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TBS 6925 PCi Card with hardware blind scan in DVB-S2 and DVB-S
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<blockquote data-quote="Llew" data-source="post: 786782" data-attributes="member: 175007"><p>I now have the TBS6925 card working in Ubuntu (10-04), but find ITV1 HD and C4 HD tend to skip frames occasionally. The BBC HD channels seem OK.</p><p></p><p>I'd like to know if anybody has tried the card in a Linux distro. If not, there's a driver package on the TBS website, and it's easy to set up, as follows -</p><p></p><p>Make a directory named TBS in, say your Downloads folder and copy linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2 to it.</p><p></p><p>In your terminal, extract linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2 archive:</p><p></p><p># tar xjvf linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2</p><p></p><p>Go to driver package directory:</p><p></p><p># cd linux-tbs-drivers</p><p></p><p>Depending on your kernel version and if the kernel is x86 or </p><p>x86_64 (check output of 'uname -a') do:</p><p></p><p>- for x86 kernel 3.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 3.x):</p><p></p><p># ./v4l/tbs-x86_r3.sh</p><p></p><p>- for x86 kernel 2.6.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 2.6.x):</p><p></p><p># ./v4l/tbs-x86.sh</p><p></p><p>- for any x86_64 kernel (x86 64 bit installations of Linux):</p><p></p><p># ./v4l/tbs-x86_64.sh</p><p></p><p>Build and install the driver:</p><p></p><p># cd ..</p><p></p><p># make && make install</p><p></p><p>Reboot in order to load the newly installed driver:</p><p></p><p># shutdown -r now</p><p></p><p>After rebooting, in terminal do lspci -vvvnn to check if driver kernel is loaded. I get:-</p><p></p><p>03:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors Device [1131:7160] (rev 03)</p><p>Subsystem: Device [6925:0001]</p><p>Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-</p><p>Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-</p><p>Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes</p><p>Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17</p><p>Region 0: Memory at fa100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]</p><p>Capabilities: <access denied></p><p>Kernel driver in use: SAA716x TBS</p><p>Kernel modules: saa716x_tbs-dvb</p><p></p><p>Job done <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Out of interest, there's a million drivers for just about every DVB-S and S2 cards known to man in Linux TBS Drivers. Mine comes up in Kaffeine as STV090x (see thumbnail). Would a different driver give me a more stable picture for the aforementioned HD channels?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Llew, post: 786782, member: 175007"] I now have the TBS6925 card working in Ubuntu (10-04), but find ITV1 HD and C4 HD tend to skip frames occasionally. The BBC HD channels seem OK. I'd like to know if anybody has tried the card in a Linux distro. If not, there's a driver package on the TBS website, and it's easy to set up, as follows - Make a directory named TBS in, say your Downloads folder and copy linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2 to it. In your terminal, extract linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2 archive: # tar xjvf linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2 Go to driver package directory: # cd linux-tbs-drivers Depending on your kernel version and if the kernel is x86 or x86_64 (check output of 'uname -a') do: - for x86 kernel 3.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 3.x): # ./v4l/tbs-x86_r3.sh - for x86 kernel 2.6.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 2.6.x): # ./v4l/tbs-x86.sh - for any x86_64 kernel (x86 64 bit installations of Linux): # ./v4l/tbs-x86_64.sh Build and install the driver: # cd .. # make && make install Reboot in order to load the newly installed driver: # shutdown -r now After rebooting, in terminal do lspci -vvvnn to check if driver kernel is loaded. I get:- 03:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors Device [1131:7160] (rev 03) Subsystem: Device [6925:0001] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at fa100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: SAA716x TBS Kernel modules: saa716x_tbs-dvb Job done :) Out of interest, there's a million drivers for just about every DVB-S and S2 cards known to man in Linux TBS Drivers. Mine comes up in Kaffeine as STV090x (see thumbnail). Would a different driver give me a more stable picture for the aforementioned HD channels? [/QUOTE]
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