I have tried just about every combination of inserting the bttv driver when the system boots, to no avail. If I modprobe bttv, the modules loads and /dev/video0 is created and the tv card works fine. My current modprobe.conf file follows: -- alias eth0 via-rhine alias snd-card-1 snd-au8810 #install snd-au8810 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-au8810 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : remove snd-au8810 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-au8810 alias usb-controller ehci-hcd alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd # bttv options bttv card=10 radio=0 tuner=39 alias char-major-81 bttv alias char-major-81-0 bttv I would really like to have this driver load at boot so I can have Mythtv backend start and record programs if my system had a restart for whatever reason. Any help is greatly appreciated. John