ATi 9x00 Drivers on Amiga One

[filson]

One thing I'm not entirely shure of is why everybody says one should stay away from ATi 9x00 cards (R300 chip).
ATi themselves has links to XFree86.org as for official Linux drivers. Is it just because ppl are afraid of upgrading XFree on their Linux box or is there something I've missed?
I can't belive that Amiga wants us to run on 2 years old gfx hardware when there apparently isn't any reason to it. :-?  :-?  :-?

[filson]

Thank you very much. I suppose, without pushing the envelope, that this will include the 9800 aswell. I'd like to fit the Miggy with a R350 chip, regardless of available software for it.

just on a side note, here's a snippet from www.beyond3d.com regarding the 8500/9100/9200 confusion:
Radeon 9200 is basically a reworked Radeon 9000 chip, with added AGP8X support - similar to NVIDIA's recent refresh of the GeForce 4 chips (NV17 to NV18 and NV25 to NV28). Its positioning is a little confused, being that it has a 'higher' product number than the Radeon 9100 (the new name for Radeon 8500 R200 chips)

[filson]

Thx for the replys guys.
It has now become clear to me that ... well no republic here, but that there is some disturbance in the information flow regarding gfx on AOne. I find it hard to belive that the 9x00 on R3x0 will not be supported under AOS 4. Not buying because someone who creates drivers only has a gforce card, is not optimal. 2D will do fine for me for starters. There arn't any 3D apps for AOS4 out there anyways.
And I can still use it for my PC if it comes to that. :-)
The confusion about AGP on gfx cards must come from Mobo makers that only support AGP 4+. The gfx cards never mind anything but AGP 1.

thx for your replies, everyone.