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

Batshua bat Yehonatan batshua at gmail.com
Fri May 11 20:26:06 UTC 2012


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
> ?
>
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