PurpleJillybeans Apr 16, 2025

I've continued to play with Caldera 1.1 since my install stream last night. I've got AT&T VNC going (TightVNC wouldn't build due to a too-old zlib), and I've installed StarOffice and a couple games.

Chat challenged me to get Doom running on it. I'm gonna see if I can find the original 1.10 Linux release; I bet it'd work!

#RetroComputing

Show threadPurpleJillybeans Apr 18, 2025

Played with it some more this morning.

* Tried a kernel update again, this time just going up one version from the stock 2.0.29 kernel to upstream 2.0.30. Configured, did `make dep modules modules_install zImage`, copied zImage, lilo'd, rebooted, worked fine. My best guess is that 2.0.40 didn't work because either my lilo or my gcc were too old.

* Enabling APM support broke X. Retried without it and X works again.

* MIDI out/wavetable on the SB16 works now; stock kernel only gave me OPL3 FM.

Show threadPurpleJillybeans 
I noticed a few error messages flashing by while booting with the new kernel. Looks like it broke the NetWare client, which depends on a proprietary-looking kernel module called `nkfs`. Booting the stock kernel fixes it, so guess I'll have to make a choice between wavetable MIDI and NetWare at each boot.
Apr 18, 2025 at 9:14pmWeb
Show threadAmbient SpongeApr 18, 2025
@PurpleJillybeans That's so frustrating. Any error messages, I think whatever it is, should pause and then give you the option of pausing for future error messages or not.