[LUNI] Switching distros yet again

[Gene Jannece]

What was the issue you were having with the nvidia drivers in fedora 8?
Were the drivers the closed drivers? 

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:41:39PM -0700, Mike Scott wrote:
> 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
> 
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