The keyboard should just work. The monitor/display will almost certainly work IF you can get the graphics (nvidia) to work. These days all the logic for panel supoort is inside the gpu driver. Any sata drive should work. It gets trickier with nvme / m.2 and you want to avoid the low end systems that use an SDcard for storage.
Other issues you might have are BIOS / boot support and wifi. If you can, try taking a boot stick into the shop and try to boot the system before you buy. On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 6:28 AM Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Dan McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you can translate Linux to illumos, here: > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop/Asus > > > > has a breakdown of Linux-happy drivers. > > > > r8169 is a realtek chip, so I'm guessing rge(7D). rge sources indicate > some r8169 support, so at least there you're good. There's a warning about > Intel graphics not being there, so you'll have to stare down nVidia. > > Thank you. So I have a good hope of at least ethernet working; at > worst I can fix issues myself (hopefully). > > Here is one realtek issue: https://www.illumos.org/issues/7255 > > The NVidia Solaris driver 387.22 from 2017.10.30 lists GeForce GTX > 1060 as supported, so I have some hope of getting that to work. > > Is there any chance the other vital things have issues: monitor, > keyboard, hdd? I don't care about the on-board mouse if I can use > USB. > > -- > Johann > > I'm not from the internet, I just work there. ------------------------------------------ illumos-discuss Archives: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/discussions/T4c9a0c6075b96b28-M0952e8be9372fd91acab3d17 Powered by Topicbox: https://topicbox.com
