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Success! (I think) I looked for more configuration options in the BIOS and noticed that the PCIe mode was not set to "GEN1" instead of "auto". I did that, then re-ran the entire Install script including reboot. Now I do get several lines of output from "dmesg|grep frontend&q...

I have now updated the BIOS of my mainboard (Asrock H87M-ITX) to the latest version (January 2016), and I have also set the PCIe mode to "GEN1" instead of "auto" which seems to be recommended in this thread . I found no setting about PCI latency timing , such as suggested here . ...

My mainboard only has 1 PCIe slot, so I can't use another one instead, sorry.

Is it a useful clue that the card was mentioned in the syslog when using the previous drivers, but no longer when using the current drivers?

No success (yet!). This was when using the ZIP file you linked, and following the "README_TBS6921" that it contained. My card is a TBS6928SE but there is no README file for that card. I compared the existing readme files and believe that the one I used (TBS6921) is the closest match - but ...

SergioDanielG wrote:Try with lasted drivers

Thank you so much - downloaded and trying now!

SergioDanielG wrote:Can you post complete dmesage logs?

Thanks, I was not aware. Hope to hear from them soon.

SergioDanielG wrote:Can you post complete dmesage logs?

See my link in step 7 above.

SergioDanielG wrote:And what say "ls /dev/dvb"

See my step 8 above: "No such file or directory".

Thanks for your response!

Edit: I solved this by updating my motherboard BIOS to the newest version, and then in the BIOS setting the PCIe mode to "GEN1". That last bit is essential! My system: - SAT TV tuner card TBS6928SE , PCIe x1 - Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS 64-bit, - kernel 3.13.0-52-generic, - Asrock H87M-ITX mainbo...