TeVii S470

TeVii S470 Card

A DVB-S2 PCIe card from TeVii Technology Ltd

Overview/Features

• PCIe x1

Components Used

• RF tuner: Montage: M88TS202
• demod: Montage: M88DS3000
• pci-e bridge: Conexant cx23885

Identification

PCI id: [d470:9022]

Kernel 2.6.36

some improvements added in this kernel:

   V4L/DVB: cx23885: Require user to explicitly enable CX2388[57] IR via module param
   
   The CX23885 IR controller was reported to cause an interrupt storm
   on a TeVii S470 card, but was reported fine on an HVR-1250.  Keep
   integrated IR disabled by default on CX2388[57] based cards to avoid
   a bad user experience in the general case.

   V4L/DVB: cx23885: Add preliminary IR Rx support for the HVR-1250 and TeVii S470
   
   Add initial IR Rx support using the intergrated IR controller in the
   A/V core of the CX23885 bridge chip.
   
   This initial support is flawed in that I2C transactions should not
   be performed in a hard irq context.  That will be fixed in a
   follow on patch.
   
   The TeVii S470 support is reported to generate perptual interrupts
   that renders a user' system nearly unusable.  The TeVii S470 IR
   will be disabled by default in a follow on patch.

please add your feedback on this kernel

Kernel 2.6.35

The drivers are included (since 2.6.33, see below) If you need the latest liplianin driver, be careful with this kernel, you need a patch to compile the driver (july 2010, maybe liplianin will improve its driver) patch

Kernel 2.6.33 and newer

Those kernels have in-build drivers.

Download and install firmware

wget -c http://tevii.com/tevii_ds3000.tar.gz
tar xfv tevii_ds3000.tar.gz
sudo cp tevii_ds3000/dvb-fe-ds3000.fw /lib/firmware/

Thats it, your card should be working now. If you configure your own kernel, be sure to enable

Device Drivers  --->
 Multimedia support  --->
  <*>   Video For Linux 
  <*>   DVB for Linux
  [*]   Load and attach frontend and tuner driver modules as needed
  [*]   Video capture adapters  --->
    [*]   Autoselect pertinent encoders/decoders and other helper chips
    <M>   Conexant cx23885 (2388x successor) support

Older kernels

tested on debian 2.6.30 and 2.6.32 kernel

You can use this script to download and compile firmware/driver

  echo "TeVii S470"                                                                  
       # checking firmware
       if [ ! -f /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-ds3000.fw ]; then
           wget -c http://tevii.com/tevii_ds3000.tar.gz
           tar zxfv tevii_ds3000.tar.gz
           sudo cp tevii_ds3000/dvb-fe-ds3000.fw /lib/firmware/
           rm -rf tevii_ds3000
       fi
       # checking driver
       if [ -d "s2-liplianin" ]; then
           cd "s2-liplianin"
           make distclean
           make update
       else
           hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin
           cd "s2-liplianin"
       fi
       make
       sudo make install
       sudo depmod
       sudo make rmmod
       sudo modprobe cx23885
       sleep 1
       ls -R /dev/dvb/

(thanks to ticapix)

TODO:

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