[MPlayer-users] RTC and non-privileged users

[Olaf Marzocchi]

At 14.42 28/12/2002, you wrote:
>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>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

It's not necessary to change owner and perms on /dev/rtc. I reverted to the 
original config and it works. Adding the line in the sysinit is enough.

Olaf


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