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On Thu, 14 May 2026 20:54:32 +0200
german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 14/05/2026 à 19:53, pinnerite a écrit :
> > Desperate to replace the 13 year old system used as an HTPC,
> > based on a Gigabyte Mini-ITX motherboard, I searched for a replacement.
> > 
> > It had to have a PCIe slot to take a Turbosoft DVB-T2 TV card.
> > It also had to take an AMD Ryzen 7700 7 because I had two brand new and
> > boxed that I couldn't sell. (Long story).
> > 
> > I found an ASRock B850M Pro-A microATX that seemed perfect. Except!
> > a microATX is larger than a Min-ITX board.
> > 
> > That turned out not bto matter.
> > 
> > It all went together OK, except the system would not recognise either
> > of my two Turbosoft TV cards. No manual is supplied with boards these
> > days so you have to download and print it yourself. Except!
> > 
> > There are no BIOS details in it. I spent many hours trying to tweak BIOS
> > options but the system (Mint 22.3) could not seem to find a fix. In the
> > end I recruited my pal Hazim, a professional system builder and
> > debugger. As both TV cards had worked in my other machines, I wondered
> > if the problem was the motherboard itself.
> > 
> > Hazim, replaced the TV card with a network card. Sure enough, as we
> > booted up, the device's lamps twinkled. So the motherboard itself was
> > not faulty.
> > 
> > I had written to Turnosoft technical support. Their suggestion to
> > change the PCIe socket's link speed frpm Gen1 (my choice), to Gen2 di
> > not work.
> > 
> > Hazim did not trust Linux so we plugged in his portable Windows 10
> > portable SSD system and booted on that. It made no difference of course.
> > 
> > Although I did admire Windows driver handling windows. I had forgotten
> > that it did have some virtues.
> > 
> > Hazim's advice? Don't buy ASRock products. They are the cheapest and it
> > shows. My experience with motherboards during the last 12 months is
> > also to avoid ASUS because their boards have no diagnostic lamps. I try
> > to use Gigabyte because they do, although their user manual is also
> > spartan on configuring the BIOS but it does have some info.
> > 
> > I hope this helps someone else.
> > 
> > Regards, Alan
> 
> think you very mutch !
> 
> i never need a led to say me what append !
> 
> your analyse is very chort...
> 
> what you see when you send this command line :
> 
> sudo lspci
> 
> and what the manufasturer TV is saying for linux driver ? they are or not ?
> 
> if lspci say, " i see it " ! is good !
> 
> do you try to find driver source for this tv card ?
> 
> i don't like say immediatly bad think about a trademark...how many
> pc 'll start day after day because i change my analyse about the problem...
>  
> -- 
> Amicalement,
> 
> Frenchy Friendly, & French touch !
> 
> german

The driver has to be compiled against the running kernel.
This becomes tedious when sourcev components need editing.
This is irrelevant if the card is not recognised by the machine.

I forgot to mention that it has been tried with CSM enabled and
disabled. 

I have a TV card in the machine I am using now. lspci shows:
07:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7160 (rev 03)
When I get time I will compile the drivers against kernel
6.8.0-84-generic as that is known to work.

Regards,
Alan

-- 
Linux Mint 22.1 kernel version 6.8.0-84-generic Cinnamon 6.4.8
AMD Ryzen 7 7700, Radeon RX 6600, 32GB DDR5, 2TB SSD, 2TB Barracuda

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ASRock motherboards pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 18:53 +0100
  Re: ASRock motherboards german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 20:54 +0200
    Re: ASRock motherboards pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 12:27 +0100
      Re: ASRock motherboards german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 14:40 +0200
  Re: ASRock motherboards George <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-14 20:04 +0100
    Re: ASRock motherboards "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2026-05-14 16:17 -0400
      Re: ASRock motherboards Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-15 03:58 -0700
        Re: ASRock motherboards Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-15 04:31 -0700
          Re: ASRock motherboards "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2026-05-15 08:00 -0400
            Re: ASRock motherboards Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-15 08:35 -0700
    Re: ASRock motherboards pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 12:19 +0100
  Re: ASRock motherboards Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-14 15:36 -0400
    Re: ASRock motherboards german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 21:50 +0200
  Re: ASRock motherboards "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-05-15 19:01 +0200
    Re: ASRock motherboards Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-15 17:54 -0400
    Re: ASRock motherboards pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2026-05-16 10:56 +0100

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