TeVii S480

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TeVii S480 Card

A dual DVB-S2 PCIe card from TeVii.

Hardware/Features

  • PCIe x1 low profile
  • Dual Tuner
  • The card consists of a USB Host Controller and two TeVii S660 equivalent cards.
  • LNB power supply via floppy connector

The Retail packaging includes full-height and low profile brackets, an IR receiver cable, an IR handset (incl. 2 AAA batteries), a windows drivers CD and an install manual.

Components Used

  • RF Tuner (twice): Montage M88TS2020
  • Demodulator (twice): Montage M88DS3002
  • USB Peripheral Controller (twice): Cypress CY7C68013A-56
  • PCIe bridge/USB Host Controller: MosChip MCS9990CV

Identification

lspci -nnk:

04:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NetMos Technology MCS9990 PCIe to 4‐Port USB 2.0 Host Controller [9710:9990]
        Subsystem: Device [a000:4000]
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
04:00.1 USB Controller [0c03]: NetMos Technology MCS9990 PCIe to 4‐Port USB 2.0 Host Controller [9710:9990]
        Subsystem: Device [a000:4000]
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
04:00.2 USB Controller [0c03]: NetMos Technology MCS9990 PCIe to 4‐Port USB 2.0 Host Controller [9710:9990]
        Subsystem: Device [a000:4000]
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
04:00.3 USB Controller [0c03]: NetMos Technology MCS9990 PCIe to 4‐Port USB 2.0 Host Controller [9710:9990]
        Subsystem: Device [a000:4000]
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
04:00.4 USB Controller [0c03]: NetMos Technology MCS9990 PCIe to 4‐Port USB 2.0 Host Controller [9710:9990]
        Subsystem: Device [a000:4000]
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
04:00.5 USB Controller [0c03]: NetMos Technology MCS9990 PCIe to 4‐Port USB 2.0 Host Controller [9710:9990]
        Subsystem: Device [a000:4000]
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
04:00.6 USB Controller [0c03]: NetMos Technology MCS9990 PCIe to 4‐Port USB 2.0 Host Controller [9710:9990]
        Subsystem: Device [a000:4000]
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
04:00.7 USB Controller [0c03]: NetMos Technology MCS9990 PCIe to 4‐Port USB 2.0 Host Controller [9710:9990]
        Subsystem: Device [a000:4000]
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

lsusb:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 9022:d482 TeVii Technology Ltd. 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 9022:d481 TeVii Technology Ltd.

Once the module/firmware is loaded it's listed as two TeVii S660 cards.

Linux support

The s2-liplianin v4l branch includes support for the card.

Known Problems

  • DVB-S is working
  • DVB-S2 is problematic (lot's of TS discontinuity errors/packet loss)
    • maybe the early driver state causes the problem
      • testings with windows 7 32bit works with dvb-s2 and both channels, so the issue should be linux-driver related
    • tested on Astra 19.2E, diseque seemd not to be working
      • 11303 H, 8PSK 2/3 (ORF/Servus TV): Unwatchable / with Windows ok
      • 11362 H, 8PSK 2/3 (ARD/ZDF/ARTE): Unwatchable / with Windows ok
  • we will get keyboard related input lags, this means after 15s the keyboard didn´t respond for 5s then it works again for 15s.
    • it depends on connected USB devices. Without any other usb devices and a ps2 keyboard you have no problem like this.
    • it´s eaqual using ssh or local keyboard
    • this problem is also only under Linux (testet with ubuntu Lucid and Maverick, Kernel 2.6.32 & 35)

External Links

Official Website