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Revision as of 11:01, 15 November 2011
Vendor | Device/Model | Supported | Pictures / URL | E |
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MSI | DIGIVOX mini II V3.0 (AF9015/MT2060 version) aka. K-Vox | ✔ Yes, in kernel since 2.6.28 | ![]() |
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MSI | DIGIVOX mini II V3.0 (RTL2832 version) also. DigiVox mini deluxe | ✔ Yes somewhat. see device page | ![]() |
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Overview
MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0 is a DVB-T USB 2.0 device from MSI (see Vendor site for a nicer picture).
- In Germany this device might also be named MSI K-Vox.
- This device might not be available worldwide.
- This stick is not the same as the:
- MSI DigiVox mini II (Vendor site)
- MSI DigiVox mini II V2.0 linux-dvb archive (Vendor site)
- MSI DIGIVOX mini III (Vendor site)
- MSI DIGIVOX mini Deluxe Though according to the geman ubuntu users wiki it has the same chips as the RTL2832 version and should work with the same driver. (Vendor site, German)
Note: Be careful there are at least two, maybe three different devices which the vendor sells under the same name ('MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0') see: [vdr-portal.de] and [forum.ubuntuusers.de] (both german forums).
Install
RTL2832 version
This is the newest in the list of MSI's sins against computer users. They changed the device completely without bothering to change the name on the box. Why the (*censored*) (*censored*) (*censored*) hell don't they at least increment the version number.
It is "V3.0". Why not call the new ones "V3.1" or "3.0a,b,c" or "3.0.1"?
Anyway. There now seems to be some support for the RTL2832 version. At least thats what the german ubuntu forum claims here.
Also there are instructions on how to get it up and running on Ubuntu here.
Note: I can confirm that the instructions at the German website, (albeit in german:(), DO work with Ubuntu 11.04 but only if you have the 2.6.38-8 kernel, NOT the latest 2.6.38-10 kernel that's current with Ubuntu 11.04. I had to reboot with the earlier kernel to compile and install. I can also confirm it has a USB ID of 1d19:1102 with the following additional information.
lsmod | grep dvb
dvb_usb_rtl2832u 194667 16 dvb_usb 27545 1 dvb_usb_rtl2832u dvb_core 90106 1 dvb_usb rc_core 25725 8 dvb_usb,ir_lirc_codec,ir_mce_kbd_decoder,ir_sony_decoder,ir_jvc_decoder,ir_rc6_decoder,ir_rc5_decoder,ir_nec_decoder
lsusb
... Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1d19:1101 Dexatek Technology Ltd. DK DVB-T Dongle ...
Anybody who owns such a device is welcome to replace my rant with more solid information. :-)
Is it true that the RTL 2832 Version has USB ID 1d19:1101 ? That would at least help to distinguish which of those devices you got. Here's what I scraped from the forum:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1d19:1101 Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x1d19 idProduct 0x1101 bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 1 Realtek iProduct 2 Rtl2832UDVB iSerial 3 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 34 bNumInterfaces 2 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 4 USB2.0-Bulk&Iso bmAttributes 0xa0 (Bus Powered) Remote Wakeup MaxPower 500mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol iInterface 5 Bulk-In, Interface Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 0 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol iInterface 5 Bulk-In, Interface Device Qualifier (for other device speed): bLength 10 bDescriptorType 6 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 bNumConfigurations 2 Device Status: 0x0000 (Bus Powered)
I also have a Rtl2832UDVB device which yields the following information:
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 1d19:1102 Dexatek Technology Ltd. DK mini DVB-T Dongle Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x1d19 Dexatek Technology Ltd. idProduct 0x1102 DK mini DVB-T Dongle bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 1 Realtek iProduct 2 Rtl2832UDVB iSerial 3 1 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 34 bNumInterfaces 2 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 4 USB2.0-Bulk&Iso bmAttributes 0xa0 (Bus Powered) Remote Wakeup MaxPower 500mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol iInterface 5 Bulk-In, Interface Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 1 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 0 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol iInterface 5 Bulk-In, Interface Device Qualifier (for other device speed): bLength 10 bDescriptorType 6 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 bNumConfigurations 2 Device Status: 0x0000 (Bus Powered)
Which would suggest that the id is indeed one higher 1d19:1102.
On Ubuntu 11.10
With Kernel 3.0.0-13-generic the driver from https://bitbucket.org/themagicpudding/rtl2832_2836_2840 worked for USB-ID 1d19:1101. Just follow the instructions there.
