Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] More webcam problems

[Norman <norman elliott ntlworld com>]

On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 19:49, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 7:37 pm, Norman wrote:
> > ls -l /dev/vid*
> > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root   root 10 Nov  4 19:25 /dev/video ->
> > v4l/video0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root   root 10 Nov  4 19:25
> > /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0 [root norman dev]# chmod 666
> > /dev/video0
> > [root norman dev]# ls -l /dev/vid*
> > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root  10 Nov  4 19:25 /dev/video ->
> > v4l/video0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root  10 Nov  4 19:25
> > /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0 again no change.
>
> Change the group to one that you are a member of.  And you need
> write permissions on /dev/v4l/video0
>
> Anne
xawtv /dev/video0
This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.22-10mdk)
can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available
[root norman dev]# ls -l /dev/vi*
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Nov  4 19:59 /dev/video 
-> v4l/video0
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Nov  4 19:59 
/dev/video0 -> v4l/video0
still a problem. Im beginning to think I should go back to what I 
started with - slackware :-)
Norman