Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] More webcam problems

[Norman <norman elliott ntlworld com>]

On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 20:18, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 8:02 pm, Norman wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 19:49, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 7:37 pm, Norman wrote:
> > > > ls -l /dev/vid*
> > > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root   root 10 Nov  4 19:25 /dev/video ->
> > > > v4l/video0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root   root 10 Nov  4 19:25
> > > > /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0 [root norman dev]# chmod 666
> > > > /dev/video0
> > > > [root norman dev]# ls -l /dev/vid*
> > > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root  10 Nov  4 19:25 /dev/video ->
> > > > v4l/video0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root  10 Nov  4 19:25
> > > > /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0 again no change.
> > >
> > > Change the group to one that you are a member of.  And you
> > > need write permissions on /dev/v4l/video0
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > xawtv /dev/video0
> > This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.22-10mdk)
> > can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
> > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> > v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
> > v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
> > v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
> > no video grabber device available
> > [root norman dev]# ls -l /dev/vi*
> > lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Nov  4 19:59
> > /dev/video -> v4l/video0
> > lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Nov  4 19:59
> > /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0
> > still a problem. Im beginning to think I should go back to
> > what I started with - slackware :-)
> > Norman
>
> Norman, you are just not listening.  You need permission to
> access video0.  You cannot do anything if it is owned by root
> with group root.  Please read what has already been said.
>
> Anne
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Sorry Anne but it has made no difference at all. Even if I start 
up as root at a console and then startx as root I can still not 
get anywhere. Changing the owner to root.video and adding myself 
to the group video make no difference. I am beginning to think MD 
9.2 is full of bad patches. I have tried various versions of 
ov511 driver starting at 1.65 thru 2.25, various pwlib versions 
and various kernels. I just seem to end up with more and more 
problems.
I looked at your website suggestions but none of those work 
either. I cannot get and permissions to change even for 1 second.
Something seems to be seriously wrong somewhere.
Norman