Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] V4L2 webcam not found during initial config assistant

[Stefan Brüns <lurch gmx li>]

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