I’ve recently installed LL 4.4 on a circa 2014 gaming laptop. LL ran really smooth for the most part except when I would suspend the computer to put it to sleep.  When I woke up the computer, after unlocking, it becomes a lagging mess.  The usually smooth XFCE desktop lags when I try to switch between tabs and the mouse pointer is delayed when I move it around the screen. 

I’ve looked around the forums on askUbuntu and Ubuntu users have reported a problem with waking up from suspend.  It might be a problem with the kernel but I’m not sure.  The solutions on the forums have not worked for me.  One thing I have noticed though is that after waking my computer up, the fans in my laptop are running louder than usual and the xorg process is taking up more cpu than usual (15% - 50%).

I’ve installed the Nvidia proprietary drivers to play games, as the performance of Nouveau isn’t there just yet.  I don’t know if this might be the cause of the problem but I just wanted to give as much information as possible.  I hope I’m not the only one with this problem.


Thank you in advance.

Hello Lite community,

I have a broken machine. Initially it was a dual boot windows-linux-lite (32 bit).

The machine worked well. But the partition for linux was small. With Gparted I erased the old windows partition to have more space and... all hell broke loose.

I am not a complete newbie but my expertise level not sky high.  Here is what I got from grub repair…

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/2mndMvS8qW/

I should probably add that I do recommended repair from grub.
But after repair I see the lite OS selector -now XP is gone from options as it should - but whatever I choose (latest installed or previous versions of LLite,  regular or advance boot ) it won't boot.

When I look at the various OS available options range from
vmlinux 440 generic 140, 141 and 146

If I go with more verbose version of startup  I see it reaches swap then: 

============================================
[**  ]A start job is running 1m 30 seconds
============================================

Then black then

============================================
Welcome to emergency mode! After login type « journalctl -xb » to view logs […] 
============================================


And  I cannot login.
I try enter, ‘root’, 'linux' or my own ‘admin-pass’ but it won’t work. 

As I can see nothing I type, an interface issue cannot be ruled out.
Is it possible it  lost the fact this is a 32-bit i386?

Best,

lambda user

One of my youth contacted me as when he started up the old laptop he is using running LL 3.8 it came up with this message this morning:

BusyBox v1.22 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) built-in shell (---) 3 letters here that I can read
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs) _

I googled and found this link which worked GREAT and the youth is back up and running (although I have suggested it save anything of importance to his USB stix before shutting down the laptop EACH time he uses it):

https://www.proposedsolution.com/solutio...fs-prompt/

My questions are -
1) Why did this occur?
2) What is initramfs?
3) And what does it say about this laptop..? Is the HDD or something on it's way out?

Hi All,

So I have an old macbook Pro that's EOL. Can't even recall what O/S was on it, but couldn't run many applications. So I figured I'd put Linux Lite on it - have LL on a few other laptops (PC's), so figured I'd keep it in the family. Near as I can tell (unless someone knows otherwise), I can't get the macbook to boot from a USB unless the image is GPT. Any MBR boot drives I create aren't even recognized as boot drives. So when I hit option to boot, I can't even select it. Maybe there's something else I'm missing, but that looks like it.

Any suggestions? Is there a way to convert the LL image to GPT? I tried googling but maybe I'm not googling it right. It's a 64 bit macbook. Want it to be non dual boot, just linux lite.

I was able to get AntiX Linux installed, but prefer LL.

Oh, if it matters, I'm creating the boot thumb drive on a PC using Rufus.

Thanks

Hi,
  During OS bootup, the following text is momentarily displayed:

[    0.432247] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): failure creating [\_SB.PCIO._OSC.CAPB] ,
AE_ALREADY EXISTS (2018003/dsfield-183)
[    0.432277] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCIO._OSC,
AE_ALREADY EXISTS (20181003/psparse-516)
[    7.097572] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No caching mode page found
[    7.097758] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

Is this any cause for concern? The OS does not appear to be impaired to any degree, it does everything I wish it to without any apparent problems however I am a complete novice in this regard. If there is anything to be concerned about I would really appreciate any advice that members may be able to offer. Many thanks - Bob Deb.

what is the best way to find correct print driver compatible  for wifi printing. 

