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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-09-30 21:09:26 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-10-01 22:42:13 +0200 |
| commit | aeafc2b3990fe16ddabb8b8f1296e50b6f178baf (patch) | |
| tree | 5b1b864548be78396dc34b6a25fad173faf961ae | |
| parent | 464f7eb88c80fb33f5d4c1bd0df5f3abde4d6f5c (diff) | |
mention that the Dell Inspirion 1760 can run the Hurd.
* faq/drivers.mdwn: mention that users can run the Hurd on real
hardware with the Dell Inspirion.
Message-ID: <20241001010932.6035-1-jbranso@dismail.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | faq/drivers.mdwn | 9 |
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diff --git a/faq/drivers.mdwn b/faq/drivers.mdwn index 48baa76a..6301b7d8 100644 --- a/faq/drivers.mdwn +++ b/faq/drivers.mdwn @@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ recommend you use the 32 bit version of the Hurd. A cheaper option is the T43 (2GB max RAM) or T60 (4 GB max RAM), which one can find for about $50. +Other hardware that is known to work includes the [[Dell Inspiron +1750|https://logs.guix.gnu.org/hurd/2024-09-28.log]] on i386 +Debian/Hurd. It won't boot with the current installer (June 2023 +debian-hurd i386 installer iso) because of an FPU issue (fixed +upstream). I had to remove the optical drive. It Hangs for one minute +during boot on ACPI init, but otherwise fine when disabling full tree +parsing. The touchpad, keyboard, display, ethernet, and the hard +drive works (in legacy mode). + Currently, for disks Mach integrates old drivers from Linux through some [[community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code]], which provide IDE disk support, and we have an AHCI driver which provides [[SATA |