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