On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz> wrote:
Current zypp provides much better way to do it: - Have a pattern/metapackage/anything which provides TV applications (Pattern must be well tuned to not install KDETV in GNOME and GNOME TV in KDE.) - This pattern will be automatically soft-selected, if USB ID or PCI ID of TV card is detected.
It is not an easy task, because on one side you need a list of all supported TV cards, on the other side you have to make pattern desktop dependent. There are two different ways, how they can be supported: V4L stream (supported by kernel) and video overlay (supported by X).
Couldn't you just parse the kernel modules for the hardware and use that as a guide? Most of those devices should be supported in the main line kernel by now. I've used a TV card before, and I'm looking into an HDTV card, but don't really expect to use it in my laptop.