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So I have been trying to get zoneminder to work with this card my 9808 which should work. I have found there is very little zoneminder friendly linux starter guides. Everyone assumes you know how to use linux. Anyway I found a some stuff that explains it through posts. I knew I would have to stop zoneminder before doing anything. What I found new...
command ls /dev/vid* shows inputs to my card
(damn would be nice to have that somewhere in the documentation)
commant rmmod saa7134 = Operation not permitted
(wtf does this mean... i dont know because the documentation sucks)
I assume this means I should login as something that has permission to do that. So naturally I try to loggin as root. After about 10min of looking I find the command that lets you do that. Then it asks for a password. Again it is not the default password and it is not password or root. The live CD must have changed it but again it does not seem to be writen anywhere.

What am I missing. Is there an actual guide for this software that doesnt assume you are a linux expert?

http://tinyurl.com/ydnjelh

ok on all distros you must type

su

to change to a superuser also known as root but you must know the root password

sudo

will allow you to run a command as if you were root but useing your password

and most linux distros now dont set a root password you must uses sudo so to say edit a file as root you would do

sudo nano /etc/file

so sudo <space> what ever you are running

Will give that a try in a bit. Thanks a bunch.