SOLVED: Sony CXD2880 DVB-T support

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OSMC on Raspberry pi3.
Since I upgraded to November 2020 release my OSMC raspberry box is no longer detecting the CXD2880 Sony DVB-T tuner.
It was running fine before the upgrade and is still running fine with Raspberry OS.
Not an HW problem.
From what I can understand this new kernel do not have (or support) cxd2880 modules.
dmesg doesn’t contain anything about Sony or cxd2880.
Where can I find a kernel that supports this HW?

Thanks

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Post logs – we need to know what kernel you are on.

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root@osmc:/home/osmc# uname -a
Linux osmc 4.19.122-2-osmc #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 4 02:39:56 UTC 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux

root@osmc:/home/osmc# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster

root@osmc:/home/osmc# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb Index of /debian buster main contrib non-free
deb Index of /debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://apt.osmc.tv buster main

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This kernel hasn’t been updated in months.
Which version were you using before where the Sony tuner worked?

Have you verified the device is still functioning on another machine?

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Which version were you using before where the Sony tuner worked?

Good question … Wished I knew …, but unfortunately I don’t :frowning_face:

Have you verified the device is still functioning on another machine?

Yes even more so … works on the same box with Raspberry OS 10

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SOLVED !!

Just did the following:

apt update
apt full-upgrade
APT auto-remove

after installing everything reboot.
now dmesg gives me

[ 11.179459] dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (CXD2880)
[ 11.249161] cxd2880: cxd2880_attach: CXD2880 driver version: Ver 1.4.1 - 1.0.5
[ 11.249304] cxd2880 spi0.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Sony CXD2880)…
[ 11.252969] cxd2880_spi: cxd2880_spi_probe: Sony CXD2880 has successfully attached.
[ 23.133941] cxd2880 spi0.0: DVB: adapter 0 frontend 0 frequency 0 out of range (174000000…862000000)
[ 25.577061] cxd2880: cxd2880_set_frontend: sys:3 freq:610000000 bw:8
[ 26.597482] cxd2880: cxd2880_set_frontend: tune result 0

root@osmc:/home/osmc# uname -a
Linux osmc 4.19.122-2-osmc #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 4 02:39:56 UTC 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux

Wasn’t the kernel after all !! :smiley: