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Ensure these lines are in your /etc/modules.conf file.

alias char-major-89 i2c-core
alias char-major-90 i2c-algo-bit
options i2c-core i2c_debug=1
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
options bttv card=63 tuner=2
options tuner type=2

I have created a script called tvon which has the following lines:

#!/bin/bash
# TV card support.
/sbin/insmod videodev
/sbin/insmod i2c-core
/sbin/insmod i2c-algo-bit
/sbin/insmod bttv
/sbin/insmod tvaudio

This file, which must be run as root, ensures that the required modules are loaded. I do not know how to make this occur automatically.

Download xawtv from rpmfind.net and install it. At this point you should be able to run the xawtv program and watch TV successfully.