[mythtv-users] Confused.

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Apr 10 23:27:45 UTC 2006


On Apr 10, 2006, at 3:57 PM, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote:

> Scott Petler wrote:
>> I've had issues with the permissions on /dev/video not allowing  
>> "other"
>> users.
>> I did put a sudo chmod 666 /dev/video* in my mythfrontend startup and
>> that seems to fix it.  Probably a better solution, but this got it  
>> going.
>> The symptom was click on "watch tv", it would try and come right back
>> without doing anything.
>
> i believe the "proper" solution to this is edit your udev rules
> (/etc/udev.d or something like that) so that on reboot it's set to the
> right permissions ... but what you have works and it's not like it's
> going to hurt/break anything, either ;)
>
Of course it depends on oyur distro, how you installed Myth etc., but  
on a lot of systems simply adding the mythth user to the "video"  
group takes care of the matter.


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