Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Apple TV 1

[Andrew Udvare <audvare@gmail.com>]

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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.

Not exactly the same but I've tried converting old systems into usable
ones with Gentoo involved.

The Apple TV also has a GeForce Go 7300 which is still supported but
barely. 304.137 of the proprietary driver is still in the tree for the
time being. From what I can tell you will be better off with the
proprietary driver over Nouveau.

I question if it can handle running modern 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. You would still be able to have 6 channel
output via the HDMI or optical output.

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
vs https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/

-- 
Andrew


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