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Since a couple of weeks ago (some Xubuntu system updates) I've lost sound in HTML videos such as YouTube and Vimeo. Flash audio and audio from AVI/MP3 files works fine.

On a possibly related note,...

Probably the silly time constraints they impose on themselves
Last time they broke the suspend option
The time before that they broke the splashscreen
There's invariably some new audio problem...

Well, after trying them all, SLIM manager is the only one that will run.

For the disk check, editing fstab and changing the last column to 0 seems to work, even if it's not advisable

Apparently ssdm is failing to start. How do I fix that, then?

Every time I boot up I'm subjected to a laborious check on my two hard drives. This has been going on for about six months.
I have changed both hard drives since, but the problem persists. There is...

Just tested this on 16.04 and amazingly I was able to suspend and restart at the first attempt.
Luckily, as in this release it's no longer possible to either start X or a window manager on boot or...

Might be related to this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1369216

I have the same errors when trying to run lightdm. I tried switching to gdm but get the same...

does typing startx when you have logged in to the console do anything?

I've just updated to 16.04 and no longer have a graphical login screen. Instead I get a full-screen console login and I have to log in and then run startx. (using Xubuntu)

I also don't seem to...

I stupidly tried the advice at the bottom of this page: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6033/enabling-nvidia-driver-messes-up-splash-screen
And now I am completely unable to boot.

I need some...

Is there any kernel parameters I should be putting in GRUB that might help with these issues?
As is stands boot alternates between a low-res splash screen then freezing and no splash screen and...

If I set GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 or any other resolution, X will not start. I get as far as the splashscreen and it hangs indefinitely. If I comment out this line the PC boots with a black screen and X...

So I pulled the PCI e card and booted with the on board radeon connected. First surprise - the turquoise xubuntu splashscreen displayed which I'd never seen happening. However I got stuck on a black...

OK, first part seems to be to hold down Shift when booting. Still not able to get a working graphics config though with either nouveau or nvidia

I tried switching my gfx card from the pci-e nvidia card to the onboard ati for a test that ultimately failed. I switched everything back, purged the ATI drivers and installed nvidia 304 drivers...

The MAC address is definitely right.

in /etc/network/interfaces what exactly did you add?

I just have
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
currently

I suppose it's much of a muchness between...

I have my router configured to assign a specific IP address to my Linux PC based on its MAC address. However, the PC picks up a different one (there is only one NIC, no WiFi).
I'm wondering if this...

The same happens with earlier versions of the nVidia drivers. Weird, as suspend used to work just fine before I reformatted and reinstalled 15.10.

I realised I have an on-board ATI card which I...

Thinking about changing to an ATI graphics card. Are these well supported nowadays on Ubuntu?
Asus Radeon HD 5450 -

I recently had to format and reinstall Xubuntu 15.10 and since then cannot reawaken the PC from suspend.
When I tap the power button now, instead of returning to the GUI I get a black screen with...

Sorry, I didn't read the ghacks articke fully and hadn't ticked the right box. That solutions works, thanks!

This is the result of the SMART test on drive hdc

Probably just dead, yeah?

I've been away for a week, so just got around to trying this now.

I tried this

sudo e2fsck -C0 -p -f -v /dev/sdc1

and it got to 1.0% and gave the error


Error reading block 3407874...

I had to do a fresh reinstall of Wily last night and everything was running OK until I decided to install gstreamer1.0 (I was trying to make HEVC codecs work and this somehow got involved).
I have...

That didn't do anything unfortunately

Why must they break things that work right?