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Adam Sutton, 2012-08-21 15:04

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h1. TBS6981
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This is used by [[Adam]] for his TVH server. It is a PCIe card providing dual DVB-S2 tuners. Unlike some other cards [[TeVii-S480]] it's a native PCIe interface and not a PCIe to USB bridge.
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h2. Driver Support
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TBS provide official (out of tree) kernel drivers which can be downloaded from "here":www.tbsdtv.com/download/#tbs6981. However the one issue I find is that the build system defaults to including ALL TBS's drivers, which is a LOT. And so it can take more than an hour to compile everything.
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To simplify the process I created a config file to only compile those modules that are required, I've attached it to this article.
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h3. Building/Installing driver
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<pre>
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1. Download from "here":http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/#tbs6981
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2. mkdir tbs; cd tbs; unzip DOWNLOAD.zip
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3. tar xf linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2
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4. find -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
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5. chmod 755 linux-tbs-drivers/v4l/scripts/*
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6. find linux-tbs-drivers -name “*.sh” -exec chmod 755 {} \;
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7. cd linux-tbs-drivers/
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8. ./v4l/tbs-x86_64.sh
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9. Copy attached config to ./v4l/.config
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10. make
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11. mkdir tbs
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12. find -name “*.ko” -exec cp {} tbs/ \;
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13. tar jcf tbs-modules.tar.bz2 tbs
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14. tar -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -xf tbs-modules.tar.bz2
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15. depmod -a
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</pre>
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Note: you can combine steps 11-14, it's just I build on diff machine to install.
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Once installed you will need to reboot due to the way the driver is integrated.