Anybody who says that windows supports hardware better than linux and that it's easier to config said hardware in windoze doesn't know what he's talking about..
I bought a Hauppuage WinTV card (supposed to be "optimized for Microsoft WinXP"), put it in a PCI slot and booted to windoze. That "found new hardware" thingie detected nothing, and trying to install the driver manually from their CD failed (some indecipherable error). I thought that of it doesn't work on a "supported" OS like windoze, it was probably busted. Disappointed, I booted back to my usual Mandrake 10.0. The card has a Brooktree chipset and the bttv audio & video drivers for linux are supposed to work (they were already compiled in the distro kernel-modules tree). I did "lspci" and lo and behold, the card was detected at least. Windoze didn't so that! The driver had already loaded up (Mandrake's hardware detection daemon did that and appended "/etc/modules.conf" and everything)! Fired up KDEtv and I'm watchin' HBO with surround-sound in my Linux PC. W00t! Now all I need to do is read about and install the mySQL database engine, the MythTV backend, config the database and I can use my compu as a tivo! Woo-Hoo! AR ________________________________________________________________________ Analabha Roy Graduate Student Department Of Physics, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712-0264, United States emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Home Page: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel Get Firefox! ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [email protected] http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
