To buy or not to buy for my G4: Dell 2005FPW display

In the market for a new display and have been encouraged to buy a "DELL UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1-inch Wide Aspect Flat Panel LCD Monitor." Trying to find out if it will work with my Powermac G4 dual and current graphics card... here's what my computer tells me about my current card:
Chipset Model: ATY,Rage128Pro
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: SLOT-A
VRAM (Total): 16 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x5046
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-72701-130
Any solid advice out there on how to figure this out?
Mucho thanks!
D.

Right now I know two people who have this display connected and working with their Macs. One had been using it on a G4 MDD but is now running it on a new G5 and the other is running it on an old G4 Sawtooth with a newer ATI AGP graphics card (8500, I think). Both are happy with it.

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