Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

[forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@hushmail.com>]

On 15:15 Thu 27 Sep     , Iain Buchanan wrote:
> 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!
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> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
> 
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> 

Tomorrow I think I'll stop into a store or two and see what they carry.
I think I have a Knoppix disk somewhere, so I will try that.

BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (<50US preferably) that is
decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know.

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