X.org server 1.5: An ABI Too Far?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 00:34:57 -0700,
  Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf at omen.com> wrote:
> I checked with several of the area computer parts stores and
> didn't find any PCI-E video cards old enough to work with
> the open source ATI driver.  I don't know much about
> recent ATI cards because I switched to Nvidia years ago
> because of Nvidia's Linux support.  None of these stores
> mentioned anything other than ATI or Nvidia based cards.

If you don't need 3D recent ATI cards should usable while the ATI driver
package gets updated to handle 3D on r5xx and r6xx based cards. I have
an r5xx based card on one of my machines and X works with it.