[LUNI] Switching distros yet again

[Mike Scott]

Well, after fighting for the past couple of weeks to try and get the
nVidia drivers working in Fedora 8, I decided to try Ubuntu again.  I
installed 7.10 and it told me right off that there were closed source
drivers available and offered to download and install them.  I opted to
and they installed without a hiccup.  I now have all the effects
available (in fact even more eye-candy than Fedora).

There were a couple of odd things.  I couldn't map the nfs shares on my
server, though I could see them as SAMBA shares.  The nfs stuff didn't
install and I couldn't find it in the package manager.  I finally went
"commando" and ran apt-get install nfs-common.  They came right in and
the mounts worked like a charm.

I had to use apt-get for my favorite cover tool for CDs (kover). 
There's probably something equivalent in Gnome, but I have a lot of
files in the kover format.

Aside from it not putting my monitor into power save, everything seems
to be working.  I saw the power save quirk before with Kubuntu, so I
went in and reset the time.  Hopefully it will work.

- Mike Scott