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