Re: xawtv and NFS won't play
Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> Perhaps you need to have a suid bit set for the program and your
> /etc/fstab is mounting your nfs home directory with root squash? Maybe
> a xhost localhost and xhost (yournfsserver) will allow access.
Turning on no_root_squash does help. Looks like v4l-conf needs root
priviledges to talk to the video hardware and user priviledges to talk
to the X server. This sucks, generally. I wonder whether you can go
around having v4l-conf suid root if you play with group ownership. Or,
alternatively, v4l-conf could drop it's root priviledges after getting
the information from the video hardware.
Anyway, thanks a lot, I can now watch TV again. Hurray!
Cheers,
Viktor
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Viktor Rosenfeld
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