AF9016 version
On most modern distributions it will probably work out of the box. You may have to download the firmware but that also depends on your distribution. Just plug it in and see what dmesg on a console says.
On Ubuntu or Debian Lenny
On Ubuntu 10.04 (and most probably next versions), just go to System=>Administration=>Hardware drivers.
It should offer you an option " to download and install the firmware for DVB-T hardware. Activate it, and your tuner will be automatically recognized.
Using a script by Daniel Holm, it is very easy to install the driver on older ubuntu versions.
wget http://www.danielholm.se/sites/default/files/msi.digivox.mini_.II_.V.3-v3.run chmod +x msi.digivox.mini_.II_.V.3-v3.run ./msi.digivox.mini_.II_.V.3-v3.run
Congratulations, your DVB-T stick is now operational (including remote control).
(Also tested and working on Debian Lenny. Thanks!)
On other Linux Distributions
Although not as convenient as above, it should only take a couple of minutes to install the driver manually.
Prerequisites
- You need to have make, gcc, etc. installed.
- You need the revision control system 'mercurial' installed.
Compile and Install the Driver
Download version 4.95.0 of the firmware and copy it to your firmware directory.
wget http://www.otit.fi/~crope/v4l-dvb/af9015/af9015_firmware_cutter/firmware_files/4.95.0/dvb-usb-af9015.fw sudo mv dvb-usb-af9015.fw /lib/firmware/
On some distributions, you might have to move the firmware to /lib/firmware/2.6.xx/ where 2.6.xx is the version of your linux kernel.
Now download, compile, and install drivers for AF9015 from Antti Palosaari:
hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015/ cd af9015 make sudo make install
Congratulations, your DVB-T receiver should work now.
Remote Control Setup
If you want to use the IR remote control, you should tell the driver that you have a MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0. The driver can unfortunately not figure that out automatically since many devices have the very same 'lsusb -v'-fingerprint.
For this, you will need to pass the option 'remote=2' to the dvb_usb_af9015 module. Manually, this is done by the command (as root):
rmmod dvb_usb_af9015 modprobe dvb_usb_af9015 remote=2
To permanently store the option, you will need to edit modprobe's configuration files. If your linux distribution uses a directory /etc/modprobe.d/, you can set the configuration as follows:
echo "options dvb_usb_af9015 remote=2" >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-dvb_usb_af9015.conf
On other distributions, you may need to add that line to /etc/modprobe.conf.
Furthermore, the device MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0 seems to have a hardware bug that causes keystrokes on the remote control to be repeated indefinitely. To circumvent this problem, you need to prevent your machine from recognizing the usb-stick as a keyboard.
echo "options usbhid quirks=0x15a4:0x9016:0x4" >> /etc/modprobe.d/usbhid.conf rmmod usbhid; modprobe usbhid
Congratulations, your remote control should work now.
Developer Info
Vendor | Device/Model | Supported | Pictures | URL | Interface | USB ID | Hardware | Tuner | Demodulator | USB Bridge | Firmware | Comment | E |
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MSI | DIGIVOX mini II V3.0 (AF9015/MT2060 version) aka. K-Vox | ✔ Yes, in kernel since 2.6.28 | ![]() |
[3] | USB1.1 USB2.0 | 15a4:9016 | Afatech AF9015, Microtune MT2060 | mt2060 | af9015 | af9015 | dvb-usb-af9015.fw | Manufacturer changed device but kept name, ARGH!! See device page for details. | ![]() |
Status
Works, including remote control.
Components Used:
- Afatech AF9015-N1
- The Tuner is a Microtune MT2061F
Driver
Several versions of the firmware can be found here.
People who own such a device
feel free to add yourself here, testers will always be needed!
Name | |
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Niklas | officeman at freenet d0t de |
Jons | linuxtv d0t org at metastasis d0t de |
Jan | krupaj at mobilnews d0t cz |
Patrick | linuxuser1 at gmx d0t net |
tilt | tilde at tk hyph3n sls d0t de |
bazillus | r at sliwi d0t org |
Sylvio | smileyoschi at freenet d0t de (by the alternativ way) |
Daniel Holm | d.holmen at gmail d0t com |
Henrik (the AF9015 version) | User:Hlangos (can be emailed via user page) |
Peacem4k3r | dominique d0t bnghff at googlemail d0t com |