Hi Michael
No, I haven't tried the DVico Fusion box with any recent distros other than
Kanotix 2005.4 Lite Final.
Before installing this distro I did try to install Mandriva 2006 (from 2
different DVDs), Suse 10 and Knoppix 4.
None of the DVD's for these distros would either boot or , if booting,
failed during early part of install process on this particular PC - Suse
for instance hanging while trying to install the Sata driver and the pc
didn't even have a Sata drive attached.. Kanotix ran OK, so I went with it.
I now have 4 PCs and 1 laptop all running Kanotix on my home Lan.
Given that your earlier post stated "As people would of last saw I bought
a DVICO fusion plus card and soon
after ditched it." and that you used Ubunto 5.10 to get your twinham card
working after "editing some files", I thought that you and maybe others may
find it interesting that my Kanotix install found and ran the Dvico Fusion
HDTV DVB-T card without the need to do more than run Kaffeine ( included in
the distro) and set the location ( Sydney-north shore) for the channels
scan and then run same.
As both Ubuntu and Kanotix are Debian based, a running Kanotix ( direct
from the LiveCD works with the TV card) and copying the necessary files to
Ubuntu shouls also get the card working there. I myself don't know enough
about it to name the files, but I've done similar things from knoppix to
kanotix or Simply Mepis ( also debian based) and vice-versa in the past to
get things working easily.
Hope that this clarifies my earlier post.
As for distros, I have tried many in the past, and have reached the stage
where I just try LiveCD distros, and if they do what I want without
problems, I install them and go from there. I prefer minimal installs which
allow me to install what I need, rather than have an install bloated with
dozens of apps that I don't need or use.
Bill
So after all that did you get it working on a distro other then
Kanotix as I am a little confused by your post.
I had a DVICO Fusion Plus card and wasn't overly impressed with it.
Although it did certainly work fairly okay on Windows, just not crash
hot on linux.
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