Re: DVICO DVB-T Dual Express2 and media_build

[Greg Bell <gbell_spamless@yahoo.com>]

Is there anything else I can provide to help with this?



On 12/01/13 01:48, Greg Bell wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm trying to get my DVICO DVB-T Dual Express2 card working on an 
> Ubuntu 12.10 system with the 3.5.0 kernel.
>
> lspci tells me it's a "Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and 
> Audio Decoder".  Numerically, that's 14f1:8852.
>
> However on insmod cx23885, the driver tells me it doesn't know what 
> the card is.  card=11 and card=9 both allow the driver to 
> initialize, but I cannot scan channels.  The Wiki 
> (http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DViCO_FusionHDTV_DVB-T_Dual_Express2) 
> seems to indicate the someone got it working, but the Making It Work 
> instructions are not clear.
>
> I downloaded and built "media_build", in the hopes that CX23885 
> driver was more current.  Sorry, I'm not a kernel dev so I'm a bit 
> clueless on this part.  If I try to insmod the driver that lives in 
> media_build, I get a "-1 Invalid parameters" error.  I'm hesitant to 
> "make install" them all over my /lib tree.  Is that necessary to 
> just to test?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Bell