Geniatech DVB-S Digistar

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A DVB-S PCI card produced by Geniatech.

Reportedly works well under Linux although some playback issues have been experienced.


Overview/Features

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Components Used

Card is fitted with Conextant CX23882 Broadcast Decoder, CX24123 QPSK Demodulator, and a CX24109 Satellite Tuner module.

Uses the cx88 module.

Identification

Output from lspci -vnn

 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder 14f1:8800] (rev 05)
       Subsystem: Conexant Unknown device [14f1:0084]
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 20, IRQ 18
       Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
       Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
       Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
 
 01:06.2 Multimedia controller [0480]: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] [14f1:8802] (rev 05)
       Subsystem: Conexant Unknown device [14f1:0084]
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
       Memory at f9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
       Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

Output from lspci -vvn

 01:06.0 0400: 14f1:8800 (rev 05)
 Subsystem: 14f1:0084
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 20 (5000ns min, 13750ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
 Region 0: Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
 Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 
 01:06.2 0480: 14f1:8802 (rev 05)
 Subsystem: 14f1:0084
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 64 (1500ns min, 22000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
 Region 0: Memory at f9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

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Making it Work

Firmware

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Drivers

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Sample kernel output

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Remote Control Support

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External Links

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