30" Cinema Display on my 2003 G5?

I'm getting a lot of conflicting information and hope to hear from someone who has done this. I ordered one of the early G5s - sept 2003 - which is a dual CPU 2 GHz machine with the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card.
I know THIS card will not support the full resolution of the 30" Cinema Display. But is there a card with will work in THIS computer model? Or is it possible that this early G5 will not support the 30" display, at all?
Question isn't just recommend the right graphics card, but one which you know will work in this early G5.
for background - interested in screen real estate not game performance; doing mostly video work.

The "quicksilver" is a G4, yes? And you list the
Radeon 9800 pro as your graphics card - that's the
one I have in my G5 today. It does not have, of
course, the dual DVI / DDL output needed for the 30"
display.
So have you actually installed the 9600 and driven a
30" display with it, from this CPU?
I did buy a 9600 PC&Mac card for my Quicksilver with the idea of maybe getting a 30" display in the future, but the card would only occasionally start. When it did start, it would run fine until the Mac was shutdown or put to sleep. After sending a couple of replacement cards that didn't work any better, ATI admitted that many G4s earlier than the MDD models would not work with that card. MDD and later G4s and AGP bus G5s should work. ATI now has an article in their support site listing unsupported G4 models but have not updated the 9600 board's web-page. Eventually they replaced my 9600 with a 9800, which does work, but has only one DVI port, and will not run a 30" display. There is no supported way to run a 30" display on my Quicksilver.
The 9600 definitely is designed to run one 30" display (the second DVI port is only single-link):
"The Radeon 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition provides the most up-to-date display support, powering the market’s latest, digital flat panel monitors and dual-link DVI ultra high-resolution flat panel monitors, including Apple’s 30-inch Cinema HD Display® (2560 X 1600 resolution)."

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I found that Radeon 9600 pro: pc/mac edition is compatible with the monitor, but I am wondering if the 9600 pro version can support the monitor.
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Hey guys,
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