The only real problem when installing is if you do not use modprobe bttv card=15 tuner=6 (the tuner for the NTSC version not sure for PAL) either in a script called during the startup process when booting or make sure the bttv module is not loaded until you get the chance to use the modprobe command at the console then the card will be auto detected as unknown type and tuner thus will not work. Otherwise it works flawlessly when correctly initialized. The output seen in the boot messages when it is detected correctly this when booting kernel 2.6.8.1.


Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt848 (rev 18) at 0000:00:09.0, irq: 9, latency: 64, mmio: 0xdcdff000
bttv0: using: Zoltrix TV-Max [card=15,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffebff [init]
bttv0: using tuner=6
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus bt848 #0 [sw]
tuner: type set to 6 (Temic NTSC (4032 FY5)) by bt848 #0 [sw]
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0