On Monday 26 Oct 2015 22:43:46 Heiko Baums wrote: > 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.
I have neither cards, but can see there are DVBSky 950 drivers, firmware and kernel patches here: http://www.dvbsky.net/Support_linux.html How to here: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVBSky -- Regards, Mick
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