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  Onboard keyboard issues...

Posted by: Eric Rikkinen
10-09-2025, 08:09 PM
Forum: Security & Bug Fixes
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Hello...

I have a Surface Go tablet onto which I installed Linux Lite v. 7.6.  The issue is as follows; When attempting to use Onboard onscreen keyboard it simply vanishes off the screen the instant I tap it.  I wish to use this device while mobile and do not want to attach a full keyboard every time I need to type something.  Has anyone encountered this situation before?  Any suggestions would be helpful. 

Thanks>


Video after Lite install, unstable screen on old Asus x50SL

Posted by: LioS1959
10-09-2025, 01:54 PM
Forum: Installing Linux Lite
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Hello, newbie here as well as to Linux in general. Windows user up until now.
I have a few ancient laptops lying around that I'm thinking of bringing back to life installing a light Linux version. Hence, Linux Lite seems like a good candidate.
I went through the moves of installing ver 7.6 and installed all available updates; it said no driver updates are available.
Yet I get an extremely unstable display and can't seem to solve the problem trying every available graphics resolution (see attached video: in it, 1280*800 is being used).
I looked on about every forum I could find to look for help on this issue, but can't find a thing.
Hoping someone can give me a tip? Maybe another member managed to get a working install on a similar old machine?
Joining a inxi dump below, maybe there's something strange in there?
Thanks in advance,
Lio  


INXI result
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System:
  Host: linuxlite-F5SL01 Kernel: 6.8.0-85-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: Linux Lite 7.6 LTS
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: F5SL v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: F5SL v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: 301 date: 06/19/2008
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 38.8 Wh (99.0%) condition: 39.2/47.3 Wh (82.9%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo T5450 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
    L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 998 min/max: 996/1660 cores: 1: 1000 2: 996
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RV620/M82 [Mobility Radeon HD 3450/3470] driver: radeon
    v: kernel
  Device-2: Chicony 1.3 MPixel UVC Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 driver: X: loaded: radeon
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
    resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,r600,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
    renderer: AMD RV620 (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.8.0-85-generic LLVM 20.1.2)
Audio:
  Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-85-generic status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
    driver: sis190
  IF: enp0s4 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:22:15:7f:f3:45
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: ath5k
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: 00:22:43:01:cd:a4
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 20.89 GiB (4.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G1R0A-68A4W0
    size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 182.28 GiB used: 20.88 GiB (11.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 59 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (10.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 77.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 3 GiB available: 2.9 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (43.9%)
  Processes: 218 Uptime: 1h 28m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.34


  Updates can not be installed - 400 Bad Request

Posted by: Salman21
10-07-2025, 05:42 AM
Forum: Updates
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While trying to install Linux lite updates a message displays  that says "could not fetch the package cache information lists". Please assist me in resolving the issue. I would be thankful.


  New Python GTK4 ports for Series 8

Posted by: valtam
10-05-2025, 05:59 AM
Forum: Linux Lite Software Development
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Most of the existing Lite applications will be ported from bash+zenity/yad to Python + GTK4.

3 applications ported today:

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  Default Date Format

Posted by: silvo3070
10-05-2025, 01:34 AM
Forum: Installing Linux Lite
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Hi, I know this will be basic.. apologies , however I'm one of those people who is non technical user and have been using LL for several years..

I just installed 7.6  

How do I change the date format from US to UK? ( I'm located in Australia)  When I installed LL I set the region to Australia.

I googled and found this   https://linuxopsys.com/change-default-da...t-in-linux

from this guidance I found that locale shows LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

I have edited en_US file to update the formats however it has had no effect..  

The en_AU file looks fine.. however I cant see that it is being used   

Any help would be appreciated... I'm happy to re-intsall if I have to 

Thanks and kind regards


  XFCE4-Weather-Plugin Doesn´t Work.

Posted by: Marcelo Marchi Negreira
09-22-2025, 02:45 PM
Forum: Security & Bug Fixes
- Replies (1)

The app, even though it's installed and configured correctly for my city, doesn't display any weather information.
It appears it's not connecting to the weather data server.

AMD A8
16 GB Ram
AMD RX 550
Linux Lite 7.6
Kernel 6.16.8


  A New Review Posted

Posted by: trinidad
09-21-2025, 11:40 AM
Forum: On Topic
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Well I've finally gotten around to putting up a new review of Linux Lite.
https://dbts-analytics.com/ll7rev1.html
I've always found it frustrating the way reviewers skip over some of Linux Lite's nicest features, and its remarkable stability.
TC


Bug Thermal issues after update to 5.15.0-153-generic

Posted by: sandeep_k2505
09-21-2025, 07:43 AM
Forum: Security & Bug Fixes
- Replies (1)

Hi All, 

Recently my system prompted me for updates and I accepted them as usual, but after updates I started facing severe thermal issues and my laptop started shutting down automatically due to thermal issues.

