On 2021/02/25 22:02, Marcus Glocker wrote:
> 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?

chown or chgrp - yes.

> > > 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? :-)

Oh... :)

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