Frederic Crozat wrote: > Le Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:31:40 +0200, Guillaume Rousse a écrit : > >> Several multimedia applications use /dev/rtc, such as tvtime and mplayer. >> However, standard perms on this device doesn't allow its use: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux]# ll /dev/misc/rtc >> crw-r----- 1 root root 10, 135 jan 1 1970 /dev/misc/rtc >> >> I guess some pam configuration could dynamically turn these perms for the >> user, as for the audio devices. > > Good idea, I was wondering the same thing yesterday.. I'll see with Fred > Lepied if we can add console privilege to that..
See also if you can add this line to /etc/sysctl.conf (which is needed for mplayer to really use the rtc): dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024
