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