2) Apply the patch and copy the appropriate driver-binary
# patch -p1 < /skystar2-rev2.8-v4l-dvb.patch
# cp /cx24113_blob.o.x86-64 v4l/cx24113_blob.o_shipped # for 64-bit installations
or
# cp /cx24113_blob.o.i386 v4l/cx24113_blob.o_shipped # for 32-bit installations
3) (optional) select the device/card-drivers to compile and install
# make menuconfig
follow the menus and enable at least
Technisat/B2C2 FlexCopII(b) and FlexCopIII adapters
Technisat/B2C2 Air/Sky/Cable2PC PCI
Technisat/B2C2 Air/Sky/Cable2PC USB
4) compile all/selected modules and install them
# make
# make install
the last command will replace the modules which were delivered by the install kernel by the ones you just compiled.
5) Loading the modules. The command 'make install' installed the new driver into the right place and replaced old ones. The next reboot will load these modules automatically. To force a reload of the new modules without rebooting run:
# make reload
(*) it is important that the version from this day is used, because the binary module "cx24113.ko" requires binary compatibility with the DVB-API provided by the v4l-dvb-tree. If the internal binary API has changed, which can happen without notice, the module will not work. This only applied for types and function provided by the v4l-dvb-tree, i2c and module related things can be found in cx24113_i2c.c and are compiled on this platform.
Just so happens I am installing this card right now, alot of the page you linked to is scripts and commands and not that much stuff to translate... lucky for you I'm bilingual ;)
Installing Skystar2 and Xine on Ubuntu kernel 2.6.8
Load the Modules
modprobe budget
modprobe stv0299
So the modules load at boot-time they have to be added to /etc/modules.
Create the following script in /etc/init.d and name it dvb
use vi, emacs or nano or whatever editor you prefer
nano /etc/init.d/dvb
#!/bin/bash
#/etc/init.d/dvb
# get rid of old DVB API devices; do it twice for good measure...
#for major and minor devicenumber see here
#vi /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
cd /dev
mkdir dvb
chmod 755 /dev/dvb
cd dvb
mkdir adapter0
cd adapter0
mknod -m 0660 frontend0 c 212 3
mknod -m 0660 demux0 c 212 4
mknod -m 0660 dvr0 c 212 5
mknod -m 0660 ca0 c 212 6
chown root.video /dev/dvb/adapter0/*''
chmod 744 /etc/init.d/dvb
Now add this to the runlevels
update-rc.d dvb defaults
Thraxes Comments: This takes care of the driver installation. The modules needed are preinstalled by default, all this just did was activate them and set up the devices in /dev. If you have perhaps streamlined your Kernel and thrown out exess baggage like Video for Linux you will need to recompile with the correct modules. These are in the DVB for Linux section of menuconfig and for the Skystar involve B2C2, budget cards and the stv0299 frontend - all as modules.
Installing Xine and dvb-utils
sudo apt-get install xine-ui dvb-utils
First thing to do is make a programme table that XINE can use. This will be called channels.conf and should normally be created in ~/.xine/. Included in DVB-Utils is a tool called scan that will create this file for you. IIRC scan works like this but better check the help before you try! UPDATE: I checked and this is actually how to do it: You need the initialization data so scan knows which frequencies to scan. This initialization data can be downloaded at linuxtv.org. They are included in the dvb apps and have listings for DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T. No need to compile the proggies as we have already installed them with apt-get but these initialization files are very important to make a channels.conf. Execute this command in the directory with the initialization files (I put them in /usr/bin/dvb)
You should now see some output scroll by, if you can see FE_HAS_LOCK then all is well and the card is tuned to a TV-programme.
Now open a second terminal and call up xine and tell it to use the cards current output that we enabled with szap.
xine stdin:// < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
Hope this helps. I'm actually working on not watching the DVB card locally but streaming the DVB Stream with VLC over a network so I can't really say anything about xine and it's problems. I can confirm however that the hardware installation described here works - at least for me it did.
Sziasztok!
Én is szeretném beállítani a ss2-t (rev. 2.8a), de eddig még nem sikerült.
Drivert töltöttem le hozzá: TechniSat_SkyStar2-PCI_r2.8_080709.tar.bz2
A következo leirást találtam, hátha valaki tudja hasznosítani:
How to install SkyStar 2 revision 2.8 using the binary-driver for the CX24113?
0) Have linux-installation which allows to build external kernel modules.
