/dev/dvb device nodes not being created?

[Chuck Ebbert]

Chris Brown wrote:
> Thanks for the invite Chuck. Great to read about your appointment working
> with Dave by the way. I can confirm that this rocks.
> 
> To the matter at hand folks:
> 
> See:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233416
> 
> for dirty debugging output but essentially:
> 
> I'm running MythTV and the cx88-dvb driver that loaded with all the
> 2.6.18-2.6.19 kernels fails to do so with 2.6.20. Running modprobe loads
> the
> drivers fine. In the not too distant past there used to be a problem with
> the blackbird drivers grabbing control of the card(s) before the correct
> driver did so. I therefore blacklisted the blackbird driver and the correct
> driver loaded, the clouds cleared and the sun shone once more on green
> fields. Now it looks like something similar has returned and I can only
> force the driver to load by adding it to /etc/rc.modules
> 

What are we supposed to do when this kind of thing happens? It appears that
multiple drivers claim to support the same hardware.