After more than two years of waiting, i decided to retry the linux dvb driver in order to use a dvb-s technisat skystar-USB box in my 667mhz macintosh powerbook G4 running debian lenny kernel 2.6.22. I obtained the latest v4l-dvb source code from linuxTV : hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb cd v4l-dvb make make install As usual all went fine. The flexcop modules loaded very well despite the fact that my usb dvb-box still remain unusable. A quick look to dmsg log show this : usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62 usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 PM: Adding info for usb:1-1 PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.3_ep00 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice PM: Adding info for usb:1-1:1.0 PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.3_ep81 PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.3 b2c2-flexcop: B2C2 FlexcopII/II(b)/III digital TV receiver chip loaded successfully PM: Removing info for No Bus:usbdev1.3_ep81 PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.3_ep81 flexcop_usb: running at FULL speed. b2c2-flexcop: unkown FlexCop Revision: 8. Please report the linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx technisat skystar-USB box DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device) PM: Adding info for No Bus:dvb0.demux0 PM: Adding info for No Bus:dvb0.dvr0 PM: Adding info for No Bus:dvb0.net0 b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:0c:b8:1c PM: Adding info for No Bus:i2c-9 b2c2-flexcop: found the stv0299 at i2c address: 0x68 DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)... PM: Adding info for No Bus:dvb0.frontend0 b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Sky2PC/SkyStar 2 DVB-S' at the 'USB' bus controlled by a 'Unkown chip' complete flexcop_usb: submitting urb 0 failed with -90. PM: Removing info for No Bus:dvb0.frontend0 PM: Removing info for No Bus:i2c-9 PM: Removing info for No Bus:dvb0.net0 PM: Removing info for No Bus:dvb0.demux0 PM: Removing info for No Bus:dvb0.dvr0 b2c2_flexcop_usb: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -90 usbcore: registered new interface driver b2c2_flexcop_usb More than two year ago patrick.boettcher from this forum explained me this is related to the endianness issue in ppc machines...apparently the problem remain unsolved and nobody has wrote a driver taking into account this particularity. So will they be in the future a serious attempt to improve the flexcop driver in that sense ? As far as i know, this endianness issue concern only the linux skystar usb part of the driver not the pci one. And because this a common driver for both hardware (pci & usb skystar2) then solving the problem for one type of hardware could alter the usability of the other type. So a "trade-off" was made. I don't ask to rewrite the driver from scratch for the ppc community but i wonder if someone can write a patch to overcome the issue after applying it and recompiling the driver (surely not me i'm not a developper only a hobbyist and it's beyond my modest capacities) so we could watch tv on our beloved machines. waiting to hearing from you. Best regards. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
