On Friday, 31 August 2018 17:22:43 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: > 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?
Yes, it can run it, at least it could last year using the OSMC build based on Dedian. > 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. TBH I'm mostly using it for audio, but 720p video plays quite respectably and by the time the TV upscales it to 1080 it shows a very acceptable picture. > 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/supportedchip > s.html What I have not fathomed yet is how to compile into the mach_kernel the vmlinuz and initrd the boot.efi uses to boot linux. :-/ -- Regards, Mick
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