[Kwintv] users problems

Neil Macvicar blackmogu at vfemail.net
Mon Apr 21 12:44:10 CEST 2003


On Monday 21 April 2003 7:52 am, nifelheim wrote:
> Hello,
> I have installed KWinTV and it works under root without problems. But I
> have 3 users on my system, and when I am logged as a regular user KWinTV
> starts.. there is audio.. but video stops ( freezes ). I have to chmod
> some devices ( probably ).. Can you help me, please.
>
> Pavel

Hi pavel, you need to ensure that they have read/write permission to 
/dev/video. You can get this done at login by editing 
/etc/security/console.perms and adding

<video4linux>=/dev/video*
<console>  0600 <video4linux>                   0600    root

Regards,
Neil.


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