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Usually, zmfix is installed suid, and its job is to chmod the video devices so they're usable. I guess symbolic links may cause trouble, perhaps? What "Source" settings have you got for your video input? Likely source of problems would be the Device Format (0=PAL, 1=NTSC etc.) and the Capture ...

It was apparently a permissions issue about it not being able to r/w to the actual video device, not the symlink /dev/video0. Now at least the daemon fires up, and appears to run. I had to chmod /dev/v4l/video0 to 666 to allow sufficient access. That might be something you'd want to include in the ...

I've been trying, and trying, for two days to get any results from ZM 1.21.0 and for the life of me, nothing. I've followed the directions exactly. I've even wiped the install of ZM, MySQL and all associated Perl modules and libraries and installed them fresh. Below, I'll include all information ...