On 11/29/13, 3:32 PM, Johan Hertz wrote: > On 2013-11-29 16:25, Saso Kiselkov wrote: >> On 11/29/13, 3:19 PM, Johan Hertz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am thinking about buying this in the small form factor version and >>> running a illumos OS on it (OpenIndiana/SmartOS). >>> http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-Precision-T1700-Spec-Sheet.pdf >>> >>> >>> >>> I tried looking at the https://www.illumos.org/hcl/ to figure out if it >>> would work but I don't know enough about hardware to make sense of it. >>> >>> Can anyone give me an idea if this is likely to work? >>> >>> The reason for all of this is that I want to get a dev machine that I >>> can play around with. But it should also be power full enough to handle >>> itself if I want to use it for more critical tasks in the future. >>> >>> Any help is much appreciated. >> Looking at the data sheet it appears you could have trouble with: >> >> 1) AMD graphics (nVidia should work fine, check out the nVidia driver >> details for these particular cards) >> 2) USB 3.0 ports won't work >> 3) sound card might not work - Realtek crap, so driver support might be >> spotty at best >> >> Chipset support for Intel C226 appears to be there (in Solaris 11.1, so >> likely also in Illumos), so AHCI SATA ports should work okay: >> http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/C226.cfm >> >> Cheers, > Thanks for the quick reply. > > I am going to run it as a server that would be headless most of the time > so I don't really care about the sound card. > > Where would I check the nVidia driver, and what would I be looking for, > I guess it won't say supports illumos on a nice looking sticker?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nvidia+drivers&l=1 -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
