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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:05:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Samy Touati <lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se>
To: Mohan Srinivasan <mohan@netapp.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 5x86 and K5 systems/XF86 and the Matrox Mystique card...
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I'm running fbsd on a 5x86-133 on a VLbus board, and it works flawlessly.
The same CPU with a  PCI board works even a little faster.

Samy

On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Mohan Srinivasan wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking to put together a (El Cheapo) second PC for home use running 
> FreeBSD. I'm looking for some input from users who've tried running FreeBSD
> on a 5x85/K5 based machine, and running XF86 on the Matrox Mystique card.
>  
> I'm looking to buy a 5x86-133 or a K5 based motherboard. I'd like to 
> know of there are problems running FreeBSD on such boards. 
>  
> (Failing this, my next choice would be a P5 based motherboard (the ad I have 
> doesn't specify the manufacturer of the motherboard, so I assume it'd be an 
> Intel motherboard) with the Triton chipset. I presume FreeBSD would run 
> cleanly on this).
>  
> I was also looking to buy a Matrox Mystique card. Is this card supported 
> by XF86 ? Are there any known problems with this card, as far as running X 
> is concerned ?
>  
> Could you please reply by e-mail to me at mohan@netapp.com ?
>  
> thanks
>  
> mohan
>