Am Freitag, den 01.05.2009, 13:03 +0200 schrieb David Lister: > 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 I'm guessing the wiki is out of date with regards to current status.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, there might be something not yet discovered. Twinhan cards do work with other chipsets flawlessly. There is no need at all to mark them all bad. Cheers, Hermann -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
