TeVii S464

A DVB-S/S2 PCI card from TeVii.

TeVii S464

Hardware/Features

• PCI low profile

Retail packaging includes full-height and low profile brackets, an IR receiver cable and an IR handset.

Components Used

• RF Tuner: Montage M88TS2020
• Demodulator (twice): Montage M88DS3000
• PCI bridge: Conexant CX23880

Identification

lspci -wn

01:06.0 0400: 14f1:8800 (rev 05)
        Subsystem: d464:9022
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at e7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data <?>
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: cx8800
        Kernel modules: cx8800

01:06.2 0480: 14f1:8802 (rev 05)
        Subsystem: d464:9022
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: cx88-mpeg driver manager
        Kernel modules: cx8802

Linux support

Firmware

Firmware is required for this card and can be extracted from the TeVii driver package;

wget http://www.tevii.com/tevii_ds3000.tar.gz

tar xfvz tevii_ds3000.tar.gz

cp dvb-fe-ds3000.fw /lib/firmware

Drivers

As of March 2011, this card is supported by the V4L-DVB media_build tree and the driver has been merged into the 2.6.39 kernel.

Usage with MythTV

This card works great for recieving DVB-S and DVB-S2 channels from Astra/Eurobird 28.2E.

Problems

There seems to be a problem with symbolrate. Using i.e. 21999999 instead of 22000000 solves this

There seem to be different revisions - newer models get frequent reports of tuning-problems using in-kernel module. The vendors module seems to work but may not be available for current kernels

External Links

Manufacturers Website

Product Page at DVBshop.net (A European Retailer)