[AG-TECH] X-Win32 troubles

[Frank Sweetser]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:35:19PM -0600, Robert Olson wrote:
> This may happen if you for some reason don't have read access to the video 
> capture devices; I suspect that if you are not logging into the console of 
> the linux machine that this is happening - the console login grants 
> read/write permissions on the video devices to the console user.
> 
> chmod 666 /dev/video* might do what you want (remember that then anyone who 
> has access to the machine can capture video).

Fixing the perms seems to have fixed it - thanks!  Kind of a wierd failure
mode...

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Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
WPI Network Engineer