[MPlayer-users] rtc question; conf problems solved

[Stephen Stocker]

>On Monday, 05 July 2004 at 15:54, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>> The suggestion below gets Steve the 'helpful hint" award for the morning;
>> I did
>> chmod ++s /usr/local/bin/mplayer
>> and have no more problems with /dev/rtc.
>> Thanks!!!
>
>No! That's a Bad Idea(tm). You should never run MPlayer as root.

Uh, how else would one go about using it with svgalib? If it's designed
properly, it should give up its root privileges as soon as it's
initialized. For that matter, what possible difference could it make on
a home computer?

>Just make sure /dev/rtc is readable by everyone:
>[dominik at rathann ~]$ ls -l /dev/rtc
>crw-r--r--    1 root     root      10, 135 kwi 11  2002 /dev/rtc
>
>and that max-user-freq is at least 1024
>
>[dominik at rathann ~]$ cat /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq
>1024
>
>and you should have no problems. Unless there's something in 2.6 that
>I don't know about.
>
>R.

That takes care of audio, but still leaves svgalib unusable.

Steve