ATI has an 'unofficial' driver for 8500 and 8500LE. I haven't used the
drivers myself so I can't speak on behalf of their performance (namely
against NVidia).
http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon8500/linux/radeon8500linuxdrivers.html
DARREN BROWN wrote:
> Mark,
>
> I was talking to the guys at PC Club on Friday. One of the gentlemen
> told me the ATI 8500, which was on display, will most likely not work
> correctly. He stated the ATI 8500 uses mostly software to drive the
> graphics of the card.
>
> I do not know how much of this is true, because I have not read any
> info about the ATI 8500. I do know the guys at PC Club are pretty
> much on top of the computer hardware thing, so I would say the ATI
> 8500 would not appear on the HCL until someone writes software to run
> under Linux.
>
> I would contact ATI about this and see what they say.
>
>
> Regards,
> Darren
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Mark Berkwitt
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 15, 2002 8:08 PM
> *To:* PLUG
> *Subject:* Is ATI's RADEON 8500 LE on Redhat's compatibility list?
>
> I've been trying to see RH's HCL but the page doesn't appear.
> Would anyone know if this video card is on their list?
>
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