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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).
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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