[CentOS] Ekiga - camera

Johan Vermeulen jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be
Wed Sep 21 19:59:36 UTC 2011


  I kind of did the same for /dev/v4l

-bash-4.1# ls -la v4l/
totaal 0
drwxrwx---.  4 root motion   80 sep 21 21:28 .
drwxrwxrwx. 21 root root   3820 sep 21 21:28 ..
drwxrwx---.  2 root motion   60 sep 21 21:28 by-id
drwxrwx---.  2 root motion   60 sep 21 21:28 by-path
-bash-4.1#

still no luck. error message persists.

Op 21-09-11 21:40, Johan Vermeulen schreef:
>    hello Mark and Keith,
>
> I also think a have the driver,  because of what dmesg shows.
>
> mark could be right, I had a similar issue with a firewire camera, Kino
> and /dev/raw1394.
>
> So a did this :
>
>
> -bash-4.1# groupadd motion
> -bash-4.1# chgrp motion video0
> -bash-4.1# usermod -G motion james
> -bash-4.1# id james
> uid=500(james) gid=500(james) groepen=500(james),503(motion)
> -bash-4.1# ls -la video0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root motion 81, 0 sep 21 21:28 video0
> -bash-4.1#
>
> hope this is right.
>
> But still same error message, even after reboot ( didn't want to but
> battery went dead )
>
> So still no video...
>
> greetings, James
>
>
> Op 21-09-11 20:54, m.roth at 5-cent.us schreef:
>> Johan Vermeulen wrote:
>>> when first installing CentOs some 6 months ago, I noticed this strange
>>> thing called Ekiga.
>> <snip>
>>> # yum search V4L2
>> That's video4linux, btw.
>>
>>> with epel testing enabled.
>>>
>>> #dmesg | tail -n15 shows :
>> <snip>
>>> still in Ekiga i get error message ( translated from Dutch) :
>>>
>>> an error occurred with video device UVC Camera (046d:0819)
>>> an error occurred when opening the device
>>> blahblahbla
>>> check access rights or driver.
>>>
>>> under System - Preferences I can't find anything configurable ( is that
>>> even English ?)
>> Perfectly good English. And it did tell you the problem: access rights.
>> Look at the driver - it might be /dev/video or /dev/video0 - and check the
>> permissions. It may be installed, but only root has rw privileges. If
>> that's the case, one option would be to make it owned by root, but group
>> motion, and add yourself to that group.
>>
>>            mark
>>
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