Hi everyone,
I’ve been using Linux Lite for about two years now on a variety of older machines. I absolutely love how it breathes life into hardware that Windows has long since abandoned. Recently, I decided to take an old mid-tower desktop that was sitting in my closet and turn it into a dedicated, low-power storage node for my home network. Since Linux Lite is so lightweight, it seemed like the perfect OS to keep resources focused on data throughput rather than desktop fluff.
However, I’ve run into a bit of a technical "rabbit hole" that I’m hoping someone here might have navigated before. To get the storage capacity I need, I’ve installed a dedicated HBA (Host Bus Adapter) card along with a PCI-E expander card. My goal was to bypass the limited onboard SATA ports and run a larger array of mechanical drives for a redundant backup system.
The specific point that's tripping me up is how the current kernel in Linux Lite 6.x is negotiating the handshake with the PCI-E expander. When I boot up, the HBA itself is recognized immediately in the terminal via lspci, but the drives connected through the expander card are acting very sporadically. Sometimes they show up in GParted, and other times they just don’t initialize at all during the mount process. I've read in some older documentation that certain power-management features in the kernel can sometimes conflict with "enterprise-grade" controllers when they're used in consumer-grade motherboards.
I’ve always been a bit of a "janky tech" enthusiast—there’s a certain satisfaction in making high-end server gear work in a repurposed office PC—but this one has me stumped. I’ve already tried disabling the "Link Power Management" in the BIOS, thinking it was a power-state issue, but the inconsistency remains. It’s frustrating because when it does work, the speeds are fantastic, but I can't rely on a storage box that might lose half its drives after a simple reboot.
I’m curious if anyone else in the community has experimented with HBA controllers or PCI-E expansion hardware on Lite. Do you think I should be looking into a specific kernel header or perhaps a manual tweak to the GRUB parameters to ensure these cards initialize properly every time?
Has anyone noticed if newer versions of Linux Lite have changed the way they handle high-latency PCI-E handshakes compared to the older 5.x releases?

Hello All,

I have installed Linux Lite 4.8 on an HP 350 G2.  Everything seems to work fine except for waking from the suspended state.
I have set the computer to blank the screen after 5 minutes of inactivity and suspend after 30 minutes on both power and battery.
The screen goes blank as it should after 5 minutes, then after 30 minutes it suspends and the power light starts flashing.
If I now try to wake it up by touching the mouse pad, what happens is that the power light stops flashing, but the screen stays dark.  I have to touch the mouse pad again to make the screen turn on.

So I have to touch the mouse twice to wake it up every time.

This may seem like a small thing, but it is still annoying.  I would like the computer to wake from sleep and turn the screen back on with a single touch of the mouse.

Can anyone please suggest a fix, or at least a way of finding out why the screen doesn't turn on when the mouse is first touched?

I have already tried to fix it by putting:
ExecStart=/usr/bin/bash -c "xrandr -d :0 --output eDP-1 --auto"
in a systemd service file "After=suspend.target", which seemed like a good idea, but soon discovered that the command was not being executed on wake after suspend.

Hello folks
Can you please help me? I cannot update my installation as below:


===========================
Install Updates Error Log
===========================

Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://mityer.khdlhfjijfrupr.tk/forums/ and paste the log below into
a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:3 https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:5 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:6 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozilla...ext/ubuntu noble InRelease
Err:2 https://linuxlite.3load.com galena InRelease
  403  Forbidden [IP: 2606:4700:3037::ac43:d205 443]
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Hit:9 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla InRelease
Hit:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Hit:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Reading package lists...
E: Failed to fetch http://linuxlite.3load.com/dists/galena/InRelease  403  Forbidden [IP: 2606:4700:3037::ac43:d205 443]
E: The repository 'http://linuxlite.3load.com galena InRelease' is not signed.
W: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozilla.../InRelease: Signature by key 0AB215679C571D1C8325275B9BDB3D89CE49EC21 uses weak algorithm (rsa1024)
W: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozilla.../InRelease: Signature by key 0AB215679C571D1C8325275B9BDB3D89CE49EC21 uses weak algorithm (rsa1024?

