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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi folks,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have just received a SkyStar2 DVB-S PCI card, and I am trying to get it set up in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I believe I have the card drivers loaded, and can get the card to tune, but scan returns no channels, and I am not sure why.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My scan returns this:</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">----</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">stuartw@ubuntu2:~$ scan -c</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">dumping lists (0 services)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Done.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">----</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have spent 5 or so hours trying different things, I grabbed the latest dvb-apps and compiled it, tried scanning directly in MythTV, all to no avail.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Searching the web shows that quite a few people are having identical or similar problems, but I have been unable to find a solution.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Can anyone offer any guidance on what to try next?</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">See below for various outputs.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Kind Regards,</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Stuart Whelan.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">===========================</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">stuartw@ubuntu2:~$ lspci -v (Output edited for relevance)</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">02:05.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Subsystem: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Memory at fdee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I/O ports at ee00 [size=32]</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">stuartw@ubuntu2:~$ dmesg (Output edited for relevance)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[ 21.056865] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[ 32.515271] b2c2-flexcop: B2C2 FlexcopII/II(b)/III digital TV receiver chip loaded successfully</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[ 32.533441] flexcop-pci: will use the HW PID filter.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[ 32.533449] flexcop-pci: card revision 2</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[ 32.533464] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 21</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[ 32.550778] DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device).</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[ 32.552264] b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:16:11:d0</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[ 32.862547] b2c2-flexcop: found the stv0299 at i2c address: 0x68</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[ 32.862553] DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[ 32.862593] b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Sky2PC/SkyStar 2 DVB-S' at the 'PCI' bus controlled by a 'FlexCopIIb' complete</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">stuartw@ubuntu2:~$ lsmod |grep flexcop</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Module Size Used by</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">b2c2_flexcop_pci 9496 9</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">b2c2_flexcop 28172 1 b2c2_flexcop_pci</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">dvb_core 82216 2 stv0299,b2c2_flexcop</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">dvb_pll 15492 1 b2c2_flexcop</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">i2c_core 26112 4 stv0299,b2c2_flexcop,nvidia,dvb_pll</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">stuartw@ubuntu2:~$ dvbtune -f 1183000 -s 22500 -p h -m -tone 0</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S"</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:H Srate=22500000, 22kHz=off</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">polling....</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Getting frontend event</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">FE_STATUS:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">polling....</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Getting frontend event</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Bit error rate: 3761</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signal strength: 53077</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SNR: 50691</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signal=53057, Verror=0, SNR=50685dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signal=53075, Verror=0, SNR=50679dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signal=53532, Verror=0, SNR=50715dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signal=53167, Verror=0, SNR=50784dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signal=53388, Verror=0, SNR=50706dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signal=53458, Verror=0, SNR=50691dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signal=53133, Verror=0, SNR=50727dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signal=52971, Verror=0, SNR=50700dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Signal=53095, Verror=0, SNR=50691dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">stuartw@ubuntu2:~$ dvbtune -f 1183000 -s 22500 -p h -m -tone 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 &</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">stuartw@ubuntu2:~$ scan -c</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">dumping lists (0 services)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Done.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
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