Technisat Skystar 2 on Suse Linux 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default

Technisat Skystar 2 on Suse Linux 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default

[Elmar Stellnberger]

Following the instructions at
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_SkyStar_2_TV_PCI_/_Sky2PC_PCI
I have tried to make my Technisat Skystar 2 work.

The thing is that suse ships most of the required kernel modules out of
the box; iter sunt
stv0299
mt312
budget
Only skystar2 is missing, so that I have no /dev/video0 and no
/dev/dvb/adapter0/video0 as required by all these dvb players.
> > ls /dev/dvb/adapter0/
demux0  dvr0  frontend0  net0

  Now I have tried to compile the patched drivers from
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb.
If I try to make everything in v4l-dvb as described at
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/treiber-fuer-dvb-karte-technisat-skystar2-rev/,

make returns with the following error message:

/home/elm/4thattempt/v4l-dvb-0276304b76b9/v4l/cxusb.c: In function
'bluebird_patch_dvico_firmware_download':
/home/elm/4thattempt/v4l-dvb-0276304b76b9/v4l/cxusb.c:795: error:
assignment of read-only location '*(fw->data + ((unsigned int)id
                                       off + 2u))'
/home/elm/4thattempt/v4l-dvb-0276304b76b9/v4l/cxusb.c:797: error:
assignment of read-only location '*(fw->data + ((unsigned int)id
                                       off + 3u))'

Fetching the elder sources from
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/0276304b76b9.tar.bz2
and retrying results in exactly the same error.

Consequently I have tried to uncheck everything but
Multimedia devices ->
  DVB for Linux
  Load and attach frontend and tuner driver modules as needes
  DVB/ATSC adapters
    Technisat 1.
    Technisat 2.
    Technisat 3.

Then it compiles without any error message, but no skystar2.ko
will be created. However this seems to be the only missing kernel module.

Re: Technisat Skystar 2 on Suse Linux 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default

[Patrick Boettcher]

Hi Elmar,

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:

> Following the instructions at
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_SkyStar_2_TV_PCI_/_Sky2PC_PCI
> I have tried to make my Technisat Skystar 2 work.

This howto seems to be out of date. The skystar2.ko was removed like 4 
years ago. It was replaced by the b2c2-flexcop-drivers.


> The thing is that suse ships most of the required kernel modules out of
> the box; iter sunt
> stv0299
> mt312
> budget
> Only skystar2 is missing, so that I have no /dev/video0 and no
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0 as required by all these dvb players.
>>> ls /dev/dvb/adapter0/
> demux0  dvr0  frontend0  net0

Furthermore this is totally correct. /dev/video0 is provided by 
analog-video-cards or by full-featured (with a overlay-chip on board) 
devices.

The SkyStar2 is neither of it.

Did you try to use Kaffeine or mplayer or (dvb)scan?

regards,
Patrick.

--
   Mail: patrick.boettcher@desy.de
   WWW:  http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/

Re: Technisat Skystar 2 on Suse Linux 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default

[Elmar Stellnberger]

dvbscan -out channels channels.conf
hangs and does not create a channels.conf file

vlc dvb://
vlc /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
vlc -> recording device -> dvb-s
  ... does not open a video window and does not play anything

kaffeine stdin:// < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
 ... no module found to handle source

mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0.
  ...but no window opens

How can I play videos?
How can I select a channel?
How can I stream a channel to disk?


have modprobed all recommended kernel modules:

> lsmod | egrep "budget|mt312|b2c2-flexcop"
mt312                   7748  0
budget                 12588  0
budget_core             9884  1 budget
saa7146                15980  2 budget,budget_core
ttpci_eeprom            2020  1 budget_core
dvb_core               73144  4 budget,budget_core,stv0299,b2c2_flexcop
i2c_core               29916  9
t312,budget,budget_core,ttpci_eeprom,stv0299,i2c_viapro,b2c2_flexcop,cx24123,s5h1420




