[Novalug] Ubuntu problems (2)

[Angelo Bertolli]

Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> Two complaints about ubuntu
> (1) Why do my nvidia drivers go away every time I upgrade - then I need
> to reinstall them.
>
> (2)The snapshot screen ap only saves images as .png's but the image
> viewer ap will not print .png's so you have to convert screen shots
> to .jpgs to print them out for a permanent record. I use screenshots when
> trying to save a record of "things I have done that may have messed up the
> system".
>   
These aren't specifically Ubuntu problems.  Your nvidia drivers only go 
away when you upgrade the kernel because they're not open source.  At 
least I think the driver named "nvidia" isn't open source.  There's 
another driver "nv" that's open that you could use, but it doesn't take 
advantage of the hardware acceleration, and it's quite noticable.

Hmmm, I would blame Eye of the Gnome (if that's what you're using) if it 
can't print png... or open them with a different software like GIMP.

Angelo