On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:32:18PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 04:03:28PM +0100, annne annnie wrote:I'd like to get a tv tuner to put in my computer, preferably PCI. Does anyone have or know of a tv tuner that is supported by linux so that everything works smoothly with good quality?Please use debian-user@lists.debian.org for that kind of questions that are not specific to the amd64 platform. Thanks.There hasn't been an amd64-specific question on this list in months, if not years...
Well, this one question does have an (unspoken) amd64-specific facet, as in
"Does anyone have or know of a tv tuner that is supported by linux
_amd64_...". Not exactly everything works on all hardware architectures.
E.g. there are some webcams which work (sort of) using the i386 port and
hang the computer hard using the amd64 port. I know, I have one...
Ciao,
Giacomo
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