Hello virtual machine

Operating system: Windows 11 Pro, 64-bit (Build 22631.3007)
Virtual program: VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2 25.0.0.24995812

See video - i create virlual machine for testing LinuxLite 7.6 - after input username, login-password for user - stopped

Please, help me - why LinuxLite 7.6 stopped after input username, login-password for user in VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2 25.0.0.24995812

Log - see in attach

Video setup LinuxLite 7.6 in VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2 25.0.0.24995812 - see video on link https://disk.yandex.com/i/Cf3G7NwiIzSflA

LinuxLite 7.2 in VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2 25.0.0.24995812 - setup, work perfectly

I find topic https://mityer.khdlhfjijfrupr.tk/forums/showt...635&page=3

Solution - in virtualbox, change video display to vboxsvga.

In VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2 25.0.0.24995812 do not change VideoDriver to vboxsvga

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good day.

I recently switched to duel booting Linux Lite on my gaming laptop for the reason that windows 10 caused it to lag every four seconds.

now for the most part, the switch went great, aside from one issue.

my laptop has the radeon R3 integrated graphics chip (also known as Mullins r3 graphics and AMD stoney), its not an great chip, but its my only real option.

the linux Mesa graphics drivers do not seem to have any sort of up-to-date drivers in them for my card.

16-bit style games and games with simple png graphics work well with Lite, but so far three of my games (Dead By Daylight, Bendy Lone Wolf, Team Fortress 2), have such bad rendering and are so slow on Lite that their unplayable, well they didnt have this problem on Window 10.

I suspect that this is because of the Mesa drivers not having programming for them.

for context, I originally used the latest offical drivers for my card, before switching to the windows Bootcamp community drivers when Dead By Daylight wouldnt work with the AMD drivers.

That is all that I can think to explain, thank you for reading.

Hi.
It doesn´t update.

I post the log:

Obter:2 https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial InRelease [5955 B]
Obter:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease [126 kB]
Atg:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Obter:5 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease [3590 B]
Obter:6 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu noble InRelease [24,4 kB]
Obter:7 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla InRelease [1520 B]
Atg:8 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozilla...ext/ubuntu noble InRelease
Ign:9 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/oguzhan...cer/ubuntu noble InRelease
Atg:10 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/qbittor...ble/ubuntu noble InRelease
Obter:1 https://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite galena InRelease [2124 B]
Err:11 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/oguzhan...cer/ubuntu noble Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.80 443]
Obter:12 https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial/main amd64 Packages [86,6 kB]
Obter:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease [126 kB]
Obter:14 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable/main amd64 Packages [20,4 kB]
Ign:15 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Obter:16 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu noble/main i386 Packages [4960 B]
Obter:17 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages [36,8 kB]
Atg:18 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu noble Release
Obter:19 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla/main amd64 Packages [91,8 kB]
Obter:20 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease [126 kB]
Obter:21 https://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite galena/main amd64 Packages [27,6 kB]
Obter:23 https://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite galena/main i386 Packages [16,1 kB]
Obter:24 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main amd64 Packages [1399 kB]
Obter:25 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages [1690 kB]
Obter:26 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease [1825 B]
Obter:27 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla/main all Packages [4689 kB]
Obter:28 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main i386 Packages [366 kB]
Obter:29 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main Translation-en [227 kB]
Obter:30 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main amd64 Components [21,5 kB]
Obter:31 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [9716 B]
Obter:32 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/restricted amd64 Packages [2290 kB]
Obter:33 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/restricted Translation-en [525 kB]
Obter:34 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/restricted amd64 Components [212 B]
Obter:35 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/universe i386 Packages [570 kB]
Obter:36 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main i386 Packages [567 kB]
Obter:37 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/universe amd64 Packages [920 kB]
Obter:38 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main Translation-en [312 kB]
Obter:39 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Components [175 kB]
Obter:40 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [15,8 kB]
Obter:41 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted i386 Packages [24,2 kB]
Obter:42 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 Packages [2418 kB]
Obter:43 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/universe Translation-en [208 kB]
Obter:44 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/universe amd64 Components [71,4 kB]
Obter:45 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/universe amd64 c-n-f Metadata [19,6 kB]
Obter:46 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/multiverse Translation-en [6188 B]
Obter:47 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/multiverse amd64 Components [212 B]
Obter:48 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted Translation-en [551 kB]
Obter:49 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 Components [212 B]
Obter:50 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 c-n-f Metadata [516 B]
Obter:51 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe i386 Packages [993 kB]
Obter:52 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe amd64 Packages [1510 kB]
Obter:53 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages [1216 B]
Obter:54 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe Translation-en [307 kB]
Obter:55 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe amd64 Components [378 kB]
Obter:56 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe amd64 c-n-f Metadata [31,5 kB]
Obter:57 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages [30,3 kB]
Obter:58 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/multiverse Translation-en [6048 B]
Obter:59 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/multiverse amd64 Components [940 B]
Obter:60 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata [488 B]
Obter:61 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/main i386 Packages [33,0 kB]
Obter:62 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/main amd64 Packages [40,4 kB]
Obter:63 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/main amd64 Components [7288 B]
Obter:64 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [368 B]
Obter:65 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/restricted amd64 Components [216 B]
Obter:66 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/universe i386 Packages [16,4 kB]
Obter:67 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/universe amd64 Packages [29,5 kB]
Obter:68 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla/main i386 Packages [3224 B]
Obter:69 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/universe Translation-en [17,9 kB]
Obter:70 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/universe amd64 Components [10,5 kB]
Obter:71 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/universe amd64 c-n-f Metadata [1444 B]
Obter:72 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports/multiverse amd64 Components [212 B]
A ler as listas de pacotes...
W: https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/d.../InRelease: A chave é armazenada no chaveiro legado trust.gpg (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), veja a seção DEPRECATION em apt-key(8) para detalhes.
E: The repository 'https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/oguzhaninan/stacer/ubuntu noble Release' does not have a Release file.
W: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozilla.../InRelease: Signature by key 0AB215679C571D1C8325275B9BDB3D89CE49EC21 uses weak algorithm (rsa1024)
W: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozilla.../InRelease: Signature by key 0AB215679C571D1C8325275B9BDB3D89CE49EC21 uses weak algorithm (rsa1024)



