04-26-2014, 04:14 AM
Hello!
I didn't mean to insult your intelligence in such a fashion. It just seems that the overwhelming majority of issues concerning ISO-related issues here are the result of people who, being newcomers to Linux, just don't know about running hash checks on ISOs after downloading them.
Based on your fix, it sounds like the problem was with the way the Linux kernel handles and assigns a driver for your legacy Nvidia card. From what I've been able to gather online, legacy Nvidia video card support has always been a hit-or-miss proposition in Linux. IIRC, these drivers are proprietary to Nvidia, in much the same way as certain wireless card drivers are proprietary to Broadcom.
As I am not a member of the Linux Lite development team, I cannot say for certain whether or not the kernel has been changed in any way by them to make this process easier. As Linux Lite matures, I'm sure this and other minor issues will be addressed. For those who follow you who might experience this issue, I would definitely say that what you had to do to fix it should be included either in the Linux Lite documentation or posted someone on here where n00bs can find the information easily.
Today, I had a somewhat similar issue myself. In addition to Linux Lite, I also play around with Lubuntu - it just plain faster on some of the REALLY SLOW laptops I refurbish for people who wouldn't have a computer otherwise.
It seems that the latest version (14.04) loads b43-pci-bridge at startup by default. This mucks up the installation of the b43legacy wireless drivers, so I had to blacklist b43-pci-bridge in etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. Would something like that confuse the dickens out of a n00b? Definitely!
That's why I posted my solution on Ubuntu forums. Thank you for doing the same here. I'm sure that, if you're interested in doing so, you have a lot to offer the Linux Lite community as a whole...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
I didn't mean to insult your intelligence in such a fashion. It just seems that the overwhelming majority of issues concerning ISO-related issues here are the result of people who, being newcomers to Linux, just don't know about running hash checks on ISOs after downloading them.
Based on your fix, it sounds like the problem was with the way the Linux kernel handles and assigns a driver for your legacy Nvidia card. From what I've been able to gather online, legacy Nvidia video card support has always been a hit-or-miss proposition in Linux. IIRC, these drivers are proprietary to Nvidia, in much the same way as certain wireless card drivers are proprietary to Broadcom.
As I am not a member of the Linux Lite development team, I cannot say for certain whether or not the kernel has been changed in any way by them to make this process easier. As Linux Lite matures, I'm sure this and other minor issues will be addressed. For those who follow you who might experience this issue, I would definitely say that what you had to do to fix it should be included either in the Linux Lite documentation or posted someone on here where n00bs can find the information easily.
Today, I had a somewhat similar issue myself. In addition to Linux Lite, I also play around with Lubuntu - it just plain faster on some of the REALLY SLOW laptops I refurbish for people who wouldn't have a computer otherwise.
It seems that the latest version (14.04) loads b43-pci-bridge at startup by default. This mucks up the installation of the b43legacy wireless drivers, so I had to blacklist b43-pci-bridge in etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. Would something like that confuse the dickens out of a n00b? Definitely!
That's why I posted my solution on Ubuntu forums. Thank you for doing the same here. I'm sure that, if you're interested in doing so, you have a lot to offer the Linux Lite community as a whole...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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