[OpenIndiana-discuss] DELL T1700

[Johan Hertz]

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.