TeVii S460

A DVB-S/S2 PCI card from TeVii.

TeVii S460

Overview/Features

Low profile DVB-S/S2 PCI card.

Components Used

Conextant CX23883-39 Broadcast Decoder.

Conextant CX24116 DVB-S2 Demodulator and Forward Error Correction Decoder.

Identification

01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
       Subsystem: Unknown device d460:9022
       Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
       Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
       Latency: 20 (5000ns min, 13750ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
       Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
       Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
       Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
               Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

01:08.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
       Subsystem: Unknown device d460:9022
       Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
       Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
       Latency: 64 (1500ns min, 22000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
       Region 0: Memory at f7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
       Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
               Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Other Images

Package Contents

Back Panel

Making it Work

Firmware

Firmware v1.23.86.1

Firmware v1.23.86.1 is available with the TeVii S460 Linux driver at http://tevii.com/support.html. (But what's with the proprietary RAR archive format? Geez...)

wget http://tevii.com/Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar
sudo apt-get install unrar-free
unrar x Tevii_linuxdriver_0815.rar
sudo cp tevii_linuxdriver_0815/fw/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.23.86.1.fw
sudo ln -s /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.23.86.1.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw

Drivers

Experimental support under Linux exists, see S2API. S2API has now been merged into v4l-dvb and can be installed as described here[1].

Sample kernel output

provide the relevant portion of dmesg here

Remote Control Support

Unknown

External Links

http://www.tevii.com/product_s460.html Manufacturers Website.