My son has a Acer Aspire One Zg5 netbook. I believe it's the first generation because it has the following configuration:
System Manufacturer Acer
System Model AOA150-1706
Processor N270@1.60GHz x86 Family 6 Model 28
Stepping 2
Disk Drive ST9160310AS 160GB
Chipset Family Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express
Adapter Type Intel(R) GMA 950, Intel Corporation compatible
Adapter RAM 256,00 MB
Total Physical Memory 1.00 GB
System Model AOA150-1706
Processor N270@1.60GHz x86 Family 6 Model 28
Stepping 2
Disk Drive ST9160310AS 160GB
Chipset Family Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express
Adapter Type Intel(R) GMA 950, Intel Corporation compatible
Adapter RAM 256,00 MB
Total Physical Memory 1.00 GB
So he wanted to run "Minecraft" on it, but keep getting a error:
"Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelarated OpenGL mode."
and it sad also that this can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers, so I started to research the driver updates with no success.
So after a few days looking in blogs and reviews about Minecraft, I finally found this solution:
Making it simple just disable your hardware acceleration manually like this:
That's it.
Have fun.