Well, I have moved the card to different slots. The bios settings are auto for pci slots and irq's. The auto detected parts of the dmesg output are from a manual modprobe bttv. But last night was the first time that I have the SCERR output. If I take the options line out of /etc/modprobe.conf the tuner gets set wrong and none of the tv programs will initialize it correctly and play. Yes, I have poked around on other lists, but I have not found anything specific to a Fedora Installation. I have a spare 30 gig wd drive, I am going to install novell linux 9.2 professional I have. I am going to see if it will install the driver on boot up, if so then I can narrow it down to Fedora specific. If not then I will know that it is in the hw conf. Again, thank you for your suggestions and advice. John --