[OpenIndiana-discuss] DELL T1700

[Saso Kiselkov]

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

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Saso