I have been running Linux Lite for about a month and up until now, it followed the settings in the power manager.

However, today it stopped suspending when I close the lid. Instead it does nothing and you can see if you turn the laptop on its side that it doesn't even shut the screen off.

I tried the solutions here and here.

This did not start after an update (though I updated the system before I started troubleshooting), so it's odd. The only thing that has changed today is that I replaced the keyboard of all things though I can't see how they'd be related.

The laptop is an old Acer Aspire One D270 I'm refurbing. Any other info just ask. I'm not sure where to go next in troubleshooting?

I have the E/Port, 130W Simple Port Replicator for Latitude E-Family.  It is a docking station for my e6430.  It worked fine when I used the Linux Lite 2.x series.  I am now trying it for the first time with Linux Lite 3.4 64 bit.  It works while it's going through the POST (power on self test), ie. I can see it get to the Dell splash screen and the GRUB menu, then it goes dark, the blue light on my monitor turns amber as if nothing is connected to it, and that's it.  There is something in the Linux Lite 3.4 build that isn't allowing it to display. 


It just so happens that I have a Dell e6330 for work.  I connected it to the same docking station, and things work fine.  It runs Windows 10 64 bit.  Below are the specs on my Linux Lite 3.4 64 bit laptop.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks. 

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I am asking what should be the lowest screen resolution that should be supported for the plymouth bootsplash. Here is the reason, on most themes you only get a few resolutions that show the themes properly. Here is my experience going into this with modifying plymouth themes for the last few days. I found out that if I modified the the plymouth theme to work with resolutions going to 1920x1080, I would have to disregard any resolution of 640x480 or lower to display properly at the higher resolutions. This is most notable when using a VM booting the install. Suggestions are appreciated.

Hi all,

Just installed 3.4 on a HP Pavilion dv5000.

I found when I launched Youtube one day through Firefox the volume was loud at 100% but turning it down from panel volume control has no effect until I reach close to 0% where it turns off completely. I have no gradual volume control.

The same thing with VLC player.

If I enter Sound Settings and find the Firefox / VLC stream then I can gradually control the volume however the global control does not do this and clearly that's a lot more convenient.

When I log into the forum, this is what I see in upper right corner:



When I hover my mouse over area circled in read, it reads "awaiting approval".  What does that mean and what is the number "3" next to the flag?  I thought it meant I have 3 messages to read, so I went to "My Messages" and read ones that were there.  Is there something else this "awaiting approval" thing is wanting me to do because the number next to flag doesn't seem to go away after reading messages?

I had a bit of difficulty getting DVD's and local video files (.mkv, .vob, and .mpeg) to play out-of-the-box with Linux Lite and Lubuntu LXLE.

I did not find the fix explicitly in any forums, and I came across some outdated links and info that no longer works. It took a few days to solve the issue, so I am posting this to help others who may encounter the same.

Note that this is not a shortcoming of LL, LXLE, or any other variation of Ubuntu, but rather by design. By default, Ubuntu does not include the necessary libraries or codecs to decode and play DVDs. In order to bundle them with the OS, the creators would have to pay royalties and licensing fees, making Ubuntu non-free. However, they are free to install for personal use.

For starters, I knew that the dvd-rw drive worked fine on this laptop in both Win XP &  7, as well as in HP Quickplay -- but only while Windows & Win bootloader were still installed. I have since un-installed Windows, so Quickplay does not boot...for now, unless I can enter the needed info into GRUB...or install a light HTPC version of Linux on the Quickplay partition and link it to the  hardware button or GRUB.  So, I was looking for a way to play videos and dvds on the DV8000's 1440x900 17-inch wide-screen display.

After installing Linux Lite and opening VLC, videos were mostly black with heavy ghosting and a matrix-array of white dots or squares. Clicking around in the dark and hitting 'play' in the dvd menu, I could begin the movie, but it was not viewable. Audio and subtitles worked fine.


 


Linux is known for having most hardware drivers included and VLC is known for having most codecs on-board by default. A Google search revealed there were no third party Linux drivers for the Pioneer K15 dvd+rw. Searching in Synaptic Package Manager (SPM) for "dvd" and/or "codecs" showed that libdvd-pkg was not installed. I believe I tried to install it through SPM, but it failed. (It seems to get snagged at the same point as the terminal method, but with no way to proceed -- but we are going to fix that.) So, I searched google for how to install it "libdvd-pkg" thru the terminal.

I found a few related helpful forum posts, without which I would not have known what to do.
However, it took a bit more effort for me to get things working.  (Refer to these if the following does not work for you.)

this=https://askubuntu.com/questions/743221/instructions-for-installing-libdvdcss-on-ubuntu-15-10
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?...315&page=2
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?...359&page=2
https://askubuntu.com/questions/743221/i...untu-15-10

This is where having a second Linux distro installed on another partition was helpful for troubleshooting - I knew the issue was not specific to Linux Lite. I was having the same issue with VLC in Lubuntu LXLE. Note that I have installed Linux Lite 3.4 & LXLE 16.04.2 -- both based on Ubuntu 16.04.2 and both use the lightweight XFCE desktop environment.

While in LXLE, I ran from terminal:

Another nail in the 32-bit coffin. It's a question as well if 32-bit will be dropped in Ubuntu 18.04, or 18.10. If it's 18.04 then official 32-bit support for Ubuntu OS's will end in April of 2021. So what are users of Lubuntu & Xubuntu going to do? That's the market they aim at. I was looking at DistroWatch the other day & more & more Linux OS's are going 64-bit only.

"Starting in January 2018, all new apps submitted to the Mac App Store must support 64-bit. From June 2018, the same requirement applies to new apps and updates. This marks the start of a transition where in a few years, 32-bit Mac apps will no longer be supported and won’t run."

Got an iPhone 5? Soon to be a very expensive brick. Oh, it'll still work, but it won't get any security updates. Who wants a phone that can be hacked?

Skype 4.x for Linux is being dropped on the July 1st by MS.

We're going to take care of this now as we don't want people to be left high and dry. Linux Lite will respond by placing the new 5.x in our repo as there is no word yet from Ubuntu on what they will do.

Info:

- There is as of yet, no 32bit build for Skype 5.x (64bit only)
- If you have 32bit only LL Series 3.x and after 1st July you are left with a function-less Skype, scream at MS  > > >
- Available for Linux Lite 3.x Series only
- To get the new version do:

while trying to install Kodi I get this error. - Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1). I removed Kodi earlier but changed my mind.
Any help appreciated.