Hi, been away for awhile, now have need for some help again.

My 8400GS card went bad recently. As a result, I am using for now the original onboard graphics for this 10 yr old Gateway GT5656 desktop. The "card" is GeForce 6150SE nForce 430. I have been experimenting with 32 bit linux systems, trying to find one that will work with this old system.

Originally, the computer was Vista 32 bit. It is 64bit capable, and I did have it 64 bit until the add-in card died. My logic is that since the computer was kind of designed for 32 bit, if I use the onboard graphics, 32 bit may work better.

On two other Linux systems (Zorin Lite and LXLE), I occasionally have display freezes, necessitating a reboot. I tried to install the NVIDIA drivers 304.xxx, but could not, on those systems. I figure they are too "new." So I installed Linux Lite 3.0, thinking an older system might allow me to install the drivers. It did, I have the 304 driver working now on Lite 3.0.

So, if I try Lite 4.0, would I run the risk of the Nvidia drivers not working, because the system/kernel is too new? (Why not just get a new add-in card? I'm trying to avoid putting money into this old beast, if possible). Also, what is your opinion re: Nouveau vs. Nvidia drivers, in a situation like this? Which are likely to work better?

Thanks,

Mike

I tried to download the latest updates and got this error msg.

nstall Updates could not successfully download and install available updates.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

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

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?
I hope I'm posting this in the right place.

Hello!

I have used LibreOffice for some time but I don't like it. I used WPS Office it looks modern & very similar to MS Office which I'm comfortable with. So I want to install WPS Office, make it default for opening office files (doc, xls, ppt) & uninstall LibreOffice. Is it okay to delete LibreOffice?

Thanks for your help! 

Choppy Change switched on Feather and got a Sunrise. This is true. I expected to get the Windows 10 desktop but got the lovely sunrise. I made the Choppy Change for Feather yesterday out of the best wallpapers including Windows 10 first in the folder. But I had set random at 2 secs.

I call it Choppy Change as I have no idea what to call it. I am Gimping 4 of the best wallpapers as a single wallpaper and will add that to the wallpaper folder. Don't know what feather will show tomorrow morning.

What do you call Choppy Change? I have wrote how you can do it so let me know if you want to see how?

Where are the wallpapers stored?

I want to delete some of the wallpapers I do not like so that I can have auto wallpapers with the remaining.

Anyone know? Thanks

Here's a strange. I re-loaded  Linux Lite to the latest and updated. All was well until I went to use Image Viewer.
It stopped me in my tracks. Both Image Viewer and Shotwell are identical.
No matter what I do if I open Image Viewer, it shows as Shotwell. This has never happened before. while Image Viewer shows up as a different App, it always opens up as Shotwell. What gives?

The following problem: When playing Tankionline.com in the HTML 5 version, this or FF always crashes

it's so that the game ALWAYS runs normally at the beginning, I can play about 2-5 games (7 minutes each) and after that FF ALWAYS crashes or I get kicked out of the game
somehow this must be done with the file/folder:

....firefox - contentproc - childID 1 ..........

...... childID 2 and 3 are also available

are connected because:

One of these " childID " folders starts with 200 to 400 MB when you log in to the game and gets fuller and fuller from game to game (about 7 minutes each) to about 1 to 1.2 GB (according to the task manager). Then the site or Firefox crashes.


Operating system: Linux Lite 3.8 - 32 bit


Since I also have problems with google chrome, it probably seems to be due to Lite?

Thanks for your help!

Updating Linux lite 4.4 to 4.8.  Lots of programs installed.


===========================
Install Updates Error log
===========================
Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

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

Hit:1 http://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Ign:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:5 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Get:6 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease [3 316 B]
Get:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release [943 B]
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/teejee2008/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:9 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release.gpg [819 B]
Hit:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Err:6 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease
  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 4773BD5E130D1D45
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88,7 kB]
Err:9 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release.gpg
  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 78BD65473CB3BD13
Hit:12 http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise InRelease
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88,7 kB]
Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74,6 kB]
Hit:15 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite diamond InRelease
Reading package lists...
W: GPG error: http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 4773BD5E130D1D45
E: The repository 'http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease' is not signed.
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 78BD65473CB3BD13
E: Release file for http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dist.../InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 11h 12min 10s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
E: Release file for http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dist.../InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 11h 13min 0s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
E: Release file for http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dist.../InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 11h 14min 10s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome-beta.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome-beta.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome-beta.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome-beta.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3
W: Target CNF (main/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome-beta.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3
W: Target CNF (main/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome-beta.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3

I've been using Linux Lite on my laptop for over a year. I got an error saying my HDD was going to fail.
I replaced the HDD with an exact same type and loaded the Linix Lite 4.6 AND all of the updates.
Everything boots as it should and connection to the internet is just fine.
I went to download from a 15 Gb USB thumb drive and the laptop does not see the drive in any of the 3 USB ports!
IF, I plug the drive into any of the USB ports and BOOT the laptop the software see's the USB thumb drive!
This has N E V E R been a problem with this laptop running Linux Lite before, it has just started.
I did the Linux Lite System Report and all is well and recognized.
The Dell Self test at boot up also shows nothing wrong.
The Thumb drive IS instantly seen on a Ubuntu and Tower Linux Lite computers with no problems.
There is something not right with my software or settings but I do not know what it may be.
Please Help.
Dell Inspiron 1545
Intel core duo T9600 2.8Ghz
4 Gb memory
I use the thumb drive with this laptop many times during the day. It has always worked.

I am running Linux Lite 4.4 64bit and would really like to install Linux Lite 4.8. But for some reason when i run the Live CD the machine comes to a halt and just won't budge?

I did try and run the live cd in 'safe mode' and all it did was display an awful lot of errors accompanied by a warning Kernel panic and then stopped as before.

Is it time i started looking for a new desktop pc to replace the old machine i am currently using?
The old machine runs Linux Lite 4.4 without any problems so it would be a shame to get rid of it.

Any help and/or advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks all