[mythtv-users] Turning on Bus Mastering for PVR-250

Aleaxander alex at carbonated.com
Tue Dec 2 09:44:17 EST 2003


I actually have the latest bios, as this is one of the first things I do 
with a new system setup.  Any other ideas?

Jeff Mottishaw wrote:
> have you tried something as simple as flashing the bios to the latest
> version?
> 
> 
>>Hi Everyone,
>>
>>I'm following Jarod's guide in setting up a second MythTV system (first
>>one works great, thanks Jarod and Axel!), but I'm stuck on setting up
>>ivtv.  In searching the mail archive, I think I have figured out the
>>possible problem, but have been unable to fix it.  It looks like my
>>PVR-250 is not being assigned an IRQ number.  I get the following
>>information on the card from my system:
>>
>>00:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc: Unknown
>>device 0016 (rev 01)
>>Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4009
>>Flags: medium devsel
>>Memory at 20000000 (32 bit, prefetchable)[disabled][size=64M]
>>Capabilities: <available only to root>
>>
>>That part about [disabled] seems wrong : ).  Based on what I've read in
>>prior posts on the list, I imagine that my motherboard, MSI K7T266
>>Pro-RU, is not doing Bus Mastering, even though reviews of the board say
>>that all the PCI slots on it have Bus Mastering...  I've tried moving
>>the PVR-250 to every PCI slot on the motherboard in the hopes that it
>>will start working, but none of them seem to assign an IRQ to the card.
>>  Looking through the BIOS, I don't see anything relating to Bus
>>Mastering.  I've e-mailed MSI support to see if there is an option in
>>the BIOS that I'm missing to turn on Bus Mastering, but I haven't heard
>>back from them yet and I'm hoping that someone on the user-list will
>>have some idea what is wrong or how to turn on Bus Mastering (if this is
>>actually the problem).
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-Alex
>>
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