In another thread I read in a post by crazycat:
Actually it appears those drivers are not just for that one card, but cover several TBS cards, but not all. What I found really interesting was the second link, which made me wonder if TBS is now endorsing open source drivers. Although, those appear to have been forked from the ones in the first link. But anyway, a little bit of searching brought me to this thread in the TBS forum, which gives installation instructions and shows a list of supported cards:
http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9960
From the comments in that thread I get the impression that they might work with a few additional TBS cards not explicitly mentioned, but I don't know that. However not all cards are supported so if you have an older card in particular it may not work with these drivers.
I have not tried them because of my relative lack of knowledge of Linux, and because the installation instructions seem a bit daunting. My real concern would be that if someone tried to install them and discovered they did not work or that a card they own isn't supported, it might be difficult to roll back to the original TBS drivers.
Still I just wonder if TBS is now officially supporting these, and if there is any real advantage to using these over the original closed source drivers for a person that's not really into programming or Linux. I suspect that just as with the original drivers, they will need to be rebuilt after each Linux kernel update, so unless they offer some real improvement in performance I'm not seeing the advantage here. And if you have a system with an older card and a newer one, I doubt you can mix and match drivers, using the closed source drivers for the older card and the open source drivers for the newer card.
Have any of you guys tried these drivers?
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Originally Posted by crazycat
P.S. See also linux open-source drivers for si2183 (TBS 6522 only now)
https://github.com/ljalves/linux_media
https://github.com/tbsdtv/linux_media
https://github.com/crazycat69/linux_media
P.S. See also linux open-source drivers for si2183 (TBS 6522 only now)
https://github.com/ljalves/linux_media
https://github.com/tbsdtv/linux_media
https://github.com/crazycat69/linux_media
Actually it appears those drivers are not just for that one card, but cover several TBS cards, but not all. What I found really interesting was the second link, which made me wonder if TBS is now endorsing open source drivers. Although, those appear to have been forked from the ones in the first link. But anyway, a little bit of searching brought me to this thread in the TBS forum, which gives installation instructions and shows a list of supported cards:
http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=9960
From the comments in that thread I get the impression that they might work with a few additional TBS cards not explicitly mentioned, but I don't know that. However not all cards are supported so if you have an older card in particular it may not work with these drivers.
I have not tried them because of my relative lack of knowledge of Linux, and because the installation instructions seem a bit daunting. My real concern would be that if someone tried to install them and discovered they did not work or that a card they own isn't supported, it might be difficult to roll back to the original TBS drivers.
Still I just wonder if TBS is now officially supporting these, and if there is any real advantage to using these over the original closed source drivers for a person that's not really into programming or Linux. I suspect that just as with the original drivers, they will need to be rebuilt after each Linux kernel update, so unless they offer some real improvement in performance I'm not seeing the advantage here. And if you have a system with an older card and a newer one, I doubt you can mix and match drivers, using the closed source drivers for the older card and the open source drivers for the newer card.
Have any of you guys tried these drivers?
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