Hi there,
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
__/ [ Chris Wilkinson ] on Saturday 08 July 2006 14:42 \__
I bought a WinFast TV2000 XP Expert TV card to install in my
2nd PC today. I seated the card in a spare PCI slot, started
the PC, and proceeded to follow the install instructions for
using the card in Windows XP. After several minutes the driver
install borked, and I was left with a partially installed and
non-working driver/app suite for the TV card. Several hours
of googling and attempts to solve the driver install issues
and still no TV-card in Windows
Out of curiosity I decided to boot Kubuntu to see if the card
could be run from there. After installing the needed video 4
linux stuff, and tvtime, I clicked the new tvtime icon and
after a quick channel scan to acquire some channels it all
just worked...
For all the autorun driver CD's and other things designed to
prevent user 'fiddling to get stuff working' in Windows, you
think they'd test it better to prevent fuck-ups? Nah! If it
wasn't for needing to learn AutoCAD I'd nuke the partition
that crock of fucked-up shit called Windows sits on, and turn
it into a MythTV PVR recordings folder right now...
Chris, I dropped my last Windows partition about a year ago. Have you
considered AutoCAD through emulation, remote access or virtualisation (needs
O/S licence)? You needn't have a Windows partition in order to run Windows
software.
Well aware of that, but I need to get learning ASAP. I've googled
and searched on winehq website, and it seems a few functions of
AutoCAD are not working properly with wine. Some dialogs do not
work in wine, reducing its usability.
Sorry, but I need it working 100%, or as close to that as Windows
will allow... :-)
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Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia.
Anyone wishing to email me directly can remove the obvious
spamblocker, and replace it with t p g <dot> c o m <dot> a u
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