and modified the chmod to the following (just in case) :
[root@linux szap]# ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/
total 0
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250, 1 Jan 3 10:17 audio0
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250, 6 Jan 3 10:17 ca0
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250, 4 Jan 3 10:17 demux0
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250, 5 Jan 3 10:17 dvr0
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250, 3 Jan 3 10:17 frontend0
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250, 7 Jan 3 10:17 net0
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250, 8 Jan 3 10:17 osd0
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250, 0 Jan 3 10:17 video0
(by the way, what should the chown be for these??)
NOW WHAT?
I'm a relative newbie to linux/unix. I'm sure there's something I've
missed out binding the actual adapter to this /dev/dvb created
directories.