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I guess I found and resolved the issue myself now.

Because Midori showed everything as expected, it couldn't be my script (which worked fine since 7 years). Because Firefox plays the videos when...

Thank you for your suggestion, SeijiSensei.

This went weird. I firstly installed Chromium, which launches but reacts extremely slow on everything I do within a browser window or URL input bar....

Hi there.

I have set up an Ubuntu 16.04.6 client (i686) who serves as a video advertisements panel. It loads videos (20 seconds each, no audio) in OGV format from its local hard drive and plays...

Thank you for your quick reply, gordintoronto. But why then does my computer have two different MAC addresses?

As you can see from my code snippet above, it has

ssid=inversWLAN...

I am looking for any solution for the well-known issue that some Ubuntu machines repeatedly ask for the WLAN password although it has already been successfully entered and the WLAN connections...

I seem to have found a solution on my own, but I'd be glad to receive your opinions on this strategy.

I have deactivated and switched off the services Apport and Whoopsie on my Ubuntu clients for...

Every now and then, I see alerts on some of my Ubuntu clients which state that Ubuntu has experienced an internal error. The alert box has a checked option to send an error report, plus an unchecked...

On several Ubuntu clients which I maintain, the users complain that they still see the violet Grub screen from time to time, depending on whether the machine has got a system upgrade or has...

I use these settings:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
# GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
#...

I maintain some Ubuntu PCs which should be set up to auto-connect to my friends' WLAN when they see it. I have simply set up the PCs in their locations, selected the friends' WLAN, entered the WLAN...

I run an Ubuntu server which communicates with various Ubuntu clients via the OpenVPN gateway. This worked fine so far, until I updated the server from Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10. Now the server can only...

I found (still being a beginner) that a2dismod seems to properly disable Apache2 modules. Then I can remove them using apt-get.

But as long as I haven't switched to mpm-worker, I will keep the...

I run a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with Apache 2.4 on a server farm and would like to use the well-known http://my.domain/server-status page, but without others being able to see this page, too.

In my...

I have updated one of my Ubuntu servers to 14.04 LTS today, but then Apache2 complained that it missed an mpm-itk module. I fixed this issue in order to have my Apache2 be able to restart properly.
...

I run a tiny Ubuntu 14.04 client which only has the task to run Firefox with a pre-defined page in Kiosk mode. I have set up Ubuntu to automatically install all security updates.

But every now and...

Hi kostkon.
Thank you for pointing me this information. Why does another monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 2243LNX) with 1680x1050 show a perfectly sharp screen when its horizontal number of pixels is...

I have now enhanced my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and added the driver. The first section now reads:



Section "Device"
Identifier "FLATRON E2342"
Driver "i915"...

Hi there. Thank you for your reply.


$ sudo lshw -C video
*-display:0
Beschreibung: VGA compatible controller
Produkt: Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics...

I run Ubuntu 13.30 on an EeeBox PC EB1007 with an LG FLATRON E2342 monitor plugged on VGA.

Firstly, Ubuntu just offered basic resolutions: 1024x724 + 800x600.
Then, I tried to adjust things by...