a new Linux system in about two
>>
>>months
>>
>>>or so and I am thinking of getting the ATI Radeon
>>
>>9000
>>
>>>Pro video card. I like the VGA/DVI dual monitor
>>>feature. I will be running either Red Hat 8.0 or
>>
>>9.0.(
>>
>>>I am currently running 8.0.)
>>>My question is, has anyone had any problems
>>
>>getting
>>
>>>this particular video card to work with Linux. I
>>
>>don't
>>
>>>game so I will not need the newest, fastest card
>>
>>out
>>
>>>there, I just want a card that works with linux
>>
>>and
>>
>>>has the dual monitor capabilities.
>>>
>>>--Scott
>>
>>
>>-- 
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>>net         ]
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