[ionmich]

System Specs

Operating System – Linux Lite	Linux Lite 8.0
Operating System – Other	Other / not listed
CPU / Processor	AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
Memory (RAM)	8 GB
Storage	Hard Drive (HDD), eMMC, USB flash drive / external USB
Graphics (GPU)	Radeon Vega Graphics

Won't install on my notebook with Swedish keyboard. Booted from USB and changed to Swedish keyboard under settings, but the right side of the keyboard doesn't produce letters, only symbols and numbers.

[Şerban S.]

Won't install on my notebook with Swedish keyboard. Booted from USB and changed to Swedish keyboard under settings, but the right side of the keyboard doesn't produce letters, only symbols and numbers.

Use an English (US) keyboard and after the installation, switch to SW.
Problem might be caused by choosing the wrong driver model.
I don't know how many SW driver models there are.
English, has more than 10 driver models. My primary language is Română and I'm using a RO keyboard as you can notice. However, there are also variations for the driver and if I choose the wrong driver, I get the same endless trouble.
In any case, you need to restart the installation and choose the appropriate driver. Test the driver typing on the keyboard until there is a full match key pressed/ character displayed. Only then you can move to the next step.

Best regards!

[ionmich]

Won't install on my notebook with Swedish keyboard. Booted from USB and changed to Swedish keyboard under settings, but the right side of the keyboard doesn't produce letters, only symbols and numbers.

Use an English (US) keyboard and after the installation, switch to SW.
Problem might be caused by choosing the wrong driver model.
I don't know how many SW driver models there are.
English, has more than 10 driver models. My primary language is Română and I'm using a RO keyboard as you can notice. However, there are also variations for the driver and if I choose the wrong driver, I get the same endless trouble.
In any case, you need to restart the installation and choose the appropriate driver. Test the driver typing on the keyboard until there is a full match key pressed/ character displayed. Only then you can move to the next step.

Best regards!

Thank you for your reponse. Yes I attached a U.S. keyboard and was able to boot, but it did not show my user name to log in, only "other" which was not changeable. I got to a console with CTL + F4 and added a different user. I was able to get to a GUI. I changed keyboards using the settings menu and rebooted. Nothing changed. I looked for a a Swedish driver. Couldn't find one. I logged in to this forum but was unable to respond to your post as it was blocked by an ad I could not remove. So it's pretty difficult to do anything with ads totally filling the browser screens. I have never had that with any other distro. I booted my desktop with a distro that works in order to write you this message.

So it looks like Linux Lite is a pretty uselss product for my notebook. I have spent over ten hours trying to resolve the problems.

In any case I appreciate the efforts you made to help me and wish you a good day. Goodbye for good. Ion (not Romanian...Greek)

[valtam]

Hi Ion,

Sorry for the rough experience. The keyboard problem isn't the Swedish layout and there's no driver needed - it's NumLock. Your notebook has an embedded number pad sharing the right-hand letter keys (u i o, j k l, m...), and with NumLock on those keys type numbers and symbols instead of letters.

Fix: press NumLock once (on most laptops that's Fn + NumLock, sometimes Fn + F11). The right side will type letters again. To make it stick, open Lite Tweaks > System > Numlock and set it to Disable.

On the forum ads covering the screen - thank you for flagging it, that's on us and we're looking into making them dismissable.

If you ever give it another go and the login screen only offers "Other", let us know your laptop's model and graphics chip and we'll sort it.

Thanks for your patience, and all the best either way.

[valtam]

Experience added to the Wiki.

https://wiki.linuxliteos.com/en/install#kbnumlock

[stevef]

If you ever give it another go and the login screen only offers "Other", let us know your laptop's model and graphics chip and we'll sort it.

The GUI login screen showing 'Other' is something that I saw, certainly on 8.2 and if I remember correctly on 8.0.
First boot after an erase disc install - not seen on second or subsequent boot or on the in-series 8.0 to 8.2 upgrade testing.

After clicking on the box, the GUI offers the chance to enter a username.  The credentials set up during the install can be used at this point.  Not smooth and could be disconcerting for a new user first boot but as it was trivial to get past I didn't note the exact details.

I can re-install if you want better diagnostics.

The model I currently use for testing installs from ISO is a old Acer Aspire One 722 (potato) which will be retired after 8.x.  Graphic controller AMD/ATI Wrestler Radeon HD 6250.

[Şerban S.]

[...] The GUI login screen showing 'Other' is something that I saw, certainly on 8.2 [...]

After clicking on the box, the GUI offers the chance to enter a username.  [...]

Same here.
Never had this experience before and I didn't exactly understand why it happened but as you said, after clicking inside the edit box, I could enter the name. What was unusual though, is the fact that the ComboBox instead of showing the user when clicked, was disabled. This was confusing. The installation went from the 8.2 ISO.
I don't remember encountering this on any other distro during those 14 years of using Linux on a daily basis, as the main OS.
I didn't mention this here, because I thought it was something that happened only to my system or was some kind of error I made at some point.
Anyway, the "Other" thing should be deleted because it is confusing as facts prove. An empty field is more appropriate for the first login.
As far as I remember, this option was the last in the ComboBox so my best guess is that the ComboBox code somehow got broken.

Best regards!

[ekaputrigame]

Same thing happened to me on a clean install from the 8.2 ISO: first boot only offered the empty combo, greyed out until I clicked inside the field, and the username and password from the installer worked straight away. From the second boot onwards the greeter listed the account normally, so my guess is the user list simply is not populated yet on that very first boot. I agree that a plain empty field would confuse a new user far less than a disabled box.

[valtam]

Please folks, one issue per thread, to be honest I'm just going to ignore threads from now on with multiple issues and just fix each op's first mentioned issue. As a Developer, these kind of threads are a nightmare to track, categorise and address. Members - please direct new people to open a new thread per issue in the correct Forum section. Thank you, (grumpy) Jerry