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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: Merry Christmas

« Last post by vinceASPECT on December 25, 2025, 07:06:20 AM »

Thanks a lot Lee

Same to you and be a great future into 2026

C

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TCB Q&A Forum / Re: How to use the "Epson L100" USB Printer on Linux !?

« Last post by aus9 on December 25, 2025, 06:07:48 AM »

and that looks difficult. Your printer is not on the list of driverless printers https://istopwg.github.io/printers/
so you have 2 main choices.
1) search turboprint for linux L100....will take you to a paid web address...30 days to try before buy,
I have no idea how good it is

2) Download gutenprint and I am not sure if you are on 32 or 64 bit
as per Juanito cups info, set up cups daemon and create a session root password

Open your web browser to http://localhost:631/admin

Now here is where it gets tricky. You can try the driver from gutenprint Epson for the L120
it may work or it may not.....

do not try a full test print....just create a small text file and see if it prints.....and if it prints then try a small colour image

3) If it fails....then change manufacturer to generic
Most modern printers understand the PCL so I suggest you avoid LF hits as I believe that means line feed
and thats for uni computers where the whole of paper is fed into the printer
I suggest try Generic PCL 5c if that fails then 5 and then 4 and then
at the bottom of the page are Generic PDF printer and Generic Postscript

In above options you will be First clicking the button to add printer (not find printer)
then clicking continue after making selections and at some point a popup will appear and you input
root and the root password

Good luck

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TCE Talk / Re: x86_64 16x alsa-modules-KERNEL.tcz.dep query

« Last post by aus9 on December 25, 2025, 04:47:21 AM »

Rich
fair enough 
if you think its better, mark as solved but I am now glad what the answer is thanks

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TCB Q&A Forum / Re: How to use the "Epson L100" USB Printer on Linux !?

« Last post by Juanito on December 25, 2025, 04:02:00 AM »

I believe you would need to find a suitable driver to work with the cups extension.

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TCB Q&A Forum / How to use the "Epson L100" USB Printer on Linux !?

« Last post by xor on December 25, 2025, 02:09:07 AM »

How to use the "Epson L100" USB Printer on Linux !?

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Merry Christmas

« Last post by Leee on December 25, 2025, 01:28:56 AM »

Wishing you all a Joyous Christmas.

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: Linux desktop on your phone...

« Last post by vinceASPECT on December 24, 2025, 09:23:46 PM »

Sorry forum

This video below is exactly how to get full desktop linux at native speed with full hardware acceleration
for gpu on your android 15 or 16 phone

it is about 20 steps and very simple and free

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2n_WuiW0fk


thx
c
Th

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TCE Talk / Re: x86_64 16x alsa-modules-KERNEL.tcz.dep query

« Last post by Rich on December 24, 2025, 05:42:38 PM »

Hi aus9

... Its not a bug and obviously I am too lazy to run a modinfo <modulename> | grep depends to see which module in alsa needs the joystick modules

gameport.ko appears to be one of the culprits.

I ran this on TC14 x86_64:

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tc@box:~$ for F in $(find /tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/); do modinfo $F 2> /dev/null | grep "depends" | grep "gameport" && echo $F; done
depends:        gameport,snd,snd-pcm,snd-ac97-codec,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/au88x0/snd-au8810.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd,snd-pcm,snd-ac97-codec,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/au88x0/snd-au8820.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd,snd-pcm,snd-ac97-codec,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/au88x0/snd-au8830.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd-rawmidi,snd-pcm,snd-ac97-codec,snd
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/cs46xx/snd-cs46xx.ko.gz
depends:        snd-pcm,snd-ac97-codec,snd,snd-opl3-lib,gameport,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/riptide/snd-riptide.ko.gz
depends:        snd-sb-common,gameport,snd-pcm,snd,snd-opl3-lib,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/snd-als4000.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd,snd-timer,snd-opl3-lib,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/snd-azt3328.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd,snd-pcm,snd-opl3-lib,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/snd-cmipci.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd-rawmidi,snd,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-opl3-lib
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/snd-cs4281.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd-rawmidi,snd,snd-pcm
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/snd-ens1370.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd-rawmidi,snd,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/snd-ens1371.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd,snd-pcm,snd-opl3-lib,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1938.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd,tea575x,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/snd-es1968.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd,snd-pcm,snd-opl3-lib,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/snd-sonicvibes.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd-pcm,snd,snd-ac97-codec,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-util-mem,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/trident/snd-trident.ko.gz
depends:        gameport,snd-pcm,snd,snd-ac97-codec,snd-timer,snd-opl3-lib,snd-mpu401-uart
/tmp/tcloop/alsa-modules-6.1.2-tinycore64/usr/local/lib/modules/6.1.2-tinycore64/kernel/sound/pci/ymfpci/snd-ymfpci.ko.gz
First the dependencies are listed.
Then the module is listed.

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TCE Talk / [Solved] x86_64 16x alsa-modules-KERNEL.tcz.dep query

« Last post by aus9 on December 24, 2025, 04:54:42 PM »

Hi

in searching for what depends on input-joystick-KERNEL, as I was starting to build a game that might use a gamepad,
I get a hit for TCE=alsa-modules-KERNEL on TC64 16x
I sent a pm to current maintainer and have permission to ask on the forum as he built the modules but not the dep file.

Can we remove this dep file?
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86_64/tcz/alsa-modules-6.12.11-tinycore64.tcz.dep

Its not a bug and obviously I am too lazy to run a modinfo <modulename> | grep depends to see which module in alsa needs the joystick modules
thanks for reading

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TCB Talk / Tricky installation question, TinyCore bloat problem

« Last post by Onktebong on December 24, 2025, 04:40:36 PM »

I have problems installing TinyCore Linux onto the 176 byte memory of my trusty Zuse Z3 electromechanical "telephone relais inside" electronic brain. I'll figure it out eventually, I guess, but for now I want to bid my fellow nerds, geeks and freaks a very wonderful Christmas!