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I recently started work on resurrecting a Myth box that I played
with a few years back. Started with a fresh install on Debian and
could not get the TBS 6981 to work and after several mails back and
forth with TBS support I started again with Mythbuntu. I still had
a few problems (and more mails to TBS). The final issue was that
there were "disagrees about version of symbol" and "Unknown symbol"
errors in the dmesg log. There is a fix gor this in the FAQ section
in the TBS Linux driver package <br>
Mine are now visible, although I don't know if they actually work
yet, more to do on the system.<br>
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Hope that helps<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/12/13 10:55, UB40D wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> I have a TBS 6981 dual tuner dvb-s2 card that has
been working in a dedicated mythbuntu machine (on and off) for
at least a couple of years. Whenever a new kernel is published I
have to recompile the driver, which is a minor pain and
sometimes breaks things.<br>
<br>
This time the system was messy enough that I restarted it all
from scratch, wiping the disk and doing a fresh install of
Mythbuntu 12.04.3. However, on recompiling the driver, it
doesn't come up in dmesg as it's supposed to.<br>
<br>
The instructions in the README_TBS6981 of the zip file of the
drivers, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/common/tbs-linux-drivers_v130927.zip"
target="_blank">http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/docum...rs_v130927.zip</a>
, and also at various other places such as <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.robclarkey.com/technology/2012/06/05/installing-tbs6981-dvb-s2-dual-tuner-on-ubuntu-11-04/"
target="_blank">http://www.robclarkey.com/technology...-ubuntu-11-04/</a>
, which have worked for me in the past, suggest that on
successful make && make install, after a reboot the card
should appear in dmesg.<br>
<br>
Summary of procedure:<br>
<br>
sudo su<br>
cd /usr/src<br>
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential cvs
libncurses5-dev gcc rar tar gzip<br>
mkdir tbs6981<br>
cd tbs6981<br>
wget <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/common/tbs-linux-drivers_v130927.zip">http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/common/tbs-linux-drivers_v130927.zip</a><br>
unzip tbs-linux-drivers_v130927.zip<br>
tar xvfj linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2 <br>
cd linux-tbs-drivers<br>
./v4l/tbs-x86_64.sh <br>
make && make install<br>
shutdown -r now<br>
<br>
After the reboot, the card should appear in <br>
dmesg | fgrep frontend<br>
<br>
but now it doesn't!<br>
<br>
The supplied readme and the various help files / tutorials /
blog posts I found on the net all seem to assume that, if the
make and make install completed without errors, the card will
appear in dmesg. None of them provided any debugging suggestions
on what to do if it doesn't. <br>
<br>
The OS is a fresh install of the latest Mythbuntu, with updates,
giving<br>
Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-34-generic x86_64)<br>
<br>
Has anyone had a similar experience? Can anyone offer any clues?<br>
Thanks </div>
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