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ATI Radeon 8500 LE
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2 25012 11-06-2008
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50% of reviewers $80.00 7.0



Description:
64 Meg 3D Video Card with TV out

This device is compatible with linux using either the ATI fireGL binary drivers availible at www.ati.com or using linux kernel drivers in tandem with XFree86 4+ or Xorg.

Even though this is an older card, because of similar architect with newer products, updated drivers are still being made availible for this product..

The only caveat has been in configuring for dual head modes...


Keywords: firegl r200 8500 Radeon
/sbin/lspci output: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE
Chipset: R200
Connection Type: AGP


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Old 12-26-2004, 05:55 PM   #1
claudius753
 
Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: Mac OS X 10.6.4 "Snow Leopard", Win 7, Ubuntu 10.04
Posts: 322

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $80.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.9-1.681_FC3
Distribution: Fedora Core 3 (Heidelberg)



I bought this card when I built this computer a little over a year ago. It's a 64MB AGP card.

Fedora Core 3 found this card and set up everything automatically with X.org. No searching for drivers, special installation.

glxgears gives an average of 1548 FPS.

If you can find one, I highly reccomend it for a system on which you don't really plan on playing newer games, it is the bare minimum card supported for Doom 3, and not very well, but for an everyday computer that you don't plan on gaming but don't want to get intergrated graphics, it runs fine in Fedora Core 3. It might be a different story with some other distrobutions.
 
Old 11-06-2008, 09:06 PM   #2
promethious
 
Registered: Sep 2005
Posts: 20

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Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 5

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.27-7-generic
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid


The card is good for normal operation but with the newer versions of Xorg the ATI drivers are no longer supported and the open source drivers do not support tv out.

If you just need VGA go for it, but if you want to use the s-video, stay away.
 




  



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