From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IamKa-0003oF-4D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:54:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8R5ilRN004498; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:44:47 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out2.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8R5eXpt032598 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:40:34 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 022EA6B0C9 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:40:31 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20070927044038.GA29173@localhost> References: <20070926212945.GA14473@localhost> <20070926182543.6b3e0d4a@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <1190853825.7659.22.camel@localhost> <20070927044038.GA29173@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:15:01 +0930 Message-Id: <1190871901.11794.78.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cc4f1e5a-dd82-4de8-a584-476960659b4b X-Archives-Hash: a827f0eaa39d6e217170e04f3b474d4a On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:40 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: > All great suggestions, except I'm hoping to see if it might work before > I buy it. I really don't like the prospect of spending money on hardware > just for things to turn out that it doesn't work in Linux. take your laptop into the store. Or if you don't have a laptop, take a livecd with lsusb, lshw, etc. on it. If they won't accommodate that, shop somewhere else ;) If you're buying online, find a local store that has the same card and do the same thing. If you don't have any local stores, ... um, post to this list!! HTH! -- Iain Buchanan I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. -- George Bernard Shaw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list