And yet the Radeon costs more than the basic DVD players I see
in the store.  Not that I can't justify buying a Radeon (and I'd
love the 8500A-I-W to work with xFree), but just a perspective.

Quoting Gerald C. Simmons (simmons@darykon.cet.com):
> On Fri, Jul 19 Richard Rauch wrote:
> > (mutter)  I *really* wanted to wait till DRI was close to being an option
> > before buying a real card.  (Getting a VCR and a TV begins to sound
> > preferable.  (^&)
> > 
> > Okay, then...AGP recommendations?  Something that works nicely with NetBSD
> > and XFree86?  Preferably something that is likely to work well with DRI..?
> > As I recall, ATI's boards (at least for PCI bus) have too-short connectors
> > and are a major pain to install, so I'd like to avoid ATI if I can.
> 
> I would hightly recommend any Radeon AGP card from ATI. I have several and have
> had great luck with them under XFree86-4.2 with DRI.