On 8/31/18 11:31 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Would anyone have *recent* experience of installing and running Gentoo plus > Kodi on the above? It has a Pentium-M with Apple's 32bit EFI.
It also has a GeForce Go 7300 which is still supported. 304.137 of the proprietary driver is still in the tree. From what I can tell you will be better off with the proprietary driver over Nouveau. I question if it can handle running Kodi. Maybe you would want to use something else for video playback/media management? You definitely would want to cross-compile everything for this machine on a modern system, with minimal dependencies since you only have 512 MB of RAM to work with. You can set Kodi to start with xinitrc or you can have something like SDDM show Kodi as an option. Nouveau may work for you other than hardware acceleration of video decoding. Maybe that CPU can handle 480P MPEG-2 and non-HD XviD but almost certainly not x264 or HEVC (I doubt the OpenGL renderer can help here). If you are willing to convert files and use lower resolutions then this may be acceptable. https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ Conflicting information here as Nvidia says there are no VDPAU features supported by this graphics card. http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.137/README/supportedchips.html
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