Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Feb 2006 22:15 UTC, submitted by Kombatant
3D News, GL, DirectX "ATI's R5xx line was first released back in October 2005. The initial launch covered the X1800 and X1300 series, with the X1600 series following suit in November. Last month we saw the release of the new X1900 series too. Now, let me count the months from October to February; it is 5 months, right? Well, believe it or not, that's the number of months the new X1000 series is out in the market without Linux support. If you are unfortunate enough to own such a card, all you have is Matthew Tippett's statement in Phoronix."
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halfmanhalfamazing
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2005-07-23

Yup. I own a firegl 8800 for that very reason. Was only 65 dollars on ebay.

Damn good card, worth the investment and works very well under linux with my OSS dri drivers.

Until XGI does one better and releases full specs this is the card to have.(unless you can afford a 400 dollar nvidia card)

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