From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:58343 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757347AbZEALDY (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 07:03:24 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so2273234fxm.37 for ; Fri, 01 May 2009 04:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49FAD6F4.1060201@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 13:03:16 +0200 From: David Lister MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Ingraham CC: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Support for Skystar S2 and Twinhan AD-SP200/VP-1027 References: <206145978.15701241154500283.JavaMail.root@email> In-Reply-To: <206145978.15701241154500283.JavaMail.root@email> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Bob Ingraham wrote: > Hi All, > > Running Fedora Core 10 (2.6.27) and have looked through the wiki for support for: > > - Skystar S2 (DVB-S2) PCI > - Twinhan AD-SP200/VP-1027 (DVB-S) PCI > > I'm guessing the wiki is out of date with regards to current status. > > Are there patches or a snapshot I can pull that has stable support for either of these cards? > I went though all this like a 7-14 days ago. Everything is on the list, all repositories, all results. I had SkyStar HD2, but the driver is the same. AFAIK these are two very different cards and SkyStar S2 is probably working. I think it is used more frequently than my HD2, which, alas, was a total CRAP. I had 3 SkyStar HD2 cards in total and had to return them all. Why? Low quality HW (interference, no shielding...), Linux driver support exists (some, mainly the author, claim full support), but: DVB-S2 not working at all (unless you want to reboot every few minutes), zero HW sensitivity (90-95% signal strength -> broken picture), MythTV cannot cope with it and breaks down all the time, little things like PWR/SNR/BER reporting not working, etc. Look up my mails and reports. There are even links to all the repositories. The newest one: hg clone http://jusst.de/hg/mantis-v4l As for my story: I exchanged the cards for TeVii S640 DVB-S2. After inserting the new cards and booting, my whole setup started to work - out of the box, with the setup I had for SkyStar, which was unusable previously. It was the HW/mantis driver after all. Just issuing my WARNING against TWINHAN chipsets generally. :) -- David