[MPlayer-users] rtc readable by the user

[Carl Karsten]

starting with
cr--r--r--    1 root     root      10, 135 Aug 30  2002 /dev/rtc

as root: mplayer ...
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).

as a user:mplayer ...
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Device or resource busy (mplayer should be setuid root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing

but if I chmod a+x /dev/rtc
cr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      10, 135 Aug 30  2002 /dev/rtc

as a user:mplayer ...
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).

So it seems 'readable' is a bit misleading, or am I missing something?

MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

Carl K