During my last updating, I saw Virtual Box was being updated. Now I get a notice when desktop is up that Virtual Box is not running. I did not even know Virtual Box was installed. Does not appear to be causing any problems. What is going on?  [img alt=???]https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/Smileys/default/huh.gif[/img]   

Checked with Synaptic and some VB packages are installed. Should I uninstall them or just leave then alone?  ???

A new Raspberry Pi "Zero" for £4/$5 or even free if you buy the Magazine
Now all it needs is "Linux Lite Zero" OS    it would be fun.


Some OS's for the PI

Some updates in the packages from Wednesday, 26th Nov caused that VirtualBox aborts during startup of e.g. a WinXP machine without any warnings or comment...!?

Please let me know what I can do from my end to fix or at least find a workaround!

This is a short tutorial to set up a desktop shortcut/launcher to the xman program.  Xman is a gui based man page browser it comes already installed in Linux Lite, and makes it easy to view man pages.  If you don't know what a man page is look at the following link.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/man

All you need to do is copy the following code and paste it into a new text document, in the text editor.  After pasting click "save as" on the file menu of the text editor and save it to the desktop folder with a name followed by ".desktop" such as "xman.desktop" and then close the text editor. You next need to right click on the new icon and click the "Make file executable" from the menu.

That's all there is to it.

Hi folks I'm trying to see the contents of the xorg.config file so that I can edit it to cure my installed distro of the dreaded xfce bug which causes my hdtv monitor to lose it's signal to my modified chromebox every time I power cycle my hdtv off than on. My modified chromebox also loses it's connection to my hdtv whenever I switch the hdmi output from the chromebox to my cable box then switch back to my chromebox and that's when I lose the signal very annoying. I installed get-edid and read-edid on my system and this was the output:

This is read-edid version 3.0.1. Prepare for some fun.
Attempting to use i2c interface
Looks like no busses have an EDID. Sorry!
Attempting to use the classical VBE interface
mmap /dev/zero: Operation not permitted
error initialising realmode interface
do you have full superuser (root) permissions?
I'm sorry nothing was successful. Maybe try some other arguments
if you played with them, or send an email to Matthew Kern <[email protected]>.
Partial Read... Try again
el-junior@eljunior-Panther:~$ sudo get-edid | parse-edid
[sudo] password for el-junior:
This is read-edid version 3.0.1. Prepare for some fun.
Attempting to use i2c interface
Looks like no busses have an EDID. Sorry!
Attempting to use the classical VBE interface

Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful

VBE version 300
VBE string at 0xc9a24 "Intel® HSW Mobile/Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS"

VBE/DDC service about to be called
Report DDC capabilities

Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful

Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer

Reading next EDID block

VBE/DDC service about to be called
Read EDID

Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful

EDID claims 1 more blocks left


*********** Something special has happened!
This happens a lot with TV's, and other devices
with extension blocks. If you have a TV, don't bother.
Otherwise, please contact the author, Matthew Kern
E-mail: [email protected]
Please include full output from this program (especially that to stderr)



Reading next EDID block

VBE/DDC service about to be called
Read EDID

Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful

EDID claims 1 more blocks left
EDID blocks left is wrong.
Your EDID is probably invalid.
Looks like VBE was successful. Have a good day.
Checksum Correct

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "LG TV"
ModelName "LG TV"
VendorName "GSM"
# Monitor Manufactured week 1 of 2011
# EDID version 1.3
# Digital Display
DisplaySize 160 90
Gamma 2.20
Option "DPMS" "false"
Horizsync 31-82
VertRefresh 57-63
# Maximum pixel clock is 160MHz
#Not giving standard mode: 1280x1024, 60Hz
#Not giving standard mode: 1024x768, 60Hz
#Not giving standard mode: 800x600, 60Hz
#Not giving standard mode: 640x480, 60Hz

#Extension block found. Parsing...
I only know about extension blocks of type 02h. PLEASE email me!
Something strange happened. Please contact the author,
Matthew Kern at <[email protected]>

So as you can see the output at the beginning reads "Looks like no busses have an EDID. Sorry!" but then towards the end of it it retrieved some information about my hdtv. So what does this all mean does my system have an edid file which I think is supposed to be part of the xconfig file or is the xconfig hidden and thus protected. Please help me out here because if I accidently erased my xconfig file trying to clean my system then I'll have to recreate it by following Alexander Malakhov's advice in this thread : http://askubuntu.com/questions/21775...xorg-conf-file

I read in the Lite manual to defrag the drive before installing Lite. Was that meant just for certain type of installations?

I did the analyze thing and it says the drive (C does not need defragmenting.

Should I defrag anyway? There are a few red lines among the blue and the green (Window XP).

Disclaimer: Only perform this tweak if you are competent on the command line. This guide is not meant for newbies.
If you have an SSD, I'm not sure how much of a difference this will make.

GRUB:

replace GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash profile”

save and exit


Reboot

Grub does a search for all the necessary drivers to load. Instead of making Grub search for required drivers, the profiling actually makes Grub remember every necessary driver to work. This action will cutting down all of the driver load times. First reboot may be a little slower than normal, but consequent boots should be much faster.

CPU:

If you have a multi-core CPU/Processor, this following steps may be able to speed up your boot time besides of using the step above, follow these instructions:


find this line : CONCURRENCY=none or CONCURRENCY=makefile
replace with : CONCURRENCY=shell

save and exit

Source:  http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2012/01/how-to...oting.html

USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION

Blacklisting unnecessary kernel modules. Open the terminal and type command lsmod to see what are the modules that are loaded.

Check the value in section "used by", if the value is "0" it means that the this kernel module is not been used by any of the application/process and it's unnecessary occupying the space in the memory, the best way to know about such module to use google/bing search engine and if you feel that this module is not required you can simply unload it, for example if you don't have the floppy drive then why to load floppy module.


go to the bottom of the file and start adding your blacklisted kernel modules, eg.



reboot.

You MUST research each module you want to prevent loading before you disable it. Don't blacklist everything with a 0.

Source: http://linuxpoison.blogspot.co.nz/2009/0...ssary.html

Not sure how the NEW flag on posts is supposed to work and how they are removed .


When I look at " Show new replies to my posts" that have not had any new posts for years but have a red NEW flag . Even if I look at the posts they keep being listed . Some of the time when there are updates there is no notification  . If I suspect the is a new post I have to search for the original post in the Index or through my  Profile > Show posts


Colin

I can avoid Dell/Windows problems like this.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/de...aptop.html