> Dell Latitude 6510 Is that a notebook released in July 2010 ?
> the rule is the older the better I was expecting a response like this from someone here. Generally, isn't it a bad idea to suggest using older hardware instead of improving the software? This kind of thinking is typical of large, bureaucratic evil corp (you know who I mean) and often harms users. I'm surprised to see it's crept into the OI/Illumos community. Best! Atiq On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM Stephan Althaus via illumos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > On 10/7/25 07:51, Atiq Rahman wrote: > > I donated to find out neither of my graphics cards are supported on > OpenIndiana. > > Eventually, I let go of graphics and thought about just using it without > graphics to find out neither of wireless lan and NIC are supported. The > NIC/lan one is so common among notebooks yet illumos doesn't have it! > > Often depressed seeing the state of illumos. > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025, 10:32 PM wojak-studio.com via illumos-discuss < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Please bring hardware accelerated graphics back before I would even >> consider a donation. I'm using Intel Integrated graphics. Old enough >> hardware so even NetBSD does have support for hardware accelerated >> graphics. But you borked libdrm and forcing me to use VESA. >> > Hello! > > The illumos world is a more server-side reality, usually they don't need > graphic cards. > > With graphics and Openindiana we have to use NVIDIA GPUs. There are only a > few people who would be able to make recent INTEL GPU to work, but other > topics have higher priority, as always when there is much more to do than > working hands available... > > With Laptops, the rule is the older the better, my Dell Latitude 6510 with > NVidia build in works fine with LAN. > > As my home server i use a €100 older server with XEON E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz > and 32GB RAM, when i need graphics there are cheap Nvidia NVS 295 cards or > GT1030 or whatever... > > We have to use (and love:) whats already there. (.. unless you are able to > sponsor a developer to work on your needs - or do it yourself) > > > Thats my point of view. > > > Regards, > > Stephan > > > *illumos <https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest>* / illumos-discuss / see > discussions <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + participants > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + delivery options > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> Permalink > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T832019ee71395358-Me9c7911223a6430bf43dde05> > > ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T832019ee71395358-Mc35b28204627e32c0863a0f0 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
