[G4] Radeon 8500

[Kurt Appling]

>> RE; i am useing a TI PB with 8500 vid card,I agree with-,that the 
>> incremental upgrades caused me trouble also,as compared to the combo 
>> from 10.2 to 10.6 jump,,i have no trouble to report with the larger 
>> upgrade so far.I hope this helps if you have had trouble too.



>> I don=B9t believe that the 8500 is supported by ATI past 10.2.4
>>
>> Ive been having oddities with my 8500 since I upgraded to 10.2.5, not 
>> about
>> to go to 2.6 till ATI brings out some updated drivers. nVidia already 
>> has.
>>
>> All works fine in 9.2.2
>>
>> on 5/26/03 12:33 PM, Ron Michaud at rmichau2 at maine.rr.com wrote:
>>
>>> I have reviewed the ATI web site and followed the suggestion to run 
>>> the
>>> 10/02 update as modified 02/03 and then ran the 10.2.6 update from 
>>> an ima=
>> ge
>>> file.  Net result no improvement.
>
>
> I have a 8500 in my G4/400 running 10.2.6 with no problems. I 
> installed it
> in January and did all the incremental installs. still no video 
> problems.
>
> Try running the 10.2.6 combo install and see if that cures your 
> problem.
> From  what I've read the combo installers fix a lot of problems that 
> occur
> after an incremental install.
>
> John