Not entirely sure why it crashed. But agreed to report the problem to Launchpad when prompted. I was uninstalling the driver b/c my installation of WINE and its programs (I only have notepad) would not display correctly. None of the labels would show up. I'll attach a screen shot. I was using System > Administration > Hardware Drivers to uninstall. This is the only driver there.
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-96-kernel-source 96.43.09-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-11-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-96
Title: package nvidia-96-kernel-source 96.43.09-0ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
xkbcomp:
[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] [1106:3099]
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:1841]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] [10de:0110] (rev b2)
Please reference bug 300476. That bug talks about font problems in some applications run through wine, and it gives an easy fix that can be applied to the registry. Please let us know whether this registry fix might correct your notepad issue.
BTW, if you're only using wine for notepad, I would think that you may want to reconsider your choice of tools. There are a multitude of text editors available in Linux that can do exactly the same thing as notepad. gedit, kedit, kate, vi, jed, emacs, mousepad, etc. The list is seemingly endless.
Yes, there are recognized font issues with wine, as noted in 300476, but if notepad is your only use for wine, you would be better served by removing wine, then by removing the only driver for your video card that provides OpenGL functionality.