TBS6925 DVB-S2 TV Tuner PCIe Card

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TBS6925 is a Professional level digital satellite TV Tuner card with PCI Express interface. TBS6925 supports not only normal DVB-S2/DVB-S QPSK, 8PSK which is supported by normal satellite receivers, but also CCM, ACM, VCM, Multi Input Stream, 16APSK,32APSK,Generic Stream Mode. Linux driver up to the latest kernel 3.X are ready.

6925 1.jpg

Overview/Features

  • 1X PCI express slot
  • DVB S2 MIS Reception with VCM/ACM
  • Multiple Transport Stream Receiving
  • Generic Stream capture
  • Up to 190 Mbit/s channel bit rate capture
  • symbol rates from 200Ksps to 45Msps

Components Used

  • STB6100(Tuner)
  • STV0900AAC(Demod)
  • SAA7160

Other Images

  • TBS6925 With Remote control

  • TBS6925 Package

Identification

$lspci -vvvnn
02:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7160 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Device 6925:0001
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at fdf00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: SAA716x TBS
Kernel modules: saa716x_tbs-dvb

Making it work

I.1 extract linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2 archive:

  1. tar xjvf linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2

I.2 go to driver package directory:

  1. cd linux-tbs-drivers

I.3 build and install the driver:

  1. make && make install

I.4 reboot in order to load the newly installed driver:

  1. shutdown -r now

Sample Kernel Output

$dmesg
[    9.816984] HDA Intel 0000:01:05.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[    9.817003] HDA Intel 0000:01:05.1: setting latency timer to 64
[    9.826535] SAA716x TBS 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[    9.826542] SAA716x TBS 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    9.840536] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter)
[    9.919588] EXT4-fs (sdb1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[   10.251833] type=1400 audit(1322097014.249:5): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" 
name="/usr  /share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession" pid=752 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   10.253902] type=1400 audit(1322097014.253:6): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" 
name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=753 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   10.254176] type=1400 audit(1322097014.253:7): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" 
name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=753 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   10.254347] type=1400 audit(1322097014.253:8): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" 
name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" pid=753 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   10.257632] type=1400 audit(1322097014.257:9): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr
/bin/evince" pid=754 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   10.257649] type=1400 audit(1322097014.257:10): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr
/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" pid=756 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   10.257979] type=1400 audit(1322097014.257:11): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" 
name="/usr /sbin/cupsd" pid=756 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   10.493952] stb6100_attach: Attaching STB6100 
[   10.496814] TurboSight TBS6925 DVB-S2 card MAC=00:22:ab:e0:21:50
[   10.760745] r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth0: link down
[   10.760756] r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth0: link down
[   10.760971] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   10.928071] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (STV090x Multistandard)...
[   11.112646] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[   12.338625] r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth0: link up

Drivers

External Links

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