Does anyone know, if any work  has been started on a driver for this card ?

It does not have a driver in the latest kernel 2.6.38.8

lspci -k command output
01:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 150
        Kernel driver in use: ivtv
        Kernel modules: ivtv
01:06.0 Multimedia controller: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd Mantis DTV PCI 
Bridge Controller [Ver 1.0] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd Device 0014
        Kernel driver in use: Mantis
        Kernel modules: mantis
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Device 1a0a:6200 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Device 6205



as we can see there is no kernel driver loaded for the Avermedia card

Yours Sincerely
John Brown