Rating: 
Summary: Great Card for the money but...
Review: The installation of this card was a breez once I got a set of working drivers. The CD that came with my card was unreadable in the 2 CDrom drives in my computer. When I contacted ATI via Email about the problem they said download the drivers, and that they didn't want to give me a new CD! I found this appaling for what would they have done if I was a customer without net access? Great card just their customer support is a little iffy in my mind.
Rating:
Summary: Not Bad
Review: This is great card for windows ME 98 95
The best for windows XP are Rodeon 7000 and up.
Old card for XP, better get Rodeon will not disapoint you
Rating:
Summary: For serious geeks, the news is mixed
Review: This review will probably not help you if you are a plain old Windows 95/98 user. I use two non-Windows operating systems: FreeBSD 3.2 (in which I am inexpert) and Debian & RedHat Linux (2.1 and 6.0 respectively) in which I am fairly expert. I can find no way to make this video card work with Xfree86 on FreeBSD. There may be one, but I haven't found it. You'll have trouble with direct support under Linux as well. The work-around is to use the new framebuffer kernel feature (you must be using a 2.2.x series kernel). Do a Google search using "ati rage 128 linux" and you'll get some very helpful URLs. Don't get this card if you are squeamish about kernel compilation or Xfree86 configuration. It is a great card, though. ATI has a decent record of Open Source support, so I would expect to see direct support of this card in an upcoming Xfree86 release, but for now, you'd better not be a Linux newbie.
Rating:
Summary: For serious geeks, the news is mixed
Review: This review will probably not help you if you are a plain old Windows 95/98 user. I use two non-Windows operating systems: FreeBSD 3.2 (in which I am inexpert) and Debian & RedHat Linux (2.1 and 6.0 respectively) in which I am fairly expert. I can find no way to make this video card work with Xfree86 on FreeBSD. There may be one, but I haven't found it. You'll have trouble with direct support under Linux as well. The work-around is to use the new framebuffer kernel feature (you must be using a 2.2.x series kernel). Do a Google search using "ati rage 128 linux" and you'll get some very helpful URLs. Don't get this card if you are squeamish about kernel compilation or Xfree86 configuration. It is a great card, though. ATI has a decent record of Open Source support, so I would expect to see direct support of this card in an upcoming Xfree86 release, but for now, you'd better not be a Linux newbie.
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