Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/8/6 pavithran <pavithra...@gmail.com>: > >> Uncertainty : yeah I am afraid if my tv tuner or graphic card gets >> detected in linux >> >> > > There is this thing called Google. It has a list of supported devices. > > When it comes to TV tuners that still assumes:
1) You can find somewhere in the uk selling it 2) When you buy it it doesn't turn out to be a different hardware revision that doesn't work. 3) Support happens to actually work as opposed to claiming to work and then not actually. In my experience TV card support still sucks and it is very hard finding a real person who really has a card that actually works and that you can still buy who will give you advice ;) For me I own: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=226218&category_oid= Which does work for me with Fedora 10 without any re-compiles. Just requires tracking down the firmware using Google. (again assuming this isn't a new version that doesn't work, which unfortunately you cannot tell from the outside, only once you plug it in). TV cards are still not as good as the support that Windows provides and are quite a scary thing for the newbie it can be quite a bit of money to gamble on a card that might not work. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
