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|    Bit Twister to Chris    |
|    Re: webcam    |
|    15 Jul 12 18:09:02    |
      From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com              On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:58:47 -0500, Chris wrote:       >       > Ok, added the user like this and logged out and in:       >       > video:x:82:chris       >       > to both group and group- camera still will not come on except when using       > Cheese or Skype, still get the error in XCam.       >       > [chris@localhost ~]$ groups chris       > chris : chris lp video lpadmin       >       > [chris@localhost ~]$ id chris       > uid=500(chris) gid=500(chris) groups=500(chris),7(lp),82(video),107(lpadmin)                     When I answered yes to your question, I assumed you clicked up a terminal,       logged in as root and ran       mcc->System->Manage users on system              If you edited a group file, then that was not quite the whole story. :(       You also have to munge gshadow.              I highly recommend running mcc from a root terminal, delete chris from       video, then adding chris back to video and have chris log out/in.              That may not fix your camera problem but running "grpck -r" as root       should come out clean.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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