From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060223 Fedora/1.5.0.1-5 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Description of problem: Ekiga is unable to access a webcam at /dev/video0 due to the permission being 660 and group 'root'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): udev-084-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. connect webcam 2. webcam shows up as /dev/video0 3. start ekiga 4. try to select webcam in first-run dialog or at Edit->Prefernces->Devices->Video devices Actual Results: Device does not show up. Expected Results: Device should have been selectable. Additional info: The problem is that /dev/video0 is created as root:root 660, so normal users can not access it. I fixed it by changing (in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules) the video line from: KERNEL=="video*", MODE="0660" to: KERNEL=="video*", MODE="0666" This probably is not an ideal solution on anything other than a single user system.
/etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms should contain: <v4l>=/dev/video* /dev/radio* /dev/winradio* /dev/vtx* /dev/vbi* \ /dev/video/* And as long, as you are a console user (first console login), you should own this device.