Seb wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:27:38 -0500, Seb <spluque gmail com> said: [...]That's right, that made ekiga-snapshot see the webcam. I looked at the groups that I (as user) need to be added to, but see that I already belong to the obvious ones ('video' and 'camera'). Any clues what groups I should belong to to make it work as user? Thanks.Maybe I should have listed them:
An output of "ls -l /dev/video0" would be more helpfull.Essentially, you have to change the permissions of /dev/video0 to something like 660 for root:video, 600 for <youruser>. The second option is the saner one (otherwise anyone who belongs to group video can open the camera and watch you. OTOH this is relevant for a multiuser system with remote access only). You can do this with "chmod 660 /dev/video0 && chown root:video /dev/video0". How to make this permanent depends on the distribution, no idea how to do this on debian best.
Lurchi