[OpenIndiana-discuss] DELL T1700

[Johan Hertz]

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?

Regards
Johan