Hello, 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. 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 the entry regarding the "Artec Ultima 2000" scanners at http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ultima 2000 USB 0x05d8/0x4002: Good. Works, only product id 0x4002 is supported Ultima 2000 USB 0x05d8/0x4001: Unsupported. Same name, but different ids: This scanner is not supported. The scanner with product id 0x4002 is supported by the gt68xx backend, however. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
