From aeafc2b3990fe16ddabb8b8f1296e50b6f178baf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "jbranso@dismail.de" Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:09:26 -0400 Subject: 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> --- faq/drivers.mdwn | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) 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 -- cgit v1.2.3