[mythtv-users] TBS 6904SE linux drivers freeze my Ubuntu 22.04 box

[UB40D]

On Mon, 19 Sept 2022 at 21:21, UB40D <ub40dd at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Thanks very much to both of you. I'll put the main computer back together
> for now. If I can't scavenge a graphics card (I'm not after games or 3d
> stuff, just plain video) I'll buy one, as similar as possible to the
> relatively basic nvidia in the known-good pc (a passively-cooled MSI Nvidia
> Gforce 1030 of which I already bought 3 or 4 instances over the past few
> years).
>

It turns out I did have a spare one of these Nvidia 1030 lying around,
after buying so many and moving them around from one box to another over
the past 5 years. I popped it in and hey presto, now I could even get into
the bios setup with F2 (why could the motherboard not do that with ITS OWN
integrated graphics, but it could with an external graphics card, is a
mystery, but hey). The resolution was still sh*t (1024x768) but at least I
had a graphical desktop. Some amount of fiddling with Nvidia proprietary
drivers eventually got me back to 4k resolution. The TBS card was
recognised in dmesg (that's with Stephen's recommendation of the github
drivers; I don't know if it would have also worked with the "standard" TBS
drivers). I installed mythtv from the standard repository with apt and it
is currently doing a scan and finding channels, which is a good sign. I
have not seen any video just yet but I'm getting a warm feeling that the
card works, that the satellite dish points in the right direction and so
forth.

Again many thanks!
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