On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:05:40 +0800, Stefan Brüns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] > An output of "ls -l /dev/video0" would be more helpfull. ,-----[ ls -l /dev/video0 ] | crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2006-07-23 08:39 /dev/video0 `----- > 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. Thanks Stefan, I was hoping there would be something simpler, like adding myself to some group. However, this is single user system, so can change the permissions as you suggest -- will look into a way to permanently do that. Cheers, -- Seb _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list GnomeMeeting-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list