The Java Hacker – Peter Jaric’s Blog

I have had an Acer Aspire One netbook (AA1) for a while and recently I decided to throw out the bundled Linpus OS and install a more flexible Linux. Linpus has served me quite well, but it has some shortcomings that many other popular distributions do not share.
After some research I decided to try CrunchBang [...]

I wanted to see if an old IBM Thinkpad A21P could be put to use and installed Ubuntu (9.10) on it. The installation went well, but when X started and displayed the login screen, the graphics were messed up.
Some googling finally solved this, but since I had to collect information from several sources, I thought [...]