kwhiskers, the card has worked flawlessly for about 1 month now, tvtime, zapping, xawtv, and even recording live tv with mythtv. All of this since day I installed the card. I have no complaints with its operation, the problem has always been the loading of the bttv module at boot time. If for any reason I have to reboot the system I must manually modprobe bttv to load it. I can hotplug my digital camera, sandisk flashcard reader, and even my CX6600 Epson PCS and all work fine. I use /dev/video0 for video capture and /dev/audio for sound capture. The only thing that I question is the marking on the chip, the chip reads: Conexant BT878A. Which I understand is the successor to the original Brooktree chip. I guess conexant bought them out..... I do appreciate you suggestions and thought. John --
