[mythtv-users] Skystar 2 on Ubuntu : scan finds no channels?

[Stuart Whelan]

Hi folks,

I have just received a SkyStar2 DVB-S PCI card, and I am trying to get it
set up in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.

I believe I have the card drivers loaded, and can get the card to tune, but
scan returns no channels, and I am not sure why.

My scan returns this:

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stuartw at ubuntu2:~$ scan -c
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
dumping lists (0 services)
Done.
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I have spent 5 or so hours trying different things, I grabbed the latest
dvb-apps and compiled it, tried scanning directly in MythTV, all to no
avail.

Searching the web shows that quite a few people are having identical or
similar problems, but I have been unable to find a solution.

Can anyone offer any guidance on what to try next?

See below for various outputs.

Kind Regards,
Stuart Whelan.
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stuartw at ubuntu2:~$ lspci -v (Output edited for relevance)

02:05.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB
chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip /
Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
        Memory at fdee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        I/O ports at ee00 [size=32]


stuartw at ubuntu2:~$ dmesg (Output edited for relevance)
[   21.056865] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) ->
IRQ 17
[   32.515271] b2c2-flexcop: B2C2 FlexcopII/II(b)/III digital TV receiver
chip loaded successfully
[   32.533441] flexcop-pci: will use the HW PID filter.
[   32.533449] flexcop-pci: card revision 2
[   32.533464] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) ->
IRQ 21
[   32.550778] DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device).
[   32.552264] b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:16:11:d0
[   32.862547] b2c2-flexcop: found the stv0299 at i2c address: 0x68
[   32.862553] DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...
[   32.862593] b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Sky2PC/SkyStar 2 DVB-S' at
the 'PCI' bus controlled by a 'FlexCopIIb' complete

stuartw at ubuntu2:~$ lsmod |grep flexcop

Module                  Size  Used by
b2c2_flexcop_pci        9496  9
b2c2_flexcop           28172  1 b2c2_flexcop_pci
dvb_core               82216  2 stv0299,b2c2_flexcop
dvb_pll                15492  1 b2c2_flexcop
i2c_core               26112  4 stv0299,b2c2_flexcop,nvidia,dvb_pll

stuartw at ubuntu2:~$ dvbtune -f 1183000 -s 22500 -p h -m -tone 0
Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S"
tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:H Srate=22500000, 22kHz=off
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS:
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
Bit error rate: 3761
Signal strength: 53077
SNR: 50691
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
Signal=53057, Verror=0, SNR=50685dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=53075, Verror=0, SNR=50679dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=53532, Verror=0, SNR=50715dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=53167, Verror=0, SNR=50784dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=53388, Verror=0, SNR=50706dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=53458, Verror=0, SNR=50691dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=53133, Verror=0, SNR=50727dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=52971, Verror=0, SNR=50700dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=53095, Verror=0, SNR=50691dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)

stuartw at ubuntu2:~$ dvbtune -f 1183000 -s 22500 -p h -m -tone 0 >/dev/null
2>&1 &
stuartw at ubuntu2:~$ scan -c
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
dumping lists (0 services)
Done.
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