[MPlayer-users] How to use hpet?

Paul TT paultt at hackerjournal.it
Fri Oct 28 17:21:57 CEST 2005


On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:35:24 +0800
Xiaoyang Gu <xiaoyang.backup at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:09:28PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:39:00PM +0800, Xiaoyang Gu wrote:
···
> /dev/hpet: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.)".
> 
> Then i chmod 777 /dev/hpet, I got another message " Failed to open
> /dev/hpet: Device or resource busy (it should be readable by the
user.)
> 

i think you have to get your kernel compiled with HPET_EMULATE_RTC,
under HPET Timer Support, under Platform options, i suppose, and RTC
configured to be compiled. (in kernel's menuconfig)

note: this is just a supposition, because i don't have an x386like
machine to test it on...




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