> > Tho after a hard-boot the picture goes back to noise again. So it seems that > > Windows "initialises" this card in a way that bttv doesn't yet. > > > > I hope this has given you some ideas on how to get the card working directly > > out of the box without the need for Windows. > The card here works purely Linux (no Windows on this machine). > You could try: > - connect a video source to Composite or SVid (e.g. video recorder, ...) > and see if this works after warmboot/coldboot. > With this we could see it the problem lies in some BT8x8/PCI setup or really > is voodoo/MT2032 specific (anyway it would be specific to some difference between > your machine and mine). Connected Composite directly to the TV and the picture appears on a warm and cold boot > - toggle "PNP OS" setting in BIOS setup The board is an old AT Triton VX so the setting is for PNP allocation is done in the BIOS. Cheers David.