Re: mplayer configuration

[bob@evilkat.com]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 08:11:35PM -0500, Harold Crouch wrote:
> I downloaded the mplayer-1.0pre1 tarball and compiled it.
> When I launch mplayer, I get the following message:
> 
>   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.
> 
> So I added that string (without quotation marks) to /etc/profile.
> Now, when I log on as myself, I get the following message:
> 
>   -bash: /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq: Permission denied
> 
> What does mplayer want me to do?
> 
> - Harold

just a thought (and mind you i'm dead tired right now), you may wish to add
 that line to /etc/rc.local (the echo 1024 > /pro...), i believe the profile
is trying to modify a system setting with your user access rights, using the
rc local script should do the modification using the system permissions

Bob T. Kat
hope this helps

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