Conflict between TV tuner Card and Sound Card?

[afaiq]

I am trying to install a WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe TV tuner card into my SuSE9.0 machine. When I install the card, my system hangs after the BIOS messages. The only way it boots up is, if I take out my sound card. Then everything works fine, SuSE detects and installs the TV card, but I have no sound.

Obviously, there is a conflict between my sound card and TV card - but how do I resolve it, if I cannot boot the system? I have tried booting with the SuSE9.0 install disk, but the system hangs after the initial install splash screen. I have gone into my BIOS setup screens, but there does not seem to be anything obvious that will fix the problem (I am using a BIOStar motherboard with AMD Athlon CPU)

[mdwatts]

Does your bios have the PnP OS option? Disable if it does.

Anything else in the bios related to PCI resources?

Check your motherboard manual to see which PCI slots share a irq. Switch your PCI devices to other slots if necessary.

[afaiq]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Does your bios have the PnP OS option? Disable if it does.

This machine is set up as dual boot with WinME. Will changing this option on the BIOS mess up IRQ/DMA settings within WinME?

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by afaiq
Will changing this option on the BIOS mess up IRQ/DMA settings within WinME?

Not at all. Most that dualboot Linux and Windows have PnP OS disabled in the bios. That is just about the first task I do after building a new pc and powering it on.

[afaiq]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Check your motherboard manual to see which PCI slots share a irq. Switch your PCI devices to other slots if necessary.

All my PCI slots are set up as PCI/PlugnPlay with dynamic resource allocations in the BIOS. I have tried switching multiple combinations of video card, sound card, TV card in different slots, but no luck so far. Maybe I should be looking to replace my TV PCI card with a USB TV card? (Ouch ! $35 down the drain - bought this one on ebay)

[mdwatts]

Have you disabled PnP OS in the bios yet? Also ensure you do not have something like noapic or disableapic in your Grub config (/boot/grub/menu.lst).

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From a post by bwkaz


Your kernel should have CONFIG_UP_IO_APIC and CONFIG_IO_APIC enabled. You're not disabling them at boot, are you? Does /proc/interrupts show any io-apic-edge or io-apic-level interrupts, or only XT-PIC ones?

[afaiq]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Have you disabled PnP OS in the bios yet? Also ensure you do not have something like noapic or disableapic in your Grub config (/boot/grub/menu.lst).

PnP OS already disabled in the bios - did not help. I will check the noapic/disableapic in Grub when I get home tonight. Thanks for not giving up on this mdwatts.

[afaiq]

well, no luck with this TV tuner card - Grub config does not have noapic or disable apic. Checked the things suggested by bwkaz. I will try a USB based TV tuner.

Anyone looking for a cheap TV Tuner? - it installs great on SuSE9.0 and is automatically detected (except I cannot install it with my sound card!). Here are the details of the card:

http://www.leadtek.com/multimedia/winfast_tv2000xp_deluxe_1.html