[MPlayer-dvb] SS2 (rev2) issue

[Salvatore De Paolis]

Hi all,

I'm using Debian Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 and a Technisat Skystar2 (rev2)

I've successfully created the channels.conf (so the hardware seems to be working) with scan but:

$ lspci -vv

01:08.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 32
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
	Region 0: Memory at dfef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: b2c2_flexcop_pci
	Kernel modules: b2c2-flexcop-pci

$ dmesg | grep DVB

[   11.621162] DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device)
[   12.261073] b2c2-flexcop: found 'ST STV0299 DVB-S' .
[   12.265080] DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...
[   12.268238] b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Sky2PC/SkyStar 2 DVB-S' at the 'PCI' bus controlled by a 'FlexCopIIb' complete
[31456.729643] DVB: frontend 0 frequency 9750000 out of range (950000..2150000)
[31456.917597] DVB: frontend 0 frequency 9750000 out of range (950000..2150000)

$ lsmod | grep b2c2

b2c2_flexcop_pci        5720  0 
b2c2_flexcop           24812  1 b2c2_flexcop_pci
dvb_core               66528  2 stv0299,b2c2_flexcop
firmware_class          6816  1 b2c2_flexcop
cx24123                12168  1 b2c2_flexcop
s5h1420                10052  1 b2c2_flexcop
i2c_core               19828  9 stv0299,adv7175,saa7110,b2c2_flexcop,zr36067,i2c_algo_bit,cx24123,s5h1420,i2c_nforce2

$ ls -alR /dev/dvb

/dev/dvb:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   60 2009-11-05 04:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 3720 2009-11-05 04:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 2009-11-05 04:42 adapter0

/dev/dvb/adapter0:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     120 2009-11-05 04:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root      60 2009-11-05 04:42 ..
crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 4 2009-11-05 04:42 demux0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 5 2009-11-05 04:42 dvr0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 3 2009-11-05 04:42 frontend0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 7 2009-11-05 04:42 net0

$ mplayer dvb://RaiUno
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26940
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 79, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing dvb://RaiUno.
dvb_tune Freq: 10992000
TS file format detected.

Here nothing happens. Pressing ctrl-c

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: demux_open
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 6 failed with errno 4 when reading 1084 bytes

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: demux_open

I've also trying with zap but it doesn't work too.

:$ zap RaiUno
Using frontend "ST STV0299 DVB-S", type DVB-S
Problem retrieving frontend information: Function not implemented
status SCVYL | signal bb59 | snr cb01 | ber 000000ed | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK

Here is blocked too, no output on ctrl-c

Do you think it's a problem of drivers provided in Debian Lenny?

Best Regards
Salvatore