[mythtv-users] Success! at long last. Thanks

[Shanon Mulley]

Ladds,

I'm running fedora using Jarods guide also. Like you, a normal user on
my system cant access the video cards - only the root user. At first I
tried to resolve it, but in the end I decided it didnt matter, as
mythtv worked fine anyway. A problem that doesnt stop something from
working is not a problem in my book.

Also, I cant run mythfilldatabase as a normal user - only as root.
Again, this is not a problem me, as I beleive root is the user that
runs it automatically anyway.

Shanon.

On 8/5/06, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks William.
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> > On 8/4/06, William < wmunson at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> > Your permissions on /video are read,write for root only.
> >
>
>  I'm confused. Aren't the permissons for the owner of dev/video0 rw. Isn't
> mythtv the owner of /dev/video0?  Shouldn't mythtv have rw permissions?
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> >
> > > $ ls -l /dev/video0
> > > crw-------  1 mythtv root 81, 0 Aug  3 08:15 /dev/video0
> > >
> >
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> > Mythtv did not lock the dir.
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>
> I wonder how it got locked -- perhaps udev did.
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>
> > chmod 777 /video would have fixed the problem
> > too.
> >
>
>  I gave 777 a try, and surprisingly, it didn't work. Even more interesting,
> the permissions for the dev reset to 600 after reboot. I believe this is
> also a function of udev.
>
>  I think it's time for me to learn more about udev.
>
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