Geniatech DVB-S Digistar

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A DVB-S PCI card produced by Geniatech.

Reportedly works well under Linux although experience is that live playback is unwatchable on an AMD64 distro. Works fine with Kubuntu 8.04 (32bit).

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

relevant dmesg output

 [   48.398015] cx88/0: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.6 loaded
 [   48.398469] cx88[0]: subsystem: 14f1:0084, board: Geniatech DVB-S [card=52,autodetected]
 [   48.398432] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:06.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
 [   48.398472] cx88[0]: TV tuner type 4, Radio tuner type -1
 [   48.424438] cx88/2: cx2388x MPEG-TS Driver Manager version 0.0.6 loaded
 [   48.547719] cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:06.0, rev: 5, irq: 18, latency: 20, mmio: 0xfa000000
 [   48.547784] cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
 [   48.547819] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
 [   48.576829] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x 8802 Driver Manager
 [   48.576849] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:06.2[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
 [   48.576856] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:06.2 to 64
 [   48.576861] cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:01:06.2, rev: 5, irq: 18, latency: 64, mmio: 0xf9000000
 [   49.963588] cx88/2: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.6 loaded
 [   49.963593] cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: dvb access: shared
 [   49.963597] cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 14f1:0084, board: Geniatech DVB-S [card=52]
 [   49.963601] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based DVB/ATSC card
 [   49.994816] CX24123: detected CX24123
 [   49.994851] DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0])
 [   49.994855] DVB: registering frontend 1 (Conexant CX24123/CX24109)...

Remote Control Support

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External Links

Manufacturers Site[1]