Discussion:
I wanted to enable the webcam on my Lenovo Thinkbook laptop. Followed instructions in the Handbook for that: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/multimedia/#conferencing-meetings
Now comes the weird part: (yeah, hostname is actually
)
So far, so good, right?
Not so fast! Checking the success of the above
And
No, I did not reboot, that very well may be the next thing to try... but if anyone has other ideas on how to resolve that weird behavior, please let me know! Why does
I wanted to enable the webcam on my Lenovo Thinkbook laptop. Followed instructions in the Handbook for that: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/multimedia/#conferencing-meetings
Now comes the weird part: (yeah, hostname is actually
thinkpad... )
Code:
root@thinkpad:/usr/home/user # pw groupmod webcamd -m userNot so fast! Checking the success of the above
pw groupmod command:
Code:
user@thinkpad:/usr/home/user $ groups
user wheel operator video vboxusers
user@thinkpad:/usr/home/user $ groups user
user wheel operator video webcamd vboxusers
user@thinkpad:/usr/home/user $ pwcview -f 30 -s vga
Failed to access webcam: Permission denied
***********************************************************
Make sure you have connected your webcam to the root hub
or to a USB 1.1 hub, also check your dmesg for any errors.
*********************************************************** pwcview -f 30 -s vga does work as root. And cuse.ko is loaded...
Code:
root@thinkpad:/usr/home/user # uname -a
FreeBSD thinkpad 13.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE releng/13.2-n254617-525ecfdad597 GENERIC amd64
root@thinkpad:/usr/home/user # ls -l /dev/cuse
crw-rw-rw- 1 user operator 0x1cb Mar 25 11:21 /dev/cuseNo, I did not reboot, that very well may be the next thing to try... but if anyone has other ideas on how to resolve that weird behavior, please let me know! Why does
groups fail to show that I'm in the webcamd group, while groups user has no problems showing that???