After upgrading from RH 6.1 to RH 6.2, the pre-install directive from the /etc/conf.modules stopped working. I've been using it to install the tuner module together with the bttv module: alias char-major-81 bttv options bttv radio=0,1 vidmem=0xff0 pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner Manually doing a modprobe tuner rectifies the problem until the next time my TV application (xawtv) is being started. There are several similar reports about using modprobe with this and other modules at www.deja.com.
I also noticed that "pre-install" is broken in modutils 2.3.[9-11]. It seems that this option is ignored. Instead, you can use "below bttv tuner" (see: man modules.conf), which is enough in your case, and works (well, at least on my PC...).
Does this persist with the 2.4.x modutils packages?
This does appear to work with the current 2.4.x modutils packages. Resolving as fixed in the current release.