Yes, Live (Dharma) is a year old, and guess what? I have it running on a Zotac mini-ITX motherboard with integrated nVidia GPU (Lucid), an ATV1 (Hardy), an HP SFF PC with a P4 and nVidia GT210 card (Maverick), and my Asus Sandy Bridge i5 motherboard with an nVidia 560GTX GPU (Oneiric), all without issue. I also have it running on my main PC and the Zotac under Windows 7.
I also have a thumbdrive install of Openelec that I run on the HP box with the GT210. This is the only install that I have problems with. I have audio over HDMI working, but Openelec will not kill the sound coming from the Intel audio codec onboard the motherboard. Normally this would not be an issue, but since there's and internal speaker, I always hear it, for the time being at least until I rip out the speaker. So, I stand by what I originally wrote. XBMC Live (Dharma) is just as capable as Openelec, and Openelec has its own set of issues.
One thing I made pains to make sure of was to avoid AMD/ATI video chipsets, as their Linux driver support still pretty much blows. I'm glad, really I am, that people have been able to get DXVA and VAAPI support working for ATI and Intel GPUs. I'd rather stick with a known, and proven, commodity with nVidia.
Quote:If your really interested in the issue's with some of the current hardware use the SEARCH function..I got better things to do ....
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I made a baseless claim, and am too lazy to back it up when pressed to.