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TCE Bugs / Re: nevergames needs pcre.tcz as a dep please

« Last post by Rich on December 24, 2025, 12:24:41 AM »

Hi aus9
nevergames.tcz  does not depend on  pcre.tcz.

nevergames.tcz  depends on  sdl2_ttf.tcz  which depends on  pcre.tcz.

sdl2_ttf.tcz.dep  updated for TC15 x86_64 and TC16 x86_64.

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: xbox controller not working on TCL16 x86_64

« Last post by GNUser on December 23, 2025, 11:19:03 PM »

Hi Rich and aus9. I returned the gamepad to the store, so cannot investigate this further.

While my kids have fun with logitech gamepads, I will educate myself about gamepads on linux and will take another stab at this (getting xbox gamepads to work on TCL) at some later date.

Happy hacking!

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TCE Bugs / [Solved] nevergames needs pcre.tcz as a dep please

« Last post by aus9 on December 23, 2025, 08:56:05 PM »

The readelf command I use to check for needed dependencies has no hits for pcre when I built it on 15x
Here on TC64 16x it borks unless I load pcre.tcz
and

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ldd /usr/local/bin/neverball | grep pcre
libpcre.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f8b004d8000)
libpcre2-8.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0 (0x00007f8afdf85000)
pcre21042 is already in the dep list. Can someone add pcre.tcz to both the 15 and 16 series dep file please

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: xbox controller not working on TCL16 x86_64

« Last post by aus9 on December 23, 2025, 07:43:47 PM »

Manually creating /dev/input/js0 didn't help, but that could be because I'm not creating it correctly.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/input/joydev/joystick.html#device-nodes

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: xbox controller not working on TCL16 x86_64

« Last post by aus9 on December 23, 2025, 05:33:29 PM »

well some good news and lots of bad

voidlinux has a joystick udev rule which is a text file that mentions hwdb.....and not sure how devuan rules for joystick are....but on voidlinux init=runit it is using a fork of systemd for a package called eudev
and it appears to have a hwdb.bin under /etc/udev and I have been unable to run strings /path/file | grep 20d6 or 20D6 to get any hits.
I get no hits searching for hwdb but instead I have a hit for a file called /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/70-joystick.hwdb and its text file but me thinks it would be a distraction to post here when you lack the hwdb files to begin with.

We do have our own hdwb TCE but its not the same and its usb ids do not appear to have your vendor product ids

Maybe you can look to see if Devuan has 70-joystick.rules and if that is the reason you have more success there?

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Wyse WT1200LE

« Last post by neonix on December 23, 2025, 04:19:38 PM »

I was interesting in buying this terminal, but it doesn't have BIOS.

Is there anyone who can do test and swap bios chip from Wyse Sx0 or Wyse 3235LE or Evo T20 or Evo T30 and put it in to WT1200LE?

WT1200LE has a place where CF card reader can be soldered. If we put bios chip from 3235LE then. maybe it can boot WinCE/Linux from CF card. 


There is Coreboot project, that allow to create your own bios bin. If we use Wyse Sx0 to flash our coreboot bios chip, we can move this chip to WT1200LE, and have custom BIOS that allow to boot Linux.
https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/coreboot@coreboot.org/thread/3IUWUXCSGXCTD5ZCMJZM3L6W7ESD7M43/

There is also scenario to dump WT1200LE firmware and analyze code, if there are chances to boot from XPE or USB.
 

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CorePlus / Re: Wifi doesn't work and firmware b43 not found

« Last post by Rich on December 23, 2025, 04:18:25 PM »

Hi Onktebong
You need to download the firmware file before you can copy it somewhere:

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wget https://github.com/OpenELEC/wlan-firmware/raw/refs/heads/master/firmware/b43/ucode13.fw
mkdir -p pkg/usr/local/lib/firmware/broadcom/b43/
cp ucode13.fw pkg/usr/local/lib/firmware/broadcom/b43/
mksquashfs pkg ucode13.tcz -noappend
Then:
Copy  ucode13.tcz  to your  tce/optional/  directory.
Place  ucode13.tcz  on the first line of your  tce/onboot.lst  file.

It should now find the firmware next time you reboot.

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CorePlus / Re: Wifi doesn't work and firmware b43 not found

« Last post by Onktebong on December 23, 2025, 03:16:12 PM »

Hi Onktebong
Correction to reply #2, it should be:

Install  squashfs-tools.tcz.
Then:

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mkdir -p pkg/usr/local/lib/firmware/broadcom/b43/
cp ucode13.fw pkg/usr/local/lib/firmware/broadcom/b43/
mksquashfs pkg ucode13.tcz -noappend
Copy  ucode13.tcz  to your  tce/optional/  directory.
Place  ucode13.tcz  on the first line of your  tce/onboot.lst  file.

Installed squashfs-tools.tcz
Ran mkdir -p pkg/usr/local/lib/firmware/broadcom/b43
Then cp ucode13.fw pkg/usr/local/lib/firmware/broadcom/b43
Error message:

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cp: can't stat 'ucode13.fw': No such file or directorySo what can I do now?

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CorePlus / Re: Wifi doesn't work and firmware b43 not found

« Last post by Onktebong on December 23, 2025, 02:53:21 PM »

The firmware in tc are in tcz like:

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firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx.tcz
firmware-broadcom_bnx2.tcz
firmware-broadcom_bnx2x.tcz
You can see the list here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/

So i think firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx.tcz whould be first candidate.

I've installed firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx.tcz through Apps.
Now what do I do?

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CorePlus / Re: No file explorer?

« Last post by Onktebong on December 23, 2025, 01:47:26 PM »

Try installing  libEGL.tcz

Computer says no (unfortunately).
I'll now uninstall Nautilus and use mc or emelfm2 or one of the other great suggestions. Thank you.