Enabling the powerbutton in Ubuntu Server 10.04 on an AMD box

While shutdown –h does the trick of shutting down a server just fine, occasionally I’d prefer the haptic version. While I’ve never had problems getting the powerbutton to work with Ubuntu desktop versions, it didn’t work out of the box on my AMD Athlon XP. Fortunately the solution seems to be quite simple: sudo apt-get … Continue reading Enabling the powerbutton in Ubuntu Server 10.04 on an AMD box →

Fixing screen brightness on a Samsung R60 and Ubuntu 10.04

Finally the day came when all the clean installs in the world will not make Vista any faster on my old Samsung R60 (1.5 Ghz Dualcore), so I figured it's time for a Linux distro. Apart from high power consumption (it's a known bug [1]) nearly everything worked as expected, left two things: I wasn't … Continue reading Fixing screen brightness on a Samsung R60 and Ubuntu 10.04 →