[linux-dvb] dvbd broken in 2.4.6?

[Rob Harris <rharris@cidera.com>]

Greetings. I know it's me doing something stupid, but any advise would
help. I just got a WinTV Nova board and am trying to to configure it to
take in a UDP data stream from a satellite, but cannot even get dvbd to
run.

So, I built up a Redhat 7.1 box, and upgraded the kernel to version 
2.4.6. I then downloaded the latest siemens driver and compiled it,
seemingly successfully. The kernel modules loaded easily. However, when I
tried to start dvbd, it exited without any messages and the following was
left in the syslog:

Jul 14 18:30:47 nova dvbd[1423]: starting
Jul 14 18:30:47 nova dvbd[1423]: Local ip is 10:0:0:103
Jul 14 18:30:47 nova dvbd[1423]: GetFlags: No such device
Jul 14 18:30:47 nova dvbd[1423]: open: Is a directory
Jul 14 18:30:47 nova dvbd[1423]: exiting

I looked in dvbd.c and it was trying to do an ioctl() to /dev/video. Well,
/dev/video on my 2.4.6 box is a directory with four files: 

[root@nova /root]# ls -al /dev/video
total 88
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jul 13 10:19 .
drwxr-xr-x   15 root     root        81920 Jul 14 18:49 ..
crw-------    1 root     root      10, 204 Mar 23 23:38 em8300
crw-------    1 root     root      10, 206 Mar 23 23:38 em8300_ma
crw-------    1 root     root      10, 205 Mar 23 23:38 em8300_mv
crw-------    1 root     root      10, 207 Mar 23 23:38 em8300_sp

So, I changed the /dev/video line to try ioctl()ing to /dev/video0, at
which point I get:

Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: starting
Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: Local ip is 172:31:80:103
Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: ioctl VSFRONTEND: Invalid argument
Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: exiting
Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: ioctl SHUTDOWN[0]: Invalid argument
Jul 14 19:01:08 nova dvbd[1788]: ioctl SHUTDOWN[1]: Invalid argument

Help!

Isn't /dev/video supposed to be a symlink to /dev/video0 or
something? What SHOULD it be pointing to?

--Rob
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