2012/1/24 Shachar Shemesh <[email protected]>: > I know, the subject is strange, but the truth is that the actual problem is > also strange. > > At work, we have a batch of Dell machines. We also, regularly, use a certain > type of PCI-express x1 card for video capture and playback. Strangely, on > those machines, if we insert the card into slot 2 of the machine, the card > is not visible to the kernel. It does not appear on lspci, and obviously, > the driver is not loaded and does not work. Moving the card to a different > slot resolves all of the above problems. The machine's BIOS has an option to > enumerate all cards, and does see the card without a problem. > > The problem happens with Fedora Core 15, and happened on at least three > different machines, so we can rule out a machine failure. > > I am at a loss as to how to even begin to debug this problem.
I would probably begin by checking if some other type of card works in slot 2, and if these cards work in slot 2 using different distributions and/or kernel versions. --yaacov _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
