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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!netnews.com!netaxs.com!news.fast.net!news.pgh.net!not-for-mail From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD support for 5x86 and K5... Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 23:00:04 -0500 Organization: Dis- Lines: 31 Message-ID: <333C93C4.3F54BC7E@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> References: <5h43st$3kl@malhar.netapp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: w2xo.pgh.pa.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386) To: Mohan Srinivasan <mohan@netapp.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38046 Mohan Srinivasan wrote: > > 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. > I'm running 2.1.7 on a VIP motherboard with a 5x86-133. It runs just fine. No problems of any sort noticed. This system has 16 megs of parity ram in a 72 pin simm and 1 1/2 gigs of IDE disk (two disks, a 1 and a 500 meg). I have a Soundblaster 16 and CD-ROM attached. This works fine also as well as a Wantek tape drive. This system is up 24 hours a day running a web server, a ham packet radio BBS and gateway system and X window. It's easily as snappy as my P90 at work. "Checkit says it's 64000 Dhrystones. I have read that early versions of the VIP motherboard had some I/O problems. The newer ones seem OK. Hope this helps, Jim Durham