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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: necromancy / reborn of dillo 3.2.3

« Last post by neonix on February 21, 2026, 06:10:56 AM »

https://dillo-browser.github.io/news/migration-from-github/

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Raspberry Pi / Re: Print Server Running?

« Last post by Rich on February 20, 2026, 11:10:34 PM »

Hi Kingston
If you go to the search page:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?action=search
and enter:

Code: [Select]

"print server"including the quotation marks in the  Search for:  field you'll get
about 45 results. Maybe there's something useful there.

... I just installed V16 and tried to install some extensions. ...

Which extensions? It's difficult to help you if we don't know
the extensions you are attempting to use for this.

... But nothing is running.

Services don't run automatically. They typically need to be
configured and then started.

You also need to decide what kind of print server you want.

Something simple:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27573.0.html
This uses the  p910nd  daemon and feeds the printer directly.
You can find it on github.

Or something more complex, with a print queue and buffering.
In that case you probably want something like  cups.

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Raspberry Pi / Print Server Running?

« Last post by Kingston on February 20, 2026, 05:49:38 PM »

Hi has anyone got a print server running?  I just installed V16 and tried to install some extensions.  But nothing is running.  Thanks

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TCE Talk / Re: Sound

« Last post by Juanito on February 20, 2026, 05:30:37 PM »

My laptop has a function key that switches between internal display, external hdmi or both - does your machine have something similar?

You probably have a bios setting that will force intel or nvidia graphics, I would suggest troubleshooting using intel graphics.

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TCE Talk / Re: Sound

« Last post by vinceASPECT on February 20, 2026, 03:53:21 PM »

Juanto

i did mess with ALSA and that graphics KERNEL the sound started working.....BUT.......at exactly the same time tinycore shut down it's Graphics FEED out of VGA port to my external plugged in VGA monitor and instead, the Laptops broken screen faintly lit up....

so i assume it switched into HDMI since this laptop does support........ HDMI but i don't own any external screens  with HDMI connections

Thx
C

ps....this is the same Laptop that  6 months back would not RUN tinycore from CD disc...........it would boot and seem fine then just give ZIG ZAG lines on the screen..........i tried a whole afternoon of fixes and resolutions and driver blacklists and nothing worked

so i left TCL alone for 6 months

This same laptop now boots fine with TCL from a pen drive.....
It's a machine that contains TWO gpu's ...........INTEL and NVIDIA

hmmm

C

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TCE Talk / Re: Sound

« Last post by Leee on February 20, 2026, 03:27:56 PM »

On my HP laptop (which I'm using as a desktop, with an external HDMI monitor) it, by default, seems to want to send sound to the HDMI monitor which, alas, has no speakers.  To get sound to come out via the headphone jack (and hence to an external speaker) I had to
blacklist snd_hda_intel
 then, in onboot.lst load alsa-config.tcz and alsa.tcz (in that order) and then, in bootsync.sh, run
modprobe snd_hda_intel options index=1

I don't know if, in my case, it's dependent upon Xorg-7.7 and graphics-KERNEL because I pretty much always have those loaded anyway.

I also load apulse.tcz and use apulse to run firefox.  Otherwise, no sound in firefox.
Of course, your hardware configuration is likely much different than mine.  And if you use that USB stick in multiple machines, it may also vary from one usage to the next.

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TCE Talk / Re: Sound

« Last post by Juanito on February 20, 2026, 12:20:53 PM »

On my laptop I need Xorg-7.7-3d and graphics-KERNEL installed for sound to work with alsa and hdmi - even then hdmi sound usually doesn’t come up as the default device.

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TCE Talk / Sound

« Last post by vinceASPECT on February 20, 2026, 09:50:46 AM »

Hello forum,

there is the standard "Tinycore 64 bit" here on pen drive. it Boots.

i just wondered which extension will give SOUND to the machine on their own....?

i presumed the following below.............
-------------------------------------------------------

1) Loading ALSA should give sound

2) is SDL another extension you can load to get SOUND? (alone).....?
3) is "Pulseaudio" another extension you can load (alone) to get SOUND.....?
4) Has "OSS sound"  long since disappeared.....?


are there any others like specific "HDMI sound extensions" for getting the sound part of HDMI?

thanks
C

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Raspberry Pi / Re: What version of PiCore should I install if i want to use OpenGL ES 2.1?

« Last post by Juanito on February 20, 2026, 02:55:04 AM »

You can also use glxinfo to see which version you have.

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TCE News / Re: My experimental AI testing attempt was successful :)

« Last post by xor on February 20, 2026, 01:43:51 AM »

There's a logical connection between ignorance and happiness

News about a 3% performance increase with a single line of code change
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-BTI-Prefetch

For those who can see the big picture; this single command makes thousands or more ASM-level changes in the background!

There's a logical connection between ignorance and happiness