[mythtvnz] 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 frountend is has signal, lock and carrier, but 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.