Thanks
PB

heres my install updates error log:
E: Malformed entry 33 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (absolute Suite Component)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

need help

So to prefix this, I’m not a Linux guy.

I’m trying to repurpose an old Intel Atom based laptop, it needs to run a browser and low volume stream to Twitch.   I first chose Bionic Puppy32 19.03 from an usb stick and it works OK but the browser is funky and I can’t get flatpak to install so I moved on to Linux Lite 7.6.  

Booting from an LL USB stick I get one of 2 outcomes (and I can’t figure out the pattern):

90% of the time booting live, direct install or in compatibility mode I get an feather desktop with no control over my mouse (either from the onboard touch pad or a Logitech usb cordless).  The mouse pointer is in the centre of the screen so I assume that’s indicating the system thinks I have a pointer?   Compatibility mode shows the Logitech driver loading fine but an error with the Bluetooth drivers.

10% (or less) the install ends at a screen asks me for a username/pwd, tried root/admin and other randomness, no joy.  But the mouse works!?!  (Screen shot below)

I’ve tried Blue Star and I get as far as the splash screen and then hangs, I’m assuming I’m out of resources.   Fossapup64 9.6 hangs at nearly the 1st hurdle (initrd.gz).


Fool’s errand?

Tia

My Linux Dell Dimension 3100 has all of the latest updates installed.  I have not been able to install Google Chrome.
Google Chrome stopped working a few days ago after I installed all of the latest updates to LL 6.6.

Using the Firefox web browser,
From www.google.com/chrome, I download the 64-bit.deb.
The file I get is google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb.

(I am kind of curious why amd64 is in the file name, because my
Dell Dimension 3100 has an Intel processor.)

After I click on the file that I downloaded, I get an small pick-up window which
states "Open the file link?
You'll need to chose an application."
I click on the Choose button.
But there not a list of applications to choose from
It would seem that Linux Lite should know what applications to use to expand
and execute the file.
I do not know whether Google needs to fix the problem or whether 
Linux Lite needs to produce an update to fix the problem.

So, right now, it is not possible to install Google Chrome on Linux Lite 6.6.
I would appreciate any suggestions for help.  I am new to Linux in the process of 
moving over from Windows.  Thank you.