Dear David,
I did not read all answer already there, but if you add the line
blacklist nouveau
to a file like /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
the nouveau kernel module should not get loaded upon booting the machine and
installing the nvidia drivers then work straight away.
I'd say with some basic knowledge of linux all flavours other than LFS are
fairly equivalently easy to install and maintain and just a matter of taste.
Cheers, Tim
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:16:01AM -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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