Further help can be found here: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_install_DVB_device_drivers
1) Get the complete v4l-dvb driver tree from 2008-07-07 (*) and extract it
# wget http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/0276304b76b9.tar.bz2
# tar xfj 0276304b76b9.tar.bz2
# cd v4l-dvb-0276304b76b9
2) Apply the patch and copy the appropriate driver-binary
# patch -p1 < /skystar2-rev2.8-v4l-dvb.patch
# cp /cx24113_blob.o.x86-64 v4l/cx24113_blob.o_shipped # for 64-bit installations
or
# cp /cx24113_blob.o.i386 v4l/cx24113_blob.o_shipped # for 32-bit installations
3) (optional) select the device/card-drivers to compile and install
# make menuconfig
follow the menus and enable at least
Technisat/B2C2 FlexCopII(b) and FlexCopIII adapters
Technisat/B2C2 Air/Sky/Cable2PC PCI
Technisat/B2C2 Air/Sky/Cable2PC USB
4) compile all/selected modules and install them
# make
# make install
the last command will replace the modules which were delivered by the install kernel by the ones you just compiled.
5) Loading the modules. The command 'make install' installed the new driver into the right place and replaced old ones. The next reboot will load these modules automatically. To force a reload of the new modules without rebooting run:
# make reload
(*) it is important that the version from this day is used, because the binary module "cx24113.ko" requires binary compatibility with the DVB-API provided by the v4l-dvb-tree. If the internal binary API has changed, which can happen without notice, the module will not work. This only applied for types and function provided by the v4l-dvb-tree, i2c and module related things can be found in cx24113_i2c.c and are compiled on this platform.
Bizony jó lenne tudni, hogy hogyan kell megcsinálni, pláne a kódolt adok nézésére. Kaffeine-hez elvileg van Plugin, csak belőni érdekes.
Egy ilyet találtam:
Just so happens I am installing this card right now, alot of the page you linked to is scripts and commands and not that much stuff to translate... lucky for you I'm bilingual ;)
Installing Skystar2 and Xine on Ubuntu kernel 2.6.8
Load the Modules
modprobe budget
modprobe stv0299
So the modules load at boot-time they have to be added to /etc/modules.
Create the following script in /etc/init.d and name it dvb
use vi, emacs or nano or whatever editor you prefer
nano /etc/init.d/dvb
#!/bin/bash
#/etc/init.d/dvb
# get rid of old DVB API devices; do it twice for good measure...
rm -rf /dev/ost
rm -rf /dev/ost
rm -rf /dev/dvb
rm -rf /dev/dvb
#for major and minor devicenumber see here
#vi /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
cd /dev
mkdir dvb
chmod 755 /dev/dvb
cd dvb
mkdir adapter0
cd adapter0
mknod -m 0660 frontend0 c 212 3
mknod -m 0660 demux0 c 212 4
mknod -m 0660 dvr0 c 212 5
mknod -m 0660 ca0 c 212 6
chown root.video /dev/dvb/adapter0/*''
chmod 744 /etc/init.d/dvb
Now add this to the runlevels
update-rc.d dvb defaults
Thraxes Comments: This takes care of the driver installation. The modules needed are preinstalled by default, all this just did was activate them and set up the devices in /dev. If you have perhaps streamlined your Kernel and thrown out exess baggage like Video for Linux you will need to recompile with the correct modules. These are in the DVB for Linux section of menuconfig and for the Skystar involve B2C2, budget cards and the stv0299 frontend - all as modules.
Installing Xine and dvb-utils
sudo apt-get install xine-ui dvb-utils
First thing to do is make a programme table that XINE can use. This will be called channels.conf and should normally be created in ~/.xine/. Included in DVB-Utils is a tool called scan that will create this file for you. IIRC scan works like this but better check the help before you try! UPDATE: I checked and this is actually how to do it: You need the initialization data so scan knows which frequencies to scan. This initialization data can be downloaded at linuxtv.org. They are included in the dvb apps and have listings for DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T. No need to compile the proggies as we have already installed them with apt-get but these initialization files are very important to make a channels.conf. Execute this command in the directory with the initialization files (I put them in /usr/bin/dvb)
scan -o zap path/to/initialization > /path/to/channels.conf
This should usually be in your home directory.
Now let's start up Xine! [ALT]+[F2]
xine dvb://
Channels can be changed on the Numpad. If xine doesn't work, you can try to manually tune the dvb card with szap (also included in dvb-utils)
zcat /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/channels.conf-dvbs-astra.gz > channel
szap -c channel -n 1 -r
You should now see some output scroll by, if you can see FE_HAS_LOCK then all is well and the card is tuned to a TV-programme.
Now open a second terminal and call up xine and tell it to use the cards current output that we enabled with szap.
xine stdin:// < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
Hope this helps. I'm actually working on not watching the DVB card locally but streaming the DVB Stream with VLC over a network so I can't really say anything about xine and it's problems. I can confirm however that the hardware installation described here works - at least for me it did.