On 11/29/13, 3:51 PM, Johan Hertz wrote: > On 2013-11-29 16:36, Saso Kiselkov wrote: >> 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 >> > > Got it, thanks.
You're welcome. Hope the machine performs well for you. Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
