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On Monday 26 Oct 2015 22:43:46 Heiko Baums wrote: |
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> Am 26.10.2015 um 23:17 schrieb Tamer Higazi: |
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> > I do have a DVBSky S950 (PCI Express) in my gentoo system. |
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> > The poducer of this board told me that the kernel module is: cx23885 |
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> > which I don't find. Can somebody help me which modules to load ?! |
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> > Where do I find those when I compile the kernel ? |
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> > 04:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI |
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> > Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04) |
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> > |
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> > Subsystem: DVBSky S950 |
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> > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 |
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> > Memory at fe800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M] |
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> > Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 |
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> > Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 |
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> > Capabilities: [90] Vital Product Data |
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> > Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ |
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> > Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting |
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> > Capabilities: [200] Virtual Channel |
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> Those cx23885 based DVB cards by DVBSky or Mystique (both are |
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> identically) need a ClosedSource driver. The DVB chip is a cx23885. The |
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> driver for those chips is meanwhile principally included in the kernel |
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> but doesn't work, because it needs a ClosedSource module called sit2 |
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> which is not included in the kernel. |
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> I once bought such a DVB-C card by DVBSky, but wasn't able to install |
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> the driver and get it running, neither from the kernel nor from |
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> media-build-bst on the manufacturer's website which includes this sit2 |
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> module. |
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> Their support (the manufacturer's and the retailer's) wasn't able to or |
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> didn't want to help me. In a lot of e-mails they more or less only |
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> repeated the installation instructions in their README which don't work. |
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> In the end I returned that card and bought one with an saa7146 chip |
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> which is indeed fully OpenSource and included in the kernel. That said |
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> this card doesn't work very well, too. |
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I have neither cards, but can see there are DVBSky 950 drivers, firmware and |
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kernel patches here: |
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http://www.dvbsky.net/Support_linux.html |
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How to here: |
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http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVBSky |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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