DVBSky S952

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DVB-S/S2 PCIe Twin Tuner card from DVBSky. See also DVBSKY S952 v3.

Features

  • Dual/Twin Tuner input
  • PCIe x1
  • Low power
  • Optional Power by PCI Express 6-Position Power Connector

Components Used

  • RF: Montage M88TS2022
  • Demodulator: 2nd generation Montage M88DS3103
  • PCIe Bridge: Conexant CX23885

Driver and firmware

  • Driver exists in kernel 3.19.
  • Firmware is required for the tuner/demod.
    • V1: The demodulator needs firmware dvb-demod-m88ds3103.fw [1].
    • V3: The demodulator/tuner package needs firmware dvb-demod-m88rs6000.fw [2].

Closed-source Driver

Identification

$ dmesg | grep -i dvb
[   16.673400] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 4254:0952, board: DVBSKY S952 [card=41,autodetected]
[   17.596395] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[   17.596399] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[   17.710319] m88ds3103_load_firmware: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-ds3103.fw)...
[   18.654896] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[   18.654900] cx23885 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Montage DS3103/TS2022)...
[   18.682355] DVBSKY PCIe MAC= 00:17:42:54:09:52
[   18.682358] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[   18.682359] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[   18.743760] m88ds3103_load_firmware: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-ds3103.fw)...
[   19.651091] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[   19.651095] cx23885 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Montage DS3103/TS2022)...
[   19.678533] DVBSKY PCIe MAC= 00:17:42:54:09:53
[   19.700761] Registered IR keymap rc-dvbsky
[   19.700834] input: cx23885 IR (DVBSKY S952) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:02:00.0/rc/rc0/input15
[   19.704375] rc0: cx23885 IR (DVBSKY S952) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:02:00.0/rc/rc0
$ lspci | grep -i cx23885
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04)

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