A question for the more informed of us. Concerning the loading of the bttv module, is there anything in the udev permissions or rules that would prevent the module from loading at boot? My modprobe.conf file looks exactly like ever other modprobe.conf file I have seen on the internet. << alias char-major-81 bttv >> >From every thing I have read on the internet and discussions groups, the above line should be the only thing necessary to load the module at boot! Is that correct? If so, since the module loads fine in manual modprobe bttv, could it possibly be udev and hotplug causing the problem. Maybe /dev is not being created early enough to allow the creation of /dev/video0. Thanks in advance! John --