DELL PowerEdge R720

[joolzg]

Have just been asked to try and get this card working on the Dell.

I can see the CX23885 but i cannot see anything in dmesg relating to this or TBS

Any help/pointers

I can give you a ssh login so you can poke around if you like

joolz

[SergioDanielG]

Hi joolzg.
What about lspci? Can you post output of

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# lspci -v

Regrads.

[joolzg]

Here you go

joolz

[SergioDanielG]

From your lspci output

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05:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04)
   Subsystem: Device 6981:8888
   Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 15
   Memory at df800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
   Capabilities: <access denied>
   Kernel modules: cx23885

Your system it's detecting tbs6981 and using cx23885 driver...
Did you see if any adapter are in /dev/dvb?
Check it with

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ls /dev/dvb

Regards.

[joolzg]

I checked and there was none, which is why i came here

encoder@enc6:~$ ls /dev
alarm cpu_dma_latency hidraw2 loop5 ppp ram2 sda1 tty tty2 tty31 tty43 tty55 ttyprintk ttyS2 ttyS31 vcs3 vga_arbiter
ashmem disk hidraw3 loop6 psaux ram3 sda2 tty0 tty20 tty32 tty44 tty56 ttyS0 ttyS20 ttyS4 vcs4 vhost-net
autofs dm-0 hidraw4 loop7 ptmx ram4 sda5 tty1 tty21 tty33 tty45 tty57 ttyS1 ttyS21 ttyS5 vcs5 zero
binder dm-1 hpet loop-control ptp0 ram5 sg0 tty10 tty22 tty34 tty46 tty58 ttyS10 ttyS22 ttyS6 vcs6
block dvd input mapper pts ram6 sg1 tty11 tty23 tty35 tty47 tty59 ttyS11 ttyS23 ttyS7 vcs7
bsg ecryptfs kmsg mcelog ram0 ram7 sg2 tty12 tty24 tty36 tty48 tty6 ttyS12 ttyS24 ttyS8 vcsa
btrfs-control encoder-vg kvm mem ram1 ram8 shm tty13 tty25 tty37 tty49 tty60 ttyS13 ttyS25 ttyS9 vcsa1
bus fb0 log net ram10 ram9 snapshot tty14 tty26 tty38 tty5 tty61 ttyS14 ttyS26 uinput vcsa2
cdrom fd loop0 network_latency ram11 random snd tty15 tty27 tty39 tty50 tty62 ttyS15 ttyS27 urandom vcsa3
char full loop1 network_throughput ram12 rfkill sr0 tty16 tty28 tty4 tty51 tty63 ttyS16 ttyS28 usb vcsa4
console fuse loop2 null ram13 rtc stderr tty17 tty29 tty40 tty52 tty7 ttyS17 ttyS29 vcs vcsa5
core hidraw0 loop3 oldmem ram14 rtc0 stdin tty18 tty3 tty41 tty53 tty8 ttyS18 ttyS3 vcs1 vcsa6
cpu hidraw1 loop4 port ram15 sda stdout tty19 tty30 tty42 tty54 tty9 ttyS19 ttyS30 vcs2 vcsa7

joolz

[joolzg]

You need any more information, as i said i can give a ssh login as this machine is not connected to our network at the moment

[SergioDanielG]

Send me a private message with data connection to ssh access and I'll see other things.
Regards.

[joolzg]

any news, did you get my pm?

[joolzg]

seeing as you cant log in, which is weird as 4 other machines in 4 countries can. I had someone log in and have a look at dmesg and he came up with these

[ 0.032042] Hardware name: PowerEdge R720
[ 0.032044] Your BIOS is broken and requested that x2apic be disabled
[ 0.032044] This will leave your machine vulnerable to irq-injection attacks
[ 0.032044] Use 'intremap=no_x2apic_optout' to override BIOS request

[ 0.302257] ACPI FADT declares the system doesn't support PCIe ASPM, so disable it
[ 0.439625] pci 0000:01:00.1: address space collision: [mem 0xdc800000-0xdc83ffff pref] conflicts with 0000:01:00.0 [mem 0xdc800000-0xdc83ffff pref]
[ 0.439632] pci 0000:02:00.1: address space collision: [mem 0xdc000000-0xdc03ffff pref] conflicts with 0000:02:00.0 [mem 0xdc000000-0xdc03ffff pref]

Would either of these make a difference

joolz

[SergioDanielG]

Hi joolzg.
Well I can't access from my pc, maybe my ISP is blocking some ports because I can access from my cell phone....

See this picture
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/3168/zopa.png
There it's the problem... Invalid argument and module can't be loaded.

Maybe you can try deleting media folder from /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers before reinstall tbs driver.

Regards.