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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021216 Description of problem: xawtv fails to initialize video unless you are logged in as root. After logging in as root and running xawtv one time, the card will operate normally. Xawtv prints the following error message when started: This is xawtv-3.74, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18-19.8.0custom) seteuid(root): Operation not permitted v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway WARNING: v4l and x11 disagree about the screen size WARNING: Is v4l-conf installed correctly? WARNING: v4l and x11 disagree about the color depth WARNING: fbuf.depth=16, x11 depth=32 WARNING: Is v4l-conf installed correctly? WARNING: v4l and dga disagree about the framebuffer base WARNING: fbuf.base=(nil), dga=0xe0000000 WARNING: Is v4l-conf installed correctly? WARNING: overlay mode disabled (this problem was present before I put in a custom kernel) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install redhat linux with xawtv 2.run xawtv as a normal user 3.xawtv window spawns, but there is only sound. No video. 4.exit xawtv and log in as root 5.start xawtv 6.xawtv now will run as expected regardless of user. Expected Results: xawtv should be executable by a normal user without needing to first initialize it as root.. Additional info:
please download 3.81-6 or later from rawhide. It should be fixed in this release.