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On 15:15 Thu 27 Sep , Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:40 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: |
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> > All great suggestions, except I'm hoping to see if it might work before |
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> > I buy it. I really don't like the prospect of spending money on hardware |
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> > just for things to turn out that it doesn't work in Linux. |
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> take your laptop into the store. Or if you don't have a laptop, take a |
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> livecd with lsusb, lshw, etc. on it. If they won't accommodate that, |
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> shop somewhere else ;) |
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> If you're buying online, find a local store that has the same card and |
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> do the same thing. |
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> If you don't have any local stores, ... um, post to this list!! |
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> HTH! |
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> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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> I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. |
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> -- George Bernard Shaw |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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Tomorrow I think I'll stop into a store or two and see what they carry. |
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I think I have a Knoppix disk somewhere, so I will try that. |
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BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (<50US preferably) that is |
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decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. |
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