Hi,
Not the right list but maybe there are other people affected here. Since upgrading to 2.6.16 kernel I have had problems accessing the DVB card. I run debian sid.
No frontend or dvb structure in /dev were created
After further investigation it shows to be a bug already recorded by redhat.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181063
One needs to blacklist the stradis driver in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Hope it helps someone.