nick.rout at gmail
Jul 5, 2012, 11:25 PM
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On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Criggie <criggie [at] criggie> wrote:
>> Hi all - I'm trying to help a coworker to get into myth, and its not going
>> well.
>>
>>
>> The box is a core2duo with 2 GB ram, running 64 bit Fedora 17 fully updated.
>> Kernel is 3.4.4-3.fc17.x86_64
>>
>> There's one DVB-S card, a plain old Skystar2 on the PCI bus.
>>
>> 04:01.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB
>> chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)
>>
>> [ 7.265963] sky2: driver version 1.30
>> [ 7.266147] sky2 0000:03:00.0: Yukon-2 EC Ultra chip revision 2
>> [ 7.266240] sky2 0000:03:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
>> [ 7.266629] sky2 0000:03:00.0: eth1: addr 00:19:21:1a:a4:5a
>> [ 7.355596] b2c2-flexcop: B2C2 FlexcopII/II(b)/III digital TV receiver
>> chip loaded successfully
>> [ 7.370171] DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device)
>> [ 7.372154] b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:11:04:4b
>> [ 7.372767] CX24123: cx24123_i2c_readreg: reg=0x0 (error=-121)
>> [ 7.372770] CX24123: wrong demod revision: 87
>> [ 7.940240] b2c2-flexcop: found 'ST STV0299 DVB-S' .
>> [ 7.940245] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...
>> [ 7.940396] b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Sky2PC/SkyStar 2 DVB-S rev
>> 2.6' at the 'PCI' bus controlled by a 'FlexCopIIb' complete
>> [ 15.587892] sky2 0000:03:00.0: eth0: enabling interface
>>
>>
>> Now the /dev directory is missing some devices compared to my own skystar2
>>
>> [root [at] bruc ~]# ll /dev/dvb/adapter0/*
>> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 0 Jun 20 17:17 /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
>> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 1 Jun 20 17:17 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
>> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 Jun 20 17:17 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
>> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 2 Jun 20 17:17 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0
>>
>> bt:~# ll /dev/dvb/adapter0/*
>> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 1 Apr 17 11:25 /dev/dvb/adapter0/audio0
>> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 6 Apr 17 11:25 /dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0
>> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 4 Apr 17 11:25 /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
>> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 5 Apr 17 11:25 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
>> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 3 Apr 17 11:25 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
>> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 7 Apr 17 11:25 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0
>> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 8 Apr 17 11:25 /dev/dvb/adapter0/osd0
>> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 0 Apr 17 11:25 /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0
>>
>
> Mine is the same as Bruce's I think:
>
> nick [at] medi:~$ ll /dev/dvb/adapter0/*
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 0 2012-07-02 20:57 /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 1 2012-07-02 20:57 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 2012-07-02 20:57 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 2 2012-07-02 20:57 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0
>
> That's on mythbuntu 10.04 updated within 2-4 week as ago and kernel
>
> nick [at] medi:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.32-41-generic
>
> Card is (from lspci)
>
> 01:06.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII
> DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)
>
> I have never seen the additional device nodes that are on your machine
> on any dvb device that I can recall.
>
> Here is the dmesg stuff from mine:
>
> [ 31.640725] b2c2-flexcop: B2C2 FlexcopII/II(b)/III digital TV
> receiver chip loaded successfully
> [ 31.695834] flexcop-pci: will use the HW PID filter.
> [ 31.695840] flexcop-pci: card revision 2
> [ 31.696198] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] enabled at IRQ 16
> [ 31.696204] b2c2_flexcop_pci 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC1]
> -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> [ 31.712277] DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device)
> [ 31.713911] b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:0f:7e:22
> [ 31.714600] CX24123: cx24123_i2c_readreg: reg=0x0 (error=-121)
> [ 31.714890] CX24123: wrong demod revision: 87
> [ 31.922955] alloc irq_desc for 25 on node -1
> [ 31.922959] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
> [ 31.922969] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
> [ 32.219626] b2c2-flexcop: found 'ST STV0299 DVB-S' .
> [ 32.219631] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...
> [ 32.219708] b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Sky2PC/SkyStar 2 DVB-S
> rev 2.6' at the 'PCI' bus controlled by a 'FlexCopIIb' complete
>
>
> What version of mythtv is not recognising the card properly?
http://www.linuxtv.org/docs/dvbapi/dvbapi.html
The video0, audio0 and ca0 are the decoded mpeg2 video and audio
streams and conditional access module, none of which are present on a
non full featured card like the skystar2. The fact that the nodes are
created may indicate it has mistaken or misread the physical device?
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