Linux Driver Compilation Issue tbsctrl.o TBS 6982

[paulbubbles]

Card: TBS 6982 (satellite)

Driver: tbs-linux-drivers_v170330.zip

Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit

uname -a
Linux pvr 4.10.0-30-generic #34~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 2 02:13:56 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I am getting an error compiling the tbs-linux-drivers_v170330.zip driver with the above kernel. The error is (running make):

make[3]: *** No rule to make target '/linux-tbs-drivers/v4l/tbsctrl.o', needed by '/linux-tbs-drivers/v4l/saa716x_tbs-dvb.o'. Stop.
Makefile:1524: recipe for target '_module_/linux-tbs-drivers/v4l' failed
make[2]: *** [_module_/linux-tbs-drivers/v4l] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-30-generic'
Makefile:51: recipe for target 'default' failed
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/linux-tbs-drivers/v4l'
Makefile:26: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas

[steven]

Hi

Please have a try with this package :

#wget http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document ... 26.tar.bz2
# sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/
#tar jxvf media_build-2017-0726.tar.bz2
#cd media_build
#./install.sh
#reboot

Thanks

Kind Regards

steven

[paulbubbles]

Thanks for the response Steven

This looks like the open source one, which, when I build it from the git repo also causes issues:

Card is only intermittently recognized and I get kern.log/syslog filling up my root partition (12G files in a few hours).

But I'll try this build and see if it is any different

[paulbubbles]

as suspected the same issues with the build from source open source driver, intermittent picking up of the cards (they do seem to be registered but the mythtv front end doesn't show the channels) and kern.log is at 400mb after 30 mins.

There were quite a lot of warnings building with media_build-0519.tar.bz2, although the card does come up and works but not on every boot, maybe one in four or so but does always seem to be registered.

It would be nice to know why the proprietor drivers don't build with recent kernels - they are supposed to support them or they don't build on my current set up at least.