On 07/10/2012 05:58 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:51 AM, poma <pomidorabelisima@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Is this pctv452e device known to have poor reception? > > Traditionally speaking, these problems are usually not the hardware > itself - it tends to be crappy Linux drivers. Somebody gets support > working for a chip on some product, and then somebody else does a > cut/paste of the code to make some other product work. They see it > getting signal lock under optimal tuning conditions and declare > success. > > Making any given device work *well* tends to be much harder than > making it work at all. > > Want to rule out bad hardware design? Drop it into a Windows machine > and see how it performs. If it works fine under Windows but poorly > under Linux, then you definitely have a Linux driver problem. > > Devin > This one is for Marx? cheers, poma -- 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
