On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Bob James wrote: > I also have had the "...unable to open /dev/video1" problem using Mythbuntu > 8.10 x64. > > I'm not sure what causes the problem but was able to get past it to > configure the capture device by changing the permissions on /dev/video0. I > gave full permissions, "sudo chmod 777 /dev/video0" which then allowed me to > configure and use the device. > > Robert
This is a different sort of issue, and it depends on your distro not the driver. Generally it's not a good idea to allow full run of the driver to everyone. What you did here was effectively an "elephant gun" solution. There are more elegant means. For example the way this is usually done in Debian at least is that there is a group ID defined to represent permission to do "video" sorts of things. Then udev is configured to assign that gid to any /dev/videoX device node it creates. Now any account which is to be granted permission to use the device is simply added to that group. But that's how it is in Debian; I can't vouch for other distributions. -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ pobox (dot) com PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
