On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 15:14, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 05 October 2003 03:56 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > > have you ever tried to see what error messages you get starting it from > > the cli? > > Yep, sure have - here is what it gives: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ gnomemeeting > > Literally that, and nothing else. :-) > > However, starting it in gui mode does give an error: > > Error while opening video device /dev/video0
I think I've got it. (even though I don't have gnomemeeting to test this theory.) If you do ls -l on /dev/video0 you will find that it is owned by your username and group sys. It sounds like gnomemeeting is running as a different user/group and therefore can't access properly the device. On a MDK system root is allowed to overide this and can access the device. On a whim try as a user running xhost + localhost as your user then starting gnomemeeting and see if the error goes away. This might do it but I'm not sure. James PS decided to check xhost didn't work .... got around it by using Picture instead of /dev/video0 .... don't have a camera but it was able to test good. You may need to remove .gnome2/gnomemeeting so it will reconfigure James > The chosen Video Image will be transmitted during calls. If you didn't choose > any image, then the default GnomeMeeting logo will be transmitted. Notice > that you can always transmit a given image or the GnomeMeeting logo by > choosing "Picture" as video device. > > Could not open the chosen channel with the chosen video format. > > So it comes down to what appears to be permissions on /dev/video0, since root > can run it. > > I've changed it (as has Anne) umpteen times, even opening it to "777" status > but no go, I've also added every group (but root) to my user account and that > does not make a diff. either. > > We're wide open for ideas here. :-)
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