[mythtv-users] (somewhat off-topic) compiling the TBS 6981 driver

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:56:44 +0000, you wrote:

>On 31/12/13 16:11, UB40D wrote:
>> Thanks Martin.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Martin Moores 
>> <moores.martin at gmail.com <mailto:moores.martin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     My problem may be worse than yours, but worth checking the card is
>>     being picked up at all with lcpci, sorry if you have already done so!
>>
>>
>> Not sure if it is: what should I be looking for?
>> lspci | fgrep -i dvb
>>
>> gives empty output, and so does a search for 6981, but on the other 
>> hand I get
>> lspci | fgrep -i video
>> 03:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 
>> PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04)
>>
>> which sounds as if it might be the card (23885 being the chip name of 
>> one of the firmware files too). So I'm puzzled
>>
>
>OK, the card is being detected by lspci.
>In the past I have had trouble with the  TBS drivers , try  'sudo make 
>distclean' before the './v4l/tbs-x86_64.sh' step.

Yes, I actually have my build script doing an rm -r on the driver code
and getting a clean copy from the archive file.