[MPlayer-users] RTC Permission

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:16:01AM +0200, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > also you should compile RTC driver support into your kernel, also setting
> > interrupt rate higher than - by default - 64Hz needs root privileges EVEN if
> > you CAN access /dev/rtc). But again: no problem, mplayer will fall back to
> > use usleep() timing in case of failing using RTC driver ...
> 
> You don't need root, only kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later.
> echo 1025 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq

Yes, that's why I've mentioned to read the document since I don't want to
simply quote the whole document which is available for everyone ;-)

- Gábor (larta'H)