On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Simon Kenyon <simon@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Markus Rechberger wrote: >> >> Aside of that we also fully support Linux >> >> http://support.sundtek.de/index.php/topic,4.0.html >> >> http://support.sundtek.de/index.php/topic,7.0.html >> >> We also use to report bugs to Distributors in order to improve general >> Multimedia Support. >> Customers also get dedicated support as far as needed in order to get >> everything work properly (if needed). >> >> Best Regards, >> Markus >> > > binary driver for very expensive and unavailable hardware Available from 20th Oct on so in 11 days. There are not many competitive devices (none) available for linux which deliver such support. On the other side it's not kernel based either, it's entirely in userspace. It's also entirely supported by all participating companies. The driver is using the same components as the Windows driver. There's no way to crash the kernel with that driver, and it works from 2.6.15 kernelseries on without having to fiddle around. In any case it's up to the customer if he wants an easy installation or a complicated one, similar devices for Mac are available at a higher price. Even though when drivers are officially in the kernel still not all distributions are shipping all the kernel drivers especially the firmware isn't shipped with most distributions either. We do have customers who are not comfortable with having to compile kernelmodules and just want to have it work. Another positive side effect every system can use the same driver, updates are easily possible for everyone (unlike kernel drivers for such devices which have to be recompiled for every system). The installation of it usually takes below 10 seconds on any system we tested (Ubuntu, Redhat, Suse, Sidux, Gentoo, Acer One Netbook, Arch Linux) Best Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
