[mythtv-users] Can't see my tuner card?

[Batshua bat Yehonatan]

Uh, yeah, my computer doesn't do that. Is there a verbose setting I need to
invoke?

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Zarthan South <zarthan at gmail.com> wrote:

>
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> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Batshua bat Yehonatan <batshua at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Actually, I'm looking at "Onboard Devices Configuration", which seems to
>> list stuff including my wireless card. It's not there. Does that sound like
>> the right place to be looking?
>>
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Batshua bat Yehonatan <batshua at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure where I should be looking in the BIOS. Where might it be
>>> hiding? I'm checking every tab, but maybe I don't know what I'm looking at?
>>> I hate this new BIOS. :/
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Batshua bat Yehonatan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I have an WinTV HVR 1250.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is a relatively new card; I bought it to replace an older one that
>>>>> got damaged in transit.
>>>>>
>>>>> My new computer (rebuilt almost entirely from scratch) can't see it in
>>>>> lspci.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you try the card in another machine ?
>>>> Have you another card you can try in that slot ?
>>>> Does it show in any BIOS screens during boot ?
>>>> Does anything change if you swap cards around slots within the same
>>>> machine ?
>>>>
>>>> These ought to track down whether it's a card problem, or a machine
>>>> problem, or some combination. I think (though could be wrong) that devices
>>>> should show up with lspci even if there are no drivers loaded for them, but
>>>> just in case it is a software/driver (though the 1250 is hardly what you
>>>> could call bleeding edge) issue :
>>>>
>>>> If you boot from an up to date (for example) Knoppix disk, does it show
>>>> up ?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Simon Hobson
>>>>
>>>> The suggestion wasn't about looking in the BIOS setup but watching for
> the card during the computer boot up as the BIOS initializes things like
> RAM and hard disks etc.
>
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