TeVii S460

A DVB-S/S2 PCI card from TeVii.

TeVii S460

Overview/Features

Low profile DVB-S/S2 PCI card.

Components Used

Conexant CX23883-39 Broadcast Decoder.

Conexant CX24116 DVB-S2 Demodulator and Forward Error Correction Decoder.

Identification

01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
       Subsystem: Unknown device d460:9022
       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 f8000000 (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-

01:08.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
       Subsystem: Unknown device d460:9022
       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 f7000000 (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-

Other Images

Package Contents

Back Panel

Making it Work

Firmware

Firmware v1.23.86.1

Firmware v1.23.86.1 is available with the TeVii S460 Linux driver at http://tevii.com/support.html. (But what's with the proprietary RAR archive format? Geez...)

wget http://tevii.com/Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar
sudo apt-get install unrar-free
unrar x Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar
sudo cp tevii_linuxdriver_0815/fw/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.23.86.1.fw
sudo ln -s /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.23.86.1.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw

Along with several other DVB firmwares it is also available in a 7-zip file: 728KiB download.

Drivers

Experimental support under Linux exists. Drivers for DVB-S and DVB-S2 (see also S2API) have now been merged into v4l-dvb and can be installed as described here[1].

Sample kernel output

[   28.487269] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[   28.487317] cx88[1]: subsystem: d460:9022, board: TeVii S460 DVB-S/S2 [card=70,autodetected], frontend(s): 1
[   28.487320] cx88[1]: TV tuner type -1, Radio tuner type -1
[   28.558456] cx23885 driver version 0.0.1 loaded
[   28.895902] cx88[1]/0: found at 0000:01:08.0, rev: 5, irq: 20, latency: 20, mmio: 0xf8000000
[   28.895966] cx88[1]/0: registered device video2 [v4l2]
[   28.895985] cx88[1]/0: registered device vbi3
[   28.898056] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.2[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[   28.898062] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:08.2 to 64
[   28.898039] cx88[1]/2: cx2388x 8802 Driver Manager
[   28.898067] cx88[1]/2: found at 0000:01:08.2, rev: 5, irq: 20, latency: 64, mmio: 0xf7000000
[   28.898072] cx8802_probe() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[   29.612046] cx88[1]/2: subsystem: d460:9022, board: TeVii S460 DVB-S/S2 [card=70]
[   29.612049] cx88[1]/2: cx2388x based DVB/ATSC card
[   29.636827] tuner' 4-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx23885[0])
[   29.637896] DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[1])
[   29.637900] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Conexant CX24116/CX24118)...
[   46.077617] cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw)...
[   46.141111] cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)...
[   48.307575] cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.23.86.1
[   48.307599] cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Firmware upload complete

Remote Control Support

Unknown

External Links

http://www.tevii.com/product_s460.html Manufacturers Website.