Hello Nick, Sunday, January 16, 2005, 12:31:23 AM, you wrote:
NR> I assume it fails in both cases then?
It does, and these are the outputs from the commands you gave me.
> gentoo root # xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0
>
> This is xawtv-3.86, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.10-gentoo-r4)
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
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> gentoo root # xawtv -hwscan
>
> This is xawtv-3.86, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.10-gentoo-r4)
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
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And the last part from the strace command.
> old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0)
> = 0x40018000
> read(4, "", 4096) = 0
> close(4) = 0
> munmap(0x40018000, 4096) = 0
> writev(3, [{"l\0\v\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
> fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
> fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
> read(3, "\0\26\v\0\0\0\6\0", 8) = 8
> read(3, "No protocol specified\n\0\0", 24) = 24
> write(2, "Xlib: connection to \":0.0\" refus"..., 52Xlib: connection to
> ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: ) = 52
> write(2, "No protocol specified\n", 22No protocol specified
> ) = 22
> write(2, "\r\n", 2
> ) = 2
> shutdown(3, 2 /* send and receive */) = 0
> close(3) = 0
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XtErrorDB", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> getuid32() = 0
> geteuid32() = 0
> getuid32() = 0
> write(2, "Error: ", 7Error: ) = 7
> write(2, "Can\'t open display: :0.0", 24Can't open display: :0.0) = 24
> write(2, "\n", 1
> ) = 1
> exit_group(1) = ?
As you can see there are errors but I have no idea what they mean. And I
didn't get and string conversion errors.
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