TV Tuner Cards and Printers

Joe josephj at main.nc.us
Sat Apr 24 13:17:08 EDT 2004


You probably wouldn't consider one anyway, but FYI - as of Mandrake 9.1, 
the Hauppauge USB model does NOT work - something about a proprietary 
video compression algorithm.  Their cards are probably fine.  Some do 
the compression etc. on the card itself and thus put a lot less load on 
the cpu.

Joe

Robert Dege wrote:

>TV Tuner cards:
>I like the Hauppauge Cards.  I've gotten all of these to work.
>WinTV-Go
>WinTV-dbx
>PVR-250
>PVR-350
>
>Printers:
>Just about any HP Printer will work with linux.  I'd check out the cups
>config to see what they list.
>
>-Rob
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>>Hey,
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>>I was wondering if there were any TV Tuner cards that work with linux
>>well a price range for it? Also i am looking into printers for linux
>>either a ink jet or desklaser any recommendations?
>>
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>>Thanks
>>Josh
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>Dege
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>I'm just not up2date on my al-kee-hol-*hic* lingo
>Although, I do have that slurring part down ;)
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