[MPlayer-users] rtc question; conf problems solved

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 05 July 2004 at 15:40, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Chuck:
> Can you please clarify what command you used? I'm just running mplayer,
> so
> I'm not sure what the exact command is that's being run, just that
> I get "unable to open /dev/rtc: permission denied; /dev/rtc should be
> readable by the user". And indeed, to look at the permissions for
> /dev/rtc, which are 660, one would think it should be readable by the
> user. I thought this was something that had to be done when mplayer was
> launched.

No. 660 is rw-rw----, and that's not readable by everyone. Just do
chmod o+r /dev/rtc as root and you should be good to go.

R.

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