About at the end of my tether with my webcam

Darryl LeCount darryl at jamyskis.net
Fri Jun 29 21:52:46 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 13:11 -0700, Doug Rintoul wrote:
> My /dev/video0 has the following permissions:
> 
> crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2007-06-27 17:51 /dev/video0
> 
> Adding myself to the video group and logging off and on again gives me 
> access to /dev/video0.
> 
> Doug.

Seems to have worked. I had a problem with an update earlier this month
which wiped out a good number of my user groups. Recreating the video
one and including myself in that seems to have done the trick, even
though Camorama still doesn't work (no surprises there). Thanks!

D

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Darryl LeCount
www.jamyskis.net
darryl at jamyskis.net

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