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Tiny Core Base => TCB News => Final Releases => Topic started by: roberts on October 12, 2011, 10:45:09 AM

Title: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: roberts on October 12, 2011, 10:45:09 AM
A bug fix and adjustments release.

Change log:
* Updated tc-config for microcore without X.
* Updated udev rules to correct reported permission issues on usb devices.
* Updated select to accept input from stdin.
* Updated tc-functions getKeyEventDevice
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: netnomad on October 12, 2011, 01:50:49 PM
hi roberts,

great piece of work, the usb-devices got the right permission, so jpilot and xsane work flawless.
your actkbd-config is stable and the "0" disappeared...
the cups-printing matured, too.
your distribution is stable, useful for heavy leisure time and easy working :)
my internal wishlist is getting shorter and shorter...
by the way, a flexible, stable s2ram would be really great, and would save energy,
you know, let's care for our energy resources and our environment :)

again, thank you for your great work and let's thank all the good friends that transfered the repository to 4.x.
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: Juanito on October 12, 2011, 08:17:58 PM
the cups-printing matured, too.

Hmm - some users are still having problems with foomatic-rip  ;)
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: beerstein on October 13, 2011, 02:05:25 AM
hi netnomad:
could you please be a bit more specific about the "cups printing matured" thing?
Is foomatic-rip working on your systems?
I have ownership problems with foomatic-rip depended PPD files and some other strange error messages.
See my thread on the samsung scx-4521F printer - which is a good exaple
Thank you
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: Juanito on October 13, 2011, 02:14:49 AM
Note that several of the cups/cups related extensions have been updated, it would be good to check you have the latest versions.
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: netnomad on October 13, 2011, 02:53:10 AM
many things changed to improve the cups printing:
base 4.0.2
usb-persmissions in the base
permissions of foomatic-rip and pstoraster
update of cups.tcz and the dependencies...
and so on.
in the moment i heavily use a gutenprint.ppd, i'm not sure whether the foomatic-environment is needed.
all kind of printing works with this gutenprint.ppd flawless
i cannot test or use my foomatic.ppd, but the cups-server reports no errors for this printer...
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: beerstein on October 14, 2011, 02:35:58 AM
thank you guys for this.
hi netnomad: what printer brand are you using?
HP or Epson or? Are they supported in the gutenprint.tcz?
Do you need ghostscript and ghostscript common extensions too?

Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: netnomad on October 14, 2011, 09:01:25 AM
i use for my kyocera fs-1010 a gutenprint-ppd and for my hp deskjet 6540 a foomatic/hpijs-ppd.
in the moment i load in my own cups_meta.tcz following dependencies:
foomatic-rip.tcz
ghostscript_common.tcz
ghostscript.tcz
gutenprint.tcz
cups.tcz
i'm not sure whether i need ghostscript, but i noticed that gs.tcz isn't compativel to my setup.
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: meo on October 14, 2011, 09:25:26 AM
Hi Y'all!

Have been testing out the new TC 4.0.2 for a couple of days and it seems rock solid. I'm glad that there are changes to make this a bugfree solid foundation for coming releases. I feel that I can depend on TC while I test different distros on my netbook (I'm kind of a distro junkie). I have TC installed on a 32 GB SD card that I always can rely on if I mess up my hard drive installations. Thanks to Robert and the whole TC team for the effort they have put down to give us this wonderful distro!

Have fun with this rock solid distro,
meo
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: dentonlt on October 14, 2011, 04:46:50 PM
Thanks for the usb fix in particular =D

Aside: it never ceases to amaze me how quickly/easily I can upgrade TC. Clearly, that's a good thing.
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: loubapache on October 15, 2011, 05:35:41 PM
Thank you all for the great releases.


I am fairly new to TinyCore so please forgive me if this is not the right place for my questions.


I am running 4.0.2 now with a few issues.


The most strange one is that I cannot use "protect" or"secure" in boot loader.  If I do, then wifi would not work (no wifi device found).  If I boot without either of these, then it works just fine.


TIA



Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: roberts on October 15, 2011, 07:32:37 PM
Need more specifics.  What specifically are you booting from, e.g., multicore_4.0.2 cd?
What specifically did you type at the boot prompt?
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: loubapache on October 15, 2011, 07:41:16 PM
Thanks, Robert.

I am booting off of a USB drive (created using the multicore iso) that has a frugal install of 4.0.2.

I simply added either "protect" or "secure" to the bootloader in "syslinux.cfg" such as

label plus
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz
   append initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz quiet waitusb=5 protect

The prompts for me to create passwords all went well but then wifi was gone.


Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: ru60hz on October 15, 2011, 08:22:45 PM
Thanks for the usb fix in particular =D

Aside: it never ceases to amaze me how quickly/easily I can upgrade TC. Clearly, that's a good thing.

Same here  :)  I just rename my old vmlinuz and tinycore.gz to eg. vmlinuz40 and tinycore40.gz then copy new vmlinuz and tinycore.gz to my boot directory that's it! there is no need to change my grub.cfg.

