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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I did not find the fix explicitly in any forums, and I came across some outdated links and info that no longer works.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.

i happen to have a CPU without sse2 ie Athlon XP

i run duel boot, windows xp and now Linux lite 3.4 (have had 3.2 , 2.8 and 2.4)

Windows xp loads Firefox up to version 48.02 after that it refuses to install as it knows sse2 support is not available. i can also stop it updating in the preferences.

The Linux lite installation disk 3.4 loads Firefox version 52.0.1 everything works access to the Internet and manuals.

First install of updates loads Firefox version 53.0.1 Firefox crashes no access to the Internet or manuals
chromium browser if loaded also crashes.

Tor browser if you load it works but its a poor replacement as has no cached files.

Linux lite does not check for sse2 compatibility so loads latest version of Firefox, that also happened to Linux lite versions 3.2 , 2.8 and 2.4

Would be nice if i was given a option whether or not to update Firefox.

Will still use Linux lite and Firefox but will not update it when asked to,

Exert From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2

CPU support

SSE2 is an extension of the IA-32 architecture, based on the x86 instruction set. Therefore, only x86 processors can include SSE2. The AMD64 architecture supports the IA-32 as a compatibility mode and includes the SSE2 in its specification.[1][2] It also doubles the number of XMM registers allowing for better performance. SSE2 is also a requirement for installing Windows 8 (and later) or Microsoft Office 2013 (and later) "to enhance the reliability of third-party apps and drivers running in Windows 8".[3]

The following IA-32 CPUs support SSE2:

    Intel NetBurst-based CPUs (Pentium 4, Xeon, Celeron, Pentium D, Celeron D)
    Intel Pentium M and Celeron M
    Intel Atom
    Transmeta Efficeon
    VIA C7

The following IA-32 CPUs were released after SSE2 was developed, but did not implement it:

    AMD CPUs prior to Athlon 64, such as Athlon XP
    VIA C3
    Transmeta Crusoe
    Intel Quark

I usually let the Linux-distribution to keep the look it has after the installation. But now I hope to have LinuxLite to look differently.  I have tryed to change the theme but nothing happens.

Should I edit X-configuration files or what? Any terminal command?

What information is needed. I now have the problem to remember the  command to get informatin of the computer.

I appreciate any help you will be giving