TBS6981 » History » Revision 3
Revision 2 (Adam Sutton, 2012-08-21 15:04) → Revision 3/7 (Dave Chapman, 2012-08-27 15:54)
h1. TBS6981 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. h2. Driver Support 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. To simplify the process I created a config file to only compile those modules that are required, I've attached it to this article. h3. Building/Installing driver <pre> 1. Download from "here":http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/#tbs6981 2. mkdir tbs; cd tbs; unzip DOWNLOAD.zip 3. tar xf linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2 4. find -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; 5. chmod 755 linux-tbs-drivers/v4l/scripts/* 6. find linux-tbs-drivers -name “*.sh” -exec chmod 755 {} \; 7. cd linux-tbs-drivers/ 8. ./v4l/tbs-x86_64.sh 9. Copy attached config to ./v4l/.config 10. make 11. mkdir tbs 12. find -name "*.ko" “*.ko” -exec cp {} tbs/ \; 13. tar jcf tbs-modules.tar.bz2 tbs 14. tar -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -xf tbs-modules.tar.bz2 15. depmod -a </pre> Note: you can combine steps 11-14, it's just I build on diff machine to install. Once installed you will need to reboot due to the way the driver is integrated.