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From: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>
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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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.
>  

The AMD K5 probes as a Pentium and runs FreeBSD w/o any problems.  The
probe does not show the P-rating (just the MHz clock).  So the K5-PR133
shows 100MHz, but I'm not sure how it is if you jumper the cpu as 66x2. 
Either way, it will run at full PR speed.  (The newer K5s can be jumpered
at the P-rating or actual internal clock speed). 

The AMD 5x86 should also work, but why get another 486 motherboard when
new Pentium motherboards are so cheap?



> 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
>