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

[Batshua bat Yehonatan]

Okay, on next reboot, I'll look around.

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Zarthan South <zarthan at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Batshua bat Yehonatan <batshua at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
> In the BIOS setup there is usually something under boot options like Quiet
> or Silent.
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