[MPlayer-users] rtc question; conf problems solved

[Stephen Stocker]

>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?

Hi,

Just a thought, do you have MPlayer setuid root (chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/mplayer)?

Steve