sounds like the driver may not be loaded right. havent been following the thread but what kind of device are you trying to use on /dev/video and what drivers are loaded to use it ?
nate On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Erik van der Meulen wrote: e.van. >On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 20:12:45 +0200, Jens P. Elsner wrote: e.van. > e.van. >> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Oct 3 17:19 /dev/video -> e.van. >> > video0 e.van. >> > e.van. >> > Have I overlooked some obvious thing? e.van. >> Yes. /dev/video is a symlink. :) e.van. >> e.van. >> how about you set the right permissions on /dev/video0 ? e.van. > e.van. >Thanks for your response. Maybe I do not understand properly. I e.van. >understood that the 'Debian way' of doing permission things was by e.van. >adding users to groups. For example, if a user wants to do ppp, she e.van. >should be member of 'dip'. e.van. >If I look at /dev/video0, I get: e.van. > e.van. > crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 Oct 3 17:19 /dev/video0 e.van. > e.van. >So I assume my membership of group 'video' should work. e.van. >Also, if I start xawtv when logged in as root, the problems are e.van. >identical. e.van. > e.van. >Not sure how to proceed... e.van. > e.van. >-- e.van. > Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> e.van. > e.van. > e.van. >-- e.van. >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null e.van. > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3:04pm up 17 days, 22:59, 1 user, load average: 0.38, 0.24, 0.08
