[MPlayer-users] RTC and non-privileged users

[Martin Collins]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:45:07 +0100
Olaf Marzocchi <olaf_lists at virgilio.it> wrote:

> I need to use the RTC in order to save as much
> power as I can (the system is too slow, mplayer tells me), so I ask
> you how should I configure the system. A the moment I created a
> group called "rtc" and I changed the /dev/rtc file permissions and
> owner: now it is rwxrwxr-x root:rtc. I inserted my personal user in
> the rtc group and I added to the sysinit script the suggested line

The same procedure worked for me, except I didn't make it executable.
Maybe you are running devfs? If so you need to change the perms on
/dev/misc/rtc
Have you checked that /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq actually contains
1024?

Martin