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This post has been written by Peter Mitrell as a comment to the post Step by step guide to install tbs6980/tbs6981 on linux. I had no time nor ubuntu to test it and I have published it here just because formatting problems in comments. Thanks to Peter for his collaboration.

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HowTo install the TBS 6980 / 6981 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Kernel 2.6.38-8) (By Peter Mitrell)

Code:

You have to to fix a typo in the file ~/tbs/linux-s2api-tbs6980_1/linux/drivers/media/IR/keymaps/rc-tbs-nec.c change the line (using "nano" or somethng like that)

        { 0x9d, KEY_MODE},

        { 0x9b, KEY_MODE},

Now you have to decide to build the drivers for a 32Bit (x86) or a 64Bit (AMD64) Linux-Kernel. Using the driver-package "linux-s2api-tbs6980-1_20101024.rar", you have to go into the subdirectory "v4l".

 # cd v4l

# ./tbs-x86.sh

# ./tbs-x86_64.sh

# cd ..

# wget http://adslpipe.co.uk/misc/tbs6981-2.6.38.2-v4.patch

# patch -p0 < tbs6981-2.6.38.2-v4.patch

        i2c_adap->class = I2C_CLASS_TV_ANALOG;

   if (!file->f_op->ioctl && !file->f_op->unlocked_ioctl)

   if (!file->f_op->unlocked_ioctl)

Code:

Now you can do a 'make release' if you want to compile the drivers for the kernel which is already running on your machine. (Have a look into the file "INSTALL"!)
After that you can make a 'make'. There will be warnings, but no errors. After that you can make a 'make install'. Last but not least, you can reboot your system. On my system Ubuntu 11.04 (Kernel 2.6.38-8 64 Bit) it looks like this:

root@antec-htpc:~/tbs# dmesg |grep cx

[    9.411064] cx23885 driver version 0.0.2 loaded
[    9.411106] cx23885 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[    9.411349] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 6981:8888, board: TurboSight TBS 6981 [card=30,autodetected]
[   10.205256] cx25840 18-0044: cx23885 A/V decoder found @ 0x88 (cx23885[0])
[   10.925224] cx25840 18-0044: loaded v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
[   10.933005] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[   10.933008] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[   11.282865] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[   11.310689] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[   11.310691] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[   11.329362] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[   11.356999] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xa5
[   11.357005] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:02:00.0, rev: 4, irq: 19, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfba00000
[   11.357012] cx23885 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64

root@antec-htpc:~/tbs# ls -alR /dev/dvb

/dev/dvb:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root   80 2011-04-27 18:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4500 2011-04-27 18:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 2011-04-27 18:23 adapter0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 2011-04-27 18:23 adapter1

/dev/dvb/adapter0:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     120 2011-04-27 18:23 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      80 2011-04-27 18:23 ..
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 1 2011-04-27 18:23 demux0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 2 2011-04-27 18:23 dvr0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 0 2011-04-27 18:23 frontend0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 2011-04-27 18:23 net0

/dev/dvb/adapter1:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     120 2011-04-27 18:23 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      80 2011-04-27 18:23 ..
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 5 2011-04-27 18:23 demux0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 6 2011-04-27 18:23 dvr0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 4 2011-04-27 18:23 frontend0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 7 2011-04-27 18:23 net0
root@antec-htpc:~/tbs#

Hope you have fun!