-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 12:15 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
On Oct 25 11:40 Carlos E. R. wrote (shortened):
It's a lesson for us all: check before we buy, don't assume it will work in linux just because some other hardware from the same brand works.
And even when we check we are bitten: I got a haupauge 1300 tvcard and it doesn't fully work, for instance.
There are shops/dealers who take it back if it doesn't work for Linux (and give it away for those other operating systems for which the manufacturer provides his non-free drivers ;-) Of course via such dealers it is usually a bit more expensive than in an arbitrary shop.
True. But not available everywhere or for all products... cards, for instance, are not usually covered where I bought it.
By the way: Sometimes it happens that the manufacturer changes the internal stuff of a piece of hardware (chips, firmware, ...) a bit so that the new series is not fully backward compatible, see for example ... In the above example the manufacturer changed the USB ID but I think there are also even worse examples where the hardware changed in a non-compatible way under the same IDs. It is practically impossible for a normal user to be safe against such pitfalls which are set up by the manufacturers.
That's a very nasty trick! :-( And I think that may have happened to me with my card (different tuner). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHIH0StTMYHG2NR9URAkT9AJ4tGQ2q/i3sTlAhXxbPMU6lQxUi5gCeLQrB rjo7o8yaccr2NgKyX2F5UWE= =FcnP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org