TBS 6980 Dual DVB-S2 PCIe card

Hello,

Is someone already working on supporting the TBS 6980 Dual DVB-S2 PCIe card? http://www.tbsdtv.com/english/product/6980.html

Chips in use appear to be:
- Conexant CX23885 (PCI Express bridge)
- NXP/Conexant CX24132 (DVB-S/S2 tuner)
- NXP/Conexant CX24117 (DVB-S/S2 demodulator)

I know there is code in v4l-dvb for the CX23885 but I don't think I've seen any for the CX24132 and CX24117.

Any insight into supporting this card would be great

Thanks
Thomas

Hallo Thomas!

Am 02.12.2009 15:31, schrieb Thomas Kernen:

Have you seen/tried their all-in-one linux source package which was released 2009-12-03?

http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/common/linux_tbs_all.rar

– Matthias

BTW: Where did you get yours?

Hello Matthias,

I've ordered a card directly from TBS. It's currently being shipped hence I won't be able to test it until at least next week. Then I'll see how it behaves in my system alongside all the other cards I have in it.

Regards,
Thomas

I got one last Thursday, also direct from TBS. They provide a mini CD with their own V4L which has support for it included, together with versions of scan-s2 and szap-s2, but I'm a relative newbie and I've already managed to break my MythTV 0.22 setup trying to get it working. Any tips on how to get it working with Ubuntu 9.10 and kernel 2.6.31-16.52 would be very handy.

With their V4L I can only get as far as a successful channel scan.

Ian

Ian,

I got my card today and have installed it. Works fine with the drivers from the mini CD and the streamer I'm testing against (DVBlast). So unfortunately I can't help you with MythTV since I don't use it.

Note that I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 with 2.6.31-16-server

Thomas

I can now confirm it works fine with MythTV 0.22 and at least their version of V4L. I tripped up on the known backend defect where you can't obviously select the DiSEqC config. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythtv/+bug/452894 for more info, and the workaround.

Thanks,

Ian

Hi,

I just got a new card the TBS 8920 DVB-S2 PCI version. And having problems with MythTV.
I'm running Mythbutu 9.10 with MythTV0.22 and the TBS supplied drivers. I have generated a channels.conf file using scan and can view channels using mplayer dvb:// command.

Now I want to import my channels.conf into Mythtv, I gone through the steps of specfying the card in Mythtv backend setup, DiSEqC set to LNB, specified path and file to import channels.conf file /home/tv/channels.conf. It then starts to do a Scan, but timesout and no channels are found. I tried increasing the timeout values but I get the same result.

Can you tell me if I'm missing a step? or how you approached the scanning of channels in MythTV

Thanks,
Dominic

----- Original Message ----
From: Ian Richardson <[email protected]>
To: Thomas Kernen <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthias Wächter <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Sent: Thu, December 10, 2009 2:37:23 PM
Subject: Re: TBS 6980 Dual DVB-S2 PCIe card

I can now confirm it works fine with MythTV 0.22 and at least their version of V4L. I tripped up on the known backend defect where you can't obviously select the DiSEqC config. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythtv/+bug/452894 for more info, and the workaround.

Thanks,

Ian

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