[MPlayer-users] Problems starting mplayer as non root (was: MPlayer and Debian Sarge)

[Rickard Närström]

torsdag 13 juli 2006 19:38 skrev Rodolfo Medina:
> The problem is quite similar to the one reported in another message,
> but this time I can't solve it.
>
> When I start mplayer with:
>
> $ mplayer cdda://
>
> , I get the following:
>
>
>
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the
> user.)
>
> Playing cdda://.
> Can't open CDDA device.
> Failed to open cdda://.
>
>
>
> . Then I make /dev/rtc readable by the user:
>
>
> # ls -l /dev/rtc
> crw-rw----  1 root root 10, 135 2005-02-26 07:43 /dev/rtc
> # chmod 777 /dev/rtc
> # ls -l /dev/rtc
> crwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10, 135 2005-02-26 07:43 /dev/rtc
>
>
> and try again, but it says:
>
>
>
> Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
> Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
> startup scripts.
>
> Playing cdda://.
> Can't open CDDA device.
> Failed to open cdda://.
>
>
>
> . Instead, as root it's fine:
>
>
> # mplayer cdda://
>
>
> Playing cdda://.
> Found audio CD with 14 tracks.
>
>
>
>
> . The other time it was solved by changing group to the cdrom
> device (/dev/sr1 in this case), but this time it does not work.
>
> I'm really stuck, don't know how to handle this,
> any suggestion highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Rodolfo


You have wrong permissins of /dev/cdrom (or whatever /dev/cdrom links to).

Alternative: You have a setting in ~root/.mplayer/config for cdrom-device 
witch is missing in ~/.mplayer/config.