Keep in mind that while the Radeon 9000 series may work in Linux, there are no guarantees that the AmigaOS driver will support it for a while. Our documentation from ATI was given to us before the 9xxx family was announced, and so does not include any differences we need to deal with on the newer cards.
We've mentioned this before, but again, until ATI makes updated documentation available, we at Forefront Technologies Inc. recommend avoiding Radeon 9xxx models intended for use under AmigaOS, until we are able to ensure they work with our driver. If someone tries a 9xxx model and it happens to work, that's neat, but will be unsupported until we have proper documentation allowing us to fix compatibility issues with the newer Radeon chips.
Someone had mentioned in another forum that the Radeon 9100 (I think that's the right one) is a renamed Radeon 8500 card. While this may be true, we have not yet confirmed it, and recommend avoiding it as well until it is confirmed and we officially support it. As some have mentioned their local PC stores no longer carry 8500 models, we will check into this.
This of course shouldn't matter to people wanting to only run Linux PPC and not use AmigaOS, as we are not involved with Linux drivers at all.
