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As anybody tried compiling these drivers on an ARM CPU. Or more specifically does anybody know if this product will work with a Raspberry Pi?

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Does it use TBS's precompiled binaries? if so your out of luck. TBS only supplies x86 and x86_64 binaries. Another reason opensource is better. TBS you listening?

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5910, 5920, 5928, 5980 drivers 100% open-source.
5925 driver also easy converted to 100% open-source

esqmo Wrote:As anybody tried compiling these drivers on an ARM CPU. Or more specifically does anybody know if this product will work with a Raspberry Pi?

unfortunately, our Linux drivers currently does not support platforms like Raspberry PI - the reason for that are complex...
To address the ARM market, we already made ARM box with build-in Dual DVB-S2 tuner :

http://www.tbsdtv.com/launch/moi-dvb-s2 ... g-box.html

and you can use your Raspberry PI as client to it - that in fact should be quite more flexible solution - just stream DVB channels to your Raspberry PI, because as ARM hardware our box is more powerful than Raspberry PI.

steven Wrote:unfortunately, our Linux drivers currently does not support platforms like Raspberry PI - the reason for that are complex...

Is this true?
I compiled the drivers for arm (raspberry pi) and it loaded correctly.

But I never got a picture out of my box. It crashs when i'm going to use the qbox (starting vdr, vdr plugin and xbmc). Is this a sign of a not functional driver? What would be to do to make it work on ARM architectures? What are these complex reasons?

greetings
Michael

Hi,

Can you explain how you compiled the drivers? My compile always dies. When I compile I get:
/home/pi/tbs5922/linux-tbs-drivers/v4l/sh_mobile_csi2.c:369:20: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant

No picture can have to do with some problem of the pi with this:

http://openelec.tv/forum/124-raspberry- ... n-no-audio

There is a problem of the pi with livetv, and if I understand correctly the pi guys blame it on tvheadend and xbmc and vice versa ( firmware problem??)
Maybe we can try and pull this off.
Cheers

mcs

mcs Wrote:Can you explain how you compiled the drivers?

I did this on Arch Linux ARM. With AUR Packaging System and though I had to satisfy special needs of this distribution. But maybe you can adapt it to others. Driver version is 121021 from http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/common/tbs-linux-sources_v121021.zip

Howto compile

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  src="linux-tbs-sources"
  tar xjf ${src}.tar.bz2
  cd "$src"
  patch -p1 < ../patch_121021.patch
  make

  cp dvb-usb-tbsqbox-id5980.fw /lib/firmware/
  make install

  depmod -a


patch_121021.patch

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diff -rup linux-tbs-sources_orig/linux/drivers/media/video/sh_mobile_csi2.c linux-tbs-sources/linux/drivers/media/video/sh_mobile_csi2.c
--- linux-tbs-sources_orig/linux/drivers/media/video/sh_mobile_csi2.c 2013-01-07 22:40:39.616089270 +0000
+++ linux-tbs-sources/linux/drivers/media/video/sh_mobile_csi2.c  2013-01-07 22:45:14.113554447 +0000
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
  */

+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/i2c.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
diff -rup linux-tbs-sources_orig/v4l/Makefile linux-tbs-sources/v4l/Makefile
--- linux-tbs-sources_orig/v4l/Makefile 2013-01-07 22:40:23.026242468 +0000
+++ linux-tbs-sources/v4l/Makefile  2013-01-07 22:41:04.615858413 +0000
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ ifeq ($(inst-m),)
   inst-m := $(obj-m)
 endif

-v4l_modules := $(shell /sbin/lsmod|cut -d' ' -f1 ) $(patsubst %.ko,%,$(inst-m))
+v4l_modules := $(shell /usr/bin/lsmod|cut -d' ' -f1 ) $(patsubst %.ko,%,$(inst-m))

 #################################################
 # locales seem to cause trouble sometimes.



Please tell me if you can get it to work.

Tbs 5990 no wok on raspberry pi 3 tvheadend ?

No TBS5990 will not compile on Raspberry Pi 3. It seems that even TBS stopped supplying their special matrix arm PC (Buydvb.net) which worked with this, so your only option is an old x86 PC, until TBS decide to release a binary which supports the world's most popular mini PC.