[MPlayer-users] Re: Yet Another RTC-thread

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 14 March 2006 at 21:15, Vincent Lönngren wrote:
> tis 2006-03-14 klockan 20:11 +0100 skrev Vincent Lönngren:
> > The system is Debian testing system with Linux 2.6.15. I'm aware that
> > this is not a big problem, and movies will play anyway, but it just
> > can't be right.
> 
> I found the source of the problem. If mplayer is started from the
> command line (no gmplayer) and the movie window is closed, as opposed to
> using the escape key, Ctrl+C or other methods for closing it, it leaves
> a process that keeps hogging /dev/rtc. The window is closed and the
> prompt appears in the console, so it looks as if mplayer has exited, but
> it hasn't. There is no explicit message about it exiting, which is the
> only way of telling except checking the process list.
> 
> Is this a known issue?

AFAIK this has already been fixed. Or are you using current CVS?

R.

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