Code:
Sep 21 08:59:07 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 kernel: [  511.326710] thermal thermal_zone0: acpitz: critical temperature reached, shutting down Sep 21 08:59:07 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 kernel: [  511.326723] reboot: HARDWARE PROTECTION shutdown (Temperature too high)


 After long debug I found that latest kernel (5.15.0-153-generic) update was the issue. I had to remove new kernel and go back to old kernel (5.15.0-133-generic) to get my system stable again. Seems they removed support for old hardware, intentionally or by mistake I don't know.

Code:
sudo apt remove linux-image-5.15.0-153-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-153-generic sudo update-grub

 I wanted to raise this issues so that it can be escalated to the relevant team and fixed in future version. Below are log details and system information. Please let me know if any more information is needed. 


Code:
Sep 21 08:59:07 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 kernel: [  511.326710] thermal thermal_zone0: acpitz: critical temperature reached, shutting down Sep 21 08:59:07 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 kernel: [  511.326723] reboot: HARDWARE PROTECTION shutdown (Temperature too high) Sep 21 08:50:44 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 thermald[931]: NO RAPL sysfs present Sep 21 08:50:44 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 thermald[931]: 11 CPUID levels; family:model:stepping 0x6:25:5 (6:37:5) Sep 21 08:50:44 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 systemd[1]: Finished ZFS file system shares. Sep 21 08:50:44 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 thermald[931]:  Need Linux PowerCap sysfs Sep 21 08:50:44 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 systemd[1]: Finished Save/Restore Sound Card State. Sep 21 08:50:44 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 thermald[931]: Unsupported cpu model or platform Sep 21 08:50:44 linuxlite-Vostro-3500 systemd[1]: thermald.service: Deactivated successfully.
Code:
uname -a Linux linuxlite-Vostro-3500 5.15.0-133-generic #144-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 7 20:47:38 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Linux Lite 6.4 Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy lspci | grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18) free -h                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available Mem:           7.6Gi       2.6Gi       1.8Gi       188Mi       3.2Gi       4.5Gi Swap:          8.0Gi          0B       8.0Gi


Code:
linuxlite  ~  lscpu Architecture:            x86_64   CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit   Address sizes:          36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual   Byte Order:            Little Endian CPU(s):                  4   On-line CPU(s) list:    0-3 Vendor ID:                GenuineIntel   Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU      M 380  @ 2.53GHz     CPU family:          6     Model:                37     Thread(s) per core:  2     Core(s) per socket:  2     Socket(s):            1     Stepping:            5     CPU max MHz:          2527.0000     CPU min MHz:          931.0000     BogoMIPS:            5054.27     Flags:                fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 h                           t tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid a                           perfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm pti s                           sbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid dtherm arat flush_l1d Virtualization features:    Virtualization:        VT-x Caches (sum of all):        L1d:                    64 KiB (2 instances)   L1i:                    64 KiB (2 instances)   L2:                    512 KiB (2 instances)   L3:                    3 MiB (1 instance) NUMA:                      NUMA node(s):          1   NUMA node0 CPU(s):      0-3 Vulnerabilities:            Gather data sampling:  Not affected   Itlb multihit:          KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled   L1tf:                  Mitigation; PTE Inversion; VMX conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable   Mds:                    Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable   Meltdown:              Mitigation; PTI   Mmio stale data:        Unknown: No mitigations   Reg file data sampling: Not affected   Retbleed:              Not affected   Spec rstack overflow:  Not affected   Spec store bypass:      Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp   Spectre v1:            Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization   Spectre v2:            Mitigation; Retpolines; IBPB conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected;                           BHI Not affected   Srbds:                  Not affected   Tsx async abort:        Not affected


Code:
sudo dmidecode -t baseboard # dmidecode 3.3 Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 2.6 present. Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: 058DK5 Version: A10 Serial Number: .GB4K8BS.CN7016612A0HHG.          Asset Tag: Not Specified Features: Board is a hosting board Board is replaceable Location In Chassis: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Chassis Handle: 0x0003 Type: Motherboard Contained Object Handles: 0 Handle 0x001A, DMI type 10, 6 bytes On Board Device Information Type: Video Status: Enabled Description: Intel Graphic Device 


Thanks,
Sandeep


  5.8 not updating for 45 days

Posted by: Redchief
09-20-2025, 03:23 PM
Forum: Updates
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"Your system is up to date" is the message I have been getting for 45 days now. Any ideas on why no updates?

Thanks.


  Unsuccessful update of LL 6.2 "Repository changed its default priority"

Posted by: PeterV
09-19-2025, 05:53 PM
Forum: Updates
- Replies (3)

Hi

Can anyone help with the following error log, I'm attempting to download updates to an otherwise healthy install of Linux Lite 6.2

TIA!

============ Log ===========

Ign:1 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu disco InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [129 kB]
Hit:4 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:6 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu disco Release
Hit:3 https://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite fluorite InRelease
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Hit:8 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Reading package lists...
E: Repository 'http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease' changed its default priority for apt_preferences(5) from 100 to 500.
W: http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/dists/disco/Release.gpg: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details.