Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:05:59 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Webcamd v0.1.18 ready for testing [was: v0.1.17] Message-ID: <20101215170559.2cc48259.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <201012150922.41929.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <201012122245.34561.hselasky@c2i.net> <4D085320.9000604@missouri.edu> <201012150922.41929.hselasky@c2i.net>
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:22:41 +0100 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 06:33:20 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > webcamd works great on my Dell Inspiron 1525 built in webcam. > > > > But I have to run programs like pwcview as root to get it to work. How > > do I get it to work for regular users? > > You need to chown /dev/videoX to that user. In other words: read the devfs.rules(4) man page. HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
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