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From: Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cx23885 (DVBSky 950) under Gentoo 4.0.5 (SOLVED)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:34:49
Message-Id: 562EB882.1000002@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cx23885 (DVBSky 950) under Gentoo 4.0.5 by Mick
1 Hi people!
2
3 I have upgraded to the latest kernel 4.2.0 and selected all PCI boards
4 As option to choose which frontent, I selected automatic selection.
5
6 I restarted now and it all runs the way I want.
7
8 I have previously copied the firmware from dvbsky in /lib/firmware and
9 restarted the machine.
10
11 The board is displayed propperly and it's listed in the /dev/dvb folder:
12
13 tamer@tux ~ $ ls -lA /dev/dvb/adapter0/
14 insgesamt 0
15 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 1 27. Okt 00:12 demux0
16 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 2 27. Okt 00:12 dvr0
17 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 0 27. Okt 00:12 frontend0
18 crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 3 27. Okt 00:12 net0
19
20
21 before I got to bed I recompile glibc, gcc x 2times and built the gentoo
22 kernel once again.
23
24
25 best, Tamer
26
27
28 Am 27.10.2015 um 00:03 schrieb Mick:
29 > On Monday 26 Oct 2015 22:43:46 Heiko Baums wrote:
30 >> Am 26.10.2015 um 23:17 schrieb Tamer Higazi:
31 >>> I do have a DVBSky S950 (PCI Express) in my gentoo system.
32 >>> The poducer of this board told me that the kernel module is: cx23885
33 >>> which I don't find. Can somebody help me which modules to load ?!
34 >>>
35 >>> Where do I find those when I compile the kernel ?
36 >>>
37 >>> 04:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI
38 >>> Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04)
39 >>>
40 >>> Subsystem: DVBSky S950
41 >>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
42 >>> Memory at fe800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
43 >>> Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
44 >>> Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
45 >>> Capabilities: [90] Vital Product Data
46 >>> Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
47 >>> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
48 >>> Capabilities: [200] Virtual Channel
49 >>
50 >> Those cx23885 based DVB cards by DVBSky or Mystique (both are
51 >> identically) need a ClosedSource driver. The DVB chip is a cx23885. The
52 >> driver for those chips is meanwhile principally included in the kernel
53 >> but doesn't work, because it needs a ClosedSource module called sit2
54 >> which is not included in the kernel.
55 >>
56 >> I once bought such a DVB-C card by DVBSky, but wasn't able to install
57 >> the driver and get it running, neither from the kernel nor from
58 >> media-build-bst on the manufacturer's website which includes this sit2
59 >> module.
60 >>
61 >> Their support (the manufacturer's and the retailer's) wasn't able to or
62 >> didn't want to help me. In a lot of e-mails they more or less only
63 >> repeated the installation instructions in their README which don't work.
64 >>
65 >> In the end I returned that card and bought one with an saa7146 chip
66 >> which is indeed fully OpenSource and included in the kernel. That said
67 >> this card doesn't work very well, too.
68 >
69 > I have neither cards, but can see there are DVBSky 950 drivers, firmware and
70 > kernel patches here:
71 >
72 > http://www.dvbsky.net/Support_linux.html
73 >
74 > How to here:
75 >
76 > http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVBSky
77 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] cx23885 (DVBSky 950) under Gentoo 4.0.5 (SOLVED) Heiko Baums <lists@××××××××××××.de>