Re: TBS 6980 Dual DVB-S2 PCIe card

[Thomas Kernen <tkernen@deckpoint.ch>]

Ian Richardson wrote:
> On 2009-12-08 13:31, Thomas Kernen wrote:
>> Matthias Wächter wrote:
>>> Hallo Thomas!
>>>
>>> Am 02.12.2009 15:31, schrieb Thomas Kernen:
>>>> Is someone already working on supporting the TBS 6980 Dual DVB-S2 PCIe
>>>> card? http://www.tbsdtv.com/english/product/6980.html
> 
> 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,

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