On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 03:00 PM, (Unsupported OS X) wrote:

> While the Radeon 7000 works great in OS 9.x the latest shipments are
> marked on the box as not working with OSX and the beige G3 and older!
> This is a major screw up on ATI's part as the main buyer would be for
> these older machines! There maybe a work around which I saw mentioned
> on www.xlr8yourmac.com. The Older Radeon Mac Edition which is no
> longer being made works fine in most peoples machines other then the
> on board video problem! Will S
>


Why are you so excited? ATI indeed has a label saying that the Radeon 
7000 is not compatible with X; although, it does work with X on some 
unsupported machines as does the original Radeon. The Radeon 7000 was 
always meant to be a replacement for the Rage cards and chip sets that 
are not supported by a driver for acceleration under X. Since Apple has 
seen fit to disregard the Beige G3 and older then it would be up to ATI 
to provide the extra firmware/drivers for X. ATI has made a half-hearted 
attempt to support such machines, possibly due to Apple's pressure, or 
just that ATI does not need to support unsupported machines.

I think that before you get excited, you should check out the Web for 
information.

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happens to us happens because we deserve it?"
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