6205 and linux driver installation

[squirrelpie]

Hi, I just bought a TBS6205 and have installed the hardware but am confused about the software needed for linux. I run openSUSE, currently v42.3, and am familar with linux but not with TV hardware. The card came with no documentation at all, so I'm reliant on what I find online, but I can't find a basic explanation and what I do find seems contradictory. Can anybody tell me what I need to do?

I found https://www.tbsdtv.com/download/?path=14&id=9 and I downloaded both the Use Manual and the TBS Open Source Linux Driver Offline Package v180206 and looked at https://github.com/tbsdtv/linux_media/wiki but they don't seem to match. Since I don't fully understand what I need to do, I can't resolve the differences.

The instructions that come with the driver start by saying 'sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/', which I think is asking me to remove a bunch of software from my machine that has nothing to do with the TBS card. There's no way I'm going to do something like that without a very convincing explanation. The rest of the instructions there are relatively simple if and when I learn to trust them.

The instructions on the web pages seem much more complicated and involve using git and performing many more stages. What is the reason for the differences?

[squirrelpie]

haha two years ago you wrote this and they havent even bothered to respond. TBS makes products that are total absolute garbage. Good luck ever getting it to work.

Well, I resolved the problem with help from TBS and CrazyCat that wasn't on this thread, and its worked well ever since, so I'd disagree with your conclusion. A different attitude may help you fix any problems you're experiencing.

[quad4]

I strongly agree with the matter and the attitude. Also why include linux-media stack devices in installation process, which are NOT your own products? Unneccesary disk space used. I opted in for simpler DKMS solution: https://github.com/janbar/tbs-dvb-driver