Patrick Boettcher schrieb:
> Hi Elmar,
> 
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> 
>> Following the instructions at
>> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_SkyStar_2_TV_PCI_/_Sky2PC_PCI
>>
>> I have tried to make my Technisat Skystar 2 work.
> 
> This howto seems to be out of date. The skystar2.ko was removed like 4
> years ago. It was replaced by the b2c2-flexcop-drivers.
> 
> 
>> The thing is that suse ships most of the required kernel modules out of
>> the box; iter sunt
>> stv0299
>> mt312
>> budget
>> Only skystar2 is missing, so that I have no /dev/video0 and no
>> /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0 as required by all these dvb players.
>>>> ls /dev/dvb/adapter0/
>> demux0  dvr0  frontend0  net0
> 
> Furthermore this is totally correct. /dev/video0 is provided by
> analog-video-cards or by full-featured (with a overlay-chip on board)
> devices.
> 
> The SkyStar2 is neither of it.
> 
> Did you try to use Kaffeine or mplayer or (dvb)scan?
> 
> regards,
> Patrick.
> 
> -- 
>   Mail: patrick.boettcher@desy.de
>   WWW:  http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/
> 

Re: Technisat Skystar 2 on Suse Linux 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default

[Elmar Stellnberger]

dvbscan -out channels channels.conf
.... hangs and does not create a file named channels.conf

xine
... no valid channels.conf found

mplayer dvb://
Playing dvb://.
CAN'T READ CONFIG FILE /etc/mplayer/channels.conf
DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit
Failed to open dvb://.

kaffeine stdin:// < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
no module find to handle source

vlc dvb://
vlc -> open device -> dvb-s -> play -> "can not open dvb://"
... does not open any video window

me-tv
... "there are no available dvb tuner devices"



Patrick Boettcher schrieb:
> Hi Elmar,
> 
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> 
>> Following the instructions at
>> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_SkyStar_2_TV_PCI_/_Sky2PC_PCI
>>
>> I have tried to make my Technisat Skystar 2 work.
> 
> This howto seems to be out of date. The skystar2.ko was removed like 4
> years ago. It was replaced by the b2c2-flexcop-drivers.
> 
> 
>> The thing is that suse ships most of the required kernel modules out of
>> the box; iter sunt
>> stv0299
>> mt312
>> budget
>> Only skystar2 is missing, so that I have no /dev/video0 and no
>> /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0 as required by all these dvb players.
>>>> ls /dev/dvb/adapter0/
>> demux0  dvr0  frontend0  net0
> 
> Furthermore this is totally correct. /dev/video0 is provided by
> analog-video-cards or by full-featured (with a overlay-chip on board)
> devices.
> 
> The SkyStar2 is neither of it.
> 
> Did you try to use Kaffeine or mplayer or (dvb)scan?
> 
> regards,
> Patrick.
> 
> -- 
>   Mail: patrick.boettcher@desy.de
>   WWW:  http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/
> 

Re: Technisat Skystar 2 on Suse Linux 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default

[Elmar Stellnberger]

> dvbscan -adapter 0 -frontend 0 -demux 0 /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E
Failed to set frontend


downloading channel.conf from Astra1
has not brought me force.

> szap 3sat
reading channels from file '/home/elm/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 20 '3sat':
sat 0, frequency = 11954 MHz V, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x00d2, apid
= 0x00dc sid = 0x0000
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 6b2b | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 7f02 | ber 00007e00 | unc fffffffe |
status 01 | signal aa7e | snr 3d47 | ber 0000ffe8 | unc fffffffe |
status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 7fc5 | ber 0000fff0 | unc fffffffe |
status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 2232 | ber 00006ef0 | unc fffffffe |
status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 1fdd | ber 00000058 | unc fffffffe |
status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 19b3 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
status 02 | signal 0000 | snr 192f | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
status 00 | signal 0035 | snr 8469 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
... etc.

what should that output mean?
why does szap not terminate?


Patrick Boettcher schrieb:
> Hi Elmar,
> 
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> 
>> Following the instructions at
>> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_SkyStar_2_TV_PCI_/_Sky2PC_PCI
>>
>> I have tried to make my Technisat Skystar 2 work.
> 
> This howto seems to be out of date. The skystar2.ko was removed like 4
> years ago. It was replaced by the b2c2-flexcop-drivers.
> 
> 
>> The thing is that suse ships most of the required kernel modules out of
>> the box; iter sunt
>> stv0299
>> mt312
>> budget
>> Only skystar2 is missing, so that I have no /dev/video0 and no
>> /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0 as required by all these dvb players.
>>>> ls /dev/dvb/adapter0/
>> demux0  dvr0  frontend0  net0
> 
> Furthermore this is totally correct. /dev/video0 is provided by
> analog-video-cards or by full-featured (with a overlay-chip on board)
> devices.
> 
> The SkyStar2 is neither of it.
> 
> Did you try to use Kaffeine or mplayer or (dvb)scan?
> 
> regards,
> Patrick.
> 
> -- 
>   Mail: patrick.boettcher@desy.de
>   WWW:  http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/
> 

Re: Technisat Skystar 2 on Suse Linux 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default

[Patrick Boettcher]

Hi Elmar,

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:

>> dvbscan -adapter 0 -frontend 0 -demux 0 /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E
> Failed to set frontend

I have the same problem with that scan, please use the older one called 
scan.

