Gentoo Linux on a 133Mhz Pentium! (feat. Linux 6, and NsCDE.. Again) | WGEX

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Tonight on the least extras WindowsG Extras video we have a look and see if the 1995 Pentium 133 can handle the very latest Linux kernel!~ And MP3 playback, and NsCDE, and image viewing! All at.. once?

Thanks For Viewing!~ ❤

~Credits
David Phantom for installing Gentoo and providing the image. ^-^

~NsCDE Desktop Environment

~Computer Specs
Asus P5A-B
Intel Pentium SY022 @ 133Mhz
256 MBs SDRAM
3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 16MB
160 GB Western Digital IDE HDD

\\Chapter Select
0:00 Intro
0:54 Bump
1:03 Explanation
2:07 Kernel Upgrade
2:25 Explanation Cont.
2:44 htop
2:54 uwufetch
3:05 links
3:44 NsCDE
6:17 feh Image Viewer
7:28 MOC Intro
8:10 MOC Compilation
9:24 Compilation "Timelapse"
9:38 MOC
17:10 Multitasking
20:56 Outro

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WindowsG Extras: Episode 4
by SnoopiTek 2022

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For mocp, was the alsa USE flag in the flag list in the make.conf file in /etc/portage? I don't remember if I made the /mnt/endme folder, but I might've when I was doing chroot stuff to fix things. Also, you installed a LOT more than I thought you did! Awesome job and great perseverance! Not deleting the swap file might've helped... or made things slower! Who knows? Not me!

David_Phantom

I recently got into Gentoo and for some reason immediately got interested in seeing it run on retro hardware. I’ve been waiting for this video

maikeru

man took "install gentoo" literally

kantraa

I used a 600mhz Pentium III, and I managed to watch some YouTube videos and browse the web. I used a distro called Slitaz. Old PCs are completely usable, and I used a 2003 Gateway tablet PC as my main computer up until about 2 years ago when I got a newer Thinkpad.

mistrotech

A 133Mhz PC was the speed of my first PC.

SirenaWF

You pronounced "gentoo" incorrectly. You said "gentoo" but it's actually pronounced "gentoo". Thank you for correcting this.

bhstone

I made my Voodoo 3 work on Gentoo. You have to compile the framebuffer tdfxfb driver, not the legacy DRM one. I also compiled it in, not as a module. It should pick up your monitor's resolution automatically after it loads (on the console). I also remember it working on Debian years ago, but I had to modprobe it manually, was compiled as a module. It works with a 1920x1080 monitor for me and it detects it automatically. After that, to get X working, you need to make sure it loads the xf86-video-fbdev driver, that's what the framebuffer drivers work on. It still won't be great, though. The X11 architecture just isn't there in the modern days to work properly with framebuffer based drivers.

And you can forget the original old accelerated drivers. They haven't worked for over a decade now. The tdfx kernel driver is deprecated due to being DRI1 (they were unsafe). The X11 driver also doesn't work anymore because X11 dropped support for XAA (which the userspace X driver was based on). It might be possible to get this old acceleration stuff working if you compile an old 2.xx kernel with old 8.x Mesa and some ancient version of X11. But it quickly becomes a nightmare to try and get all the dependencies working together, especially with modern compilers.

CyroTheSpider

I am *so* sorry for pointing out the lack of bottom bar, causing you and David to Install Gentoo™ on a P1 machine :P
1280x1024 resolution w/o video acceleration on a machine that old... I'm surprised it's still that usable.

L-in-oleum

0:01 You have some true blood for installing Gentoo in these type of machines... Larry the cow is so proud from you.... oWo

dj_dexterdark_x

Just found this channel and this is great. All the other retro tech channels take themselves way too seriously so this is so much more enjoyable and fun! Appreciate the catboys ^-^

sophie-p

The audio reminds me when I used to bring in hugely compressed wma files on my school computer lab lol

TradieTrev

Flashbacks of me playing StarCraft using Wine Beta under Ubuntu 6.06 in a PentiumII 300MHz and 128MB of RAM back in 2006.

And 32 bit processors were (and still are in most cases) very capable btw, I got an old 2005 Thinkpad with a mobile Core2Duo running Steam Streaming at 720p with a PS4 controller to work seamlessly back in 2016. Linux integrates beautifully to a set hardware as long as you know it's limits.

qchtohere

8kbps music, the sound of gravel
i like it

legofanlovessayori

I grew up with a Pentium I 75 Mhz. Brings back memories haha

dylantaylor

For voodoo you need to compile a very old version of mesa and a very old version of the kernel.
Don't expect to have support for old cards but...
You could try a raiser to adapt PCI to pci-e and check if a modern GPU work.
For the sound card, just install a PCI to USB adapter and just use a modern one xD.
For graphical interface I remember that I could setup a remote xorg server but I don't know if is posible nowadays. But you always could redirect X with ssh -Y and then be sure you have indirect rendering enabled on mesa and you can use the remote computer to render games.
I think playing neverball or xmoto is doable with ssh -Y

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