[Kwintv] qtvision: Select Source - source not found

George Staikos kwintv@mail.kde.org
Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:46:42 -0500


Where did you install KDE to?  /usr/local/kde is not the most common place for 
it, and this could indicate the problem.

On Wednesday 19 March 2003 16:11, Jens Westemeier wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> thanks for the good ideas.
>
> Running as root let to the same results. I also added all kinds of qtvision
> directories to $PATH, which also did not help.
>
> The contents of /usr/local/kde/share/services/qtvision is:
>  qtvision_csvchannels.desktop
>  qtvision_elegant.desktop
>  qtvision_haze.desktop
>  qtvision_kwintvchannels.desktop
>  qtvision_oss.desktop
>  qtvision_v4l.desktop
>  qtvision_xawtvchannels.desktop
>  qtvision_xmlchannels.desktop
>  qtvision_xv.desktop
>  qtvision_zappingchannels.desktop
>
> I guess that my installation is missing some links to the /dev/video or
> /dev/dsp or whatever devices. But I have no idea.
> I also downloaded and installed the snapshot from last year, with the same
> result, so I don't think to have a qtvision problem but a problem with my
> installation. but I have no clue how to debug it.
>
> Greetings, Jens.
>
> Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2003 11:35 schrieb Stefan Hellwig:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 08:17, Jens Westemeier wrote:
> > > It was the CVS code March 16th 2003.
> >
> > Oh... Hm... In that case. I've looked at your output again and came
> > across the following lines:
> >
> > qtvision: could not connect to socket
> > qtvision: Keine Berechtigung
> >
> > This means that QtVision (the user starting it) does not have permission
> > to access a socket of some sort. Can you try to start this as root to see
> > what happens then?
> >
> > Another thing is that the services are not found which looks to me as if
> > at least some of the files are not properly installed. Did you do a "make
> > install"? If so, check if you have something in your
> > $KDEDIR/share/services/qtvision/ directory.
> >
> > I'm still no expert in that area, QtVision pretty much worked for me from
> > day one so that's why I don't exactly know what problems may occur :-).
> >
> > Regards, Stefan.
>
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George Staikos