Wasn't suggesting that as a solution just a troubleshooting means. When I had the problem it was a fresh vanilla install and the user and groups were already set correctly. I had noticed the permission errors in the logs and temporarily changing the permissions proved that was the issue. When I rebooted the permissions went back to normal when the driver created the /dev/video0 on boot up.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Carsten Meier <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:09:33 -0800 > schrieb "Bob James" <[email protected]>: > > > Just a stab in the dark but could it be a permissions error on the > > file /dev/video0 ? I've had some weird things happen where I didn't > > have the correct permissions trying to open the video from Mythbuntu > > 8.10. I tried the shotgun approach and did a chmod on the video0 > > with 777 to allow everything access just to test. This worked for me. > > This isn't really a good idea... Just make your user be a member of the > "video"-group. > > Regards, > Carsten > _______________________________________________ > pvrusb2 mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2 > -- [email protected] Douglas William Jerrold - "The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon." _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
