Webcamd v0.1.18 ready for testing [was: v0.1.17]

Wed Dec 15 16:06:01 UTC 2010

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:22:41 +0100
Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at 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
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Torfinn Ingolfsen