Comments on: Ubuntu HTPC with satellite TV

By: XabiX

XabiX — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:27:39 +0000

I am using the S470 card with Lucid 64 and 2.6.33 kernel. The card was recognized directly:

[    6.170069] cx23885 driver version 0.0.2 loaded
[    6.170107] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[    6.170150] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: d470:9022, board: TeVii S470 [card=15,autodetected]
[    6.297730] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[    6.297733] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[    6.309508] DS3000 chip version: 0.192 attached.
[    6.309511] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[    6.309514] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Montage Technology DS3000/TS2020)...
[    6.336865] TeVii S470 MAC= 00:18:BD:5B:2E:66
[    6.336870] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb0
[    6.336877] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:04:00.0, rev: 2, irq: 16, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfb800000
[    6.336883] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    6.336886] IRQ 16/cx23885[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs

So I think you just need to install a newer kernel and then you are all set from a driver perspective.

04:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Device d470:9022
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 

XabiX

By: Bernard

Bernard — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:41:11 +0000

with

cd /usr/local/src/dvb/
wget http://www.tevii.com/100315_Beta_linux_tevii_ds3000.rar

you don’t get an empty directory /usr/local/src/dvb/linux_tevii_ds3000/
with nothing else as a extra directory linux-tevii-ds3000

i tryed a fresh install out of Ubuntu 10.04 out of the box,
but then there is no MythTV and a lot of other things missing…
my network and dhcp (controlled by this mediabox) keep collapsing,
so my whole house-network is instable…

we are going down, abandon house!!

By: Marcel

Marcel — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:40:07 +0000

It seems that sasc-ng is not ready for the kernel of Ubuntu 10.04 yet.
I didn’t try it yet, but if I have done I will report back.
Are you sure your dvb_dir is okay?
Maybe it should be –dvb-dir=/usr/local/src/dvb/linux_tevii_ds3000/linux-tevii-ds3000

By: Bernard

Bernard — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:32:57 +0000

Hi,
I am going from Ubuntu 9.4 to Ubuntu 10.04 and i can’t get it to work,
I am using the same sources as you do;

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apt-get install unrar libncurses5-dev
mkdir dvb
cd /usr/local/src/dvb/
wget http://www.tevii.com/100315_Beta_linux_tevii_ds3000.rar
#wget http://www.tevii.com/linux_tevii_ds3000.rar
unrar x 100302_linux-tevii-ds3000.rar
sudo cp -R *.fw /lib/firmware/
tar xvf linux-tevii-ds3000.tar.bz2
#tar xvf linux-tevii-ds3000.tar.bz
cd /user/local/src/dvb/linux-tevii-ds3000/
make menuconfig ## mandatory, defaults work
make -j2
make install
reboot

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apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential subversion mercurial openssl gettext libssl-dev screen rtorrent samba nload iotop nmap
cp /mnt/nas/print/.rtorrent.rc /home/pluisje/
cd /usr/local/src/
hg clone http://85.17.209.13:6100/sc
cd /usr/local/src/sc/
chmod +x contrib/sasc-ng/configure
chmod +x contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/config_dvb.pl
cd /usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/
./configure --dvb-dir=/usr/local/src/dvb/linux-tevii-ds3000/
make
make module

but I can’t get the make module to work..

I am using a tevii s470 with Mythtv.

error;

root@mediabox:/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module# make module
make: *** No rule to make target `module'.  Stop.
root@mediabox:/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module# cd ..
root@mediabox:/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback# cd ..
root@mediabox:/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng# make module
cd dvbloopback/module && make DVB_DIR=/usr/local/src/dvb/linux-tevii-ds3000//linux
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module'
cp -f /usr/local/src/dvb/linux-tevii-ds3000//linux/../v4l/Module.symvers .
./config_dvb.pl "BUILD_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/build" "EXTRA_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/src/dvb/linux-tevii-ds3000//linux -I/usr/local/src/dvb/linux-tevii-ds3000//linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core -Idrivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/ -I/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module"
Found dvbdev.h from 2.6.22 or later
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/build M=/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-generic'
  CC [M]  /usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.o
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c: In function âdvblb_fake_ioctlâ:
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c:281: error: âTASK_INTERRUPTIBLEâ undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c:281: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c:281: error: for each function it appears in.)
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c:283: error: implicit declaration of function âsignal_pendingâ
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c:283: error: implicit declaration of function âschedule_timeoutâ
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c:292: error: âTASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLEâ undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c: In function âdvblb_openâ:
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c:408: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c: In function âdvblb_ioctlâ:
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c:752: error: âTASK_INTERRUPTIBLEâ undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c:808: error: âTASK_NORMALâ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-generic'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng/dvbloopback/module'
make: *** [module] Error 2
root@mediabox:/usr/local/src/sc/contrib/sasc-ng# nano dvbloopback/module/dvb_loopback.c

By: Michel Meyers

Michel Meyers — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:42:02 +0000

Hello,

I’m pretty sure that is not a hardware problem. I’m experiencing the same issue here on my Dell E6400:

Using the v4l-dvb drivers, or the ones recommended above (‘try this version’) fails. I think something goes wrong during the firmware upload or card initialization because it becomes completely unusable afterwards. Unplugging the USB cable, thus leaving it in warm state, and plugging it back in shows that Linux won’t even detect it any more and indicates an error enumerating the USB device. (as if the firmware overwrote the USB IDs or something similar)

Using the most recent drivers on Linux Kernel 2.6.32 works, except that I get the same ‘query RC’ errors and hangs as mentioned above. To work around those, I’ve simply disabled the remote control by putting this in my /etc/modules:

options dvb-usb disable_rc_polling=1

By: Marcel

Marcel — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:14:29 +0000

Unfortunately Tvheadend still doesn’t decode the seca signal of Canaal Digitaal and TV Vlaanderen correctly, see ticket #205.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:41:16 +0000

FYI: The upcoming Tvheadend 2.11 will have EMM smartcard update support for both Irdeto2 and Seca (next to the already existing Conax support)!
See also http://trac.lonelycoder.com/hts/ticket/139 and http://trac.lonelycoder.com/hts/ticket/159

By: mattia

mattia — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:41:49 +0000

We need request:
“Long story short, I got the debian source package for vdr-plugin-opensc from mirak’s ppa https://launchpad.net/~mirak-mirak/+archive/ppa , then changed the vdr-sc source inside with hg clone from current source, then applied some patches to the Makefile in order to build successfully and finally build the packages with dpkg-buildpackage.

I might put up a detailed guide if more people are interested in this.”

From dvbn forum http://tinyurl.com/yffdvqg

I use his vdr-plugin-opensc and work fine:
http://tinyurl.com/yfjmclr

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:10:13 +0000

The combination vdr 1.7.10 + vdr-sc I managed to get working as mentioned above.
The combination vdr 1.7.11 + vdr-sc however not entirely: I think that there is something which needs to be adapted in the plugin loader script, because I got this same error too.

But when I started vdr directly in the shell instead as a service like this
$ vdr -P sc
I got it working. Unfortunately I don’t have vdr anymore on my pc so I can’t check anything anymore: I replaced vdr with tvheadend and got this working within an hour

ps: smartcard updates in Tvheadend do work but only for Conax which I currently have (DVB-T digitenne)

By: Marcel

Marcel — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:23:57 +0000

Still no success:

@Ed: Still getting “WARNING: The following plugins have been left out due to really binary incompatibility: sc.”

@Leechguy: Where can I download vdr-plugin-sc_0.9.x-hg2-template.tar.bz2?