When I I configure my tuner card and then my channels from the knoppix menu as root and then open xawtv from the multimedia mneu everything is as it should be. When i do the same thing logged as user, after entering the root password, xawtv plays ok after the intial channel configuration but after I close it and try to start xawtv again from the user multimedia menu there is only one channel and the settings have reset to PAL and European cable.

Is there something other than xawtvr available?

Knoppix is installed to my hard drive.
Hauppauge WinTV card
n'vidia chipset
Athlon XP 2400
512 MB DDR