Hello,

the Raspberry Pi Official Keyboard and Mouse combo was delivered on its day of release at 7am, and I had hoped to put the first review of it online (here on the forum), but I was away at the time, since returning I have been catching up on things, and was away again, so have only had a chance to test this today.

In the box is - 
the keyboard
a mouse (in its own box)
a cable to connect the keyboard to USB 2 of computer

The keyboard keys are a little bigger, with larger letters on them. It also has the accessibility raised lines on the F and J keys. 
The keyboard is white on the top with red highlights on the following keys , FN key, Page up, Page down, Home, and End, F1 (being F11 highlight), F2 (being F12 highlight), F10 (being scroll lock highlight), Print Screen (being SysRq highlight).
There are no Windows keys, it has a left Raspberry Icon key.
The underneath and sides of the keyboard are red.
On the back of the keyboard are 3 USB ports and 1 micro port.
A Raspberry Pi Logo is etched in to the underneath of the keyboard.
Size wise the keyboard is approximately 28.6cm x 12.2cm, depth is 6mm til 20mm (at back).

The mouse is white on the top with a red scroll wheel, its cable to usb 2 is red and the underneath of the mouse is also red. It has a scroll wheel and 2 mouse buttons.

The micro to USB 2 cable included is red.

In use -
the mouse can be plugged in to a usb 2 port on your computer.
The keyboard can be plugged in to a usb 2 port on your computer.

Or

The mouse can be plugged in to any 1 of the 3 USB 2 ports on the back of the keyboard and the keyboard plugged in to the computer using the included cable from the micro port.
In this configuration you only need 1 USB 2 port on your computer for a mouse and keyboard. 

I have tested this combo set-up on Linux Lite and it works as Plug and Play.
Clicking the Raspberry icon on the keyboard opens the Linux Lite Menu.
All keyboard keys and mouse functions - right button, left button and scrolling work as expected on Linux Lite.
Whilst set up in this configuration I also plugged-in 2 usb sticks to the rear of the keyboard both mounted correctly on Linux Lite.
On these I tested opening various file types, including 58 minute duration mp3's played with vlc.
Unmounting and ejecting the usb sticks on the keyboard also works as usual on Linux Lite. 

Potential Uses -
It will be useful if you need a small sized keyboard.
If you need a keyboard with large letters and keys. 
If you are short of USB ports it combines the keyboard and mouse so they use only 1 port on your computer.
It gives you 2 extra USB 2 ports to use, when using the mouse, or 3 extra when not using the mouse.
It allows you to plug the usb stick in to the keyboard (and computer) whilst still looking at the screen.
It has potential for using mobile. 
It also has potential for using the keyboard mouse combo with a LIVE LL usb plugged in to the back of the keyboard, still allowing space for a USB stick to save across data before installing the new OS.

Reply with any additional ways you found the combo useful with LL.

Suspend is not working on my linux lite 4.4 computer. When i put it to suspend it automatically resumes after few (1-3) seconds. Suspending is working on my other computers with linux lite 4.4 and 3.8 32bit. I think this can be a driver issue but no additional drivers are available.

This can be a software issue but only on one hardware configuration.

Hi, curious why on a fresh install I open FireFox and start typing in "google" and it wants to autocomplete to google.co.nz.

How / why would this make it into a fresh install?  Does a fresh install come with history from some phantom session?

Hi,

I installed 4.4 on a VM yesterday.  Feels fast and very lite  .

One of the first things I did was launch Gimp and saw it was 2.10.
I run other distros based on Ubuntu 18.04 and they have Gimp 2.8... so I don't know where this difference is coming from.

In any case, after applying all updates I am unable to

Quote:# sudo apt install gimp-plugin-registry
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gimp-plugin-registry : Depends: gimp (>= 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
                        Recommends: gimp-gmic
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.