Bug 128359

Summary:	DVB-s cards not supported with SUSE 10.0 Live DVD
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Frank-Michael Fischer <fmfischer>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	andreas, duwe, tiwai
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	All
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:	121869
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Description Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-10-14 10:33:18 UTC

Despite there is plenty of space left on the SUSE 10.0 Live DVD there is no
support of DVB-s cards implemented. Meaning, anyone who runs a Windows system
with such card, will not know whether SUSE 10.0 supports DVB at all when trying
out the live DVD. (Which is fair, because it does not support DVB out of the
box, it needs a lot of manual intervention to get DVB running on any version of
SUSE.) Technically there is reason for this limitation (viz www.kanotix.com,
where you have extensive automatic DVB support both through live CD! and through
hard disk installation.

Comment 1 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-10-14 10:34:37 UTC

Technically there is NO reason ... (sorry for the typo)

Comment 2 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-10-14 11:46:17 UTC

Certainly not installer related.

Comment 3 Michael Gross 2005-10-14 13:15:25 UTC

Please add your proposal to the package-Wishlist at opensuse.org:
http://www.opensuse.org/Package_Wishlist

Closing this.

Comment 4 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-10-14 13:22:09 UTC

Sorry, should I ask for a package that autoinstalls the proper DVB drivers? The
issue here is that unlike other peripherals DVB cards are not installed
automatically, as one would expect from a user-friendly distribution. What
package would it be then? Aren't we talking about autodetecting this hardware
during installation?

Comment 5 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-10-14 13:29:36 UTC

So is opensuse the place to ask for automatic installation of PC peripherals?

Comment 6 Michael Gross 2005-10-17 06:34:39 UTC

We're sorry, but an out-of-the-box-support for DVB-cards is not possible at the moment, because it would require proprietary decoder-software which we're not allowed to ship (at the moment at least).

Sorry about that. This comes from an authentic source, so please don't reopen this bug. Future bugs about that will also be closed until a solution has been found.