I'm not sure if this is correct but i remember i read it somewhere here in the forum. any comments regarding
this process?

Thanks to all Tiny Core Team for this great distro!
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: Rich on October 15, 2011, 08:31:52 PM
Hi ru60hz
That's a good way to go when trying out a new release since it provides a simple way to revert
back to the previous version if you are not happy with the results.
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: roberts on October 15, 2011, 08:33:25 PM
Thanks, Robert.

I am booting off of a USB drive (created using the multicore iso) that has a frugal install of 4.0.2.

I simply added either "protect" or "secure" to the bootloader in "syslinux.cfg" such as

label plus
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz
   append initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz quiet waitusb=5 protect

The prompts for me to create passwords all went well but then wifi was gone.
You mean the Wifi icon on the launcher?
Not knowing how you installed to pendrive,  but from your boot stanza label plus, it would seem to indicate an iso image of multicore_4.0.2.  If so, you are missing the boot option of cde. The boot option cde will load all extensions in an iso image of microcore.

Might check if your pendrive still has a cde directory and then try adding the cde boot option.

On a live drive, i.e., not an iso image, you would have a tce directory.
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: loubapache on October 15, 2011, 08:38:47 PM
I copied all the files in /cde to /tce so I do not think that is the problem.  Everything else works.

Yes, it is the wifi icon in the wbar.  I click on it and it says there is no wifi device.  If I remove the protect or secure in the bootloader, then everything is fine.

The wifi tool is relatively a struggle in different machines.
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: roberts on October 15, 2011, 09:07:53 PM
Hmm. I cannot reproduce. I have both protect and secure in my extlinux.cfg and wifi.sh still works.

What does the command iwconfig show?

Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: loubapache on October 15, 2011, 09:10:09 PM
Thanks for your time.  Go to bed now and will continue tomorrow. (USA time)
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: loubapache on October 16, 2011, 07:15:10 AM
Hi, Robert:  I am back.

After a few turns of events, this issue (protect and wifi) is resolved. Thanks.

Here is what happened.

I was frustrated with this issue so I used the USB stick on a different computer (Dell 11z).  Well, Xorg would not start so I mv the mydata file and it booted up.  Then this little laptop has the Broadcom 1397 wifi card and TC cannot detect.  I have the Windows driver so I installed using ndiswrapper. Anyway, that did not work but I updated wifi.tcz.

No I went back to the original computer (Dell 6000), used protect, and used a clean mydata file and no wifi issues.  So it is working now.

I really like the concept of TC (along with Puppy) and thank you all.

Now if I can get a few other issues resolved, I would be using this more regularly.  8)   I am not using this post in trying to resolve the following issues but if anyone of you has already seen them, then please let me know.  Thank you in advance.

1) I could not get the Broadcom 1397 to work even with the Windows drivers.  I did a lot of searches but no real result.  If I run iwconfig, I got

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any 
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on

The wireless router/network is on, BTW.

2) LibreOffice Autotext.  Cannot create autotext because that button is greyed out.

3) It would really be nice to have the tcz for the latest (current) chrome browser because it already has flash 11 built in.  The Chromium.tcz has Flash 10.

Thank you all.












Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: roberts on October 16, 2011, 08:48:19 AM
Heads Up! multicore_4.0.2.iso has been reposted to correct installation permission problems as reported in:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11676.msg61897.html#msg61897 (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11676.msg61897.html#msg61897)

Note: multicore is really only needed for those that do not have access to wired internet as multicore contains a preselected group of extensions. Note too that the installation extensions involved have also been udated in the repository.
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: Juanito on October 16, 2011, 09:32:02 AM
I could not get the Broadcom 1397 to work even with the Windows

This hardware works with the wireless-3.0.3-tinycore, wl and ndiswrapper extensions for me
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: loubapache on October 16, 2011, 03:00:41 PM
I could not get the Broadcom 1397 to work even with the Windows

This hardware works with the wireless-3.0.3-tinycore, wl and ndiswrapper extensions for me


Thanks.


I will try another time.  I did not have wireless-3.0.3-tinycore loaded.
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: gfmoore on October 22, 2011, 02:46:57 AM
I'm sorry about this noob question, and I'm sure I'll kick myself when I get the answer, but what has happened to the /etc/X11 directory?

I emulate using VirtualBox and I'm trying to install the guest additions virtualbox-ose-additions which i did on the 3.x version.

I'm sure I didn't create it myself?
Title: Re: Tiny Core v4.0.2
Post by: Arslan S. on October 22, 2011, 02:49:27 AM
virtualbox needs Xorg to benefit guest additions video and mouse driver specifically
the change i believe which effects this is we don't put Xorg as a dep instead expect the user to choose Xorg version
but i recommend Xorg-7.6 for virtualbox users because current version is compiled with Xorg-7.6 headers so you might have incompatibility issues with Xorg-7.5 or lower versions