Build and install the dddvb driver under Linux (DVB)

Current drivers are available for download here: https://github.com/DigitalDevices/dddvb/releases

For the installation of our drivers further Linux knowledge are required.

Also there is a script for a fast dddvb drivers build (tested on Ubuntu20.04-22.04)

Requirements

We use for this guide an Ubuntu/Debian, OpenSUSE or Fedora Linux, but this should work similar in other distributions.

The following components must be installed:

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install mercurial git build-essential libproc-processtable-perl linux-headers-$(uname –r)

OpenSUSE:

sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_basis

sudo zypper install mercurial perl-Proc-ProcessTable kernel-devel kernel-source

Fedora:

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"

sudo yum install mercurial perl-Proc-ProcessTable kernel-devel kernel-headers

The process takes typically depending on the PC between 15 and 30 minutes.

Process:

Run in a console / terminal the following commands:

1. Download dddvb drivers (Release or Git version) and extract drivers:

   cd /usr/src

   • Download Latest Release version:

   sudo wget https://github.com/DigitalDevices/dddvb/archive/0.9.38.tar.gz

   sudo tar -xf 0.9.38.tar.gz

   Or

   • Latest Git version (For all new FSM cards the dddvb drivers V 0.9.38* is required): 

   sudo git clone  https://github.com/DigitalDevices/dddvb.git dddvb

    

2. Build drivers:

   cd dddvb*

   sudo make
   
   

3. Install modules:

   sudo make install
   
   

4. Set order for loading modules:

   sudo mkdir -p /etc/depmod.d

   echo 'search extra updates built-in' | sudo tee /etc/depmod.d/extra.conf
   
   

5. The system announce the new modules and their dependencies:

   sudo depmod -a
   
   

6. For Max S8/SX8/SX8 Basic create ddbridge.conf file:

   echo 'options ddbridge fmode=x' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ddbridge.conf

   replacing x with the number of the mode used(see below)
   
   

7. Load Drivers:

   sudo modprobe ddbridge
   
   

At the end you should restart the system once again.

Note: Did you have I²C-Timeouts, please disable MSI for ddbridge:

echo 'options ddbridge msi=0' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ddbridge.conf

If the file /etc/modprobe.d/ddbridge.conf already exists (see point 6), then add to the first line "msi=0", eg.:

options ddbridge fmode=x msi=0

Modes for Max S8/SX8/SX8 Basic:

• fmode=0

  4 tuner mode ( Internal multiswitch disabled )

• fmode=1

  Quad LNB / normal outputs of multiswitches

• fmode=2

  Quattro - LNB / cascade outputs of multiswitches

• fmode=3

  Unicable LNB or JESS / Unicabel output of the multiswitch