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

[Zarthan South]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Batshua bat Yehonatan <batshua at gmail.com>wrote:

> Okay, so update: I tried it in a different slot; it's definitely seated
> properly and as far as I can tell, it's not being seen by the BIOS or
> lspci. I have a friend who's willing to let me try it out in his computer,
> so that'll be the next step.
>
> Thanks for the handholding!
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Batshua bat Yehonatan <batshua at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Okay, on next reboot, I'll look around.
>>
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Zarthan South <zarthan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Batshua bat Yehonatan <
>>> batshua at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> In the BIOS setup there is usually something under boot options like
>>> Quiet or Silent.
>>>
>>>
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>
Good luck and thanks for updating the thread.

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