[MPlayer-users] rtc question; conf problems solved

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Cheryl,

On Slackware I put that command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, so it need
not be done later by a normal user. Not sure what you do in
Debian.

Chuck

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> I found models or examples of most of what I needed in the source tree
> under etc; I think I must not have run "find" since I had installed a new
> version. anyway, they've all been moved and edited and work. I found a
> font.desc in directories for the font I'd downloaded; moved them and all
> is well.
>
> Now I can't get mplayer to use rtc. It works for me if I do it as root.
> But even though I've done
>
> echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/max-user-freq
> and I ran cat to make sure it was there, I still get permission denied for
> /dev/rtc as normal user when I run mplayer.
> I haven't tried editing the file suggested in the faq; I'm using kernel
> 2.6.7 so I really shouldn't have to do that. Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>

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