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Offline tinyman90

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TinyCorev15 help needed
« on: November 28, 2024, 03:45:59 PM »
Hi all,

I got a laptop to make it work. It was running Windows XP. The sound was already missing from it (possibly damaged soundcard).
Specs: AcerAspire1200XV laptop
1 GHz Intel Celeron CPU
128 MB RAM (108 MB usabe due to MMIO and minimum 8 MB VRAM)
10 GB HDD (IDE) - created 1GB swap at the start of the disk, 1GB EXT4 for Tinycore
Northbridge: VIA8606 (graphics)
Southbridge: VIA686B (sound/AC97, peripherals)

I installed TinyCoreLinux v15 x86 on it. Just the terminal version. Ethernet is working.

I installed the following tcz apps: firmware-audio, firmware-video, alsa-config, alsa-oss, alsa, graphics, Xfree86-vesa, Xvesa, aterm, fluxbox.

Then typed startx and installed the remaining apps: kmap, xfe, xarchiver, netsurf, oo2, wbar

Saved all. It all works good, except:
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1. I did not manage to make the soundcard work. I guess it is broken, I am missing SND-PCSP.KO.GZ from Tinycore. Can I get it? To output sound from builtin pc-speaker, which is connected to external speaker.

2. Can I change keyboard mapping on the fly, lets say from English to German? Without going out to terminal.

3. Can I do 2D video acceleration with VESA driver? Since there is no VIA graphics firmware..

P.S.
Can I change the default UserAgent in Netsurf?
« Last Edit: November 28, 2024, 04:16:39 PM by tinyman90 »

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Re: TinyCorev15 help needed
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2024, 09:54:48 PM »
to fly from england to germany terminals are necessary unless private charter
The fluctuation theorem has long been known for a sudden switch of the Hamiltonian of a classical system Z54 . For a quantum system with a Hamiltonian changing from... https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,25972.msg166580.html#msg166580

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Re: TinyCorev15 help needed
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2024, 11:30:25 PM »
Hi tinyman90
... 1. I did not manage to make the soundcard work. I guess it is broken, I am missing SND-PCSP.KO.GZ from Tinycore. Can I get it? To output sound from builtin pc-speaker, which is connected to external speaker. ...
According to the kernel configuration, it's not enabled so no is driver available:
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# CONFIG_SND_PCSP is not setFound here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/15.x/x86/release/src/kernel/config-6.6.8-tinycore

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... 3. Can I do 2D video acceleration with VESA driver? Since there is no VIA graphics firmware.. ...
I don't think acceleration is available for Xvesa.

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... I installed the following tcz apps: firmware-audio, firmware-video, alsa-config, alsa-oss, alsa, graphics, Xfree86-vesa, Xvesa, aterm, fluxbox. ...
Did you mean xf86-video-vesa ?
That package is for Xorg. It does nothing for Xvesa.

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Re: TinyCorev15 help needed
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2024, 11:41:39 PM »
to fly from england to germany terminals are necessary unless private charter

Yeah ;D

I meant changing keyboard mapping during an X session. Kmap requires to exit X session chang kbd mapping and startx.

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Re: TinyCorev15 help needed
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2024, 12:14:49 AM »
Hi tinyman90
... 1. I did not manage to make the soundcard work. I guess it is broken, I am missing SND-PCSP.KO.GZ from Tinycore. Can I get it? To output sound from builtin pc-speaker, which is connected to external speaker. ...
According to the kernel configuration, it's not enabled so no is driver available:
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# CONFIG_SND_PCSP is not setFound here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/15.x/x86/release/src/kernel/config-6.6.8-tinycore

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... 3. Can I do 2D video acceleration with VESA driver? Since there is no VIA graphics firmware.. ...
I don't think acceleration is available for Xvesa.

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... I installed the following tcz apps: firmware-audio, firmware-video, alsa-config, alsa-oss, alsa, graphics, Xfree86-vesa, Xvesa, aterm, fluxbox. ...
Did you mean xf86-video-vesa ?
That package is for Xorg. It does nothing for Xvesa.

Hi thanks for the reply.

Can I grab snd_pcsp.ko module from some old x86 Debian and load it in Tinycore? Or do I have to recompile Tinycore with snd_pcsp enabled?

graphics-6.6.8-tinycore.tcz description states:
Accelerated graphics support

Yes I meant xf86-video-vesa.

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Re: TinyCorev15 help needed
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2024, 12:48:58 AM »
Hi tinyman90
... Can I grab snd_pcsp.ko module from some old x86 Debian and load it in Tinycore? ...
It won't want to load because the kernel version won't match.

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... graphics-6.6.8-tinycore.tcz description states:
Accelerated graphics support ...
I think those only work with Xorg.

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Re: TinyCorev15 help needed
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2024, 02:52:57 PM »
Hi tinyman90
... Can I grab snd_pcsp.ko module from some old x86 Debian and load it in Tinycore? ...
It won't want to load because the kernel version won't match.

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... graphics-6.6.8-tinycore.tcz description states:
Accelerated graphics support ...
I think those only work with Xorg.

I guess I need to compile TinyCoreBase with SND-PCSP, and compile Netsurf to change it's User agent to Mobile. Vesa graphics acceleration is not doable.

I won't locks this topic in case some new ideas emerge.