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piCore Final Releases / Re: piCore 16.0 Release

« Last post by Paul_123 on February 08, 2026, 08:46:01 PM »

Please don’t post general questions in this release thread.  I split off the touchscreen question.

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Raspberry Pi / Re: piCore 16.0 and Raspi Touchscreen.

« Last post by Paul_123 on February 08, 2026, 08:44:37 PM »

I split this topic off.

Comparing piCore 13 to 16 is like night and day in regards to video drivers.

You need to be using the vc4 driver base in piCore16.  What do you have in your config.txt, and what extensions do you have load3d?

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Raspberry Pi / piCore 16.0 and Raspi Touchscreen.

« Last post by MrPorcine on February 08, 2026, 08:29:04 PM »

I'm trying to get the Raspberry Pi 7" touch screen to work (not the newer Touch Display 2). It displays text and graphics fine. So far no touch input.

I have a working piCore13 where the display does touch correctly. When I look at the Xorg.0.log, with the piCore 13, Xorg loads a module called "raspberrypi-ts". Here's the line in the log:

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Adding input device raspberrypi-ts (/dev/input/mouse0)
There is no such line in the log for the piCore 16. When I look at the list of optional tcz in each version (13,16) the list is exactly the same.

If anyone knows how to make this work it would be really helpful.

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piCore Final Releases / Re: piCore 16.0 Release

« Last post by MrPorcine on February 08, 2026, 06:21:41 PM »

It appears that xorg-server.tcz looks for a font folder "100pdi" rather than "100dpi".  The Xorg server reports no font folder "100pdi". This appears in three files in the tcz: Xnest, Xvfb and Xorg.
There is an easy work-around by defining a symbolic link to let the server find the 100dpi font files.

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TCE Bugs / Segmentation fault in Xdialog

« Last post by karl52 on February 08, 2026, 05:37:08 PM »

I just installed Xdialog.tcz from the Apps menu, but it doesn't seem to work.
System: Core Plus 16.2
Extensions: the default preinstalled ones, dillo, Xdialog & dependencies

It also doesn't work when I run it with --help, it breaks while printing the output (see attachment)

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General TC Talk / Re: New Boot Drive 16 GB -> 4 GB

« Last post by MTCAT on February 08, 2026, 12:02:27 PM »

Hi Rich,

Thanks for the help, fired up the little VortexDX3 with a 16 GB pen drive, inserted the 4GB Cactus drive which got attached as sdc1. Seems like the UUID in extlinux.conf and that reported by "blkid" are consistent.

The output of

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blkid /dev/sdc1

was;

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/dev/sdc1: UUID="c3981945-a8ad-48d3-9867-41b071e3a046" TYPE="ext4"

The extlinux.conf file on sdc1 contains;

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UI vesamenu.c32
MENU TITLE TinyCore Bootloader
TIMEOUT 100

DEFAULT realtime

LABEL tinycore
KERNEL /boot/bzImage
APPEND initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz norestore noswap nodhcp quiet waitusb=10:UUID="c3981945-a8ad-48d3-9867-41b071e3a046" tce=UUID="c3981945-a8ad-48d3-9867-41b071e3a046" home=UUID="c3981945-a8ad-48d3-9867-41b071e3a046" opt=UUID="c3981945-a8ad-48d3-9867-41b071e3a046"

LABEL realtime
KERNEL /boot/bzImagert
APPEND initrd=/boot/tinycorert.gz norestore noswap nodhcp quiet libata.force=80c waitusb=10:UUID="c3981945-a8ad-48d3-9867-41b071e3a046" tce=UUID="c3981945-a8ad-48d3-9867-41b071e3a046" home=UUID="c3981945-a8ad-48d3-9867-41b071e3a046" opt=UUID="c3981945-a8ad-48d3-9867-41b071e3a046"

Thanks,

David

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Raspberry Pi / xfce4 on piCore64

« Last post by Juanito on February 08, 2026, 11:06:53 AM »

A basic xfce4 desktop is available on piCore64 16.x

Load the Xorg-3d and xfce4-session extensions and issue the "startx" command.

It should also be possible to use "dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 startxfce4" (I haven't tried).

It is also possible to run xfce4 with labwc in a wayland session with "sudo -- seatd -g staff -n /run/seatd.sock & XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001 startxfce4 --wayland"

Apparently the xfce people are going to create their own wayland compositor, xfwl4.

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General TC Talk / Re: New Boot Drive 16 GB -> 4 GB

« Last post by Rich on February 07, 2026, 08:14:52 PM »

Hi MTCAT
Assuming you 4 Gig USB is sdc, run this command:

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blkid /dev/sdc1And see if the UUID listed matches what's in extlinux.cfg.

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piCore Final Releases / Re: piCore 16.0 Release

« Last post by Paul_123 on February 07, 2026, 06:42:29 PM »

The extension is busybox-httpd.tcz   The configs are in the 15.x release folders.  Busybox did not get updated for 16.x

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/aarch64/releases/RPi/src/busybox/

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piCore Final Releases / Re: piCore 16.0 Release

« Last post by MrPorcine on February 07, 2026, 06:13:09 PM »

I'd like to use busybox-httpd. I believe that the httpd module is not compiled into the busybox in 16.0. It is busybox config file available somewhere? I don't mind compiling - it would be a real help if I could start with the standard version, then just add the httpd module.