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

[Zarthan South]

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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