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
