On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:23:08PM -0500, vinai wrote: Dear all, > >(more or less). > >I was wondering if any of you have experienced in finding driver > >compatibility for > >the used h/w > >Now it should sound better :) > > But some hardware (and I think tuner chips are a good example of that) > use the same (or similar enough chips) from a few companies. Take, for > example, the ivtv driver, which (I _THINK_) supports Phillips tuner > chips. The most popular cards supported by the ivtv driver are the > Hauppage cards, but other manufacuturers' cards using the same Phillips > chips should be able to use the same driver. > > I have a couple of DVT cards I want to play with - one with the B2 tuner > from Broadcom, and the other with either the CX88 or CX2338x line from > Conexant. Both of these chips have linux drivers, so these cards should > work... But on a PowerPC mac running linux, the drivers may have to be > fixed so they work properly ... So if you can figure out what chips are > in the Formac PCMCIA card, with a little work, you might be able to tell > if they are linux supported... Ans that's what lspci can help with ... > using 'lspci' it displays that it has no information about the chipset :( Very bad! SteX -- Stefano Melchior, GPG key = D52DF829 - <stefano.melchior@openlabs.it> http://etinarcadiaego.dyndns.org -- http://www.stex.name Skype ID "stefanomelchior"
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