Problems with TV card "TeVii S472"

Problems with TV card "TeVii S472"

[Hendrik Oenings]

Hi all,

I've got a DVB-S2 PCI-Express tv card ("Tevii S472", http://tevii.com/P
roducts_S472_1.asp) with Debian testing, but I'm not able to get it
work.
On TeVii's webpage there is a linux driver availible (http://tevii.com/
Support.asp), but if I try to compile the driver, it says that my
kernel version isn't supported (current debian testing installed).

The PCIe bridge is cx23885, the demodulator is m88ds3103 and I assume
that the RF Tuner is m88ts2022.

The kernel messages just say:
> $ dmesg | grep dvb
> $ dmesg | grep cx23885
> [    8.295142] cx23885[0]:    card=46 -> DVBSky T980C
> [    8.295143] cx23885[0]:    card=47 -> DVBSky S950C
> [    8.295143] cx23885[0]:    card=48 -> Technotrend TT-budget
> CT2-4500 CI
> [    8.295144] cx23885[0]:    card=49 -> DVBSky S950
> [    8.295145] cx23885[0]:    card=50 -> DVBSky S952
> [    8.295145] cx23885[0]:    card=51 -> DVBSky T982
> [    8.295146] cx23885[0]:    card=52 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR5525
> [    8.295147] cx23885[0]:    card=53 -> Hauppauge WinTV Starburst
> [    8.295159] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: d472:9022, board:
> UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
> [    8.422227] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xa5
> [    8.422230] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:03:00.0, rev: 4, irq: 19,
> latency: 0, mmio: 0xf7c00000
> $ dmesg | grep ds3103
> $ dmesg | grep ts2022

The firmware (dvb-fe-ds3103.fw) was copied to /lib/firmware.

Regards,
Hendrik

Re: Problems with TV card "TeVii S472"

[Chris Moore]

Hi,

Le 11/12/2015 15:31, Hendrik Oenings a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a DVB-S2 PCI-Express tv card ("Tevii S472", http://tevii.com/P
> roducts_S472_1.asp) with Debian testing, but I'm not able to get it
> work.
> On TeVii's webpage there is a linux driver availible (http://tevii.com/
> Support.asp), but if I try to compile the driver, it says that my
> kernel version isn't supported (current debian testing installed).
>

I had a similar problem a few months ago with a TeVii S660.
I am running (K)Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf).
It didn't work correctly with the Ubuntu driver even after installing 
the firmware.

Compiling the driver from TeVii's site also said my kernel was not 
supported.
I guess it doesn't support 4.x kernels.

I wanted a quick solution to watch the Rugby World Cup while my wife was 
watching another program.
As it worked on Windows I didn't try to fix it at the time but I could 
have a go.

Cheers,
Chris

Re: Problems with TV card "TeVii S472"

[Chris Moore]

Hi,

Le 12/12/2015 10:02, Chris Moore a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Le 11/12/2015 15:31, Hendrik Oenings a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've got a DVB-S2 PCI-Express tv card ("Tevii S472", http://tevii.com/P
>> roducts_S472_1.asp) with Debian testing, but I'm not able to get it
>> work.
>> On TeVii's webpage there is a linux driver availible (http://tevii.com/
>> Support.asp), but if I try to compile the driver, it says that my
>> kernel version isn't supported (current debian testing installed).
>>
>
> I had a similar problem a few months ago with a TeVii S660.
> I am running (K)Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf).
> It didn't work correctly with the Ubuntu driver even after installing 
> the firmware.
>
> Compiling the driver from TeVii's site also said my kernel was not 
> supported.
> I guess it doesn't support 4.x kernels.
>
> I wanted a quick solution to watch the Rugby World Cup while my wife 
> was watching another program.
> As it worked on Windows I didn't try to fix it at the time but I could 
> have a go.
>

PS
I suppose I must have been running (K)Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) at the 
time (in September).
It seems to have had only a 3.x kernel.
Sorry for the error.

Re: Problems with TV card "TeVii S472"

[Hendrik Grewe]

Hendrik Oenings <debian <at> oenings.de> writes:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a DVB-S2 PCI-Express tv card ("Tevii S472", http://tevii.com/P
> roducts_S472_1.asp) with Debian testing, but I'm not able to get it
> work.


Any news on this? YOu got it to work?


I have a very similar problem with a Tevii S470 [1](not) running on Ubuntu 
15.10 with 4.2 or 4.3 kernels.

The DVB-S card worked without problem with ubuntu 14.04 but now it is not 
even listed by lspci ...


[1]
RF Tuner: Montage M88TS2020
Demodulator: Montage M88DS3000
PCIe bridge: Conexant cx23885

 https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TeVii_S470

Re: Problems with TV card "TeVii S472"

[Hendrik Oenings]

Am Sat, 6 Feb 2016 20:50:00 +0000 (UTC)
schrieb Hendrik Grewe <lists@b4ckbone.de>:

> Hendrik Oenings <debian <at> oenings.de> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've got a DVB-S2 PCI-Express tv card ("Tevii
> > S472", http://tevii.com/P roducts_S472_1.asp) with Debian testing,
> > but I'm not able to get it work.  
> 
> 
> Any news on this? YOu got it to work?
> 
> 
> I have a very similar problem with a Tevii S470 [1](not) running on
> Ubuntu 15.10 with 4.2 or 4.3 kernels.
> 
> The DVB-S card worked without problem with ubuntu 14.04 but now it is
> not even listed by lspci ...
> 
> 
> [1]
> RF Tuner: Montage M88TS2020
> Demodulator: Montage M88DS3000
> PCIe bridge: Conexant cx23885
> 
>  https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TeVii_S470N_____r__y____b_X____v_^_)__{.n_+____{___bj)____w*\x1fjg___\x1e_______j/___z_____2_______&_)___a__\x7f__\x1e_G___h_\x0f_j:+v___w____

Sorry for answering that late, I hadn't seen your answer.

I've tried several drivers and several distris, but either the
compilation fails because of the kernel version, or the kernel is
crashing when loading the driver, so I'm still not able to use my tv
card :(. Actually I'm using a 4.3er kernel with Debian unstable.

I'll write to TeVii again, maybe they'll offer me a solution.

I think I forgot writing the result of $ lspci, here is it:
$ lspci
...
03:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI
Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04)
...

If anyone has an idea how to get it work, I'm still interested in a
solution.

Regards, Hendrik