[MPlayer-users] can't get rtc to work

[Marius Schrecker]

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>> What am I missing here?
Martin wrote:

>Your rtc device (/dev/misc/rtc on my machine) must be read/writeable
>by your user.


___$ ls -l /dev/rtc
crw-rw-rw-  1 root users 10, 135 Jul 14 22:26 /dev/rtc
masch at Mythbox:~$ cat /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq
1024
masch at Mythbox:~$ gmplayer
MPlayer dev-CVS-050806-04:00-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices  (Family: 8, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2




vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0" => local display)
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Inappropriate ioctl for
device
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
startup scripts.
Setting up LIRC support...

Thanks! Changed the permissions first setting users as group (of which I
am a member), then making read/writable to world, but still no luck!

Cheers

Marius
Registered Linux user