Hello,

I have an EeePC Asus 1001 Netbook with a Spanish keyboard. I cannot get the keyboard to work properly. The keyboard has a number pad that works with the Fn key. There are letters under the numbers. I cannot get the letters to work only numbers appear.

In the Lite config there is no Asus keyboard but there is an EeePC keyboard. This does not work.

I was running Mint on this Netbook but like Lite.

Please help.


Allan

I got this message twice this morning, when I tried to post a reply on 'other' under the forums software section:
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /forums/other/ on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Have just installed LL 2.8 32 bit on an old Dell Dimension 3000.

O/S running great but cannot get flash to work in Chromium.

Have tried uninstalling/reinstalling chromium adding pepperflash in synaptic.

Still no joy.

Any ideas....?.

Jocklad  :

Its about 2pm EST..
Trying a few forum items resulted in errors namely...

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i browse over ubuntu and i found like this, i install ffmpeg repository like this;
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kirillshkrogalev/ffmpeg-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

and the i add obs repository like this;
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install obs-studio

after i try to open it but i get some error like this "Failed to initialize video:  Unspecified error"
what shall i do to make it work???
plzzzzz help!!!.... any concern will be appreciated!!!


plzzzz help!!!!

Apparently, download sites for Adobe Flashplayer are a target by 'malware merchants', and the 'buggy Flashplayer' that results is not detected by conventional antivirus software or other anti-malware. 

Therefore, should I avoid Flashplayer in Linux and use HTML5 instead or are Linux users relatively immune to the 'buggy Flashplayer'? 

If I should set HTML5 as the default player, could you give me a few pointers on how I should go about this for Linux Lite?

Many thanks for your continued support.
Regards
Mike 

I'm so sorry if this is in the wrong forum, hella lost to be honest haha.

Okay. So here's the scenario, a bit of a long one.
For two days I have struggled to get my father's fubar'd laptop running. Something nuked the hard drive and made it unusable.
I've been running off of various thumb drives containing Linux (most notably Puppy tbh) for about seven years, it was a piece of cake. I made a live USB for him to try Lite, he liked it, I went to install it on the thumb drive. Apparently in the way that Lite partitions things, it only gave him 6gb to work with and most of it was used up by OS. There were about 349834983 issues and in the end, I just took the live DVD I burned and a new, fresh 32gb drive to install it onto on my own PC as compared to his laptop.
This time, unlike the other installs, I had no errors. No bootloader issues like I had previously encountered, it was perfect.
I gave it to my dad to try on his laptop, which has FAR better hardware than my terrible PC (3ghz processor and 8gb ram iirc, compared to my 2ghz and 6gb ram), and it's oddly sluggish. The other three installs (live USB, live CD and the semi-working thumb drive that only had a little space to work with) were relatively fast, but this one is a little slow. It locks up if I try to load programs, or takes a few seconds to load them. Dad said it's fine so it's no rush, I'm just wondering if I can fix this and if so, how? please don't say another install im crying im pleading im begging the install screen is something im gonna see in my nightmares at this rate

I write this from my Windows 7 laptop as my desktop that has both Linux Lite and Linux Mint 17 has now become so slow over the past week that its almost unusable - and both systems are affected (or should I say, infected?).  Like most people, I thought I didn't have to worry about viruses and Trojans with Linux - but I see from these recent postings that a very nasty Trojan virus out of Russia is affecting Linux systems everywhere. 

Those reading this may wonder why do I suspect I might have Fisbis?  Well, the most obvious is the very sudden slow down in both Linux Lite and Linux Mint over the past week or so and all three browsers (firefox, midori, and tor) are constantly crashing even though I have only an ad-blocker add-on.  My computer is behaving like it has a virus or some type of malware - and I think it might be Fisbis. 

So how did I get Fisbis?  Well, on Feb 11, 2016, an article came out extolling the features of the free email service called Yandex - that comes out of, you guessed it, Russia.  (On Feb 15th, news hit the internet about the Fisbis Trojan - but of course I didn't know about this at the time.)  In the process of testing out Thunderbird on Linux Lite I didn't want to use my official email account, so i thought I would set up a separate free email account on Yandex using a POP3 on Thunderbird email.  Meanwhile, on the Linux Mint OS, I set up a Yandex free email account using a POP3 on Evolution email. 

The server for Yandex email - as well as their free Yandex web browser, unlimited online storage starting at 10 GB, integration with Yandex Disk, e-Cards, and a whole bunch of other goodies - it all comes out of Russia.  I have to admit, two weeks ago, as I was setting up the free email service (which was all I wanted anyway), I had a twinge of "Gee, should I be doing this????"  Of course, in the process of setting up your free email account you get to choose your wallpaper ....."Oh boy, what a swell looking picture of the Kremlin....." - and now my feet are getting cold, but I'm too far in, though I have to admit, the beautiful pictures of deep outer space - probably from the Russian Space Station - did make me feel slightly better and set my geekly heart a flutter.  Yup, they sure do know how to reel ya in.....

Of course, the easiest way to get rid of this would be to do a fresh install of both Linux Lite and Linux Mint and totally nix Yandex altogether - which is probably what I will do eventually. 

However, before taking this final step, is there any way to test my suspicion that I've been infected with Fisbis (or something else equally nasty)? 

Also, other than avoiding anything coming out of Russia, how can Linux users protect themselves from these kinds of threats?

Hi,

I spent about 5 hours last night trying to clone a hard drive from a working LL2.8 system and wanted to put the cloned drive in a 2nd machine. I tried a whole bunch of things like clonezilla, unetbootin, command line using sudo dd, but I couldn't seem to get anything that would boot properly. The drive I am cloning works fine both in the 1st computer and also in the 2nd machine. I had a backup I did on the working drive with SystemBack and since I wasn't getting anywhere I thought I'd try installing the system using that. After doing that, I do bootup from that drive I installed the system on but it spits me out at an initramfs prompt, it says the UUID doesn't exsit. I guess the UUID from the first drive is still there and not the new drive's one. Can this install be salvaged at all ?

If you have any ideas or suggestions for me to try please let me know as I am at a loss at what to do next.

Thanks,

Glin22

I still roam in Windows now and again....
On occasion after downloading a file, I have to find my notes to verify a checksum... I thought how many Windows refugees are here and are wanting to confirm they have downloaded a valid or complete LL ISO file semi-easily or without installing another application in order to do so...

The below requires Powershell to be installed; which is by default in Win7 and up; Vista may but I haven't tested...

The below code will check your hash - you need both the file and the hash..