On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 08:00:32PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2021/02/25 20:10, Marcus Glocker wrote: > > We had this discussion recently when fbtab(5) for xenodm(1) was fixed > > 6 weeks ago, but we didn't come to an agreement yet. tb@ asked me the > > same question yesterday whether we can add video(1) to fbtab to avoid > > manual chown of /dev/video0, which I think a lot of people do today. > > Therefore here another try to bring this up. > > I'm not sure this is something I would expect to be chmod'ed > automatically.. It's a very different class of device than things > currently in fbtab or Give/TakeConsole. > > At least if this is done we'll have to document it somewhere for people > using ports like multimedia/motion.
Um - I don't know this port, but glancing over it, it's a daemon running under the _motion user which is accessing /dev/video*? So people using that today are chowning /dev/video* to _motion? > > This diff adds /dev/video0 to fbtab on all archs where video is > > available. It's added for the existing console login entry, in case > > people start X through startx/xinit, and on a new entry when X is > > started through xenodm. > > Hmm - last time I suggested fbtab for something jcs pointed out > that it doesn't work with xenodm.. Did you read my first sentence? :-)
