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On 8/31/18 11:31 AM, Mick wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> Would anyone have *recent* experience of installing and running Gentoo plus |
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> Kodi on the above? It has a Pentium-M with Apple's 32bit EFI. |
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Not exactly the same but I've tried converting old systems into usable |
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ones with Gentoo involved. |
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The Apple TV also has a GeForce Go 7300 which is still supported but |
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barely. 304.137 of the proprietary driver is still in the tree for the |
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time being. From what I can tell you will be better off with the |
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proprietary driver over Nouveau. |
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I question if it can handle running modern Kodi. Maybe you would want to |
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use something else for video playback/media management? |
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You definitely would want to cross-compile everything for this machine |
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on a modern system, with minimal dependencies since you only have 512 MB |
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of RAM to work with. You can set Kodi to start with xinitrc or you can |
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have something like SDDM show Kodi as an option. |
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Nouveau may work for you other than hardware acceleration of video |
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decoding. Maybe that CPU can handle 480P MPEG-2 and non-HD XviD but |
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almost certainly not x264 or HEVC (I doubt the OpenGL renderer can help |
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here). If you are willing to convert files and use lower resolutions |
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then this may be acceptable. You would still be able to have 6 channel |
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output via the HDMI or optical output. |
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Conflicting information here as Nvidia says there are no VDPAU features |
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supported by this graphics card. |
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http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.137/README/supportedchips.html |
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vs https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ |
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Andrew |