Videomate S350 drivers

[OSzilla]

Anyone know about the driver Videomate S350 for this satellite card. I have tried using the MYtv but it picks it up as standard TV card. I have found a lot on the compro T750, but nothing present on the DVB-S cards. I have also visted the Compro website that list the Linux driver which are similar to Q3 2008, Now I just want to know from where I can get Videomate S350 drivers

[Ernesto4]

Hi folks,

I am contributing to the LinuxTV wike. I am also having T750 but the support for this is very limited as far as I know is very the support is only available for analog. The DVB I am having is also not working properly. I hoping to speak to any one of the developers through the Internet Relay Chat and If I will get the solution for the result I will post it.

[Lillebror]

Hi,

I am having Compro S350 today but having the problem. I am using mythbuntu 9.10.
I have followed the following steps for tuning the cards but it fails with the message that is shown below.

using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
main:2273: FATAL: failed to open '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0': 2 No such file or directory

Actually I need the patch for this S350 which can work in mythbuntu 9.10 operating system. If there patch is not available that what I can do in place of that.

Many thanks.

[Calvin K]

I think I am having a newer version of the card. lspci –vvnn that is given:
00:0b.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)


Some of the people who have reported that it is working was having rev d0
The weird thing is that my card is recognized as a T750 even though it is a S350 and when I try to force it to card = 169 the machine is not starting

I have tried to compile the code and then alter the code but no result. The possibly and the closest thing I got was the message “initialising the dvb front end only to fail.” If you get it working let me know what to do so that it can work properly.

[Solomon]

For solving your problem you have to the following things.

You have to change the kernel source module code of 2.6.32 fedora kernel code for the saa7134 driver (linux/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-dvb.c) and changed:-

case SAA7134_BOARD_VIDEOMATE_S350:
dev->has_remote = SAA7134_REMOTE_GPIO;
saa_andorl(SAA7134_GPIO_GPMODE0 >> 2, 0x00008000, 0x00008000);
saa_andorl(SAA7134_GPIO_GPSTATUS0 >> 2, 0x00008000, 0x00008000);
break;

to

case SAA7134_BOARD_VIDEOMATE_S350:
dev->has_remote = SAA7134_REMOTE_GPIO;
saa_andorl(SAA7134_GPIO_GPMODE0 >> 2, 0x0000C000, 0x0000C000);
saa_andorl(SAA7134_GPIO_GPSTATUS0 >> 2, 0x0000C000, 0x0000C000);
break;

From here it was a case of just building the new kernel and installing it.
Then after booting this kernel, the S350 is working perfectly and it able to scan for channels.

Hope it helps.