Are you running the szap below as root, but kaffeine as a normal user ?

If so, make sure that you are in the group video.

> downloading channel.conf from Astra1
> has not brought me force.
>
>> szap 3sat
> reading channels from file '/home/elm/.szap/channels.conf'
> zapping to 20 '3sat':
> sat 0, frequency = 11954 MHz V, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x00d2, apid
> = 0x00dc sid = 0x0000
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 6b2b | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 7f02 | ber 00007e00 | unc fffffffe |
> status 01 | signal aa7e | snr 3d47 | ber 0000ffe8 | unc fffffffe |
> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 7fc5 | ber 0000fff0 | unc fffffffe |
> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 2232 | ber 00006ef0 | unc fffffffe |
> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 1fdd | ber 00000058 | unc fffffffe |
> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 19b3 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
> status 02 | signal 0000 | snr 192f | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
> status 00 | signal 0035 | snr 8469 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |

This is the first proof that your device is present and the driver is 
correctly loaded. Please check the output of the dmesg-program to check 
for lines starting with b2c2-flexcop.

> what should that output mean?

it means, it can't synchronize the channel on that frequency. This can 
have a whole bunch of explaination - not necessarily only the driver.

> why does szap not terminate?

It stays in the monitoring loop. Normal.

Patrick.

--
   Mail: patrick.boettcher@desy.de
   WWW:  http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/

Re: Technisat Skystar 2 on Suse Linux 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default

[Elmar Stellnberger]

  Besides the direct replay issues I would like to stream the channels
to watch them on another computer anyway.

> ifconfig eth0 |g "inet Adress"
  inet Adresse:192.168.0.14  Bcast:192.168.255.255  Maske:255.255.0.0

> grep 3sat channels.conf
3sat;ZDFvision:11953:h:S19.2E:27500:210:220=deu,221=2ch;225=deu:230:0:28007:1:1079:0

> dvbstream -f 11953 -p H -s 27500 -v 210 -a 220 -udp -net 192.168.0.14:5100

promises to do the thing.
Is there any possibility to stream a file recorded by kaffeine as well?

----------------------------------------------------------------

 Nevertheless up to now I could not connect with any client:
>mplayer rtp://192.168.0.14:5100
...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing rtp://192.168.0.14:5100.
STREAM_RTP, URL: rtp://192.168.0.14:5100
Failed to connect to server
rtp_streaming_start failed
No stream found to handle url rtp://192.168.0.14:5100


Exiting... (End of file)



  Chaining dumprtp and mplayer does not work either.
Insetead of ts2ps I had to use replex, because Opensuse
does not offer ts2ps:

> dumprtp 192.168.0.14 5100 | replex -t MPEG2 | mplayer -cache 2048 -
replex version 0.1.6.8
using stdin as input
using stdout as output
Rtp dump
Using 192.168.0.14:5100
bind failed: Cannot assign requested address
Checking for TS: failed
Checking for AVI: failed
Checking for PS: confirmed(maybe)
read 0.00 MB
Can't find all required streams
Please check if audio and video have standard IDs (0xc0 or 0xe0)
MPlayer dev-SVN-r27637-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.1 (i686)-Packman (C)
2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 3000+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing -.
Reading from stdin...
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)


Exiting... (End of file)





