Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/8/6 pavithran <pavithran.s@???>:
>
>> 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.
