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Hi people! |
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I have upgraded to the latest kernel 4.2.0 and selected all PCI boards |
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As option to choose which frontent, I selected automatic selection. |
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I restarted now and it all runs the way I want. |
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I have previously copied the firmware from dvbsky in /lib/firmware and |
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restarted the machine. |
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The board is displayed propperly and it's listed in the /dev/dvb folder: |
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tamer@tux ~ $ ls -lA /dev/dvb/adapter0/ |
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insgesamt 0 |
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crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 1 27. Okt 00:12 demux0 |
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crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 2 27. Okt 00:12 dvr0 |
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crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 0 27. Okt 00:12 frontend0 |
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crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 3 27. Okt 00:12 net0 |
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before I got to bed I recompile glibc, gcc x 2times and built the gentoo |
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kernel once again. |
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best, Tamer |
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Am 27.10.2015 um 00:03 schrieb Mick: |
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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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>>> |
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>>> Where do I find those when I compile the kernel ? |
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>>> |
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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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