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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos