[mythtv-users] Is there a tuner limit? (problem with >8 tuners)

[Bill Williamson]

On 8/20/07, Chris Wilkie - NetrinoUK <chris at netrino.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been pointed here by the chaps on the MythDora forum, hoping to gain
> some advice on getting a box working with 12 tuners (6 x Nova-T 500 dual
> tuner PCI cards).  I am able to get the first four cards working, giving 8
> tuners, but the last two throw errors when trying to load the driver.


My first guess would be some sort of PCI address assignment issue.
How many PCI slots does the board have, and which of those are sharing
irqs/etc with your motherboard components?

I know you have the "grunt" to handle that many cards, but I've never
seen a machine take 6 high-bandwidth PCI devices, no matter how
expensive the system was.

Your first troubleshooting could be to keep the adapters from
initializing and then insmod them one by one to see which ones cause
trouble?