[mythtv-users] /dev/dvb disappeared

[David Watkins]

> I am glad you have it working again but I think you may have been luck
> this time.  I too had my DVB cards disappear on me intermittently and
> it turned out that I had to run some script at startup to get them
> working.
>
> I am not near my mythbox right now and I can't find the thread on this
> list but when I do, I will let you know.

One common problem is that auto loading of the cx88_dvb module has
been a bit of a lottery following kernel upgrades, it's been broken
and fixed several time since 2.6.10.  The solution is to explicitly
load the module, which can be done in various ways depending on
distribution.