[OpenIndiana-discuss] DELL T1700

[Saso Kiselkov]

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