[mythtv-users] Loading device at boot time

[Nick]

On 03/03/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> I recently added a QAM HDTV tuner to my slave backend.  When it boots,
> it seems to load the saa7134 V4L driver fine, but I need to load the
> saa7134-dvb driver.  I can do this with a modprobe but I wanted to do it
> with the modules.conf file.  I've done this with ivtv before my aliasing
> the char-major device to it, but I'm not sure how to do this with the
> DVB drivers or if it is even the right place.  I'm running FC4 with the
> latest (2.6.15) kernel.  Please advise how I can get these to load
> without slapping them into an rc.local file.

Can this be done in the way that Jarod has patched rc.sysinit to catch
the aliases from modules.conf and have them loaded much earlier on in
the boot process?

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#lirc

Nick