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[217.169.3.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id lv4sm41513443wjb.43.2015.10.26.16.03.56 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:03:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cx23885 (DVBSky 950) under Gentoo 4.0.5 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:03:54 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) References: <562EA679.5040507@googlemail.com> <562EACA2.3060407@baums-on-web.de> In-Reply-To: <562EACA2.3060407@baums-on-web.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2954537.0uSWnqGdLA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201510262304.03218.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2f198a82-27d1-44ca-b616-fbb6ded43032 X-Archives-Hash: bd0c5b0de1a59b87a90aaf4e3ff61aea --nextPart2954537.0uSWnqGdLA Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 ?! > >=20 > > Where do I find those when I compile the kernel ? > >=20 > > 04:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI > > Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04) > >=20 > > Subsystem: DVBSky S950 > > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 > > Memory at fe800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=3D2M] > > Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 > > Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 > > Capabilities: [90] Vital Product Data > > Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=3D1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ > > Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting > > Capabilities: [200] Virtual Channel >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 an= d=20 kernel patches here: http://www.dvbsky.net/Support_linux.html How to here: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVBSky =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2954537.0uSWnqGdLA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJWLrFjAAoJELAdA+zwE4Ye1L0H/0lUUD4mFS0S93fjK/Bz6Whu HwyY93Prh9IiiuaWGBeKlGQENDR1BpurFl5m7ZWW9spGJO7w51A5pxYzpmHIkrhQ ahWLWkX0tRyIz2XHldenAx/PYFIS9Qk4nhn3MVjQnG+jibYYzReN/ZOdv/GXvxgU XRRWo7QIJXVhFeHEIEnbrl6oFHgh9fVJKAgZ7BVZ8LFoLoJri/6kTixf/dQu7osW vUH7OXORS6bp0CKcfuXNuyQhv8hA/dxGOwwqlj4XndWQXq6SDoZ0JqHDel+15nTJ Yv9cwXSUXZOv0Csv7tYSnaytAK9UF+P7Df4N6/wfEuQ85DW0aXrUPKQBWI/8n80= =2eyW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2954537.0uSWnqGdLA--