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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/01/2013 20:33, Tim Draper wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 January 2013 18:55, Jelte Veldstra
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<div class="im">On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Mark Gardner
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> I have read several success stories with the TBS6984
DVB-S2 Quad Tuner,<br>
> but it has been replaced by the TBS6985. The
manufacturer's website says<br>
> the 6985 is compatible with MythTV, but I am unable to
find any success<br>
> stories....<br>
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> Can anyone put my mind at rest please?<br>
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No experience with the TBS products. I read about the drivers
provided<br>
by TBS can be a pain to work with as they're maintained by
them and<br>
are not open source. On the other hand when it works for your
kernel<br>
then you're set.<br>
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Personally I have been a happy user of the Digital Devices
Cine S2 v5<br>
PCI-e DVB-S2 twin adapter. The kernel recognized it without
manually<br>
compiling drivers, but then under MythTV multirec would fail.
Oliver<br>
Endriss is a developer who created a special branche for these
devices<br>
and using his drivers multirec works great too. Digital
devices now<br>
sells v6 and v6.5 of these products (the later revisions can
be<br>
configured as quad tunercards as well), but as far as I can
see using<br>
the drivers of Oliver Endriss all revisions should work well
under<br>
Linux. Being such a happy user I ordered a DVB-C/T combo PCI-e
adapter<br>
of Digital Devices as well. Hopefully it comes in later this
week so I<br>
can use it on my DVB-C recordings.<br>
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I've got the TBS 6981 (dual tuner), and it's been flawless and
would instantly purchase another TBS card without
consideration.<br>
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Drivers are kernel specific, so you either need to re-compile
on kernel change, or lock yourself on a kernel.<br>
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Nothing but praise from me for TBS :)<br>
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I'm a TBS6981 user as well and my experience is the same as Tims.
No problems using the card; rebuild drivers when I upgrade the
kernel (or the drivers themselves). Simples.<br>
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