Hi all...

[RoverDog]

Decided to try a "lite" version of Linux for a change since I have lots of older hardware gathering dust. Coming from a RPM / KDE background going back more than 20 years, I find this very delightful  8)

Going to revive my old Asus netbook 701 which I pimped many years ago with extra ram, touch screen and bluetooth! Loaded Lite on a Dell D630 dual core 64 bit.... and it is flying!!! Impressed 

Just one question for now... where do I configure the screen saver? LOL  ;D

[Valtam]

Welcome
Linux Lite does not bundle a screensaver. It tends to conflict with Light Locker. If you insist on having one, consider installing Xscreensaver:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra

[justme2]

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Going to revive my old Asus netbook 701 which I pimped many years ago with extra ram, touch screen and bluetooth! Loaded Lite on a Dell D630 dual core 64 bit.... and it is flying!!! Impressed 

[member=6908]RoverDog[/member],  My ASUS 701 will NOT run on LL 3.4 - but runs fine on LL 2.8! Down to the installed kernel I assume. I also successfully run LL 3.4 on a ASUS 901.

[m654321]

Loaded Lite on a Dell D630 dual core 64 bit.... and it is flying!!! Impressed 

Welcome RoverDog & enjoy LL 
I am interested in your comment on the Dell Lattitude D630 - yep, it's been my experience too with LL on this PC - we have 4 laptop setups in our house (see signature below this message) and the Dell D630 is easily my favourite - robust, stable & troublefree operation and has been giving me a great run for my money (bought last year, £70 secondhand from Amazon)! By contrast, our Asus G750 (cost ~£1200, a UEFI computer) has given no end of problems ...

Anyway I'm sure you'll enjoy your time here - the LL crew are a great bunch

Mike

[bitsnpcs]

Hello RoverDog,

Welcome to the forum and Linux Lite

[RoverDog]

Thanks everybody, I feel welcome already.

Will read up on the lock vs screen saver issue. Don't really care about the screen saver, more to do with locking anyway. 

I have a stack of D620 and D630 Dell's that I hand out where needed. The latest round of "heavy desktops" make these feel really slow unless you speed it up with an SSD. So guess what I am going to load on these from now on?  ;D

Me eeePc 701 is used mainly for navigation running Oziexplorer via Wine... It is still running Mandriva 2010.2 which works really well. Only problem is that Firefox is still at around version 3.10. Way to old to even read Gmail.

Will let you know how it goes. Thanks for the advice! 

[m654321]

I have a stack of D620 and D630 Dell's that I hand out where needed. The latest round of "heavy desktops" make these feel really slow unless you speed it up with an SSD. So guess what I am going to load on these from now on?  ;D

I replaced the 80GB HDD, of my secondhand Dell Latitude D630, with a 500GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD.  The irony is the SSD cost £148,  twice the price of the laptop purchase.  However it was worth it, as the D630 really zips along now - see setup(4) in sig.

Mike

[RoverDog]

[quote author=RoverDog link=topic=4145.msg31509#msg31509 date=1493203107]
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Going to revive my old Asus netbook 701 which I pimped many years ago with extra ram, touch screen and bluetooth! Loaded Lite on a Dell D630 dual core 64 bit.... and it is flying!!! Impressed 

[member=6908]RoverDog[/member],  My ASUS 701 will NOT run on LL 3.4 - but runs fine on LL 2.8! Down to the installed kernel I assume. I also successfully run LL 3.4 on a ASUS 901.
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Tried LL 3.4 which just hangs on the 701. I then downloaded LL 2.8 an dd it to a stick. It sees the stick as a boot device, but during boot it comes up with 3 lines and a boot prompt.
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Unknown keyword in configuration file: Ñ
Missing parameter in configuration file. Keyword: ú
No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
boot:
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???
Copied to stick twice. Will find the download page again and see if the check sum matches the downloaded image... 

[Valtam]

[member=6908]RoverDog[/member] download the ISO, check that the MD5SUM matches, use Etcher https://etcher.io/ to burn the ISO to USB, drink beer

[RoverDog]

[member=6908]RoverDog[/member] download the ISO, check that the MD5SUM matches, use Etcher https://etcher.io/ to burn the ISO to USB, drink beer

Ha ha ... drink beer.... I will get very drunk waiting for the eeePc 701 to boot. Takes 11 minutes to get to start the desktop... About 15 minutes to show the welcome screen! Something is not right. It boots the old Mandriva 2010.2 in less than 2 minutes into KDE3. Tried 2 different USB ports just in case the 1 was stuck at USB 1.1. No change.

One of the mods that I have done to the 701 was soldering a 64gb stick to the motherboard to an unused USB port. So it boots via the 4GB on board SSD and /home is mounted to the 64GB stick. Don't know if it somehow interferes with the LL starting up? I installed Mandrake way back from a DVD attached via USB. It was slow but not that slow.

Just took the plunge and started the install... :o

Going OK. Got interesting guessing where the OK button is while setting up the partitions since the screen is too small. Afterwards I connected an external screen, much easier now 
Now going much quicker than booting...