David,
I'm a big fan of SuSE. the nuveau problem exists, too, but
blacklisting fixed it for me. For older hardware I love ultimate linux.
The way I understand Zalman stereo it works with everything, given the
program you use supports it.
I'm sure you are aware of the problem with nVidia and emitters under
Linux: you need the DIN pin on the card; USB emitters won't work. As far
as I can tell, you also need the new nVidia DIN emitter, I had bad
results with nuVision emitters and the new nVidia driver.
Cheers,
Jens
linux.On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 10:16 -0500, David Roberts wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Quick question on linux varieties. For years (and years) I have used
> fedora (after Ultrix of course). In fact, most of my computers are
> running FC7 (that long ago), it's very stable and works fine. However,
> since it is no longer supported, I'm toying with upgrading.
>
> I upgraded one machine to FC13. However, this nouveau driver thing is
> killing me, and getting my nvidia drivers installed is hopeless (I have
> followed every thread on this and I simply give up - it's not worth
> it). With a Zalman monitor it doesn't matter - nouveau works fine and
> my stereo is good - so I don't really care (or do I).
>
> The question is this - what flavors of linux out there are simplest to
> install - work instantly with various hardwares, and run stereo
> seamlessly (either Zalman stereo or hardware stereo with an emitter).
> For zalman anything works - which is why I'm going that way - but I
> still need hardware stereo on a few machines. So, for hardware, I need
> my nvidia drivers to install easily.
>
> I'm downloading ubuntu - is that a good choice? Can I run different
> flavors of linux with nfs and share drives in a local network (so one
> has fc7, one has fc13, and another has ubuntu)?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
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