Hello Nick,
Sunday, January 16, 2005, 12:31:23 AM, you wrote:
NR> I assume it fails in both cases then?
It does, and these are the outputs from the commands you gave me.
gentoo root # xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0
This is xawtv-3.86, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.10-gentoo-r4) Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified
Error: Can't open display: :0.0
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gentoo root # xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.86, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.10-gentoo-r4) Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified
Error: Can't open display: :0.0
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First of all, does it work if you run it as a user? What are you running xawtv as root for anyway? Put your user in the (video/tv/whatever seems relevant to this) groups, and see if it works then.
If you must run it as root, the user could open xhost before su-ing to root, to give root access to the X server.
If that doesn't work, I'm suspecting The PAM Bug, but I am willing to be corrected.
HTH, Holly
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