Patrick Boettcher schrieb:
> Hi Elmar,
> 
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> 
>>> dvbscan -adapter 0 -frontend 0 -demux 0 /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E
>> Failed to set frontend
> 
> I have the same problem with that scan, please use the older one called
> scan.
> 
> Are you running the szap below as root, but kaffeine as a normal user ?
> 
> If so, make sure that you are in the group video.
> 
>> downloading channel.conf from Astra1
>> has not brought me force.
>>
>>> szap 3sat
>> reading channels from file '/home/elm/.szap/channels.conf'
>> zapping to 20 '3sat':
>> sat 0, frequency = 11954 MHz V, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x00d2, apid
>> = 0x00dc sid = 0x0000
>> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 6b2b | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 7f02 | ber 00007e00 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 01 | signal aa7e | snr 3d47 | ber 0000ffe8 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 7fc5 | ber 0000fff0 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 2232 | ber 00006ef0 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 1fdd | ber 00000058 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 19b3 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 02 | signal 0000 | snr 192f | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0035 | snr 8469 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
> 
> This is the first proof that your device is present and the driver is
> correctly loaded. Please check the output of the dmesg-program to check
> for lines starting with b2c2-flexcop.
> 
>> what should that output mean?
> 
> it means, it can't synchronize the channel on that frequency. This can
> have a whole bunch of explaination - not necessarily only the driver.
> 
>> why does szap not terminate?
> 
> It stays in the monitoring loop. Normal.
> 
> Patrick.
> 
> -- 
>   Mail: patrick.boettcher@desy.de
>   WWW:  http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/
> 

Re: Technisat Skystar 2 on Suse Linux 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default

[Elmar Stellnberger]

  Having tried a couple of times to search for channels it suddenly has
worked. Kaffeine has found a lot of channels and offers to record them.
Nevertheless Kaffeine and xine are incapable of playing t-streams: no
plugin found.
  At least I had also success in creating a channels.conf via
scan -o vdr -p -x 0 Astra-19.2E. Nevertheless szap still does not terminate.
  Mplayer does not work either although I have linked channels.conf to
/etc/mplayer/channels.conf


> szap -r "3sat;ZDFvision"
reading channels from file '/home/elm/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 432 '3sat;ZDFvision':
sat 0, frequency = 11953 MHz H, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x00d2, apid
= 0x00dc sid = 0x00e6
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 00 | signal bf2e | snr 7410 | ber 000062fd | unc fffffffe |
status 1f | signal b676 | snr d49a | ber 000001db | unc fffffffe |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal b8d3 | snr d4c1 | ber 000000f7 | unc fffffffe |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal b809 | snr d4d0 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal b72a | snr d4d3 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal b721 | snr d4bb | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
FE_HAS_LOCK
...

> mplayer dvb://'3sat;ZDFvision'
MPlayer dev-SVN-r27637-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.1 (i686)-Packman (C)
2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 3000+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing dvb://3sat;ZDFvision.
DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit
Failed to open dvb://3sat;ZDFvision.


Exiting... (End of file)
elm@fant:~> mplayer dvb://
MPlayer dev-SVN-r27637-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.1 (i686)-Packman (C)
2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 3000+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing dvb://.
DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit
Failed to open dvb://.


Exiting... (End of file)




Patrick Boettcher schrieb:
> Hi Elmar,
> 
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> 
>>> dvbscan -adapter 0 -frontend 0 -demux 0 /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E
>> Failed to set frontend
> 
> I have the same problem with that scan, please use the older one called
> scan.
> 
> Are you running the szap below as root, but kaffeine as a normal user ?
> 
> If so, make sure that you are in the group video.
> 
>> downloading channel.conf from Astra1
>> has not brought me force.
>>
>>> szap 3sat
>> reading channels from file '/home/elm/.szap/channels.conf'
>> zapping to 20 '3sat':
>> sat 0, frequency = 11954 MHz V, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x00d2, apid
>> = 0x00dc sid = 0x0000
>> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 6b2b | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 7f02 | ber 00007e00 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 01 | signal aa7e | snr 3d47 | ber 0000ffe8 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 7fc5 | ber 0000fff0 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 2232 | ber 00006ef0 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 1fdd | ber 00000058 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 19b3 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 02 | signal 0000 | snr 192f | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
>> status 00 | signal 0035 | snr 8469 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe |
> 
> This is the first proof that your device is present and the driver is
> correctly loaded. Please check the output of the dmesg-program to check
> for lines starting with b2c2-flexcop.
> 
>> what should that output mean?
> 
> it means, it can't synchronize the channel on that frequency. This can
> have a whole bunch of explaination - not necessarily only the driver.
> 
>> why does szap not terminate?
> 
> It stays in the monitoring loop. Normal.
> 
> Patrick.
> 
> -- 
>   Mail: patrick.boettcher@desy.de
>   WWW:  http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/
>