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arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

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Technisat SkyStar2

hi everyone,
after i had some issues with my hauppauge wintv 3000 (video output of dvb s was quite laggy and broken but dvbt was just running fine) i removed it and ordered a new one (skystar2). i read several forums and wiki entries telling me that this card is working but i also noticed that it depends on the kernel version!?!?

does anyone own this card and can tell me that it's fully supported and working + if possible, a short guide howto get it working probably!?

would be great if you can drop a line and report some info about this card!

best regards
arch0r :>

anrxc

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-03-22

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Re: Technisat SkyStar2

Did you order an SS2 DVB-S2/HDTV card? The old SS2 (rev. 2.3, 2.6) are supported for many years now.

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You need to install an RTFM interface.

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

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Re: Technisat SkyStar2

plain skystar2 without hd support because there aren't any hd channels in germany avaible (over astra 19,2) except paytv

link to german page where i ordered it: http://www.csv-direct.de/artinfo.php?ar … va=froogle

anrxc

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Re: Technisat SkyStar2

Last kernel which I use for an SS2 is 2.6.18. There is some confusion lately because of multiple DVB driver branches, and people often use latest development snapshots, mainly for full featured cards and DVB-S2, I haven't bothered to figure out that "mess". But I believe you won't have any problems with the latest kernel, I see that Arch config has: CONFIG_DVB_BUDGET=y, CONFIG_DVB_STV0299=m, CONFIG_DVB_B2C2_FLEXCOP=m, CONFIG_DVB_B2C2_FLEXCOP_PCI=m ... all you need for your SS2.

Once you load the modules (or udev), probably the fastest way to test the video is using xine, you can create a channel list with utils from linuxtv-dvb-apps package (which you probably know already):
$ ~/dvb-apps-1.1.1/util/scan/scan dvb-s/Astra-19.2E | tee channels.conf
$ cp channels.conf ~/.xine/
$ xine dvb://1

You can then proceed with VDR http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr :^)

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You need to install an RTFM interface.

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: Technisat SkyStar2

wow very kind of you and thanks for your replay

do i'll have to download/compile any drivers from linuxtv.org or will this card be detected by the kernel and run "out-of-the-box"!?

hopefully it'll run.

anrxc

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Re: Technisat SkyStar2

I see that Arch config has: CONFIG_DVB_BUDGET=y, CONFIG_DVB_STV0299=m, CONFIG_DVB_B2C2_FLEXCOP=m, CONFIG_DVB_B2C2_FLEXCOP_PCI=m ... all you need for your SS2.

As I said, default Arch kernel26 has full support for those "old" SS2 cards.

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You need to install an RTFM interface.

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

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Re: Technisat SkyStar2

ahh cool did't really get what you've meant
where did you look that up?

i've also seen that there are several revisions of the card avaible; latest one is 2.8 (i think i ordered a 2.6) which has even a proprietary linux driver provided by technisat oO

anrxc

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Re: Technisat SkyStar2

where did you look that up?

$ zcat /proc/config.gz
Which is the configuration of the currently running kernel (in this case arch kernel26 package).

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arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

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Re: Technisat SkyStar2

got a rev2.8a now and it's working great

short howto:
pacman -S mercurial
hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~pb/v4l-dvb/
cd v4l-dvb
make
make install
reboot